Developing AI Based Scheme for Project Planning by Expert Merging Revit and Primavera Software

Abstract

Project control and monitoring tools are based on expert judgment and parametric tools. Some of these tools are Artificial Intelligence techniques. Today's project planning tools require the generation and sequencing of each activity. Establishing interactive computer based scheduled plan for a project requires not only injecting the information technology, but all project activities and inserting their durations and resource requirements in organized and sequenced manner. New parametric Building Information Modeling (BIM) software like Revit can dramatically enhance planning productivity by substantially reducing the work necessary for preparing construction schedule. The new parametric BIM can automate exchange of information during design, construction and service life of projects. In this paper, the Revit is connected to Primavera software by conducting expert system that supports automatic generation of the project plan scheduling scheme of project control functions. This will eliminate some of the most tedious and time consuming steps in creating a construction project schedule.