Edificaciones resilientes para las urbes latinoamericanas. MIC (BIM) como metodología integradora

Latin American region suffers continuously from several natural disasters, basically due to two types of phenomena: earthquakes in countries such as Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Mexico, as well as hurricanes, mainly in the Caribbean. Just remember the events in Haiti in 2010 and 2016 and in the Bahamas in September 2019. Institutions around the world, particularly in countries that suffer from significant seismic activity (Japan, Iran, Chile, United States and Mexico) have proposed what its known as “Structural Resilience” which establishes that both people and buildings resume their daily activities in the hours or days after a seismic or meteorological event, buildings such as hospitals must remain in operation during and after the event considering a magnitude of about 9 degrees on the Richter scale. We believe that Building Information Modeling (in Mexico MIC) should be the methodology that integrates these criteria and concepts to take them to their materialization. This process considers the digital modeling of all specialties, the collaborative work between them, and the generation of a database during the planning, design, construction and management stages of the buildings.