bim - a new concept in practice

BIMBuilding Information Modeling

June 10, 2009

A New Concept in Practice

What is Building Information Modeling?

A fundamentally different idea about how to design

and how to build

A digital simulation of a real building

A three dimensional model that replaces two dimensional drawings

A new idea about how to design & build

BIM is an intelligent tool within the larger framework of the 360 Integrated Project Delivery

It redefines the traditional five-phased

delivery process!

Why change the way we practice?

Our current business models contain 57% non-value added waste

The construction industry is fraught with infighting and adversarial relationships

The construction industry is the only industry with a reduction in productivity since the advent of computerization

Because technology has evolved faster than people

have!

BIM’s innovative information technologies fully support the principles of Integrated Project Delivery

1. Eliminating disconnected tasks and repetitive work

2. Reducing the workflow problems

3. Improving predictability, giving clients more assurance of the project outcome

BIM maximizes the creation of value!

Adapting our Process

“Interoperability”

Mature BIM

BIM Implementation Steps

Phase One - Revit Software Use the 3-D software to:

Visualize accurate virtual representations

Integrate changes across disciplines

Perform test applications and simulations

Detect collisions

Provide data for estimating & scheduling

BIM Implementation Steps

Phase Two - “Interoperability Use the 3-D software to:

Replace 2-D paper drawings with 3-D BIMs

Export the building data and information

Resolve issues digitally

Review 3-D shop drawings & submittals

Fabricate components from the models

Strategy for Integrated Practice

“Tailor your approach towards Design / Build; many of the benefits to Owners come from using Integrated Practice in a Design Build mode by establishing certainty of outcome.”

“Progressive cross disciplinary organizations (like ours) will achieve these benefits thru systems that provide rules, standards, and relationships designed to produce superior results using BIM”

Our Industry is Changing

Integrated Project Delivery: Design/Build, BIM, Design Research

Segmented Process - America

The erosion of standard professional fee scales and litigiousness has led to a trend for project participants to delimit their areas of responsibility rather than blur their boundaries through collaboration. Hence, design and its delivery became to some degree a set of separate sequential steps, the project passing from design to production and then to contractors and subcontractors.

No more of this!

But, Can it Work?!

“…to maintain design integrity—to fulfill our traditional role - architects must step up, take charge, and manage the entire design and construction process. That is what design-build is all about.”

The AIA Journal of Architecture

Ben Wilking, AIA, DBIA

Integrated Project Delivery

Design / Build

“[BIM] enables integrated planning, design, detailing, cost control, and construction scheduling and sequencing. It offers architects a return to the role of master builder, without sacrificing design excellence.”

AIA Architect

Kristine K. Fallon, FAIA

Integrated Project Delivery

BIM

Collaborative Project Management

CONNECTION, COLLABORATION, CREATIVITY