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WERFAU Medical Engineering is a Russian company specialisingin the integrated design of medical facilities. In addition to design services, the company provides turnkey cleanroom solutions for creating controlled environments with minimum airborne pollutants and other foreign particles. The company employs over 150 professionals in Saint Petersburg.

BUSINESS NEEDWERFAU Medical Engineering is known as an active

proponent of Building Information Modelling in

Russia, promoting the benefits of BIM methods within

the Russian design and construction industry as well as

in the public sector, with the federal and regional

officials and the government.

“Building Information Modelling increases project

efficiency tremendously, saving money and time for all

project participants. However, as long as all the project

parties are not employing BIM methods to the fullest,

no company can achieve all the potential benefits from

the transport of accurate technical data via the project

model from one project stage to the next. As more and

more companies begin utilising BIM methods, we as a

company will also be able to take our own BIM

implementation further. This is why we want to push

the entire industry forward”, says Head of BIM

Department Petr Manin from Werfau. Petr holds a PhD

in Computer Science and an MSc in Economics, and has

been awarded as the BIM Leader of the Year Russia

2014 by Autodesk.

Pilot projects for drafting Russian BIM StandardWerfau is currently working on a 150,000-square-meter

flagship project with the Krasnoyarsk Regional Clinical

Hospital in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. The project is one of

the pilot projects used by the Russian Ministry of

Construction as a basis for drafting and preparing

the first National Standard for BIM implementation in

design projects. The flagship project includes

dismantling, renovation, construction of new buildings

and structures, as well as the construction of an entirely

new engineering and transport infrastructure.

Werfau has also two other BIM Standard pilot

projects underway, a 5200-square-meter Centre for

Palliative Care in Kolpino and a 5790-square-meter

emergency care unit for the Alexander City Hospital

in Saint Petersburg. All heating, piping, ventilation,

sprinkler and electrical systems in these three BIM pilot

projects by Werfau have been designed and modelled

using MagiCAD.

“The standardisation process includes a total of 23

BIM pilot projects in the whole of Russia. We have

managed to get three projects among them and few

of the other companies involved have projects in the

medical sphere. The standardisation process focuses

especially on reducing the time required when

checking and analysing the projects, with BIM

increasing the overall project quality through

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Werfau’s Krasnoyarsk Regional Clinical Hospital project extends over 150,000 square meters and is one of the 23 pilot projects used as a basis for the first Russian National Standard for BIM implementation in design projects. All MEP BIM in the project was carried out using MagiCAD.

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automated check-up processes and the BIM model replacing

much of the current documentation, lists and drawings”,

comments Petr.

“For example, in the Krasnoyarsk project, there are

around 100 different check-ups which must be carried out

to verify, for example, the minimum room sizes and other

requirements as stipulated by Russian National Building

Standards. There are 700 different kinds of rooms and 4000

rooms in total in the project. Needless to say, when all of the

check-up processes can be automated and run using a single

button whenever needed, the amount of work hours saved

in a single project is astronomical”, Petr continues.

THE SOLUTION Werfau started using MagiCAD for AutoCAD in the end of

2014. Today, MagiCAD is the company’s preferred software

for MEP BIM and Werfau performs practically all of their

building services design using MagiCAD Heating & Piping,

MagiCAD Ventilation, MagiCAD Electrical and MagiCAD

Sprinkler Designer on AutoCAD and Revit technologies.

“MagiCAD reduces the number of required routine

operations and provides us with automated check-up pro-

cesses and calculations according to Russian standards. With

MagiCAD, we can visualise the systems in 3D and check

for collisions. MagiCAD comes with comprehensive MEP

device and component libraries, and integrates automati-

cally all the relevant parameter data. This makes it easier

and faster to perform the necessary calculations and make

decisions related to potential changes in the design. All of

this improves the quality of our building services design

immensely, and at the same time, saves our time by

approximately 20% per project”, tells Petr.

“All in all, the use of BIM methods enables many

important benefits. For example, automated collision control

has in the pilot projects made the validation stage over six

times faster compared to finding errors manually. In the

pilot projects, automation enabled all errors to be found and

fixed in approximately half a day, when finding and fixing 85

percent of errors manually would have required

approximately 3 days”, Petr says.

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BENEFITS • Time savings of 20% per project

• Over 6 times faster validation time

• Extensive databases of real data-rich products enable you

to start instantly without first preparing product libraries.

• Automation enables all errors to be found and fixed in

record time – half a day versus previous 3 days

• Easy to customise intelligent and data-rich devices and

components for use with specialist systems

Future-proof BIM projects with MagiCAD modelsDesigning everything in 3D is becoming one of the

fundamental, basic requirements in the industry. For

Werfau, however, 3D is not enough. To provide customers

with a future-proof solution, Werfau produces all models

with full information content, to support all stages of the

BIM lifecycle. Even though not many customers are yet

capable of using BIM in the facility management stages,

Werfau’s modelling methodology always presumes that the

customer will use the MEP model in the future also for

facility management.

“MagiCAD provides us with extensive databases of real

products which contain full technical properties. The product

properties enable us to perform quick calculations and

recalculations when necessary. The MagiCAD databases are

comprehensive and enable us to start working instantly

without first preparing our own product libraries. This saves

us considerable amounts of time”, tells Petr.

“We have found that MagiCAD suits very well the

demanding design needs of hospital projects, for example

coordinating a large number of MEP systems. Medical

projects often require specialist solutions for medical gas and

similar systems. Because of this, it is often necessary for us to

create custom equipment and also to add some additional

parameters to existing ones”, Petr continues.

“MagiCAD is a powerful 3D tool: easy to use, intuitive,

and it provides exceptional capabilities for vertical,

multi-floor modelling also on AutoCAD technology. Of

course, when we do the building services design using

MagiCAD for AutoCAD and the structural side comes from

Revit, it is necessary for us to use 3D substrates to combine

the models. However, MagiCAD’s IFC export features support

the creation of combined models well”, concludes Petr.

WERFAU Medical Engineering is one of the Russian leaders in creating comfortable and effi cient medical facilities and environments for both patients and medical staff. Werfau is well-known within the industry for implementing and advocating the use of Building Information Modelling methods in MEP and structural design and intelligent construction. The use of BIM methods enables design and engineering decisions to be made more effi ciently, reliably and based on facts. This is why Werfau wants to push BIM and the benefi ts of BIM-based simulations forward within the industry.