Project Overview
A large airport parking structure demands more than conventional building modeling. Long-span parking decks, repeating floor plates, ramp geometry, circulation zones, pedestrian links, and vertical cores all need to align with structural logic and functional movement across the facility.
- SectorAirport Infrastructure / Parking Structure
- Services ProvidedStructural BIM Modeling
- Software UsedAutodesk Revit | AutoCAD
- Project TypeMulti-level airport parking garage with parking decks, curved façade edges, vehicular circulation ramps, vertical circulation cores, pedestrian bridge connections, and structural framing elements
- Approx. Project Area~1,000,000 SQFT
- LODLOD 300
About Project
For this Fort Lauderdale airport parking garage project, the requirement centered on developing a dependable structural BIM model that could organize the building’s geometry with clarity. The modeling scope covered the primary structural system, deck layout, ramp transitions, façade curvature, level coordination, and core elements so the design team could review the structure in a more controlled and readable environment.
The final model gave the project team a stronger basis for design review, coordination, and documentation across a large-format parking structure.
Scope of Work
- Developed a structural BIM model based on available architectural drawings, sections, elevations, and design documentation.
- Interpreted and organized curved building edges and repeating structural geometry across multiple levels.
- Built model geometry to support review of floor-to-floor alignment, deck transitions, and structural continuity.
- Coordinated major structural components with architectural references and circulation intent.
- Prepared model views to support design review and documentation workflows.
- Updated the model based on review comments and evolving project inputs.
- Modeled parking decks, slabs, ramps, beams, columns, walls, and vertical circulation cores.
Project Challenges and United-BIM’s Approach
Built the model with disciplined level control and repeatable framing logic
Modeled ramp zones and deck transitions carefully to maintain continuity between parking levels
Interpreted edge conditions from drawings and incorporated them into the structural model with clean geometry
Developed coordinated model views around cores, pedestrian links, and circulation nodes
Prepared readable model views that improved visibility into the garage’s structural composition
Project Outcome
The structural BIM model improved visibility into the garage’s layout, scale, and circulation-driven structural organization. Parking decks, ramps, cores, and façade geometry could be reviewed more clearly, allowing the design team to assess the structure with better control before downstream coordination and documentation advanced.
Key Deliverables
- Structural BIM model
- Revit model files
- Parking deck model views
- Ramp and circulation model views
- Structural section views
- Core and vertical circulation views
- Coordinated structural layout views
- Model review updates
- Documentation support inputs
“The model made the structure easier to read at both the overall and level-specific scale. Ramp geometry, deck organization, and core alignment were much clearer in the BIM environment than in isolated drawing reviews.”
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