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The Concurrent Worlds of Virtual Design and Construction


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Learning Objectives

The business drivers of capital projects will require us to

develop more effective strategies for managing cost,

quality and schedule.

Design and Construction technologies are changing at a

rapid pace. The industry has a great opportunity to

capitalize on this with new approaches and strategies

Integrated project delivery methods such as Design Build

are the most opportunistic in terms of capitalizing on

technological advances

As technology advances we must adapt to the new tools

with new processes


Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became

Louis Kahn, Architect


Neolithic construction

• For personal use• Rituals• Local materials

and labor• Unskilled craft


Copper and Bronze Age

• Egyptianso Professional labor,

respectedo Drawings on clay tabletso Primitive technology

• Greekso Stone columns and lintelso Pulleys, jibs and craneso Survey skillso Recognition of the

architecto Skilled labor


Romans• Organization of Labor

• Hydraulic lime mortar

• Concrete

• Arches

• 100 ton cranes

• Technology

• Trade guilds

• Slaves

• Speed of construction


Dark Ages – Western Europe

• Loss of knowledge

• Loss of organized labor

• Religion as a unifying labor element


Medieval Romanesque thru Gothic

• Brick, stone

• Master crafts with apprenticeship

• Paid, skilled labor

• Fortifications and religious bldgs.

• drawings on parchment or tracing floor

• Pile driver around 1500

• Tall spaces, thin walls, flying buttresses


Renaissance

• Water powered timber mills

• Fired bricks, standards for size

• Early use of iron

• Rebirth of architect, classical design

• Guilds of paid craftsmen

• Patrons from the mercantile class


The Duomo – 1436Brunelleschi

Engineering

Construction

Technology

Design

DesignBuild


17th, 18th, 19th centuries• 17th century

o Plate glass

o Plumb bob, squares, level, drafting compass

• 18th century

o Cast/wrought Iron hangers, columns, machine cut nails

o Imported materials

• 19th century

o Steel, transportation,

o Engines

o Large capital projects

• AIA 1857 – elevates the profession

o 1889 – Louise Bethune, 1st woman architect in AIA

o 1888 Standardized contracts


Industrial Revolution

• Mass production• Decorative architecture• Steel wire• Bessemer steel • Engineering• AGC 1918


20th century

• Skyscrapers• Curtain wall• Life Safety Codes• Age of Associations• Separation of Services• Spearin Doctrine• Unions• Davis Bacon• Job Safety• Adversarial relationships• CAD


The Design and Construction industry has fallen behind all other industries except agriculture in its investment in and implementation of technology NIST

21st c. (just getting there)


Tools of the trade

Stick in the dirt CAD to BIM to VDC

T Square, mylar, plastic leads, Sepias, wash-off’s

Etch-a-sketch, graphite

Ink on linen

Lead on parchment

Design Evolution

Scratches on slate


Tools of the Trade

Kneaded Erasers


Blueprints


Labor Intensive


Blue Lines - Reproduced


Early CAD


Black Lines - Printed


Visualization, Problem Solving Tools


Building Models with Intelligent Information


Better BIM/VDC Integration - Concurrence

• Commissioning• Operations• Maintenance• Disaster planning• Asset management• Facility management• Big Data

• Work Plan• Site logistics• Field mobility• Quality assurance• Quality control• Fabrication• Automation

• Constructability• Coordination• Quantity take-off• Scheduling• Safety Planning

• Execution Plans• Level of Detail• Visualizations• Analytics• Plans/Specs


Knowledge Management


Building Information Life Cycle

A NEED ID’d

How is information to be maintained and managedover the life of the project?

What Information?

End of life Re-purpose – loftOperate Asset - warehouse

Design ConstructionFinanceBuyer

Owner or User


Information Life Cycle

Finance Design Operate RetireNeed Construct Repurpose

At each touch point there is a potential for information loss and lost productivity

OPTIMIZED INFORMATION INTEGRATION Increased Value/

ProductivityIntegrated Model

Non Integrated Model


Friction and failure occur on the edges of contracts

OperationsSilo

DesignSilo

ConstructionSilo

Contracts that assume failure

Fees inadequate for optimization

Expenses – Waste, inefficiency

Bad Behavior Risk unbalanced

Friction around the edges


Contracts that assumeSuccess and Incentivize

to achieve it

Contracts that recognizeThe paradigm shift of scope

OperationsDesign Construction

The integrated High Performance Team


Greg’s Top 10 Disrupters to silo’d Design and Construction


Computational/Parametric Design


Design to Fabrication

LaborDeliverables

ContractsFee Structures

Risk


Rapid Prototype Printing


Field Mobility


Leverage of Mobile Apps


New Generations of Workers


Data Driven Productivity

???


Cloud Driven Transformations


Profit Driven Analytics


Reality Capture


My I’s(Required for maximizing the value of concurrent design and construction)


Intuitive


Integration


Interoperability


Innovation


and Finally………….Incentives

OwnerArchitectEngineer

TradesSuppliers

BuilderOperator

FinanceUsers

CONCURRENT

VDC


New times require new thinking.You have an eternity to think inside the box

Open for Discussion

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