BE Magazine Volume 5, Issue 2 - (Page 24) BUILDING BE Award Finalist BIM Coordinates Cooperation Firms collaborate to synchronize project to one with more than four years head start L ocated on the main campus of the Cleveland Clinic near downtown Cleveland, the Glickman Tower is a 325,000square-foot outpatient building. The tower not only had to be in harmony with an accompanying pavilion, but its construction had to be accelerated to meet the pavilion schedule in order that both could open in October 2008. Design work on the pavilion had begun on the 1 million square-foot Arnold & Sydell Miller Family Pavilion in 2001, so it had a four-and-a-half year lead on the Glickman Tower. Design on the tower began in September of 2005 and took 15 months, and construction on the Glickman Tower began in April 2006. To make room for the tower, the clinic demolished an aging research building and maximized infill on the last remaining building parcel in the main block of the hospital. The project consists of 10 above-grade floors, a basement level, and a two-story mechanical penthouse. A helipad sits atop the roof, while the departments of urology, nephrology, and dialysis occupy the upper five floors. The first floor houses a chapel, resource center, conference center, lobby, and other public areas. The remaining four floors and basement are currently shelled. The street façade to the east is floor-to-floor curtain wall, while the other three (partial) façades are vertical metal siding and strip windows. Structurally, the building features deep foundations, a hydraulic slab, two floors of flat slab, three of pan joist, and eight levels of structural steel. Lateral systems consist of concrete shear walls and steel and concrete moment frames. Multidisciplinary teams The need for speed and efficiency led the building design team to decide early on to use building information modeling (BIM). This was consulting engineers Korda Nemeth, BR+A, and Wulk Engineering Group’s first project using BIM, although NBBJ was already a BIM veteran. The Glickman Tower was, however, one of the few instances where NBBJ conducted a BIM project in conjunction with consultants. Also, since NBBJ and Korda use Bentley solutions while BR+A and Wulk use Autodesk products, a few test models were exchanged before construction began in earnest. v NBBJ and Korda Nemeth partnered with two consultants using two platforms for a 325,000-square-foot outpatient building 24 BE MAGAZINE | Volume 5, Issue 2
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