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BIM for the Realization of Sustainable Digital Models in a University-Business Collaborative Learning Environment: Assessment of Use and Students’ Perception

Buildings
Journal · Vol. 12 · Issue 7 · Art. 971
Abstract

This paper develops an assessment of an academic implementation of building information modeling (BIM) carried out in an expert project subject of a School of Industrial Engineering. The objectives were for the students discover sustainable industrial during the design process and the students understand and participate in a real process of the implementation of industrial projects through real collaboration between academic and business contexts. The outcomes of this academic initiative were evaluated using academic results as well as students’ perceptions. Academic results were analyzed using the FUZZY VIKOR method. An analysis of variance (ANOVA) was performed to determine whether the use of BIM, the proposed university-enterprise environment and the sustainability proposal rate of the students’ projects had statistically significant effects on the results. Students´ perception evaluation was based on a Likert survey with five levels, and the results were interpreted using fuzzy k-means clustering and classification tree analysis. The results show that 77.8% of students consider that for learning, it is more effective to carry out a project related to an existing company, with the realization of the project with BIM methodology being of great value. The sustainability aspects were applied more easily thanks to the proposed methodology, and they were positively valued by the company. © 2022 by the authors.

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Sustainability BIM industrial projects university-business collaboration digital models students’ perception

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Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
Dep. of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Department of Construction and Manufacturing Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Madrid, Spain
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Universidad de Valladolid, UVA
This work has been carried out within the scope of the activities of the project entitled “Generation of an educational-business collaborative building information modeling (BIM) environment for technical industrial projects subjects: Show your project”). This project was funded by the Call for Annual Grants of the Center for Online Teaching, Training and Teaching Innovation of the University of Valladolid (VirtUVa).
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