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VDC

BIM

Prefab Architect

Builder

Software

Hardware

Reality

Capture

Owner

The Concurrent Worlds of Virtual Design and Construction

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Learning Objectives

The business drivers of capital projects will require us to

develop more effective strategies for managing cost,

quality and schedule.

Design and Construction technologies are changing at a

rapid pace. The industry has a great opportunity to

capitalize on this with new approaches and strategies

Integrated project delivery methods such as Design Build

are the most opportunistic in terms of capitalizing on

technological advances

As technology advances we must adapt to the new tools

with new processes

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Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became

Louis Kahn, Architect

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Neolithic construction

• For personal use• Rituals• Local materials

and labor• Unskilled craft

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Copper and Bronze Age

• Egyptianso Professional labor,

respectedo Drawings on clay tabletso Primitive technology

• Greekso Stone columns and lintelso Pulleys, jibs and craneso Survey skillso Recognition of the

architecto Skilled labor

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Romans• Organization of Labor

• Hydraulic lime mortar

• Concrete

• Arches

• 100 ton cranes

• Technology

• Trade guilds

• Slaves

• Speed of construction

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Dark Ages – Western Europe

• Loss of knowledge

• Loss of organized labor

• Religion as a unifying labor element

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Medieval Romanesque thru Gothic

• Brick, stone

• Master crafts with apprenticeship

• Paid, skilled labor

• Fortifications and religious bldgs.

• drawings on parchment or tracing floor

• Pile driver around 1500

• Tall spaces, thin walls, flying buttresses

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Renaissance

• Water powered timber mills

• Fired bricks, standards for size

• Early use of iron

• Rebirth of architect, classical design

• Guilds of paid craftsmen

• Patrons from the mercantile class

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The Duomo – 1436Brunelleschi

Engineering

Construction

Technology

Design

DesignBuild

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17th, 18th, 19th centuries• 17th century

o Plate glass

o Plumb bob, squares, level, drafting compass

• 18th century

o Cast/wrought Iron hangers, columns, machine cut nails

o Imported materials

• 19th century

o Steel, transportation,

o Engines

o Large capital projects

• AIA 1857 – elevates the profession

o 1889 – Louise Bethune, 1st woman architect in AIA

o 1888 Standardized contracts

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Industrial Revolution

• Mass production• Decorative architecture• Steel wire• Bessemer steel • Engineering• AGC 1918

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20th century

• Skyscrapers• Curtain wall• Life Safety Codes• Age of Associations• Separation of Services• Spearin Doctrine• Unions• Davis Bacon• Job Safety• Adversarial relationships• CAD

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The Design and Construction industry has fallen behind all other industries except agriculture in its investment in and implementation of technology NIST

21st c. (just getting there)

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Tools of the trade

Stick in the dirt CAD to BIM to VDC

T Square, mylar, plastic leads, Sepias, wash-off’s

Etch-a-sketch, graphite

Ink on linen

Lead on parchment

Design Evolution

Scratches on slate

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Tools of the Trade

Kneaded Erasers

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Blueprints

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Labor Intensive

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Blue Lines - Reproduced

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Early CAD

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Black Lines - Printed

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Visualization, Problem Solving Tools

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Building Models with Intelligent Information

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Better BIM/VDC Integration - Concurrence

• Commissioning• Operations• Maintenance• Disaster planning• Asset management• Facility management• Big Data

• Work Plan• Site logistics• Field mobility• Quality assurance• Quality control• Fabrication• Automation

• Constructability• Coordination• Quantity take-off• Scheduling• Safety Planning

• Execution Plans• Level of Detail• Visualizations• Analytics• Plans/Specs

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Knowledge Management

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Building Information Life Cycle

A NEED ID’d

How is information to be maintained and managedover the life of the project?

What Information?

End of life Re-purpose – loftOperate Asset - warehouse

Design ConstructionFinanceBuyer

Owner or User

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Information Life Cycle

Finance Design Operate RetireNeed Construct Repurpose

At each touch point there is a potential for information loss and lost productivity

OPTIMIZED INFORMATION INTEGRATION Increased Value/

ProductivityIntegrated Model

Non Integrated Model

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Friction and failure occur on the edges of contracts

OperationsSilo

DesignSilo

ConstructionSilo

Contracts that assume failure

Fees inadequate for optimization

Expenses – Waste, inefficiency

Bad Behavior Risk unbalanced

Friction around the edges

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Contracts that assumeSuccess and Incentivize

to achieve it

Contracts that recognizeThe paradigm shift of scope

OperationsDesign Construction

The integrated High Performance Team

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Greg’s Top 10 Disrupters to silo’d Design and Construction

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Computational/Parametric Design

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Design to Fabrication

LaborDeliverables

ContractsFee Structures

Risk

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Rapid Prototype Printing

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Field Mobility

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Leverage of Mobile Apps

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New Generations of Workers

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Data Driven Productivity

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Cloud Driven Transformations

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Profit Driven Analytics

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Reality Capture

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My I’s(Required for maximizing the value of concurrent design and construction)

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Intuitive

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Integration

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Interoperability

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Innovation

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and Finally………….Incentives

OwnerArchitectEngineer

TradesSuppliers

BuilderOperator

FinanceUsers

CONCURRENT

VDC

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New times require new thinking.You have an eternity to think inside the box

Open for Discussion