Half a dozen Actis Hybrid BIM systems – three for timber frame
walls and three for pitched roofs – have been created in the NBS National BIM
library.
These are available in addition to the existing individual product
files covering every thickness of insulation Hybris, vapour control layer
HControl Hybrid and breather membrane BoostR Hybrid.
The six new systems combine build-ups, depending on the system,
cladding, battens, sheathing, structural timber, air cavities, plasterboard,
Hybris, BoostR Hybrid and HControl Hybrid.
The wall and roof systems come in HH, HB and HY variants –
shorthand for all three Hybrid products or just Hybris and BoostR Hybrid, or
Hybris and HControl Hybrid. They offer a complete, ready to use build up for
easy inclusion into the Revit software
platform. In addition they can be downloaded in IFC format.
The arrival of the CE marked Actis Hybrid range build ups
in the virtual library should be invaluable to specifiers wanting to create highly insulated, airtight
buildings which will meet the most onerous energy performance requirements.
In addition to enabling 3D ‘real life’ representations of the
finished project and its intervening stages, the integrated BIM system enables
specifiers to anticipate errors, design issues and clashes long before they
would have occurred using older Computer Aided Design technology.
