COST COMPARISON OF A SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT UNIT BY CONVENTIONAL METHOD AND BIM APPROACH
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11113/aej.v14.21303Keywords:
sewage treatment plant, manual quantity estimation, Building Information Modelling (BIM), BIM- quantity estimation, Cost estimation.Abstract
The large-scale sewage treatment plant (STP) projects are considered as complex infrastructure projects when compared to residential and commercial building projects. These complex projects need to have accurate estimation because cost estimate helps in tendering stage, pre construction stage and during the construction stage. This study compares the costs of a unit in an STP by using BIM software versus the conventional method. For BIM approach, to create a three-dimensional model of the STP unit using 2D floor plan, Revit software is used. Schedules of quantities are then produced under the schedule option in the software to calculate the cost of construction components. The result is, the percentage difference of quantities between the conventional method and BIM approach in excavation, PCC, footing, column, beam, slab, RCC wall, plaster, exterior paint, interior paint, railing, and steel is 0.41%, 0.39%, -0.15%, -0.03%, 0.33%, -0.05%, 0.38%, -2.37%, -2.47%, -2.10%, 0% and -3.48% respectively. The total estimated cost of STP unit by conventional method is Rs 74,13,845/- and Rs 74,97,461/- by BIM software respectively. The BIM-Assisted Detailed Estimating (BADE) tool's visualization and aggregation features in BIM significantly outperform the conventional method for the detailed estimate. BIM cost estimate is 1.12% more as compared to conventional method.
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