A propensão ao BIM no Curso de Engenharia Civil durante atividades remotas na pandemia

Abstract

The Building Information Modeling (BIM) promotes the digitization of construction information for different uses throughout the project life cycle. Its application demands new skills of professionals in Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC). This requirement stimulates the necessity for adjustments in the curriculum of graduation courses in AEC, which have been taking place gradually and inefficiently. Especially in the year 2020, marked by a global pandemic, the academic community needed to adapt to teaching remote, increasing the requirement of collaboration among students in group activities of assessment. Face of this, its highlight that BIM has collaborative work tools that can support remote and collaborative work. Thus, this work aimed to investigate the inclination to work with BIM with undergraduate students in civil engineering. For that, it took as the object of study the elaboration of a residential design, developed remotely in the scope of a discipline ongoing of a Federal University in the state of Ceará, Brazil. An online survey was applied after conclusion of the activity in question, and it was possible to understand the students' challenges in the process, especially about BIM implementation and the dynamics of collaboration. It was found that communication was a crucial factor to the good development of the design, and the use of software aligned with the methodology was present in all designs delivered, which shows a tendency for students to work with this methodology.