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Using BIM, designers, contractors and fabricators meet regularly during design development to jointly review the coordination of systems in the model and collaboratively develop solutions to problems as they are discovered. Source: University Mechanical of Arizona Tools + Process = Value of BIM Although these powerful modeling tools can be used effectively just by individual entities on a project team strictly to improve their own processes and outcomes, this approach risks narrowly limiting the benefits of modeling to merely creating “Silos of Excellence” within individual firms, and minimizing the great potential for large scale improvement of the industry-at-large. Undeniably, the macro-level opportunity for change is to leverage these tools to break down the traditional silos of information and facilitate systematized collaboration and redistribution of work to the most appropriate parties at the most cost-effective points in the process. This is in fact an emerging and quickly accelerating trend, and though it also goes by several names, I will refer to it for this article as Integrated Project Delivery (IPD). In its ideal form, the IPD approach brings key construction management, trades, fabrication and supplier expertise together with design professionals and the owner earlier in the process than the traditional Design-Bid-Build scenario. The objective is to jointly leverage modeling and enabling technologies to produce a design that is optimized for constructability, affordability and timely completion. Then to continue the selective use of technologies as construction proceeds to more effectively: • Maintain a high degree of collective understanding of the progress, quality and cost of the project being built. • Engage the appropriate parties in any decision-making that is required. • Achieve the design intent initially set forth in the models. • Provide a “digital double” of the completed project to the owner for decades of ongoing operation and maintenance. The enabling applications that detect clashes are particularly effective at facilitating IPD. Firstly because of their ease of use and powerful visualization capability, but secondly because they afford the opportunity to collectively resolve what are typically expensive and time-consuming conflicts in the field in a non-confrontational, collaborative process while it is still relatively inexpensive to make changes to the models. When conflicts are identified virtually with BIM, customized solutions can be mutually agreed-upon, then pre-fabricated to achieve coordination. Source: Turner Construction Company 8 BIM

Table of Contents Feed for the Digital Edition of BIM Building Information Projects No 1

Cover How Building Information Modeling (BIM) is Dramatically Transforming the Design, Building and Operation of Projects An Interview with a Local AGC Chapter on Its Nationwide BIM Training and Validation Program Launch BIM - more than just a clash detection tool A Contractor Tells How They Made BIM Work for Their Firm BIM’S Sixth Dimension: RISK AND RESPONSIBILITY ALLOCATION Experiencing the Benefits of a New Tool AIA Member Perspectives on BIM Thoughts From a Digital Imaging Firm

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