Construction Planning of a Railway Bridge Using the Concept of 4D BIM

Between the world industries and in the slight past decades the market of the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry was decreasing from a quality of producing and execution point of view. A new rising concept appears lately to help in solving this dilemma, Building Information Modeling (BIM) was that concept with the new dimensions methods. The fourth BIM dimensions (4D BIM) is used for the method of this research to monitor and control the construction processes with the time factor. The result obtained from the analysis to show the positive and negative points related to the 4D BIM tool. Three software had been used in the method of this research: Autodesk Navisworks Manage 2014, Autodesk Revit 2014 and Microsoft Project 2013, helped lately after finished from the methodology for a railway bridge CAD drawing obtained from Saudi Arabia that this software satisfied most of the construction management`s requirements. Plan visualization and model simulation was done for the railway bridge since it was the purpose of this study to find and understand the difficulty related to the infrastructure with the 4D BIM.