May 14th -- Beyond Collaboration: Setting the Stage for “Integrated BIM"

[lesley hayes]

Speakers
Gregor Vilkner, PH.D, AIA, ACI
Erleen Hatfield, PE
Joseph Burns, PE, SE FAIA

Preview of whats to come:

Objectives include:
Current state
Leasson learned
Computational approaches to bim
Data mining, report extraction
Interoperability
Multi-location

Integrated practice-a reaction to coping with radical changes in the design process:
Complex geometries
Rise of mega projects
Aggressive schedules
Conceptual changes will into DD-how can we manage these changes efficiently?

[Calvin Kam]

Quiz time, What does SIM stand for?
or BIN (for those who attended yesterday's session)?

[lesley hayes]

Beginning Summary:
The challenge of integrated practice becomes coordination, incomplete information, and the re-entry of data. All of the content that we need we have, its just bringing it together.
We are moving away from the traditional SD, DD, CD->Construct to a :
Create—Coordinate—Build
Envision—Manage—Execute
Rhino—Revit—Tekia

The overall idea is to center all this information into a SIM model [structural information model] for a seamless irrigation of all info from different consultants of architecture, mechanical, civil, acoustical, and security. The benefits of this grow from a coordination and clash detection issue to a more definitive project scope, an accurate project material volume, and schedule compression and coordination.

[lesley hayes]

Where this presentation really started to get interesting is when the case studies where presented. It is apparent that [and even commented on in the Q&A session] that multiple software programs where used in all the research and development of the structural systems. In the opening plenary session this morning Kimon Onuma said that 'you can’t marry one BIM program.' BIM is an idea-it’s information that can be spread across many platforms. The presented case studies bring up excellent points on the use of parametric parameters. The ability to easily and effectively manipulate a model saves time and cost and allows engineers to quickly respond back with to the architects with key information.