Designing a Healthcare Facility with Revit and BIM

Learn how to design a BIM model of a healthcare facility using Revit and Navisworks, taking into consideration the latest safety requirements in our new normal.

Introduction

• Designing healthcare facilities in an uncertain time
• What you should know

1. Setting Up Architectural Views for Code Compliance

• Setting up wall type fire ratings
• Adding room code compliance parameters
• Setting up room fill color plans
• Route analysis
• Creating travel tags
• Scheduling points of travel
• Creating code sheets

2. Preparing Revit Components

• Adding people to a model
• Creating safe distancing zones around people
• Creating code-compliant global parameters
• Addign an in-place shield
• Adding hosted PPE shields to a model

3. Designing MEP

• Starting a mechanical model
• Assigning spaces
• Adding airside equipment
• Adding air terminals
• Adding ducts
• Defining duct systems
• Adding dampers and in-line HEPA filters
• Adding zones
• Analyzing heating and cooling loads

4. Using Navisworks

• Exporting your models
• Creating saved viewpoints
• Viewing MEP properties
• Holding a person while walking
• Animating objects

Conclusion

• Next steps