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Abstract
The overall goal of the research conducted throughout this study was to develop a proposed "best practice" workflow for the rapid development and visualization of BIM models for water and wastewater treatment project pursuits. The success of this project relied heavily on a reduction of time commitment and cost of the production of all necessary visualization deliverable packages for a given pursuit project, while also preserving a desired level of quality. The proposed "best practice" workflow was developed through extensive experimentation with various rapid modeling techniques, visualization processes, and emerging technologies (such as VR and AI image generation models). For evaluation purposes, two case studies were conducted to provide statistical results on the performance of the proposed workflow. It was found that, when compared to traditional workflows, the proposed "best practice" workflow provided a significant reduction to the overall resource requirements of developing deliverables, while also preserving the desired quality. Based on the findings and conclusions of this study, the proposed workflow should be incorporated to improve efficiency of model development and visualization processes for all future pursuit projects. Keywords: bim, bim modeling, bim visualization, revit, project pursuits, pursuit interviews, engineering marketing, design presentation, design coordination, parametric families, dynamo, parametric modeling, twinmotion, enscape, virtual reality, vr, extended reality, xr, engineering, ai, diffusion