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Fall BIMForum – Call for Proposals

Dmitri Alferieff — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:50:35 +0000

October 10-11 / Tacoma / Washington

Theme: Facilities Management

According to IFMA, 25% of a building’s lifecycle budget is dedicated to the design and construction of the building. The remaining 75% is spent on operations and maintenance. Building owners have heard many promises regarding the use of BIM in the management of this 75%: Information will flow freely between facility managers and staff, work orders will be linked to the BIM, and virtual walkthroughs will allow designers and contractors to easily coordinate with the facility staff. O&M manuals will be available through the BIM, the BIM will be automatically updated when work orders are processed, and all of this data will be interchangeable between BIM platforms, GIS, and maintenance software.

Is any of it reality? Today, in 2012? 2013? Do the people creating these solutions truly understand what owners want to see or are they operating on assumptions and anecdotal evidence? Are owners in turn prepared to offer a systematic list of their needs and operating procedures? Do owners need to recreate all of their existing assets in BIM in order to realize the benefits? Can BIM allow an owner to leverage their existing data in a more efficient manner, without translation? Do most Owners even know their real needs?

Has anyone figured it out?

It’s time for the AEC industry to have a meaningful and impactful conversation with owners.

For the Fall BIMForum we are seeking presenters who can provide consistent and repeatable answers to the many questions stated above. Demonstrate applications which allow for smooth transfers of data rather than cobbled together work-arounds. Share successful case studies. Discuss what doesn’t work. Elaborate on building and campus owners’ needs. Show the right tools for the job.

Proposals are due by June 29^th, 2012. To Submit a proposal, Click here.

San Antonio Presentations

Dmitri Alferieff — Thu, 10 May 2012 19:35:16 +0000

PowerPoints from the San Antonio BIMForum have been posted here. The presentations are free to all who attended the meeting. If you attended the BIMForum, you should have received a brief survey about the meeting. The password to the presentation is displayed at the end of the survey. If you attended the meeting but did not receive the survey please contact us here.

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Civil and Industrial Forum – VDC in a Horizontal World

Dmitri Alferieff — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:32:36 +0000

A half day Civil, Industrial, and Utilities VDC Forum was held on April 24th in conjunction with the April 25-26 BIMForum in San Antonio, Texas. This session featured implementations of VDC on Highway, Road, Bridge, Utility, Treatment Plants, and Power Distribution projects. This was the first of what will be a continued effort to explore the uses of BIM in Civil construction. The Civil and Industrial forum plans to meet again at the Fall BIMForum meeting.

San Antonio Meeting Agenda

Tuesday, April 24
1:00pm - 1:15pm	Introduction
1:15pm – 1:45pm	McGraw-Hill Research on BIM for Infrastructure Steve Jones, McGraw-Hill
1:45pm – 2:30pm	Small Business BIM/VDC Support of Large Transit Project Virginia McAllister, Iron Horse Architects
2:30pm – 3:15pm	Fort Worth’s 7th Street Bridge, a VDC case study Eric Cylwik, Sundt Construction
3:15pm – 4:00pm	BIM enabled Small and Mid-sized Utility Contractors: Ground Breaking Success in the Horizontal VDC World Will Ikerd, Ikerd Consulting
4:00pm – 4:45pm	Implementing VDC for Sitework John Prince, RFB Consulting
4:45pm – 5:00pm	Wrap-up

San Antonio BIMForum Schedule

Dmitri Alferieff — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:07:28 +0000

Tuesday, April 24
6:30pm – 8:00pm	Welcome Reception – sponsored by Get the Point
Wednesday, April 25
7:00am – 8:00am	Breakfast
8:00am – 8:30am	Introduction
8:30am – 9:00am	BIM for Concrete Precast Elements: rebar, formwork, production, assemblies and hoisting Marco Vidali, ICABIM
9:00am – 9:30am	Using BIM to Streamline Lifecycle Information at The Pennsylvania State University Murray Hestley and Eric Nulton, Penn State University
9:30am – 10:00am	Intelligent Trenching Eric Cylwik, Sundt Construction
10:00am – 10:15am	Break
10:15am – 10:45am	Leveraging Virtual Mock-Ups for Design Verification and Construction Understanding Brian Filkins, Mortenson Construction
10:45am – 11:15am	HiDef BIM and SEOR Supplied Shop Drawings Gregory P Luth, Ph.D., Gregory P Luth & Associates Inc.
11:15am – 11:45am	Discussion
11:45am – 12:00pm	Rapid-Fire Technology Demonstration – Assemble Systems
12:00pm – 1:15pm	Lunch – sponsored by Assemble Systems
1:15pm – 1:30pm	Rapid-Fire Technology Demonstration – Get the Point
1:30pm – 2:00pm	VDC Deliverables: Combining Analog and Digital Processes Jonathan Ammon and David Joslin, Gilbane Building Company
2:00pm – 2:30pm	How Integrated Process Consumes Deliverables Laura Handler and Pierce Reynoldson, Tocci Building Corporation
2:30pm – 3:00pm	Discussion
3:00pm – 3:15pm	Rapid-Fire Technology Demonstration – Trimble
3:15pm – 3:30pm	Break
3:30pm – 5:00pm	AIA Tap Awards
5:00pm – 5:45pm	Defining Level of Development Jim Bedrick, FAIA, AEC Process Engineering, and James Vandezande, AIA, HOK
6:00pm – 7:30pm	Reception
Thursday, April 26
7:00am – 8:00am	Breakfast
8:00am – 8:15am	Introduction
8:15am – 8:45am	From View Calculation to Fabrication – a Manhattan Residential Tower Sebastian Claussnitzer and Robert Yori, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
8:45am – 9:15am	Barclays Facade Design & Delivery John D. Cerone and Brian D. Sweeney, SHoP Construction Services LLC
9:15am – 9:45am	BIM-Enabled Set-Based Design for Net-Zero Energy Builders Andreas Phelps, Balfour Beatty Construction
9:45am – 10:00am	Break
10:00am – 10:15am	Rapid-Fire Technology Demonstration – C MiC
10:15am – 10:45am	Generative Design and Parametric Structures Joseph Burns, Jonatan Schumacher, and Robert K Otani, Thornton Tomasetti
10:45am – 11:15am	BIM for Owners John Messner, Penn State
11:15am – 11:45am	Discussion

Civil and Industrial Forum – Call For Proposals

Dmitri Alferieff — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:58:08 +0000

BIM and VDC in A Horizontal World
A half day Civil, Industrial, and Utilities VDC (Virtual Design and Construction) Forum will be held on April 24th in conjunction with the April 25-26 BIMForum in San Antonio, Texas. The BIMForum is looking for presentations on successful implementations of VDC on Highway, Road, Bridge, Utility, Treatment Plants, and Power Distribution projects. These projects have the potential to realize substantial financial and schedule savings. Presentations should focus on the use of VDC to enhance work flow, minimize schedules, increase safety, provide a better end product, or increase field productivity.

Some examples of worthy presentations include:

VDC within small companies: Small design and construction firms often find it difficult to justify the upfront cost of implementing VDC. Tell us how you have successfully implemented VDC technology on civil and industrial work and show your return on investment.

Successful implementation of VDC on horizontal projects: Companies are utilizing more and more technology in underground utility, excavating, grading, and paving operations. How has VDC helped your firm in these areas?

Water and power plants and distribution: The simplest plant and distribution projects are as difficult as the more complex vertical building projects. How has VDC helped in the design and / or construction?

Owner Deliverables: Does your local DOT have VDC deliverables? What are the deliverables? How and why were the deliverables created? Has your firm provided VDC deliverables to an owner / agency and how have they been utilized post construction?

Other VDC Uses:Any other use in the civil and industrial world that you find compelling and worthy of sharing.

Each proposal should include:

• Name or brief description of the VDC use and implementation;
• A brief overview of the implementing companies
• What was the driving force (the specific need or problem) that led to using VDC?
• What value did VDC provide to the project, project team, or implementing company?

Proposals are due by February 24th, 2012. To submit a proposal, Click here.

BIM Awards – Call For Entries

Dmitri Alferieff — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:02:46 +0000

The Building Information Model (BIM) Awards, given by AIA Technology in the Architectural Practice Knowledge Community (TAP), honors projects that highlight proven strategies and the latest trends in design and technology in the building industry.

Submissions

2012 Entries must be submitted before 4:59 p.m. Eastern Time on January 17, 2012.

The submission deadline date will be strictly observed; no exceptions will be made. No entry fee will be refunded for entries that are disqualified, late, or not completed. Payments and submissions will only be accepted online.

Please review the 2012 AIA BIM Awards Walk Through and download the concealed ID forms before beginning your submission. When you are ready to submit, go to the Submission Web site.

The 2012 BIM Awards Program is open to all professionals (owners, architects, engineers, contractors, operators) and academic institutions. International submissions are welcome. Submissions will be for any and all categories. Each submission will be evaluated by the 2012 BIM Awards Jury in the following categories (as well as an option by the Jury to award “Jury’s Choice” as it deems appropriate):

Fees

Entry Fee for Categories A, B, or C is $300 per submission for members*
Entry Fee for Categories A, B, or C is $400 per submission for non members
Reduced Fee for Categories D & E is $100 per submission for members*
Reduced Fee for Categories D & E is $200 per submission for non members

*Members of the AIA, COAA and BIMForum

2012 Jury

Martin A. Fischer, Chair, Stanford University Stanford, CA
Boyd Emerson Black, University of Chicago, Chicago
Peggy Deamer, Yale School of Architecture, Brooklyn, NY
Daniel N. Russell, The Sundt Companies, Inc., Tucson
Tom Sawyer, McGraw-Hill Construction, New York City

Questions?

kcawards@aia.org
1735 New York Ave., NW
Washington DC, 20006
United States of America

Sponsor

The AIA Technology in Architectural Practice Knowledge Community

DC BIMForum Presentations

Dmitri Alferieff — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:58:28 +0000

Presentations from the DC BIMForum have been posted here. The presentations are free to all who attended the meeting. If you attended the BIMForum, you should have received a brief survey about the meeting. The password to the presentation is displayed at the end of the survey. If you attended the meeting but did not receive the survey please contact us here.

Chicago BIMForum Presentations

Dmitri Alferieff — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:38:04 +0000

Presentations from the Chicago BIMForum have been posted here. The presentations are free to all who attended the meeting. If you attended the BIMForum, you should have received a brief survey about the meeting. The password to the presentation is displayed at the end of the survey. If you attended the meeting but did not receive the survey please contact us here.

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James Timberlake to Deliver Keynote at BIMForum

Dmitri Alferieff — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:50:58 +0000

James Timberlake is a partner at KieranTimberlake, an American architecture firm internationally recognized for its beautifully crafted, thoughtfully made buildings that are holistically integrated to site, program and people. KieranTimberlake is noted for its fusion of research with architecture, receiving over one hundred design citations including the 2008 Architecture Firm Award from the American Institute of Architects, and the 2010 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Architecture from the Smithsonian Institution.

Established in Philadelphia in 1984, KieranTimberlake has produced a diverse body of work for clients drawn to its environmentally ethical and innovative design. Their client list includes the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC; Yale University in New Haven, CT; Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation in New Orleans, LA; and The Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY. They are currently engaged in projects across the United States in California, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington, DC, and internationally in Malaysia and Singapore. In 2010 the firm won a high profile competition to design the United States Embassy in London.

James and his partner, Stephen Kieran, received the first Benjamin Latrobe Fellowship for architectural design research from the AIA College of Fellows in 2001. Timberlake has co-authored several books, including Manual, The Architecture of KieranTimberlake, refabricating Architecture, and Loblolly House: Elements of a New Architecture. KieranTimberlake’s latest book, Cellophane House™ was released as an eBook in early 2011, and a new monograph is due out in September 2011.

Mr. Timberlake received a Bachelor of Environmental Science degree from the University of Detroit, and a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a recipient of the Rome Prize. In addition to his architectural practice he teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Design. He has held visiting professorships at the University of Washington, Yale University, the University of Michigan and the University of Texas at Austin, among other institutions.

Mr. Timberlake’s talk will focus on the philosophy and strategies KieranTimberlake is using to take BIM to the next level in architectural practice, and what it means in terms of investment and commitment.

Recent publications include:
Refabricating Architecture (also in kindle edition)
Cellophane House
Loblolly House

BIM Forum Chicago: When Does Design End and Construction Begin?

Maggie Jaus — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:29:49 +0000

In today’s integrated BIM projects, where does design end and construction begin?

The Summer BIMForum, July 19-20 at the Swissotel in Chicago, will focus on how BIM is used to find the optimal balance of allowing the best decisions to be made at the most appropriate time without impacting construction costs and schedules and how this is shifting when design ends and construction begins. The conference will address some of the following important questions:

* How does BIM technology affect the cost and schedule implications of late decisions?

* Do late design decisions always adversely affect a project budget and schedule?

* Can all factors that affect design and cost be known early in a project?

* Are legacy project phases applicable in integrated design and construction?

* Are clients willing to pay for additional early design effort by “non-designers”?

* Where does traditional design leave off and spatial coordination begin?

* When does spatial coordination morph into design?

* How can contractors and designers find common ground for design and coordination?

* Are consultants and contractors assuming more the role of the designer in early phases while simultaneously ceding much of their legacy documentation and management roles to subcontractors and fabricators?

“What all the presenters will be talking about is that this is process, procedure and methodology and not the tool,” said David Morris, director of virtual construction at EMCOR Group and an organizer of the July BIM Forum. “We will focus on methods and processes that show exactly what was done on these projects to achieve results using BIM.”

In exploring the changing relationship between designers and construction professionals, several of the presentations will show new methods of collaboration. One of those is “BIM Among Friends,” an exploration of the relationship between architecture firm Kling/Stubbins and M/E/P sub-contractor J.C. Cannistraro.

Presenters Sarah Vekasy, AIA, an associate at Kling/Stubbins, and Michael Cannistraro, PE, VP at Cannistraro, will show how their companies’ subcontractor/architect relationship has proven to maximize project value through lessons learned from joint project experience at 640 Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Mass., and other BIM projects. Vekasy and Cannistraro have developed a formula for successful collaboration from early design to execution. The firms will demonstrate how combining the architect/engineer’s vision with the subcontractor’s means and methods and attention to detail has allowed them to avoid potential roadblocks and identify savings opportunities for future projects.

Other presenters scheduled for the Forum include Christof Spieler of Morris Architects (“the Fallacy of Design Intent”), Alexandra Pollock of SOM (“Flexibility in BIM”), Randy Deutsch of Deutschwrx (“The End is Where We Start From”), Bob Turner of Tucker Mechanical (“BIM Coordination Morphing into Redesign”) and Federico Negro of CASE (“Building the Louisiana State Museum and Sports Hall of Fame”).

Davis Chauviere, a principal at HKS and a BIM Forum organizer, will present a point/counterpoint presentation on the changes in process and procedure using BIM and IPD to thoroughly examine all the issues that come with the change in delivery and design.

“Many of us say our goal should be to create a single comprehensive model containing all information necessary to design, analyze, construct, and operate a facility,” Chauviere said. “Others say that’s nonsense, it is technically impractical for a single model to hold all that is necessary to design, construct, and operate a building. Those are the disagreements we want to get to the bottom of with this presentation.”

Chauviere’s presentation will touch on other issues such as the goal and real-world difficulty of fulfilling HOK CEO Patrick MacLeamy’s famous BIM process curve, which pushes more design and construction decisions to the front of a project.

A legal roundtable featuring BIM Forum Vice Chair Jan Reinhardt of Adept Project Delivery; Philip Bernstein, FAIA, of Autodesk and Yale University; and Carl Roberts of the law firm Ballard Spahr, LLP will present and tackle the legal and liability issues of new delivery formats utilizing BIM and how a project team can maximize value while still maintaining their liability limits.

One thing the BIM Forum organizers stressed in preparing the meeting and presentations was that architects’ and designers’ scope of work and a contractor’s means and methods were both still independent and separate parts of the design and construction process, even if new technology brings them closer together.

“There’s a need for clarity and to make ourselves understood,” said BIM Forum Chair and Tocci Building Co. CEO John Tocci, Sr. “This is NOT the contractors coming to take over scope earlier. This is to, hopefully, help us work better together.”

BIM Forum Chicago will take place June 19 and 20^th at the Swissotel Chicago. Fees: $425 before 6/16/2011; $550 after 6/16/2011

The room block at the Swissôtel is full. Click here to find a room at nearby hotel. Select the “Loop” neighborhood for the closest options.

For a schedule of events go here.

For the BIMForum Agenda go here.