2016 ASHRAE Winter Conference

While BIM represents the future of project delivery, the present, especially for MEP trades, requires creativity and imagination to compensate for BIM tools that are currently immature and incomplete.  This is compounded by an industry still finding its swim lanes as the BIM centric integrated project delivery system forces all parties to blur their scope lines.  This presentation discusses the disconnect between the process and product, the tools and deliverables, the expectations and outcomes.  The presentation will also provide guidance on dealing with the uncertainty and fill in the missing pieces to bring the project team together.

Project teams are having to use multiple software platforms for various reasons (BIM, energy, daylight, etc…) so one software package may never do it all.  But there are commonalities that can be leveraged on each project to ensure successful delivery. Hence, it can be argued that seamless interoperability is unlikely to be universally successful or widely adopted, and may actually stifle creative workflows.  Rather, the success of BIM to BEM will need to focus on collaboration that results in a project-specific BIM to BEM workflow between relevant team members.  This session will outline a framework for this successful collaboration.

BIM technology currently has been used not only during construction document stage, but also during initial stage. The good implementation of the BIM to BEM will enhance collaboration process among architect, engineer and energy modeler. However, the application in projects is still limited. The presentation will explore interoperability between BIM and BEM and collaboration among disciplines in early stage. Additionally, how the simulation results can drive better performance building and provide faster opportunities to identify different energy efficiency measures will be highlighted using case studies to show the implementation and lesson learned from the process.