tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54591555312529561932024-03-13T23:33:22.533-07:00Prompt Engineering AcademyPrompt Engineering Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14588537657186504141noreply@blogger.comBlogger248125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459155531252956193.post-7805150321356447922017-01-30T02:01:00.000-08:002017-01-30T02:01:20.903-08:00Impact of BIM on project contracts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><b>STUART JORDAN* discusses the scope of building information modelling (BIM) and its impact on the contracting structure.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: justify;">Most articles about BIM, however, are written by people who are selling it. There’s nothing wrong with that. Lawyers write columns for the same reason. Nevertheless, most articles about BIM tend to concentrate on the hoped-for advantages in the build and operational phases. Yes – it’s another ‘pay-more-now-and-save-a-lot-more-later’ deal. Coverage of the subject is mostly not about the impact of BIM on the contracting structure.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: justify;">BUILDING information modelling (BIM) is spreading across the Gulf and it is surely here to stay; governments are ordering or encouraging the use of BIM. Dubai Municipality last year mandated its use.</span><br />
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What’s surprising about BIM is the divided reaction to it. A lot of that reaction – good and bad – is about its effect on legal relationships in the project team. Some see BIM as a tool to change those relationships. Others see danger in moving from a contractual set-up between designers, contractors and owners which is understood and generally clear. We should take a balanced look both at the claims for BIM and the concerns.</div>
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A third section of the industry has not taken any notice of it. A senior representative of Dubai Municipality last year estimated that only 10 per cent of the industry is fully aware of the full scope of BIM.</div>
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A quick refresher about BIM: the official definitions are too confusing for the non-technicals to look at. It is essentially smarter software than was previously available. It creates a platform in which each element of the design can (to varying extents) recognise and coordinate with the other elements. All designers will contribute their design information and the platform will integrate it. Design clashes, inefficiencies and missing pieces are identified and flagged by the system immediately. Additionally, the software is capable of generating cost and programme/schedule information; it can direct decisions on sequencing of activities, long lead ordering and general buildability. Newer variations can do the same for operation and management of the built asset – flag problems and inefficiencies, and provide information on pricing and organising these tasks.</div>
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On that summary, BIM looks like good news and it is getting better. There are, however, different levels to BIM, which unlock different advantages. You get what you pay for, and what the project participants can handle in terms of their systems. There is no official definition of the various levels but we can summarise four reasonably well-recognised levels as follows:</div>
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1. Design in 2D, submitted on paper. This is the most basic current practice – not really BIM at all;</div>
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2. Design in 2D or 3D submitted into a common management tool;</div>
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3. Design in 3D carrying data, submitted by designers independently into a “managed 3D environment”; and</div>
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4. A fully-collaborative web-based single model.</div>
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The claimed benefits of BIM really accrue at Levels Two and Three, when design carries data and the model can coordinate, troubleshoot and produce cost and programme/schedule information. These are also the levels at which the main concerns arise in relation to contractual responsibilities. We can look at both.</div>
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<strong><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">THE SUPPORTERS</span></strong></div>
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The technical claims for the benefits of BIM are easy to see. I am not able to judge them in technical terms but there is now a lot of real-world evidence about the advantages in terms of savings in time and cost through the building phase. We’ll soon start seeing a lot more data about the operational phase as well.</div>
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More interesting to me are the wider claims from supporters about how BIM is changing attitudes towards a collaborative approach. This is the elusive ‘partnering’ agenda and the proponents of partnering are trying hard to co-opt BIM as the technical embodiment of their philosophy. This includes the claim that BIM was actually created in order to support partnering, as opposed to it just being a really useful and practical technological advance in its own right.</div>
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Whatever drove the development of BIM, some partnering enthusiasts consider it mostly to be a tool of true collaboration including the sharing of risk. The irony of this is that BIM of course can detect and identify authorship of defective design immediately. BIM is very good at finding and allocating individual fault. That doesn’t disqualify it as collaborative. Construction is a deeply collaborative exercise. I guess it depends on one’s definition of collaboration.</div>
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It is true that the proper use of BIM, in particular at either of the higher levels, is going to require certain good practices. The best of them is surely the giving of sufficient time in the preconstruction phase to development of design. Alongside that, cost plans and programme/schedules can be developed in greater detail; value engineering, sequencing, key package market testing and a lot of other good things can be done, which will eliminate certain risks, take our provisional sums and make the build phase run more smoothly. Crucially, this approach requires the design team and the contractor to be involved from earlier stages than might otherwise be done.</div>
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None of this is new. It simply follows the old advice: “Write the script for the play before you go onstage”. More progressive project teams across the Gulf have been moving already towards early designer and early contractor involvement, negotiated tenders and two-stage tendering, involving the formalised participation of preferred contractors in these pre-construction tasks. BIM of course is built to support this approach but it didn’t create it. We should also remember that it is generally more expensive upfront to allow longer time for pre-construction tasks and to have full early engagement from designers and contractors. The hard cost is a lot more than the BIM software.</div>
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Some of the concerns about BIM, of course, mirror some of the claims from its supporters. The first is the partnering agenda. The main opposition to partnering is the risk of removing the clear lines of legal responsibility which we work hard to create between designers, contractors and managers of works. This concern is naturally amplified when BIM supporters talk about how the future is all about collaboration and shared risk.</div>
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Going one step further, some sceptics have argued that the collaborative approach is a cloak for old-fashioned risk dumping onto main contractors and subcontractors. The theory is that the contractors will be presented with the BIM model, loaded with the design and will be required “collaboratively” to adopt responsibility for this design (each piece and the whole) and/or for the model itself – especially the ability of the model to detect design clash and inefficiencies.</div>
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• This usurps the role of the lead designer;</div>
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• It affects the duties to review and to warn of deficiencies observed in others’ designs; and</div>
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• A designer working off someone else’s defective design<br />will become responsible for further errors.</div>
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The answer, of course, is to make sure it doesn’t work that way, and this is achieved through proper and careful integration of the BIM process into the contractual set-up. Various BIM protocols have been drawn up, for inclusion in construction contracts and design appointments. They should work with existing lines of responsibility and contracts should clarify the status of the BIM within the wider contract procedures. Just as examples, it should be clear that:</div>
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• The BIM model is separate from the design loaded onto it. Separate consultants (if not the seller) are responsible for the performance of the BIM model itself – the purchased system. If it doesn’t work as it should or is not managed properly, that is the responsibility of the person who produced it or managed it. This is not the fault of the design team or contractor.</div>
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• The BIM manager is, therefore, not the lead designer – or doesn’t have to be. Nor does the BIM manager set the design brief. His job is to facilitate the input of design from the team and to make sure the platform works as it should.</div>
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• The agreed position on ownership of design information and the terms of licensing of it for use by others (not just the project owner but other designers and managers working with it) are preserved.</div>
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• Basic professional standards as to competent design – and review of the connected design from other designers – are expressed.</div>
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BIM protocols generally express themselves as superseding other contract terms, in the case of conflict. It isn’t a good idea to leave it at that. Care needs to be taken to think about the processes which are taken over by the BIM (design submission, review, response, etc) and make proper room for the protocol in the contract.</div>
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Both the wider claims for BIM and the worries about it are overblown. It is the future.</div>
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Prompt Engineering Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14588537657186504141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459155531252956193.post-76680559204944573712017-01-17T02:26:00.002-08:002017-01-17T02:29:27.267-08:00The future of construction: Meet BIM <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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That's the understatement of the decade, made by a cost consultant working on the renovation of the Central Library in Manchester, England. As <a href="http://moodle.up.pt/pluginfile.php/8225/mod_resource/content/1/BIM_-_the_inside_story_Magazine_Features_Building.pdf" style="color: #1174c7; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">reported in <em>Building</em></a> magazine, the associate from Davis Langdon didn't use BIM -- building information modeling -- like everyone else on the project. Instead, he requested drawings from the architects and marked them up, the old-fashioned way.</div>
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In the case of Central Library, as in tens of thousands of other projects worldwide since, BIM was shown to be a pricey retooling that ultimately paid off by shaving time and costs.</div>
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Unlike plain-vanilla CAD, BIM software creates a three-dimensional (3D) model full of smart objects embedded with information. BIM makes it easier to integrate architecture with engineering work, avoid "clashes" of building elements, instantly output lists of materials and labor, and automate valuable tasks like simulating the effects of sunlight an interior space.</div>
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As for the cost consultant? BIM is about to eat his lunch, I'm afraid.</div>
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The fact is, BIM can do much of the estimator's work. In addition to its built-in database about practically every material and product, BIM software can track the cost consequences of every design change in real time -- live, as they say -- and even take the client on a "walkthrough" of the revised design via full-color, 3D animation.</div>
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Sound good? In fact, recent changes in the construction kingdom portend a full industry shift to BIM. Soon it will be in every architect's toolbox, as these six key trends suggest:</div>
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<strong>1. BIM has become national policy.</strong></div>
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The British design and building industry is particularly well aware of BIM's big implications, according to expert Phil Bernstein, an architect and technologist with <a href="http://usa.autodesk.com/revit/architectural-design-software/" style="color: #1174c7; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Autodesk</a>, which acquired the BIM platform Revit exactly 11 years ago this month.</div>
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"BIM is a central theme in the U.K. government construction strategy designed to reduce carbon and costs as a part of overall economic development," Bernstein said.</div>
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Perhaps this should be filed in the "We'll-Try-Anything" category of escaping a deep economic mess. But David Philp, the country's cabinet-level head of BIM implementation, contends that technologies like BIM will render many of today's construction jobs "unrecognizable" by 2050. Another leading Brit, Keith Howells of the big engineering firm Mott Macdonald, <a href="http://www.cnplus.co.uk/news/embrace-bim-or-go-out-of-business-says-new-ace-chair/8641614.article" style="color: #1174c7; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">equated BIM with the Excel spreadsheet</a>, warning, "If you're not using BIM in five years time, you'll probably be out of business."</div>
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<strong>2. Like Excel, BIM is good business.</strong></div>
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A new analysis from <a href="http://www.construction.com/about-us/press/bim-adoption-expands-from-17-percent-in-2007-to-over-70-percent-in-2012.asp" style="color: #1174c7; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">McGraw-Hill Construction, The Business Value of BIM in North America</a>*, shows that BIM adoption in that region expanded from 17 percent in 2007 to 71 percent in 2012, "demonstrating impressive growth despite the recent economic pressures."</div>
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It is likely that some contraction in design and build firms helped fatten up those numbers. But still ... don't you wish you had invested in BIM when those housing bubbles popped?</div>
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Construction is an international market, of course, and companies such as <a href="http://www.graphisoft.com/products/archicad/" style="color: #1174c7; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Graphisoft</a>, <a href="http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Products/Bentley+Architecture/" style="color: #1174c7; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Bentley</a> and Autodesk see even faster BIM growth coming in China, Japan and Brazil -- exceeding the 70 percent adoption rate in America.</div>
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<strong>3. Builders use BIM more than architects.</strong></div>
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Here's another strange fact from the McGraw-Hill study: The adoption rate of BIM among builders actually exceeds that of architects.</div>
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This phenomenon was <a href="http://www.construction.com/about-us/press/new-research-by-MHC-shows-dramatic-increase-in-use-of-BIM-in-North-America.asp" style="color: #1174c7; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">first reported last fall</a>, when research showed that 74 percent of contractors roll with BIM, with architects trailing at about 70 percent.</div>
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This is important news: Architects will need BIM skills to work with some builders, making it a prerequisite for certain projects. But it also suggests a potential loss of leadership by the design team as contractors take control of "the model" -- for good or for bad.</div>
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<strong>4. The cloud is BIM's next big thing.</strong></div>
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What's next for the technology itself? The shift from desktop to the cloud and mobile will transform BIM and upend the world of architecture once again. Among the changes that you can expect: Cloud computing will support BIM with detailed analytical tools, zapping answers to directly to client meetings and construction sites in real time.</div>
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"When BIM data is cloud-based, it becomes accessible for CPU-intensive analytical processes that can leverage the representation to create simulations," Bernstein explained. "Imagine an energy analysis routine running virtually in a parallel with a designer's copy of Revit, giving her real-time feedback on her scheme as it unfolds?"</div>
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With that idea in mind, BIM software developer Graphisoft last week released the public beta version of its <a href="https://edstarbeta.graphisoft.com/#/login" style="color: #1174c7; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">EcoDesigner STAR</a>, which places energy analysis in the heart of the architect's familiar BIM work environment.</div>
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Down the line, projects teams will use smartphones and tablet computers to query huge BIM models -- a "significant shift from traditional desktop-based workflows," Bernstein said. That "likely portends an age where that same information drives computer-controlled fabrication equipment that creates buildings that are assembled, not stick-built."</div>
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<strong>5. BIM can protect us from superstorms.</strong></div>
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For decades, low-bid contracting has been the law of the land, required for all federal and state building projects. With the rise of BIM, Bernstein and others have argued that construction deals can now be based instead on project outcomes.</div>
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"With today's building technologies, project teams can simulate the behavior of proposed designs and test digital prototypes for resilience before they are ever constructed,"<a href="http://www.fastcodesign.com/1671579/3-ways-to-build-cities-that-withstand-earthquakes-and-superstorms" style="color: #1174c7; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Bernstein wrote for Fast Company</a>, explaining how BIM could inspire designs that reduce storm-related building damage.</div>
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The influence could extend beyond durability and resiliency. Compliance with safety rules, toxicity levels, and even energy regulations could be outcome-based, taking construction contracts to a high level of specificity.</div>
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"Architects are taking more and more responsibility for the energy performance of their designs," said Laszlo Vertesi, vice president of development for Graphisoft, in explaining the benefit of Eco Designer STAR. The product enables architects to use ArchiCAD's BIM directly as a building energy model, or BEM, replete with performance reports to meet the scrutiny of agency officials and green building advocates.</div>
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<strong>6. Owners might demand it.</strong></div>
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I've been hearing this since the advent of BIM technology over a decade ago, but it has never happened. Yet.</div>
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Experts such as Patrick MacLeamy, CEO of HOK and chairman of buildingSMART International, point out that top building owners and developers are starting to ask for BIM models as part of their project deals, another factor that is forcing broader adoption.</div>
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"Over the next 10 years, building owners will demand ever-increasing usage of BIM as a precondition, ushering in a new era of accuracy, quality and sophistication for the building industry," MacLeamy predicted.</div>
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BIM vendors like Vertesi and Bernstein agree. "Mid-term, expect growing engagement by building owners to use models as data assets for facilities management," Bernstein said. "This creates opportunity for designers and builders to provide those datasets as part of the delivery of buildings, and owners an opportunity to use more than old prints of drawings and guesswork to run their valuable assets."</div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Building Information Modeling (BIM) Benefits</span></h3>
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BIM creates efficiency and users will get several benefits. You will realize some of the greatest <a data-component="link" data-ordinal="1" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" href="https://www.thebalance.com/building-information-modeling-risks-845093" style="background-image: linear-gradient(rgb(7, 131, 171), rgb(7, 131, 171)); background-position: 0px 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.03em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.03em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 0.03em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -0.03em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.06em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.06em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.09em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.09em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.12em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.12em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.15em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.15em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.03em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.03em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.06em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.06em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.09em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.09em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.12em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.12em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.15em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.15em 0.075em; transition: all 0.15s ease-in-out;">value of BIM</a> through its potential to cut down on rework, such as re-keying information into models or making changes in the field. As users become more proficient, the opportunities to improve productivity are more pronounced. The top benefits of BIM are:</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">BIM Reduces Rework.</strong></div>
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The highest rated business benefit among experts. Four in five experts say it brings high to very high value, compared to 23% of beginners.</div>
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2. <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">BIM Improves Productivity.</strong></div>
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Ranked by architects as the top way to improve their return on investment in the technology.</div>
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3. <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">BIM Reduces Conflicts and Changes During Construction.</strong></div>
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Are among the top rated ways engineers say BIM adds value to their project.</div>
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4. <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Clash Detection and Avoiding Rework.</strong></div>
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Owners claim that BIM usage saves time and money.</div>
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BIM Business Benefits</h3>
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Within their own practices, <a data-component="link" data-ordinal="2" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" href="https://www.thebalance.com/introduction-to-building-information-modeling-bim-845046" style="background-image: linear-gradient(rgb(7, 131, 171), rgb(7, 131, 171)); background-position: 0px 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.03em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.03em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 0.03em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -0.03em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.06em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.06em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.09em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.09em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.12em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.12em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.15em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.15em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.03em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.03em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.06em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.06em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.09em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.09em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.12em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.12em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.15em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.15em 0.075em; transition: all 0.15s ease-in-out;">BIM</a> users see numerous opportunities to recognize its value. Since BIM is an emerging process that has started to capture the attention of the building community at large, users are eager to bank its buzz. Marketing and the ability to promote new <a data-component="link" data-ordinal="3" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="externalLink" href="http://www.revitservices.com/bim.htm" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: linear-gradient(rgb(7, 131, 171), rgb(7, 131, 171)); background-position: 0px 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.03em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.03em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 0.03em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -0.03em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.06em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.06em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.09em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.09em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.12em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.12em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.15em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.15em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.03em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.03em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.06em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.06em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.09em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.09em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.12em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.12em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.15em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.15em 0.075em; transition: all 0.15s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">BIM-related services</a> are among the top benefits reported. The sense that BIM creates an overall better product is also very beneficial.</div>
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Productivity issues, such as reducing rework and errors, ranked higher than benefits related directly to time savings and cost reduction. This reflects the fact that users of all levels could see BIM as helping them work better, but cost savings are more likely to be realized by experienced users. The top rated business benefits are:</div>
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New business to new clients. BIM open doors for companies in the construction environment. As more clients begin to require BIM on jobs, team members need to have BIM skills to capture that business. On the flip side, companies can also introduce the technology to new clients who aren’t requiring BIM and use it as a marketing feature to get a leg up in their bid to land a job. All team members—other than owners who are also clients—rate this as a top benefit. This is particularly true for less experienced users who are promoting this new skill. Experts believe it is important but less than some other top benefits.</div>
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Half of owners (48%) say that BIM’s impact on the overall project outcome is a high benefit for them. Owners who are less experienced with BIM see this as their top benefit, while expert owners rank it slightly lower. The internal value of this to the other build-team members is experienced as reduced problems, improved client relationships, and more personal satisfaction.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">3) Reduced Errors</strong></div>
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Reduced errors and omissions in <a data-component="link" data-ordinal="4" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" href="https://www.thebalance.com/construction-contract-basics-844490" style="background-image: linear-gradient(rgb(7, 131, 171), rgb(7, 131, 171)); background-position: 0px 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.03em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.03em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 0.03em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -0.03em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.06em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.06em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.09em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.09em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.12em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.12em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.15em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.15em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.03em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.03em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.06em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.06em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.09em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.09em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.12em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.12em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.15em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.15em 0.075em; transition: all 0.15s ease-in-out;">construction documents</a>. Virtual design and construction with BIM create the potential to identify problems earlier in the building process. Half of all users (47%) see this as a significant benefit, particularly contractors. More experienced users recognize its value compared to others.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">4) BIM New Services</strong></div>
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BIM is a way to bring new offerings to an old business. Many users (47%) say adding BIM to their toolbox brings a high level of benefit to their practices. Naturally, this is more important to more recent adopters of the technology. Contractors, who as a group had adopted BIM later than many in the design community, are far more likely to see this as significantly beneficial.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">5) Reducing Rework</strong></div>
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Fixing problems early means fewer issues in the plans and ultimately fewer hassles in the field. A majority of contractors (57%) see the potential of BIM to reduce rework as a huge benefit. This is the highest-ranked benefit reported by expert users (77%), compared to fewer beginners that see it in other ways. (23%).</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">All of the professionals</strong> who form part of the design and construction process will get benefits from BIM, but who gets more value?</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Architects</strong></div>
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The evolution of BIM started with architects, and many still see its value emerging from its use in the design phases. Most in the design community, along with many contractors (43%) and owners (41%), say that architects experience a high level of value.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Structural Engineers</strong></div>
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Nearly half of all users recognized, that structural engineers can garner a high level of value from BIM. Such elements as steel columns, beams and <a data-component="link" data-ordinal="5" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" href="https://www.thebalance.com/roof-trusses-used-in-house-construction-844841" style="background-image: linear-gradient(rgb(7, 131, 171), rgb(7, 131, 171)); background-position: 0px 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.03em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.03em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 0.03em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -0.03em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.06em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.06em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.09em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.09em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.12em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.12em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.15em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.15em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.03em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.03em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.06em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.06em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.09em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.09em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.12em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.12em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.15em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.15em 0.075em; transition: all 0.15s ease-in-out;">trusses</a> are frequently modeled by users. Contractors are the most likely (47%) to see structural engineers realizing significant benefits.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Construction Managers and General Contractors</strong></div>
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Money is largely spent and saved during construction. Reducing rework can help keep budgets in line. Owners are the most likely (57%) to see a CM or GC gaining high value on a project, most likely because that savings could be passed on.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fabricators</strong></div>
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As BIM reduces conflicts and creates confidence in building plans, many team members see opportunities for value in fabrication. Accurate fabrication of materials reduces waste while the pre-assembly can save time. Contractors (56%) are far more likely to see fabricators experiencing a higher value than architects (23%), engineers (38%) or owners (30%).</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">MEP Engineers</strong></div>
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There is a range of opportunities for MEP engineers to use BIM. Modeling larger elements such as duct systems and air handlers are approachable options, while smaller elements such as <a data-component="link" data-ordinal="6" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" href="https://www.thebalance.com/seven-types-of-electrical-conduits-844832" style="background-image: linear-gradient(rgb(7, 131, 171), rgb(7, 131, 171)); background-position: 0px 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.03em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.03em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 0.03em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -0.03em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.06em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.06em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.09em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.09em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.12em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.12em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.15em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.15em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.03em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.03em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.06em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.06em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.09em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.09em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.12em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.12em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.15em 0.075em, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.15em 0.075em; transition: all 0.15s ease-in-out;">electrical</a> switches and outlets might prove more challenging. Notably, very few engineers (22%)collectively see MEP engineers reaping high value. Nearly half of contractors (45%) believe MEP engineers see significant value.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Owners</strong></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Owners ultimately experience all value collectively gained on a project</em></strong>. More than half (52%) of owners say they experience high value, but less than 30% of all other users believed this. This could be because other team members recognize that owners have yet to see much value from BIM for use in operations and maintenance. Still, most owners believe they can bank on the value of BIM during design and construction.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Specialty Contractors</strong></div>
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Although specialty contractors are charged with executing the complexities of a project, few team members (23%) believe they are experiencing a high value from BIM. Generally, subcontractors are smaller firms relative to general contractors and the costs of adopting BIM would be more pronounced. As BIM users employ a wide range of software applications, subcontractors may face interoperability issues and suffer added expenses to work within various models.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Building Product Manufacturers</strong></div>
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Very few (11%) of build team members see building product manufacturers gaining high value from BIM. This could reflect team members’ belief that BPM's are not supplying sufficient BIM-related information yet.</div>
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Modeling Safety: BIM and Construction Research May Help Prevent Injuries and Save Lives</h1>
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New York City is famous for many things.</div>
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Take, for example, its shopping, which infuses Fifth Avenue with treasure hunters foraging for jewelry, apparel, fragrances, and footwear. There’s its entertainment, which captivates throngs of people anxious to smile their way through a Broadway show or shout their way through a Yankees game. There are its attractions, which draw tourists to the Statue of Liberty and Central Park like bees to an open soda can. And, of course, there’s its food, which feeds millions of bellies every day with thin-crust pizza, yeasty bagels, and pushcart hot dogs.</div>
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But it’s not just about shopping, entertainment, or food. New York City is also famous for its iconic buildings. Looking skyward at the Empire State Building, the New York Life Building, the Chrysler Building, or any of their towering siblings, it seems as though they’ve been there forever—like mountains, only steel instead of stone. It’s easy to take for granted that they haven’t. In fact, most are less than a century old.</div>
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<img alt="construction_research_building_safety" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-10968" height="1500" sizes="(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px" src="https://cdn.redshift.autodesk.com/2015/09/construction_research_building_safety.jpg" srcset="https://cdn.redshift.autodesk.com/2015/09/construction_research_building_safety.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.redshift.autodesk.com/2015/09/construction_research_building_safety-200x300.jpg 200w, https://cdn.redshift.autodesk.com/2015/09/construction_research_building_safety-683x1024.jpg 683w" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 39.2344px 0px 0px; max-width: 60%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="1000" />Instead of Mother Nature, these buildings owe their existence to men with calloused hands and sore backs. Men like those in the famous black-and-white photograph <em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lunch Atop a Skyscraper, </em>which captures 11 workers enjoying lunch on a girder 840 feet above the street during construction of the RCA Building in 1932. In New York and across the country, these men and the buildings they built are symbols of American exceptionalism.</div>
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But they’re also symbols of American recklessness: Because workers of that era had neither hard hats nor harnesses, during the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2920453/Laughing-face-death-Incredible-pictures-construction-workers-fooling-built-America-s-iconic-buildings.html" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(34, 45, 48, 0.901961), rgba(34, 45, 48, 0.901961)); background-position: 0% 95%; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(34, 45, 48, 0.901961); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.03em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.03em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 0.03em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -0.03em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.06em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.06em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.09em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.09em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.12em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.12em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.15em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.15em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">skyscraper boom of the early 20th century</a>, it was said that crew foremen could expect one man to die for every $1 million spent on a skyscraper. Five men died during construction of the Empire State Building, for instance, and a whopping 27 died during construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, the “skyscraper” of bridges.</div>
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However, in 2012, New York City became the first U.S. municipality to approve a “<a href="http://www.nyc.gov/html/dob/downloads/pdf/bim_manual.pdf" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(34, 45, 48, 0.901961), rgba(34, 45, 48, 0.901961)); background-position: 0% 95%; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(34, 45, 48, 0.901961); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.03em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.03em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 0.03em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -0.03em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.06em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.06em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.09em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.09em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.12em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.12em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.15em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.15em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">3D Site Safety Plans Program</a>,” which uses building information modeling (BIM) software to allow the construction industry to create and electronically file site safety plans. As a result of the program, the New York City Department of Buildings can virtually tour sites, see step‐by‐step how a building will be built, visualize buildings’ complexities and challenges, and check for basic code compliance prior to manual review.</div>
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Although it’s too early for results, the program is expected to help New York reduce injuries and fatalities in construction, which remains not only one of the largest and most important industries in the U.S., but also one of the most dangerous, <a href="http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfoi/cfoi_revised13.pdf" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(34, 45, 48, 0.901961), rgba(34, 45, 48, 0.901961)); background-position: 0% 95%; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(34, 45, 48, 0.901961); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.03em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.03em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 0.03em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -0.03em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.06em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.06em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.09em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.09em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.12em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.12em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.15em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.15em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">according to the U.S. Department of Labor</a>. In 2013, it counted 828 construction fatalities—more than any other industry in the U.S. More than half (57.7 percent) of those were caused by what the industry calls the “<a href="https://www.osha.gov/oshstats/commonstats.html" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(34, 45, 48, 0.901961), rgba(34, 45, 48, 0.901961)); background-position: 0% 95%; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(34, 45, 48, 0.901961); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.03em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.03em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 0.03em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -0.03em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.06em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.06em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.09em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.09em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.12em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.12em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.15em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.15em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Fatal Four</a>”: falling (36.5 percent), being struck by an object (10.1 percent), being electrocuted (8.6 percent), and getting caught in or between objects (2.5 percent).</div>
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<img alt="construction_research_framing_safety" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-10970" height="956" sizes="(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px" src="https://cdn.redshift.autodesk.com/2015/09/construction_research_framing_safety.jpg" srcset="https://cdn.redshift.autodesk.com/2015/09/construction_research_framing_safety.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.redshift.autodesk.com/2015/09/construction_research_framing_safety-300x199.jpg 300w, https://cdn.redshift.autodesk.com/2015/09/construction_research_framing_safety-1024x680.jpg 1024w" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 39.2344px 0px 0px; max-width: 60%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="1440" />“The United States is number one in terms of safety regulations, and workers here are very well protected compared to many other countries,” says Dr. Yong Cho, an associate professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. “However, there’s no such thing as ‘perfect’ construction safety, so even with safety regulations, three people die every working day in the United States, and 60 to 90 people get injured.”</div>
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Work-related injuries and deaths can be just as harmful to companies as they are to workers. “Safety is very important,” Cho continues. “Not only can it cost lives, but it also can cost money, delay construction, and cost the contractor their brand name and reputation.”</div>
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Like the New York City Department of Buildings, Cho and two of his PhD students, Kyungki Kim and JeeWoong Park, believe BIM is a solution that can fill what they deem to be a critical <a href="https://lineshapespace.com/construction-site-safety/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(34, 45, 48, 0.901961), rgba(34, 45, 48, 0.901961)); background-position: 0% 95%; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(34, 45, 48, 0.901961); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.03em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.03em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 0.03em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -0.03em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.06em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.06em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.09em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.09em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.12em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.12em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.15em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.15em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">safety gap</a> on construction sites across the country and around the world, saving both lives and bottom lines.</div>
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<img alt="construction_research_scaffolding_safety" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-10976" height="1499" sizes="(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px" src="https://cdn.redshift.autodesk.com/2015/09/construction_research_scaffolding_safety.jpg" srcset="https://cdn.redshift.autodesk.com/2015/09/construction_research_scaffolding_safety.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.redshift.autodesk.com/2015/09/construction_research_scaffolding_safety-200x300.jpg 200w, https://cdn.redshift.autodesk.com/2015/09/construction_research_scaffolding_safety-683x1024.jpg 683w" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 39.2344px 0px 0px; max-width: 60%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="1000" />“BIM is used in projects from the very beginning to do construction planning,” explains Cho, who notes that project teams use BIM software like <a href="http://www.autodesk.com/suites/building-design-suite/overview" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(34, 45, 48, 0.901961), rgba(34, 45, 48, 0.901961)); background-position: 0% 95%; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(34, 45, 48, 0.901961); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.03em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.03em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 0.03em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -0.03em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.06em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.06em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.09em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.09em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.12em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.12em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.15em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.15em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Autodesk Building Design Suite</a> to generate and manage digital representations of their construction plans for the purpose of optimizing and coordinating building specs, schedules, resources, processes, and performance. “Unfortunately, people view safety as separate from construction planning—project managers and safety experts don’t work together—so safety is not included. If it were, safety issues could be identified automatically and addressed in preconstruction planning.”</div>
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To test their construction research and hypothesis—that integrating construction hazards into BIM software can improve construction safety—Cho and his students have commenced two research projects designed to demonstrate BIM’s safety benefits.</div>
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The first, executed by Cho with Kim, explores the development of a BIM-safety integration framework, utilizing rule-based safety-checking algorithms to automatically identify safety hazards in construction plans and communicate them to members of the project team. The rules would be developed based on interviews with construction and safety experts and would take into account factors such as the number and size of work crews, the spatial movements of workers within jobsites, and the existence of temporary structures like scaffolding, which currently are absent from most construction plans.</div>
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Example of new construction research to identify potential hazards. Courtesy Dr. Yong Cho and Kyungki Kim.</div>
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Integrated into BIM software, Cho and Kim argue, this information would allow project managers and safety engineers to test the impact of different spatial workflows and scaffolding types on safety, and to make preconstruction decisions that minimize hazards and maximize protection.</div>
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Cho’s second research project, conducted with Park, explores the benefits of an iBeacon-based safety tracking system. Cho and Park propose that construction superintendents outfit their construction sites with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)–based iBeacons and motion sensors, which will enable them to use workers’ mobile devices to determine and track their location on a jobsite. By leveraging that location information (as well as safety data) within a mobile BIM environment, workers could receive real-time alerts on their mobile devices when they’re near a potential safety hazard—reducing accidents by increasing awareness.</div>
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Example of iBeacon-based technology research. Courtesy Dr. Yong Cho and JeeWoong Park.</div>
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Although they’re still in their nascent stages, both research projects could ultimately deliver life- and cost-saving benefits to the construction industry so that buildings of the future can be just as majestic as those of the past—but much less tragic.</div>
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“As researchers, our goal is to validate technology and demonstrate its potential benefits,” Cho says. “We believe that integrating construction safety into BIM can reduce construction injuries and fatalities . . . so we’re working with software developers like Autodesk to create products that will do that in the future.”</div>
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As seen this past summer in Rio, the Olympics puts a bright global spotlight on both the world’s greatest athletes and the host city’s newly built sports complexes and infrastructure.</div>
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The same thing happened when the Winter Olympics came to Sochi, Russia, in 2014. The country pulled out all the stops in the development of the 40,000-seat Fisht Olympic Stadium, which is now being converted from a closed stadium to an open-air arena for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.</div>
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One of the FIFA World Cup 2018 venues, Spartak Stadium, in Moscow, Russia. Courtesy AECOM.</div>
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Designed by Populous and BuroHappold Engineering, Fisht operates with help from BIM technology services provided by SODIS Lab, one of several Russian firms embracing this increasingly in-demand technology.</div>
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Today, Russia’s Ministry of Construction is seeking to position the country as a leader in BIM design and export its services around the world. Companies worldwide are using BIM as an effective means to communicate a range of building data—such as dimensions, features, functionality, and cost—among project collaborators near and far.</div>
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With BIM technology, “employees don’t need to be at the construction site or where documentation preparation is carried out,” says Andrey Belyuchenko, director of the department of urban planning and architecture activities for the Ministry of Construction in Moscow. “This is an undeniable advantage of the technology and, consequently, the ability to export BIM services. The number and volume of international projects in which Russian companies are involved is growing dynamically.”</div>
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BIM model of the original closed-roof Fisht Olympic Stadium in Sochi, Russia. Courtesy SODIS Lab.</div>
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While several Russian firms are working with BIM on high-profile projects—including the 100-floor Akhmat Tower in Grozny, Russia and the mixed-use Lakhta Center in Saint Petersburg—there are still issues standing in the way of the country achieving its global vision. Chief among these are cost, education, regulatory barriers, and the lack of an internationally recognized BIM standard.</div>
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“Many companies are afraid of the costs related to implementation of the technology: the purchase of software and more powerful equipment, and staff training,” Belyuchenko says. “Implementation of BIM requires significant restructuring of many business processes . . . [including] new roles and positions, such as BIM managers and BIM coordinators. And here in Russia, companies face a lack of staff with knowledge and experience in using BIM.”</div>
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While implementing BIM within firms is certainly a big hurdle to clear, convincing clients to make the leap can be even more challenging. “The main difficulty lies in the need of changing minds of market participants,” Belyuchenko says. “A number of companies prefer to use conservative methods in their work, even if they are ineffective. But the state needs new technologies and efficient construction, so it sets the new rules.”</div>
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Akhmat Tower under construction in Grozny, Russia. Due to be completed in 2020. Courtesy Gorproject.</div>
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To that end, the Ministry of Construction plans to establish a phased system, making BIM mandatory for all building projects as soon as next year. “We plan to establish a quota,” Belyuchenko says. “Let’s say 20 percent of federal contracts must be carried out using BIM next year. Later, the order will extend to local contracts. And if in 2018 a structure is designed using BIM, then in 2019, the construction of the structure will also be deployed with BIM. In five years, about 50 percent of public procurement at all levels of the Russian budget system can be switched to BIM.”</div>
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To support this, Russia will need to adopt an internationally recognized BIM standard, which will establish a common language for how information is conveyed. The Ministry has established an expert board and working group of BIM consultants who are looking at standards created by other countries, such as <a href="http://bim-level2.org/en/about/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(34, 45, 48, 0.901961), rgba(34, 45, 48, 0.901961)); background-position: 0% 95%; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(34, 45, 48, 0.901961); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.03em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.03em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 0.03em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -0.03em, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.06em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.06em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.09em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.09em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.12em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.12em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.15em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.15em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">the UK</a>, to develop one that would be an attractive model for Russia. Autodesk provided a BIM standard template for Russia that included general terminology, rules of quality assurance, and guidance on modeling milestones for a given project.</div>
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“The UK today is a leader in BIM,” Belyuchenko says. “It has become not only a pioneer but also achieved great performance. So their experiences—as well as those in European and Asian countries—should be studied and used. That’s why we are using the UK’s BIM standard as a model.”</div>
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Lakhta Center in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to be completed in 2018. Courtesy Gorproect.</div>
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As Russia’s BIM standard solidifies, smaller local contractors and subcontractors will need to catch up in developing BIM capability and absorbing the costs. Fortunately, in addition to the phased BIM mandate, which allows time for firms to acquire software and training, the Ministry is working to increase educational opportunities.</div>
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One such resource will feature best practices, training courses, and other useful information gleaned from the global marketplace. And a number of universities, including the Moscow State University of Civil Engineering, have already begun offering BIM courses.</div>
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Politically and economically, Russia has faced negative opinions on the world stage. But the widespread adoption of a BIM standard and top-down support for its use in global building projects could present the nation in a different light to potential clients, while boosting the Russian economy.</div>
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“Strengthening our position at the international arena—and the expansion of BIM-services export—will allow us bring it to a new level,” Belyuchenko says. “This, in turn, will affect the perception of people. In the eyes of the international community, we will be a country that uses advanced technology for both internal growth and external collaboration.”</div>
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It’s an Olympic-level aspiration, to be sure. Stay tuned, as Russia’s BIM star is likely to get brighter.</div>
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Prompt Engineering Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14588537657186504141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459155531252956193.post-87045663701375733292016-11-09T22:24:00.000-08:002016-11-09T22:24:07.378-08:00 What is a combined BIM model and why would a contractor need one?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Every contractor knows that winning new projects is not an easy task in today’s highly competitive business environment. To win the game, the contractor needs to have the right price, be able to point out key risks that can arise in the course of construction work and clearly differentiate from the competitors by providing the ‘little extra something’ that the owner considers an additional value.</div>
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As a contractor, it is naturally in your main interests that all of the designed technical elements fit together and can actually be constructed on site. That is why paper-based plans or incomplete design data provided by the project owner usually mean extra work before you can give an accurate proposal. We all know that a proposal, which doesn’t fully cover all of the construction steps, is likely to cause big headaches when the building starts on site.</div>
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Often the project owner may have an abundance of designs – for instance, separate designs for bridges, intersections and underground pipelines – and all of these designed with different software and in different data formats. A thorough analysis of the key elements is likely to take a lot of time – unless you can create a combined BIM model and use that on the basis of your proposal.</div>
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A combined BIM model allows you to look at the key designs all in one view showing in a concrete manner, how both designed and existing structures actually fit together. Are there, for instance, underlying elements that should be considered when the work starts on site?</div>
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The best-of-breed software (<a href="http://www.viasys.com/solutions/viasys-vdc-software/vdc-explorer/" style="border: 0px; color: #b22216; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">such as our VDC Explorer</a>) can combine data from multiple different data formats, for instance, open data formats like LandXML or IFC commonly used for combining technical systems. With the combined BIM model in place, you can base your proposal on an actual digital prototype of the construction project that helps the whole project team to visually analyze constructability, understand the costs involved and come up with the best solution to build.</div>
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“Part of the strategy in being able to teach them BIM is giving them an opportunity to see what is out there. We aren’t exclusively teaching one type of software, since that does not reflect how firms operate. Each firm has its preference and for that reason, there is no one BIM software exclusive to the market.”</div>
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When push comes to shove, Speidel admits he does have his opinions about which software is the most efficient in managing BIM – having had experience working with such a wide variety of options.</div>
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“So often we hear certain brand names of software used interchangeably to mean BIM. It is unfortunate, since BIM is a process – never a software. In my experience what you want to power your BIM process is a nimble, easy to operate program that does not add to your bottom line in terms of adding hardware. For me, ARCHICAD is that ideal software.”</div>
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“ARCHICAD has an advantage in that it is very IFC friendly. The industry is relying on that more and more to transfer information from program to program and share with others. ARCHICAD converts and works with IFC very well.”</div>
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Taking on such a wide range of products, that all handle BIM in different ways and presenting them in a non-endorsing manner, Speidel relies on a strategy to present unbiased information. In his class, students receive a good bit of freedom to really explore and determine which method works best for them.</div>
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“It would be impossible to teach so many methods and be able to achieve proficiency in any one. For that reason, we encourage the students to really dig in and get immersed in the ones they feel most comfortable operating.”</div>
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The students not only complete assignments for a course grade, during the fall/spring quarters students gear up for a BIM competition in Reno, NV. Students build models and create quantity takeoffs, comparing various versions of software with the same model. CalPoly consistently finishes in the top four spots at the competition. Speidel prefers to focus on how quickly students find employment upon graduation.</div>
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“Students do well at the competition and we are very proud of that achievement. What is most rewarding to me is recognizing how accomplished they are when they leave here. Firms snap them up because through the course, they have a holistic view of BIM and have been allowed to become as proficient as possible in the one they list best.”</div>
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Prompt Engineering Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14588537657186504141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459155531252956193.post-70966361091368814152015-05-13T20:40:00.002-07:002015-05-13T20:40:21.005-07:00Out of the Inbox: reality capture & 3D printing stalls?, BIM grows, VARs do too<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A couple of things caught my eye recently, but I’ve been too wrapped up in other projects to write about them in any detail. So rather than continuing to wait until I have time, in no particular order …</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Reality computing</strong> seems to be taking a beating right now — well, at least a couple of the bigger, publicly-traded suppliers are. <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">FARO</strong> said that Q1 revenue would fall short of expectations because of foreign exchange and weakness in Japan and Brazil then, last week, <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">3D Systems</strong> said that it saw a sharp drop-off in activity by aerospace, automotive and healthcare customers as they slowed spending because of exchange rates and the fallout from the low price of oil. 3D Systems also had internal issues, as “certain metal and nylon applications and performance issues delayed the company’s ability to sell additional printers during the quarter”. Coming on the heels of <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Stratasys</strong>‘ announcement of problems with the Makerbot business, 3D printing shares are taking a beating on Wall Street. Does this mean reality computing is a non-starter? Of course not. We’ll all keep capturing more and more of the world around us; one hiccup won’t affect that in the long run. We will also increasingly rely on additive manufacturing technology, so postponing purchases from one quarter to another is also not a category-killer. But these reports do show that perhaps printer companies may be trying to push too hard with technology that’s not quite ready for customers whose internal processes may not be quite ready, either, to let go of decades of additive manufacturing practices.</div>
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Speaking of reality computing, the popularity of handheld scanners seems to be skyrocketing. Since they’re so much cheaper, at under $10,000 per unit as compared to $50,000 and up for a traditional model, easy to use and can reach places traditional scanners often can’t, they’re a great way to collect “as is” data.<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Trimble</strong> and <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">DotProduct</strong> recently <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/trimble-to-offer-dpi-8-handheld-3d-scanner-for-building-construction-jobsites-300058251.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #72bcea; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">announced</a> that DotProduct’s DPI-8 would be distributed by Trimble and its distribution partners. That’s big — a little startup getting such a global partner on board. It’s a clear sign that the cost of reality capture can only come down even as ease of use goes up.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Nemetschek</strong> gave more details results a few weeks ago for Q4 and full year 2014. You can read them <a href="http://www.nemetschek.com/en/presse/press-releases/detail/nemetschek-group-plans-further-strong-revenue-and-earnings-growth-after-record-year-2014/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #72bcea; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a> but, in summary, revenue was up 18% to €219 million in 2014, above the company’s last forecast with a big year-end, as Q4 revenue was €65 million, up 26%. What led to such good growth? License revenue was up 21% overall, with the Design segment again leading the way, led by Vectorworks and Graphicsoft. Design is still the largest segment, with total revenue of €175 million, up 17%; on an organic basis, revenue was up 11%. The Build segment reported revenue of €20 million, up 30.4%, including a €5 million contribution from Bluebeam, consolidated since October 31, 2014. Revenue from the Manage segment was up 5% to €5 million and the Media & Entertainment segment reported revenue up 12% to €18 million. For 2015, Nemetschek expects group revenue to grow organically by 6% to 9% but that acquisitions will boost total revenue to around€265 million. What does it all mean? That BIM is catching on for more and more project types and sizes — and that for those too small to support a BIM environment, the use of design and collaboration technologies is still growing in importance.</div>
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Finally, a bit of <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">VAR</strong> catch-up. VARs, value added resellers, make the PLMish world go round. They represent the software vendor for both sales and support and are often the “face” of a product to local users. They are also, often, small businesses that struggle to keep the cash flow in balance and struggle to grow when they’re dependent on their OEM partners for new products. A couple of large, publicly-traded PLM VARs give us periodic glimpses into the health of that part of our universe:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">CENIT</strong>, reselling Dassault Systemes, IBM, SAP and other partner products as well as add-on services,<a href="http://www.cenit.com/en_EN/news/display/news-detail/article/successful-2014-business-year-cenit-raises-ebit-by-12-dividend-more-than-doubles-to-eur-090-bas.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #72bcea; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reported</a> that revenue for 2014 was €123 million, up 4%. Within that total, revenue from third party software was up 12% to €56 million; proprietary software was unchanged at €13 million, and revenue from consulting and services was €54 million, down 3%. Revenue from the PLM segment was up 7.5% to €98 million.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Mensch und Maschine</strong>, MuM, is an Autodesk reseller that is growing its own portfolio in CAM and AEC. MuM <a href="http://www.mum.de/EN_Mensch_und_Maschine_Investor_Relations_CompanyNews_20150422.CAD" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #72bcea; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reported</a> that Q1 was a “sparking start” to 2015, as revenue grew 14% to €43. The company’s own software revenue grew 14% to €10 million while the VAR business contributed €33 million, up 16%. MuM said that “nearly one third of the VAR Business growth was due to the Swiss Franc increase against the Euro, the remainder – still double digit – was purely organic.” CEO Adi Drotleff is optimistic about 2015 as a whole: ‘The higher than expected business development in Q1 makes us confident that the targets for fiscal year 2015 are achievable: Sales should clearly exceed €150 million.”</li>
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In both cases, the PLM VAR revenue was up over 10% –a little more in the Autodesk space, a little less in the DS– which bodes well for the greater VAR universe and for the OEM suppliers as well. We’ve heard from DS, with total revenue up 30%, constant currency growth of 17%, organic software revenue up 9% in constant currencies. Next up are PTC and Trimble and then we take off with ANSYS, Hexagon and a host of others. It’s going to be a bumpy, currency vs expectation-laden ride.</div>
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Prompt Engineering Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14588537657186504141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459155531252956193.post-50738917590494498842015-05-12T20:39:00.002-07:002015-05-12T20:39:55.496-07:00BIM in The Middle East - Complete Survey Report<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This report was commissioned to enable buildingSMART Middle East to gain a better understanding of the Middle East construction sector and subsequently to disseminate<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />that knowledge to key industry participants. Building Information Modelling (including understanding of, capability and barriers to adoption), being the</div>
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Prompt Engineering Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14588537657186504141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459155531252956193.post-50458125249586498302015-05-11T21:02:00.001-07:002015-05-11T21:02:28.352-07:00‘Geo-IT: The ‘Enabler’ Ingredient in the Infrastructure Construction Project Life Cycle Mix’<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Construction industry faces unique challenges not only with the design, construction and operations of new infrastructure, but, also, maintenance of existing assets. Whether it is about vertical or, horizontal construction that not includes over the ground infrastructure, but, also underground assets, the infrastructure construction eco-system is dynamic to the core.</div>
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Traditionally, the construction industry is organized in a segregated way, which unfortunately acts as a bane rather than being a boon when it comes to information handover from one phase to another in a typical project life cycle. To combat this lapse, many developed countries across the world are now making Building Information Modelling (BIM), a modern business process for construction as a policy mandate.</div>
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BIM is a process that involves creating and using an intelligent 3D model to inform and communicate project decisions. Design, visualization, simulation, and collaboration enabled by BIM solutions provide greater clarity for all stakeholders across the project lifecycle. BIM makes it easier to achieve project and business goals. This process of analysis gains its optimal potency when it gets integrated with Geospatial Information and Technology which facilitates the development and maintenance of infrastructure assets by eliminating data redundancy, miscommunication, and costly conversion when moving through the entire project life cycle of infrastructure construction process that follows - planning, design, construction, and operation. This integration gets further steam when allied technologies like mobile, cloud computing, etc., are thrown into the mix.</div>
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Through this exclusive track on modern infrastructure construction processes titled - <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘Geo-IT: The ‘Enabler’ Ingredient in the Infrastructure Construction Project Life Cycle Mix’,</span> we will trace the enabler role of geospatial information and technology combining with supporting ICT tools and techniques that is integrated with BIM to create sustainable infrastructural assets with a greater control on the project life cycle of not only new projects, but, also, existing ones that demand renovation and re-modelling.</div>
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Prompt Engineering Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14588537657186504141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459155531252956193.post-77945087974793818582015-05-10T20:51:00.000-07:002015-05-10T20:51:31.487-07:00BIM and Prefabrication: The new revolution<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For many years now prefabrication has been seen as integral to greater efficiency in building construction. Earlier manual 2D CAD systems relied on a product of specified fixed characteristics, mass produced to reduce unit cost; however, this approach never satisfied design flexibility or innovation of product and led, in its worse outcomes of the post-war housing boom, to using concrete panels of small range and adaptability. An ugly truth.</div>
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Meanwhile, in advanced manufacturing sectors such as automotive and aerospace, techniques for mass production and robotic procedures have had a revolutionary impact, and now, with the advent of BIM, that revolution is extending into building and construction.</div>
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The advent of BIM has produced a reliable method to prototype in 3D objects and its adoption is on the increase, particularly in HVAC system disciplines and supply chains with the work carried out by BIM-MEP AUS. Its advantages are a relaxation of constrained product design, leading to better performing buildings enabled by optimised products with significant off-site industrialised pre-assembly and prefabrication systems. There’s no doubt prefab is on the move.</div>
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BSA Prefabricated Riser Modules for the nRAH, Hansen Yuncken Leighton Contractors Joint Venture</div>
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Examples of the successes of this new approach are the new Royal Adelaide Hospital and the Sunshine Hospital Development on Queensland’s Gold Coast where BIM and prefabrication combine to improve design solutions, bring greater consistency in building and manufacturing processes, reduce on-site errors, enhance a smarter and quicker facility development process, employ a more skilled workforce and add to increased safety.</div>
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So what are the key technical challenges to further advancing this integration and continuing the prefabrication revolution?</div>
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It’s buildingSMART’s central vision to have an Australasian building and construction industry that collaboratively shares and maintains information about facilities and infrastructure in a manner that optimises the quality and economy of regulatory approval, design, construction and operation of the built environment.</div>
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We encourage greater industry collaboration, communication and coordination to properly secure openBIM standards endorsed by government agencies – like transport, health and schools – as well as private sector owners to ensure universal acceptance and applicability. </div>
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NATSPEC, with support from groups like buildingSMART Australasia, AMCA (Air Conditioning and Mechanical Contractors’ Association of Australia), Construction Information Limited New Zealand, APCC (Australian Procurement and Construction Council Inc.) and<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />ACIF (Australian Construction Industry Forum), are preparing proposals to address this issue including the development of a National – Australasian – BIM Object library. Excitingly, we had a real breakthrough on the 2ndDecember, 2014 for ‘whole industry’ collaboration when a national response resource was allocated to realise the adoption of a new Project Team Integration (PTI) and BIM framework across the Australian building and construction industry with <a href="http://buildingsmart.org.au/buildingsmart-leads-the-way-for-a-smarter-safer-more-sustainable-industry/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #72bcea; text-decoration: none;" title="buildingSMART leads the way for a smarter, safer, more sustainable industry"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“The Framework for the Adoption of Project Team Integration and Building Information Modelling”</em>,</a> a national first. The hope is this is but the first step in achieving the cooperation required to further advance the building and construction industries in Australasia.</div>
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The extension of BIM into the full suite of networks and infrastructure adds to this task, as well as providing new resources and the possibility to set up a truly Australasian process of implementation.</div>
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Prompt Engineering Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14588537657186504141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459155531252956193.post-40031146371558557542015-05-08T20:31:00.002-07:002015-05-08T20:31:53.713-07:00Implementing 4D BIM Construction Management Midway through The Project<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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4D Building information modeling, is being used increasingly across the AEC industry. The adoption rate of BIM 4D scheduling/construction sequencing is at its peak and has gained widespread acceptance across the globe. And why not will it get popular, AEC industry has experienced huge potentials working with 4D BIM; and benefits it provides in form of better management and articulating better outcomes.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Benefits that make adoption of BIM 4D so popular and a high value proposition:</strong></div>
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Our team at Hi-Tech has successfully completed several such projects where BIM came into picture after the construction work started. Although it is very challenging to implement BIM at later stages, it still does offer considerable amount of benefits and returns on investment. One project I remember we executed was developing <a href="http://www.hitechos.com/pdf/aec/bim-services/aec-services-bim-services-bim-structural-services-case-study-1.pdf" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #72bcea; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">BIM for a university hospital in Saudi Arabia</strong></a>.</div>
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When this project was offered to us, construction for the building had already started. However at this stage, the project was going way behind schedule, the client wanted to gain better control over the construction process and make it streamlined.</div>
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We were briefed about the requirements, - BIM with LOD 500 and adherence to AIA standards. Information rich model with details for MEP, structural and Architectural disciplines was prepared and further interdisciplinary clashes were identified and mitigated. Changes were amended and construction schedules were set.</div>
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Clearly, introducing BIM midway through the construction was challenging, however it was fruitful. The university hospital construction project was running late, but after BIM intervention client managed to streamline the processes and complete the project on time. Further client also integrated BIM documentation and as built information with O&M for facility management. As risks reduced - liabilities also reduced, and as clashes were mitigated rework reduced - hence time and cost efficiencies increased. As a result, for the client it turned out to be a highly profitable investment.</div>
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Prompt Engineering Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14588537657186504141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459155531252956193.post-42369668955293137772015-05-06T20:47:00.000-07:002015-05-06T20:47:02.813-07:00How BIM improves safety and reduces operating costs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Civil engineers who are regularly engaged with architects or structural engineers may already be familiar with BIM, but for those who are involved in designing roads and highways, the process is a whole new world, but one that is highly relevant now and will continue to grow in importance.</div>
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BIM helps not just in constructing ‘buildings’ but also in building any sort of infrastructure. It is an integrated process built on coordinated and reliable information about a project from design through construction and operations.</div>
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BIM can be considered a thought process that governs work through various stages of the project in the shape of information that stays digital, consistent and coordinated. Hence, the chief benefits of BIM are that there is no duplication of information. It is a constantly updated centralised database model and streamlined flow of information from field (survey) to design and finally to construction and maintenance/operations.</div>
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Implementing a BIM process for road and highway design starts with the creation of coordinated, reliable design information about the project, resulting in an intelligent 3-D model of the roadway. The elements of the design are related to each other dynamically, not just points, surfaces, and alignments, but a rich set of information and the attributes associated with it.</div>
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For example, halfway through a roadway design project the profile may need adjustments to a vertical curve and the grades. By adjusting the profile, all of the related design elements update automatically, allowing the designer to instantly see the impact.</div>
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In this way, BIM facilitates evaluation of many more design alternatives. As part of the design process, civil engineers can leverage the information model to conduct simulation and analysis to optimise the design for constructability, sustainability and road safety. Finally, with a BIM process, design deliverables can be created directly from the information model. Deliverables include not only 2D construction documentation, but also the model itself and all the rich information it contains, which can be leveraged for quantity take-off, construction sequencing, construction stake-out, as-built comparisons and even operations and maintenance.</div>
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In the case of construction stake-out, digital points are added in the office to the information model and can be sent directly to total station equipment on site. This equipment has the ability, once coordinated to stake-out numerous points robotically removing the need to generate stake-out points from 2D CAD or paper drawings. This process allows a more efficient and accurate way to link the office to the site and through verification of the as-constructed, links the site back to the office.</div>
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The use of modelling, 3-D visualisation and analysis is nothing new for road and highway design professionals, but with traditional drafting-centric approaches, design, analysis and documentation become disconnected processes, making evaluation of what-if scenarios inefficient and cost prohibitive.</div>
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By dynamically connecting design, analysis, and documentation in a BIM workflow, most of the effort in a roadway design project is shifted back into the detailed design phase when the ability to impact project performance is high and the cost of making design changes is low. This allows engineers to spend more time evaluating what-if scenarios to optimise the design and less time generating construction documentation.</div>
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Machine guidance applications can benefit significantly from a BIM model, an object based model supports attribute meta data associated to work packages for specific machine types. High accuracy paving machines require parametric models, while earthmoving machinery can work will with surfaces, string-lines as well as parametric models.</div>
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Prompt Engineering Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14588537657186504141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459155531252956193.post-87440472042644266172015-05-05T20:32:00.002-07:002015-05-05T20:32:11.776-07:00How BIM Will Change Professional Demand and Development<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Given the rapidly increasing importance of BIM to the design and development of the built environment, proficiency in the new technology is fast becoming indispensable to AEC sector professionals.</strong></div>
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It now appears all but inevitable that BIM will eventually become a standard, need-to-have technology for industries involved in the creation of the built environment. This is a global trend, with major economies such as the UK and Singapore already taking the lead in mandating the usage of the technology for key infrastructure projects.</div>
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Given the apparent inevitability and rapid progression of this trend, the implications for AEC sector professionals and their employers are set to be profound and far-reaching.</div>
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As with many other career skills, acquiring high levels of expertise and proficiency in BIM is best achieved via learning on the job, as opposed to through instruction in classroom environments.</div>
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Should BIM proficiency become one of the most pivotal considerations for members of industry, it could significantly skew employment patterns in favour of those companies that possess the most extensive and sophisticated BIM systems and provide the best opportunities for on-the-job training.</div>
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This could even further raise the appeal of leading and established engineering firms such as AECOM and Downer for new entrants to the work force.</div>
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In addition to the lustre that working at such prestige companies can confer upon the CVs of budding professionals, it’s also these large-scale concerns that provide the best means of rapidly acquiring high levels of expertise in BIM usage, thus putting them in good stead for their upcoming carers.</div>
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This heightened access to much-coveted talent that marquee companies will enjoy may profoundly alter employment trends among fresh workforce entrants.</div>
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It could even lead to a situation among civil and structural engineers similar to that for their peers in the IT sector at the highest echelons, where the best talent is monopolized by a few blue chip firms due to the extent to which positions at such companies are coveted.</div>
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Another major issue that the spread of BIM in the AEC sector industry raises is the need to constantly maintain and upgrade the proficiency levels of professionals, particularly given that one of the chief advantages conferred by BIM is the ability to facilitate coordination and collaboration between the multiple parties to complex construction projects,</div>
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The ability of BIM to enhance project cooperation could be severely hampered should participants in work projects fail to remain fully abreast of the latest advances in the technology.</div>
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According to Ben Mallinson of Sydney-based p3 BIM Consulting, a lack of sufficient BIM understanding and expertise is the reason why many companies see their initial forays into usage of the technology flounder.</div>
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“Implementation of any technology requires confidence, knowledge and foresight,” said Mallinson. “Businesses flop and ‘get burnt’ with BIM when these are not present.”</div>
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“The main insight is the need for consistency in BIM methods, understanding and usage, in order to put companies in a position to move in the same direction and achieve a unified outcome.</div>
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“Directors and project chasers sign contracts, yet have no real understanding of the work involved with regards to BIM and training their staff to meet its conditions.”</div>
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The challenge of ensuring that AEC professionals continually upgrade their BIM skills is further compounded by the fact that BIM technologies are currently undergoing extremely fast-paced changes.</div>
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Speaking at the Bentley CONNECTION event in Sydney last March, Bentley CEO Greg Bentley noted that the pace of change in BIM-related technologies is rapidly accelerating, with greater advances seen in just the past several years compared to the preceding decade.</div>
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These rapid changes, along with the increasing capabilities and sophistication of <a href="https://sourceable.net/australia-behind-in-bim-use-on-roads/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #72bcea; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Australia Behind in BIM Use on Roads">BIM</a> technology, have already led to the emergence of a specialized industry of BIM consultants and advisers that cater to the needs of those companies hoping to stay on the cutting-edge of development.</div>
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Mallinson pointed out that in addition to enlisting the assistance of specialised consultants, one important means of enabling companies to keep their staff up-to-date on the latest BIM developments is to implement fundamental changes to their internal culture.</div>
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“Companies can create a curious culture in their offices by encouraging and accommodating existing staff to find and learn new ways to engage in design and documentation, as opposed to working them to the bone,” said Mallinson. “This is the age of working smarter, not harder.”</div>
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Prompt Engineering Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14588537657186504141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459155531252956193.post-15381248070161401212015-05-03T21:43:00.001-07:002015-05-03T21:43:00.258-07:00The Three Worlds of BIM<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Do you understand it? That is, the world of Building Information Modelling (BIM)? Most don’t and yet it’s challenging owners and operators of hospitals, universities and commercial buildings to look at how they procure projects.</div>
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BIM is one of the most overhyped topics in the construction industry today. It appears in the media, at conferences and even in Government policy. There are as many definitions of what BIM is as there are national standards, guidelines and authors of discussions like this. My personal favourite is “The structured sharing of digital information within the built environment.”</div>
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Many owners who start looking at BIM get scared off by trying to understand how the various aspects of BIM directly benefit them. They have been sold on the picture portrayed by many of the software vendors that BIM is a ‘whole building lifecycle process’ or ‘to be doing BIM you need to be doing it all!’</div>
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In my view the whole process has been overcomplicated. While we should be thinking about operations and maintenance during design, we shouldn’t lose sight of the benefits that a BIM approach can make just to the design process. Likewise with construction and operations phases. This has led to promoting the process as the <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">‘Three Worlds of BIM’</strong>.</div>
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Within the <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">design world</strong>, the benefits of working within a 3D modelled environment are now being realised by all disciplines. Improved coordination, integration with analysis better visualisation for client communications are all resulting a better no surprises design product.</div>
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Likewise within <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">build world</strong>, creating a virtual construction model before doing it in steel and concrete is reducing rework and waste. Integrating models with cost and time schedules allows multiple options to be compared and provides a clear communication tool.</div>
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It is the <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">operations world</strong> where there are the biggest challenges and biggest potential long term benefits. When facility owners and operators listen to all the BIM hype around modelling, clash detection, 4D and 5D they should rightly be thinking “How does this benefit me?” If it’s not delivering a cheaper, faster or better product (more on this in a later posting), why should they get excited?</div>
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The main benefit in operations world is harnessing the power of data relating to the asset. Most organisations use this data in multiple ways including planned maintenance schedules, asset depreciation calculations, space allocation and booking systems, upgrade planning and design. Whilst there will be separate systems needed for all of these functions, the source of the data for most of them is the same i.e. information about the physical asset.</div>
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Currently these systems are being populated by different people making differing interpretations either from walking around the asset or from paper drawings and schedules. If the owner can develop an information (the “I” in BIM) requirements plan before the building is handed over (the earlier the better!) then all of this data can be obtained seamlessly and consistently from an As Built Model.</div>
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So the <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">key to success</strong> in an operations world is knowing what information you want and communicating it to the team that can best provide it. Construction projects involve a large number of designers, contractors and suppliers. There is a new information management role required to take all this data and audit, filter and translate it into what the owner really needs.</div>
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With BIM the success is to focus on how to maximise the benefits and value-add in the world you operate in. Communication between the worlds will get better over time, but until you really know what information you need, how can you expect someone else to provide it? BIM is not all about buildings or all about modelling it is all about Information.</div>
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In today's technology-driven world, construction managers no longer have to rely on multiple sets of physical blueprints to communicate with project teams. Building Information Models or BIM provide 3D representations of a structure, including elevations, floor plans, electrical systems and plumbing into one source. This allows for better anticipation of project issues and delays</div>
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Download this FREE whitepaper to learn how BIM in the field can improve your project efficiency. You'll also find answers to the following questions: </div>
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Navetta Design has introduced Revit content files for use with its Symmetra and Symmetra Plus products lines of lecture hall seating. Navetta's design and construction partners can take full advantage of Revit's advanced design and utility for lecture hall or auditorium projects.</div>
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Revit building design software is specifically built for Building Information Modeling (BIM), empowering design and construction professionals to bring ideas from concept to construction with an industry-leading, model-based approach. Revit includes features for architectural design, MEP and structural engineering, and construction. Navetta's Revit content makes lecture hall and auditorium planning easier and more precise than ever.</div>
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With a few clicks, Revit's full functionality is available:</div>
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Navetta's free Revit content allows virtually unlimited options in sophisticated design for lecture halls and auditoriums and is available at NavettaDesign.com/Revit-downloads.</div>
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Built from a 40-year heritage of innovative products for schools, Navetta Design offers innovative fixed lecture hall and auditorium seating, ergonomic chairs, and other furniture products for higher education.</div>
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