The rise and application of Building Information Modeling (BIM) has effectively solved the problem of collaborative communication of professional information between architecture and structure disciplines. This paper has presented the general process and method of developing the structure model by using the forward design software based on IFC standard, then it has been applied to a high-rise shear wall project. The results show that the construction method of structural information model based on IFC standard can be applied to BIM forward design, which has provided a reliable method to promote the application of BIM forward design in engineering practice in China.

Current BIM software for structure design is just a simple copy of the original design process. And it doesn't improve the working efficiency. In the age of BIM, the main value of disciplines' cooperation is how to obtain other disciplines'data automatically and efficiently. Through the research on Structural Auto-Calculate-Load-System based on BIM, the author puts forward the following viewpoints: it can improve cooperation efficiency greatly by setting data pre-process module at data exchanging in different disciplines. Furthermore, the pre-process module can reduce the dimension of data exchanging automatically and make auto-identification possible. In summary, it improves the level of BIM application in structure design.