Wednesday, 29 June 2016: 9:45 AM-10:45 AM
Fundamentals and Applications
Chair:
E. Mitchell Swann, P.E., MDCSystems
Technical Committee: 07.02 HVAC&R Contractors and Design Build Firms
Sponsor: TC 1.07 Business, Management and General Legal Education
CoSponsor: 07.01 Integrated Building Design
BIM has become a growing industry practice over the past 10 years. Inconsistencies in approach, application and intended use have made the realization of the theoretical benefits of BIM uneven. The lure of BIM is fewer field conflicts, fewer RFIs, fewer change orders and a better project. What can you do with BIM when you have it? How should an engineer "do“ BIM? A Contractor? An owner? Wouldn’t you like to know? Well then, you had better come to this program to find out! (But remember, the blues can be happy too!)
1 You’ve Got Friends: the Successful Execution of BIM for MEP Work
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Guy Gast, SMACNA |
This presentation highlights a success story for BIM where a strong MEP Contractor took the lead on the model development effort and used the tool to advance a quality product and make for a happy customer. Key in this effort was the contractor integrating construction sequences to MEP layouts and design, thus truly integrating the building model into the construction process. Come and learn some tricks.
2 When You Believe in Things You Don’t Understand, You Suffer
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Barry Brunet |
BIM holds much promise as a powerful tool to improve and enhance the design and construction process. But experience tells us that any tool can be a weapon if you hold it right. This portion of the program looks at some of the features and facets of BIM, how they differ from what we ‘used to do’ and how you can get a hedge against some of those less than ideal outcomes that we all worry about but don’t want to talk about.