**3. Professional course**

The professional course, *BIM methodology: construction, structures and HBIM*, presented in March 2022, included within the activities of the Department of the Civil Engineering, of the University of Lisbon, was the most recent event offered to professionals of the construction industry. The range of professionals who attended the course in number of 15, englobe architects and civil engineers coming from consulting enterprises and public organizations. The objective in attending the course was to improve their skills in order to increase individual competences in each particular domain of activity in construction. The programme in presented in **Table 1**.

*BIM Academic Training Course to Enhance Construction Professional's Skills DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.105221*


#### **Table 1.**

*Professional course BIM methodology: construction, structures and HBIM.*

#### **3.1 Introduction to BIM**

The introduction of the main fundamentals of BIM concerns the concept, the range of applicability in a global perspective and the state of the art of its implementation (**Figure 1**). The central BIM notion is the generation of a centralized digital model formed with all construction-related information. The BIM model is frequently defined as a digital representation of the building or infrastructure, strongly supported by parametric modeling and standard format of data. The model assists the elaboration of collaborative projects that can be performed over the model, requiring the use of advanced technologies and a high level of interoperability.

A practical lesson concerning the use of BIM-based tool introduces the concept of parametric modeling, essential to the understanding of the development of multitasking. In the modeling process, the first step is to define the base settings (work units, elevation levels and alignments), followed by the selection and adaptation of parametric objects, associated to physical properties [16]. As an example of how to handling with a BIM-based tools, a structural BIM model was created, beginning with columns and beams (**Figure 2**) and foundations (**Figure 3**). After, there were obtained several tables of take-off of materials and elements from the generated BIM model (**Figure 4**).

**Figure 1.** *Slides of the professional course [author].*

#### *Technical and Vocational Education and Training*

**Figure 2.**

*Modeling columns and beams [author].*

#### **Figure 3.** *Modeling foundations [author].*


**Figure 4.**

*Interface with selection of a new schedule and table of columns extracted from the model [author].*
