Development of the Education of Open Infra BIM Based Construction Automation

This paper presents the results of the practical learning experience when combine three different school level students to learn open infrastructure building information modelling (infra BIM) and automation during OuluZone workshop week. Students started to build Speedway track in OuluZone test centre with one-week resources with the help of experts from industry and teachers. In addition, for students, ten different tricks were designed to present the tasks of the responsible person on the construction site. The idea of tricks was to teach students how these experts are using open infra BIM construction automation in their work. Infrakit, which is open infra BIM cloud service, was used to connect automation systems together. Based on the one-week workshop experience including questionnaire study answers and the results of pre-test and exam for students, it can be concluded that this type of practical learning is an effective way to teach open infra BIM based automation to students.