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Agenda

Building Information Modeling • BIM and IPD


• BIM application areas for owners
– Design assessment, design assistance for complex infrastructure
and environment, sustainable buildings, cost estimating,
schedule management, facility management
• BIM tools for owners
– Cost estimating tools, facility and asset management tools, and
operation simulation tools
• A building model for owners and facility managers
• BIM implementation led by owners
– Develop guidelines for BIM on projects, build internal leadership
and knowledge, Service provider selection, Build and educate a
qualified network of BIM service providers, Modify contract and
contract languages
BIM for Owners and Facility Managers • BIM implementation barriers for owners
• Guidelines and issues in implementation
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BIM and Owners From manufacturing to AEC


• The latest CAD software? • Lean processes and digital modeling
– the first step in the wrong direction – Earlier adoption by manufacturing and aerospace
industries
• The recipient of BIM model? – Toyota’s lean manufacturing in 1990s
– Boeing’s digital modeling in the design of the 777
• Slow paradigm shift due to fragmented nature
– Significant changes in work processes
• Similar revolution in AEC
– From 2D-based documentation to one or more
coordinated and information-rich building models
– From traditional delivery processes and fragmented
business practices to IPD
– Link design information with business processes in
construction and facility management
– Also require significant process changes
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Loss of value in information assets BIM to support IPD
• Integrated Project Delivery (IPD)
– Project team works together using the best
collaborative tools at their disposal to ensure that the
project will meet owner requirements at significantly
reduced time and cost.

• Owner’s benefit vs. individual team member’s


benefit
– Traditional approach: project team members strive to
maximize their individual goals.
– IPD: The collaboration builds trust and common goals
that serve the owner best.
– BIM-based processes to benefit owners in terms of
project quality, cost, schedule, and future operation.
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Owners to initiate/sustain IPD Drivers for IPD


• It is owner’s role! • A shift toward globalized work processes
– Globalized building product supply chain
• IPD to achieve close collaboration among all project • Complex prediction of cost
members through the use of BIM • Unpredictable demand for building materials
– globalized workforce: remote collaborators/competitors
• Standard IPD contracts published by the AIA and • The need for increased productivity and low margins
ConsensusDocs – Declining construction productivity
• IPD contracts to define • The increasing demand for sustainability
– BIM software tools used by team members – To reduce energy consumption, carbon footprint, and use of
fresh air
– Solutions to share information among team members – Performance-based assessment during design phase
• Owner’s role through the life of the project • The ever-increasing complexity of buildings themselves
– More dramatic building forms and functions
• BIM tools to facilitate owners in understanding the intent – Complicated supply chains
and considerations of designers and contractors – New regulatory restrictions
– Large number of team players from a variety of disciplines

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Responses from the industry What do owners want?
• Collaboration • Improved decision-making
– BIM and Web-based project management software – Use digital building models and visualization
– A trend towards integrated digital collaborations technology to reduce poor design/construction
decisions
• Representation
– Moved from 2D drawings to nD digital models • Improved contract documentation
– From representational (based on static, abstract representations – Reduce the level of unknowns in contract documents
of a design) to performative (based on desired outcomes)
– Establish accuracy and precision by using BIM
• Analysis
– Rapid design inference: understanding the analytical
• Improved preconstruction estimating
ramifications of design decisions as they are being made – Reduce the guesswork and inefficiency in
preconstruction estimating
• Fabrication
– Digital fabrication techniques reduce the pressure on filed • Improved procurement and scheduling
construction productivity – Better procurement and scheduling by using time/cost
– Require better connection between design and fabrication modeling (aka 4D/5D simulation)
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What do owners want? Use BIM in an integrated environment


• Improved coordination
– Reduce the chance of clash by using BIM models to facilitate
interdisciplinary design coordination
– better constructability

• Improved cost-efficiency
– Reduce the cost due to coordination errors, incorrect fabrication,
and improper installation
– Reduce the use of overtime labour for recouping project
schedule lost

• Improved closeout documents


– From traditional as-built drawings to a BIM-centric approach for
all project documents
– Transfer digital building models from design and construction to
facility management

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Agenda BIM application area for owners
• BIM and IPD • BIM benefits owners most.
• BIM application areas for owners
– Design assessment, design assistance for complex infrastructure • Educated owners can do better.
and environment, sustainable buildings, cost estimating,
schedule management, facility management • Application areas for owners
• BIM tools for owners – Early and often design assessment
– Cost estimating tools, facility and asset management tools, and
operation simulation tools – Solutions to the issues of complex facilities
• A building model for owners and facility managers – Sustainable buildings
• BIM implementation led by owners – Cost reliability and management
– Develop guidelines for BIM on projects, build internal leadership – More precise construction schedule
and knowledge, Service provider selection, Build and educate a
qualified network of BIM service providers, Modify contract and – Facility management
contract languages
• BIM implementation barriers for owners
• Guidelines and issues in implementation
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Design assessment Integrated development of requirements


• Owner to manage and evaluate the scope of the design • Develop programs and requirements for projects
against their own requirements – During the programmatic and feasibility phase
– Conceptual design: spatial analysis – Working with consultants
– Design development: functions, cost, quality, schedule
• Very often, with little feedback with respect to feasibility
• Currently a manual process to review designs and costs of each individual feature or project
requirement
• BIM can help
– Integrated development of programmatic requirements • BIMStorm: a potential tool by Onuma system
– Improve program compliance through BIM spatial analysis – Run in a Web browser, no software to install
– Receive more valuable input from stakeholders – Multi-user capability, multi-level of users, multi-level of projects
– Rapidly reconfigure and explore design scenarios (from a room to multiple buildings)
– Simulate facility operations – For early planning, project program development, schematic
design, cost estimating, early energy analysis, and more
– Real-time data shared between multiple platforms, ONUMA or
non-ONUMA

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BIMStorm Hong Kong: an example BIMStorm Hong Kong: an example
• Spend $15 Billion US in one hour on this site in Hong Kong • 79 Building Information Models were submitted live to the BIMStorm
(GeoDesign Summit in June 2011) from an audience of 200 during keynote presentation using iPhones,
Androids and PCs

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BIMStorm Hong Kong: an example BIMStorm Hong Kong: an example


• 79 Building Information Models were submitted live to the BIMStorm • Theme: to present the convergence of Geographic Information
from an audience of 200 during keynote presentation using iPhones, Systems (GIS), BIM and Facility Management (FM) using Cloud
Androids and PCs Computing.

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BIMStorm Hong Kong: an example Improve program compliance by spatial analysis
• Tools used: The ONUMA System, Google Earth, ArcGIS, SketchUp, • Use BIM tools to check program compliance
Autodesk Revit, Archicad, Excel, Google Docs, Skype, GoToMeeting,
Google Maps, Ecotect, NavisWorks, and other BIM applications. • Example of the United States Coast Guard project
– Multiple roles: owner, tenant, or design team
– Need to continually assess the condition of existing facilities,
their mission dependency, and current space utilization
– Traditionally done by manually collect data and create floor
plans for analysis every few years
• Requirements for a facility assessment system
– Facility condition index: represents the condition of various parts
of the building, roof, walls, windows, and equipment, ranging
from 0 (failure) to 100 (all of its design life remaining)
– Mission dependency index: represents parts of the facilities that
are critical to business or mission operations, also ranging from
0 (lowest priority) to 100 (highest priority)
– Space utilization index: represents the compliance of the actual
space to USCG standards.

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USCG example USCG example


• Model facilities • Edit facilities

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Receive more valuable input Other design assessment areas
• Feedback from project stakeholders • Rapidly reconfigure and explore design scenarios
• Most stakeholders – Real-time configuration is possible either in the model generation tool
– Not AEC/FM professionals or a specialized configuration tool.
– Have limited time to understand the information provided about a project – Example: DProfiler system by Beck Technology
• BIM is able to facilitate the review process • Provide preliminary analysis for cost and energy based on conceptual design.
– Walkthrough animation • Facilitate owners rapidly assess the feasibility of alternative building designs
– 4D construction simulation
• Simulate facility operations
– walkthrough and 4D are not everything
ESPL Learning Centre, Switzerland
– Analysis of crowd behaviour or emergency evacuation scenarios

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BIM application area for owners Complex project conditions


• BIM benefits owners most. • Modern buildings and facilities are complex
– Physical infrastructure: traditional MEP plus
• Educated owners can do better. data/telecom, building sensors/meters
• Application areas for owners – Organizational, financial, legal structures
– Early and often design assessment
• BIM can help
– Solutions to the issues of complex facilities
– Coordinate infrastructure through fully integrated 3D
– Sustainable buildings models of architectural, structural and MEP systems
– Cost reliability and management – Produce higher-quality and maintainable
– More precise construction schedule infrastructure through interactive review of
– Facility management coordinated models
– Prevent litigation through collaborative creation and
sign-off of building information models

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Complex project conditions Sustainability
• Sustainable buildings concern
– Energy efficiency of the facilities
– Overall environmental impact of construction projects

• BIM value:
– Creation of information-rich building models

• BIM can help


– Reduce energy consumption through energy analysis
• $1.5-2.0 per sq.ft., $75k-100k annually for a 50,000 sq.ft.
building, 10% reduction means $7.5k-10k saving annually
• Many tools to evaluate the payoff and ROI
– Improve operational productivity with simulation tools
• Day-lighting in retail and offices

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Sustainability Daylighting analysis

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Cost reliability and management Cost reliability and management
• Unreliable cost estimate • Estimator’s point of
– Two-thirds of construction View
clients experienced cost – Insufficient time, poor
overruns documentation, and
– Contingencies or the like communication
to handle uncertainties breakdowns between
during construction project participants
– Many causes: changing
market conditions, the • Early involvement of
time between estimate BIM tools
and execution, design
changes, quality issue, etc. • BIM can help
– More reliable estimates early in the process with conceptual BIM
• BIM value: accurate and computable model to facilitate estimating
quantity take-off and fast cost feedback on design • Quick estimate and feedback based on historical cost information,
changes productivity information, and other estimating information
• Useful to predict cash flow and procuring finance
– Faster, better-detailed and more accurate estimates with BIM
quantity take-off tools
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Schedule management Schedule management


• Time to market • BIM can help
– Not the time to market of buildings – Reduce time to market through the use of parametric
– Facility construction as the bottleneck models
• The Flint Global V6 Engine Plant Expansion project, designed
• BIM value: to automate design, simulate and built in 35 weeks, roughly a half of time required by DB
operations, facilitate offsite fabrication – Reduce schedule duration with 3D coordination and
– Originally targeted toward manufacturing and process prefabrication
facilities • Accurate 3D building model facilitate coordination between
GC and trades, make offsite prefabrication is possible
– Now applicable to the general commercial facility
– Reduce schedule-related risk with BIM-based planning
industry
• Risks associated with renovating of existing facilities, 4D
simulation to mitigate the impact of construction activities

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Facility and information asset management Facility and information asset management
• Information is an asset
– Generated during each project phase
– Re-entered or produced during hand-offs between
phases and organizations
• Information loss at the end of construction

• BIM can help


– Commission a building more efficiently
• Passing over all digital and recorded/proven data
– Quickly populate a facility management database
• Up to 98% time saving in transferring data
– Integrate BIM with facility management system
• Manage MEP system with BIM objects
• Manage the renting of offices
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Agenda BIM tools for owners


• BIM and IPD • Cost estimating tools
• BIM application areas for owners
– Design assessment, design assistance for complex infrastructure • Facility and asset management tools
and environment, sustainable buildings, cost estimating,
schedule management, facility management • Operation simulation tools
• BIM tools for owners
– Cost estimating tools, facility and asset management tools, and
operation simulation tools
• A building model for owners and facility managers
• BIM implementation led by owners
– Develop guidelines for BIM on projects, build internal leadership
and knowledge, Service provider selection, Build and educate a
qualified network of BIM service providers, Modify contract and
contract languages
• BIM implementation barriers for owners
• Guidelines and issues in implementation
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Cost estimating tools DProfiler features
• Flexible costs
• Cost estimate – Many options as a source for cost data: importing from Excel, integration with
Timberline, and many others
– Baseline project cost and perform financial
forecasting, or pro forma analyses • Import what you have
– Scanned sketch or digital model
– Often generated early in design before the team • Integrated development pro forma
develops a fully detailed building model, using square – A real time development pro forma to communicate the total project cost, lease
foot or unit cost methods rates, and ROI
• Integrated energy analysis
• Available tools • Quick and accurate what-ifs
– Apply costs for various materials,
– DProfiler, a fast tool to generate conceptual estimate structural systems, cladding, different
using building models sites, etc.
– U.S. Cost Success Estimator, can import quantity
take-off information from Autodesk Revit family
– Exactal’s CostX, also can use information from
building models
– Microsoft Excel, still the most common software
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Facility and asset management tools BIM-enabled FM applications


• Building models’ value • Available tools accepting of building models and space
– A great source to populate a facility management application’s components
database
– ActiveFacility (www.activefacility.com)
– Provide concept of “3D space” to facility management software
• Most facility management applications do not define “space” – ArchiFM (www.graphisoft.co.uk/products/archifm)
• If required, it has to be manually defined – ONUMA Planning System™ (www.onuma.com)
– Vizelia suite of FACILITY management products
• Issues of using BIM with FM applications (www.vizelia.com)
– Space object support. Does the tool import “space” objects
from BIM authoring tools, either natively or via IFC? If so, what
properties does the tool import?
– Merging capabilities. Can data be updated or merged from
multiple sources? For example, MEP systems from one system
and spaces from another system?
– Updating. If retrofit or reconfiguration of the facility takes place,
can the system easily update the facility model? Can it track
changes?
– Sensor and control monitoring. Are sensors and control
systems part of the FM system? Can they be monitored and
managed within the system?
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Operation simulation tools Agenda
• Crowd behaviour • BIM and IPD
– Legion studio, ViCrowd • BIM application areas for owners
eRena, Crowd Behavior – Design assessment, design assistance for complex infrastructure
and environment, sustainable buildings, cost estimating,
• Emergency evacuation schedule management, facility management
simulation tools • BIM tools for owners
– IES Simulex, building – Cost estimating tools, facility and asset management tools, and
Exodus operation simulation tools

• Additional input required • A building model for owners and facility managers
in all cases • BIM implementation led by owners
– They may only extract the – Develop guidelines for BIM on projects, build internal leadership
geometric properties from and knowledge, Service provider selection, Build and educate a
qualified network of BIM service providers, Modify contract and
the building informant contract languages
model.
• BIM implementation barriers for owners
• Guidelines and issues in implementation
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Building models for owners & facility managers A conceptual diagram


• Owners and facility managers
– Be familiar with available tools
– Also need to know the scope and level of detail for a
building model

• Information integrated in a building model


– From architects, engineering, contractors, fabricators

• For post-construction BIM applications


– Ensure adequate scope and level of detail

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Owner’s building information model Other resources for owners
• Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate (OSCRE)
– www.oscre.org
– Define information requirements and standards for transaction-based
scenarios
– Including appraisal, commercial property information exchange, and
facilities management work orders
• Capital Facilities Information Handover Guide
– Define information handover guidelines for each phase of facility
delivery and the building lifecycle
– Elaborate many of the information issues discussed today
• Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
– www.opengeospatial.org
– Define standards for geospatial data
– Efforts undertaking to integrate GIS and building model data
• Construction Operations Building information exchange, Version 2
(COBie2)
– www.wbdg.org/resources/cobie.php
– Simplify the work required to capture and record project handover data
– Enter data as it is created during design and construction
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Agenda BIM implementation led by owners


• BIM and IPD • Owner’s role to lead BIM implementation
– Owner’s right to select design service providers, the type of
• BIM application areas for owners procurement and delivery processes, etc.
– Design assessment, design assistance for complex infrastructure – Many owners
and environment, sustainable buildings, cost estimating, • Just accept the current status quo
schedule management, facility management • Do not perceive their ability to change or control the approach to delivery a
building
• BIM tools for owners • Even do not know the benefit of BIM
– Cost estimating tools, facility and asset management tools, and • Legal issues
operation simulation tools – Need changes in standard design/construction contracts by AIA or AGC
to accommodate IPD
• A building model for owners and facility managers – Works undertaking to support BIM and more collaborative and
integrated project delivery methods
• BIM implementation led by owners • Industry associations, such as AIA and AGC
– Develop guidelines for BIM on projects, build internal leadership • Government agencies such as GSA and Army Corps of Engineers
and knowledge, Service provider selection, Build and educate a
qualified network of BIM service providers, Modify contract and • In this section we discuss
contract languages – Develop guidelines for BIM on projects
– Build internal leadership and knowledge
• BIM implementation barriers for owners – Service provider selection
– Build and educate a qualified network of BIM service providers
• Guidelines and issues in implementation – Modify contract and contract languages
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Guidelines for BIM implementation Internal leadership and knowledge
• Guidelines developed by owners that build and manage • Two key processes
multiple facilities
– Government agencies: GSA, United States Coast Guard (USCG), – The development of internal knowledge about BIM
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, State of Texas, State of Wisconsin, technology
etc. – The assignment of dedicated key personnel to lead
– Institutional organizations: Los Angeles Community College
District (LACCD), Indiana University, etc. the BIM effort
– Real estate owners: Senate Properties, etc.
• Example of U.S. Cost Guard
• Major components in the guidelines – Pilot projects using BIM
– Goals for BIM use and its alignment with organizational goals
– Scope and use of BIM across phases of project – Significant investigation and research effort
– Scope of standards or formats related to BIM and the exchange – A roadmap for implementing BIM
of building models • A phased approach to implementing BIM across their
– Roles of participants in the BIM process and handovers between organization and various facility projects
all participants
• Milestones related to specific BIM technology applications
• Existing guidelines serve as references for new • Milestones for procuring and delivering facility using various
implementations BIM applications

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Service provider selection Methods to select BIM-savvy service providers


• A unique market • Modify job skill
requirements
– No industry leader – titles such as BIM
– Even government agencies: a fraction of the overall Specialist, BIM
Champion, BIM
facility market Administrator, 4D
– Only one project for many owners Specialist
• Include BIM-specific
• Challenging efforts to standardize processes, prequalification criteria
technologies, and industry standards in BIM – Explicit requirements
for experience and the
– Take peers/competitors as references ability to use BIM
– Seek guidance from industry associations • Interview prospective service providers
– What BIM technologies does your organization use and how did you
• What in common use them on previous projects?
– The control in selecting service providers and the – What organizations collaborated with you in the creation, modification,
and updating of the building model?
method to delivery the project – How will you turn over the BIM model used on this project and how can
I transfer the information needed for my facility management system?
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Qualified network of BIM service providers Qualified network of BIM service providers
• Formal education • Formal education (example of U.S. GSA)
– A formal National 3D/4D BIM Program
• Informal education
– Educate the public and potential service providers
• Training support – Work with BIM vendors, professional associations
(AIA and AGC), universities through workshops and
seminars
– A BIM Champion in each of the ten GSA regions
– Not proprietary expertise and knowledge
– All project participants need to be conversant with
BIM technologies and processes

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Qualified network of BIM service providers Qualified network of BIM service providers
• Informal education (example of Sutter Health) • Training support (example of Swire Properties)
– Effort around implementing lean processes and BIM – Introducing BIM concepts and applications is not
technologies on their projects enough.
– Invite service providers to attend informal workshops – Technical training for specific BIM tools is costly for
– Present lean concepts, 3D and 4D simulation design firms.
technologies – It is also a difficult process in changing business
– Support project teams using BIM technologies to workflows.
conduct similar workshops open to all related industry – A potential barrier to adopt BIM.
professionals – Swire Properties paid for the training of the design
– Provide a way for professionals to share BIM team to use specific BIM tools on their projects.
experience and learn from others
– Ultimately widen the number of service providers
available to bid on their future projects
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Modify contracts and contract languages Modify contracts and contract languages
• Scope and detail of the model information • Uses of model information
– The format
of project
– For example, 3D coordination, real-time review of
documentati design, frequent value engineering using cost
on, from 2D
to BIM
estimating software, or energy analysis
model
– May or may • Organization of model information
not provide
detailed – Overlooked by many owners
language for
specific
– Approaches available such as CAD layer standards or
requirement Primavera activity fields
s pertaining
to the 3d – Customized information organization structure
format and
the types of
– Efforts undergoing to establish industry standards,
information such as the National BIM Standard.
in the model

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Agenda BIM implementation barriers


• BIM and IPD • Risk associated with changes to work processes
• BIM application areas for owners – Most mature technologies
– Design assessment, design assistance for complex infrastructure
and environment, sustainable buildings, cost estimating, – Maximize the benefit of every penny
schedule management, facility management
• BIM tools for owners • Two categories of barriers
– Cost estimating tools, facility and asset management tools, and – Process barriers: legal and organizational issues
operation simulation tools
– Technology barriers: readiness and implementation
• A building model for owners and facility managers
• BIM implementation led by owners
– Develop guidelines for BIM on projects, build internal leadership
and knowledge, Service provider selection, Build and educate a
qualified network of BIM service providers, Modify contract and
contract languages
• BIM implementation barriers for owners
• Guidelines and issues in implementation
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Process barriers Process barriers (continued)
• The market is not ready • The design is complete
– It is still in the innovator phase. – Although missed the best opportunity but not late
– Not every service provider is BIM ready. – One Island East Office Tower example:
– The potential pool of bidders will be limited if BIM requirements • BIM implementation began after construction documents were
are specified in the RFP. started, but still achieve significant benefit.
– It may ultimately increases the price of the project. • See case study in BIM Handbook for more detail.

• The degree of adoption varies largely • Training cost and the learning curve are too high
– From just using BIM to generate drawings for requirements in – Long-term benefit and increasing competency
traditional project delivery methods – However,
– To full participation in IPD teams • Cost on software/hardware and training
– Adopted well by many architects, engineers, and contractors • Initial productivity losses
• Before 2000, almost nothing • Owner to subsidize partial of the cost
• 35% started to use 3D/BIM, by 2007 • Everyone must be on board
• 50% in moderate levels or higher, by 2009
– It is hard to get everyone on board
– Not well adopted by regulatory agencies for review of proposed
new buildings or modification to existing buildings – Full participation is not necessary
• Singapore is the pioneer • Challenges with recreating information from departments not
participating in the BIM effort

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Process barriers (continued) Technology barriers


• Too many legal barriers • Technology is not ready for integrated design
– Contractual and legal changes are required for using BIM – Well developed for single-discipline design
– Even the exchange of digital project files is difficult – Most design tools reviewed before provide integration
• Have to rely on old-fashioned paper drawings capabilities between several disciplines only at the generic object
– Assignment of responsibility and risk level
• BIM makes information to be broadly accessible – Multiuser access to the building information model is also a
– Efforts undertaking to overcome legal barriers challenge
• Special expertise to establish protocols to manage updates and
• Issue of model ownership and management is too edits of the model
demanding • A network or server to store and access the model
– A Construction Manager (CM) is required – Owner to take an audit role with the project team to determine
the type of integration and analysis capabilities
• To oversee the communication and review construction documents
– With BIM, the owner needs early and direct involvement before • Standards are not yet defined or widely adopted
a CM is assigned. – Efforts undertaking such as IFC and National BIM Standard
– Managing BIM-based process and related management of – Still many proprietary formats for model exchange
building models is not easy for owners
– May pose a kind of risk to owner if using owner-specific format
• An owner representative is normally needed.

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Agenda Key factors towards successful BIM use
• BIM and IPD • Perform a pilot project
• BIM application areas for owners – A short time frame, small qualified team, and a clear
– Design assessment, design assistance for complex infrastructure
and environment, sustainable buildings, cost estimating, goal
schedule management, facility management
• Do a prototype dry run
• BIM tools for owners
– Cost estimating tools, facility and asset management tools, and – A dry run on the pilot project to make sure the tools
operation simulation tools and processes are in place to succeed.
• A building model for owners and facility managers – For example, to design a conference room for 20
• BIM implementation led by owners people, with specific targets for budget and energy
– Develop guidelines for BIM on projects, build internal leadership consumption.
and knowledge, Service provider selection, Build and educate a
qualified network of BIM service providers, Modify contract and – Deliverables: a building information model and related
contract languages cost and energy analyses.
• BIM implementation barriers for owners
• Guidelines and issues in implementation
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Key factors towards successful BIM use


• Focus on clear business goals
– Many benefits available through using BIM, but do not expect all
at one time
– A specific problem to solve or a particular goal to success
– GSA’s pilot project efforts: one type of BIM application for one of
nine different projects

• Establish metrics to assess progress


– Such as reduced change orders or rework, variance from
baseline schedule or baseline cost, or reduction in typical sq.ft.
footage cost
– Two good references for metrics or goals
• Construction Users Roundtable (CURT)
• CIFE Working Paper on Virtual design and Construction

• Owner to participate in the BIM effort

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