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So you have a BIM Model, What can you do with it?

Facility Composer and other IFC-BIM Initiatives in the US Army Corps of Engineers The Facility Composer Team Presented by Francois Grobler

FIATECH Technology Conference Scottsdale, AZ 08 May 2006 US Army Corps of Engineers速

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The Challenge … Permanent facilities faster, better, less expensive and greener 142,000 people restationing

Ft Lewis +9,038

Fort Drum +4,142

West Point +264

Picatinny +693

Detroit Arsenal - 647 Aberdeen + 2,176 Rock Island -1,263

Ft Meade + 5,361 Ft Belvoir + 11,858

Ft Riley +9,300 Ft Eustis -1,082

Ft Leavenworth +203

Ft Carson +9,638

Ft Knox +1,541

Ft Leonard Wood +1,665

Ft Bragg / Pope AFB + 8,291

Ft Campbell +4,619 Ft Irwin +1,292

Ft Lee + 8,375

Ft Sill + 3,334

Ft Jackson + 615 Redstone + 1,655 Hunter Army Airfield + 2,041

Ft Huachuca -336

PACIFIC

Ft Benning + 10,156 Ft Hood + 6,315

Ft Stewart + 1,921

Ft Bliss +18,602 Ft Polk + 1,006

Ft Wainwright +2,001

Ft Sam Houston +9399

Ft Rucker + 1,888

LEGEND

Ft Richardson +3,652

Net loss

Tokyo/Yokohama Akizuki/Kure Zama/Sagamihara

Net gain: 1 to 1000 Net gain: 1001 to 5,000 Net gain: greater than 5,000

Schofield Bks +3,098 Okinawa

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COE/ARMY needs • • • •

Better, faster, cheaper, greener Especially over facility life-cycle Need a consistent way to make decisions Need to create less adversarial contracting vehicles

This is about people working together to create better value.

It is not about technology - it is about project teams executing better by using the right tools

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Information sharing Point-to-point doesn’t work Life cycle Interoperability: Building Information Model “Official project/facility data” in one virtual place on internet, over lifecycle Project Feasibility & Funding

Project Program

Civil Engineer HVAC

Architect

Building Owner

Structural Engineer

Lighting Designer

Facilities Manager Construction Manager

Design & Constr.

Documents Construction Contract

Portfolio & Asset Management

Commissioning

Building Information Model (BIM) Master planning FM & Space Management Repair & Refurbish

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Operations & Maintenance

Energy, Env., Sustainability

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Shared Information Life cycle Interoperability Building Information Model Enterprise FM

Project FeasiProject Feasibility & Funding Project Feasibility & Funding Project Feasibility & Funding bility & Funding Portfolio & Asset Portfolio & Asset Management Portfolio & Asset Management Portfolio & Asset Management Management Master planning Master planning Master planning Master planning Repair & Repair & Refurbish Repair & Refurbish Repair & Refurbish Refurbish

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Project Project Program Project Program Project Program Program

buildingSMART

Design & Constr.

Design & Constr.

Documents Design & Constr.

Documents Design & Constr.

Documents Documents

Construction Construction Contract Construction Contract Construction Contract Contract Commissioning

Building Information Building Information Model (BIM) Building Information Model (BIM) Building Information Model (BIM) Model (BIM)

Energy, Env., Energy, Env., Sustainability Energy, Env., Sustainability Energy, Env., Sustainability Sustainability

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Operations & Operations & Maintenance Operations & Maintenance Operations & Maintenance Maintenance

Commissioning Commissioning Commissioning

FM & Space FM & Space Management FM & Space Management FM & Space Management Management

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Facility Composer – Part of the Solution Facility planning tool that accelerates the development and management of: • the project and building program • facility standard guidance • preliminary layouts based on program and facility standard guidance • standard data model for working with other AEC, cost estimating, and Building Information Model (BIM) applications •Complements design/build RFP initiative

Standard Dining Facility

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Facility Composer and the MILCON Process Programming RPLANS, FPS ProjDoc (5034R)

Planning

Schematic Design

Detailed Design

IFC-BIM Early Programming and Design ‘View’

Facility Programming Requirements

Adapt-Reuse (for construction, operations, and maintenance)

Facility ComposerTM Planning Tools Requirements Composer

Planning Composer

Layout Composer

Detailed Design Triforma ArchiCAD ADT/Revit

Proposed automated interface via IFC-BIM for populating selected fields/tabs in the DD1391 Form

PACES Parametric Cost Estimate

DD1391 Army, DD1391 Processor Navy, DD1391 EPG

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Detailed Cost Estimating

MII Success

Contracting/Data Exchange Point Facility Composer Planning Tools COTS GOTS Potential Interoperable Tools

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Benefits • Rapidly generate standard facility requirements and programmatic parametric cost estimates • Improve speed and quality of DD 1391 generation • Ensures propagation of facility requirements standards, and best practices • Improve synchronization of requirements with contractors (enabling e-gov) • Seamless electronic handoff of requirements Building Information Model to contractors

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Requirements Composer (RC) • Provides Center of Standardization (COS) the capability to rapidly update and distribute facility standards guidance (including energy, green…)

• Manages facility requirements and criteria libraries in a computable format • Links building program information with facility requirements and criteria • Provides input file to Planning Composer

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Planning Composer (PC) • Supports the development of project and building program • Supports the capture of project requirements during planning charrette • Develop and report planned functional areas • Exports to IFC-BIM to PACES Cost Estimating software • Produces design analysis report for use in DD1391 development • Provides early design and planning information to Layout Composer • Provides early design and planning information to commercial-of-the-shelf (COTS) IFC-BIM applications US Army Corps of Engineers®

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Layout Composer (LC) • Supports the functional and space layout of a facility, meeting project/building program goals • Supports multiple view representations for design analysis (2D layouts, color by function, 3D mass modeling, bubble diagramming…)

• Tracks layout solutions against criteria and requirements • Exports to IFC-BIM to PACES Cost Estimating software • Generates IFC-BIM model for use in downstream AEC BIM applications US Army Corps of Engineers®

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Automated PACES Interface Parametric/Programmatic Cost Analysis • Supports IFC-BIM import file from PC and LC • IFC-BIM interface eliminates manual entry of facility information in PACES, reducing time spent to create cost estimate

PACES IFC-BIM Interface

PACES Cost Summary Report

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Planning Charrette Report Manual DD1391 Interface • Design Analysis • Programmed Area

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Initiating the IFC Model

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Initiating the IFC Model

Discipline tabs, with facility criteria and requirements, change according to level chosen on project hierarchy tree.

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Initiating the IFC Model Criteria and Requirements on Architecture Tab

Example: Construction Type requirement will be exported to the IFC as an IfcPropertySet called “Construction Type” which has properties of “Wall Construction” and “Wall Rating”.

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Populating the IFC Model

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Reusable Standard Components Using BIM to Reduce Redesign of Common Design Elements

IFC Repository/Model Server

ADA Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG)

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Reusable Standard Components Using BIM to Reduce Redesign of Common Design Elements

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Standard Design Requirements

Process

Design Quality Lessons Learned

UFC

for Distribution and Use of Army Standards in Planning Charrettes

Design Review (Dr. Checks)

COS

User

Requirements Composer

DA Facility Standardization Portal

Planning Composer

PACES

Layout Composer

Proposed

Purpose of Tool(s)

Centers Of Standardization, ACSIM/HQUSACE

Web-based development of facility standard criteria, requirements and layout

Corps Districts, Installations

Distribution of facility standard criteria, requirements and layout

Corps Districts, Installations

Used during Planning Charrettes to determine project specific criteria, requirements, and layout

Corps Districts, Cost Engineers

Generate parametric and/or programmatic cost estimates

Corps Districts, Installations

Send data to DD1391 Form or ENG3086 Form

Project Management (ProjNet) PAX/DD1391 Processor

Facility Approval Chain

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Federal Agencies Status • U.S. Coast Guard – mission-driven requirements called for IFC-BIM – transferring all existing facility design to IFC-based BIM models

• General Services Administration – completed many pilot studies/projects – requiring IFC-based BIM for initial (15%) design submittals for 2006 projects

• NASA – SpecsIntact and the Unified Facilities Guide Specifications oriented to support IFCXML (then tracked in COE ProjNet)

• Smithsonian – Native American Indian Museum

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International Activities – France Highlighted

Airbus Restaurant • •

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New building (3 000 m2) Main Purpose : to populate the FM system (Allplan) with IFC files provided by the designers Context: real project Status : started

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France – Highlighted

Public schools Bourgogne • •

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1 500 000 m2 All the public schools of the region will progressively become available in IFC format (CADOLE project, funded by the Region as facility manager) Active 3D platform Status: tests completed; starting deployment

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France – Highlighted Green College (Paris) •

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Purposes: – IFC transfer to FM at the end of the construction – Promote collaborative working Technical support for data exchange: Architecture School of Marseille Status: real project under construction

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France – Leading international project to include Bridge/Road capabilities in IFC-BIM

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More International Examples • Singapore – Leading international effort to standardize a framework for Product Libraries (computable product catalogs) – Building Code Checking (ePlanCheck) and Digital Object Library Project (DOL) advancing – Final Code Checking Certification (for Revit) 11/17/05

Content Providers

DOL

Schema / Dictionary OOPS Portal

BIM Guidelines

Solution Providers

Users

IBP

Technical Consultants

Applications IBS

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• EU – Established EIC ATHENA project • Strategic Objective of ATHENA – “a permanent world-class European Hub acting as a reference point in interoperability” • EIC is one of 15 actions spanning the entire scope of eEurope • IAI the construction industry representative in ATHENA

• Germany – New Audi factory fast-tracked with IFC in record time (12 months vs. 24 months) with no cost overruns and fewer error.

– Berlin city model - BIM combined with GIS for Berlin Master Plan – 3D BIM of Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria

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• UK

Construction contract cost

– 3 pilot projects in Avanti program – Contract language for “real partnering” Identify and manage risks, don’t just pass them to someone else Risk Contingency

Actual Cost Ability to quantify risk

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• Norway – Akershus University Hospital designed in IFC-BIM using Autodesk Architectural Desktop (~ 1 billion N. Crowns) -- IFG project enabled seamless transfer IFC GIS for zoning and planning

IfcGeographicMap IfcBuilding

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Building approval e.g. footprint, planning application

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Finland – Pharma giant Pfizer uses IFC design and construction of Nordic HQ in Helsinki – Sennaati (Finnish GSA) increasingly use IFC-BIM: 10 construction projects completed and at least 30 under construction – Entire Finnish construction industry joined “Confederation of Construction Industries” to move to “buildingSMART”

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China – – – –

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Newest IAI chapter Adopting ISO/PAS 16739 as basis for China industry standard of collaboration design IFC-BIM as norm in construction in next 5-year plan (starting 2006). ~30% of global construction in China

IRAQ – U.S. and U.K. designed 65 prison complexes

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Japan – focus on IFC-compatible software for domestic market – Door & Window Scheduler

MicroStation

ArchiCAD

IFC Data Server

•GDL Objects contain •Pset_DoorCommon_Jpn •Pset_WindowCommon_Jpn •Using Pset Configuration of ArchiCAD US Army Corps of Engineers®

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Thank you Questions?

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Definitions • Interoperability - the sharing of information between BIMs and associated design and engineering software applications • Industry Foundation Classes (IFCs) - an international (vendor independent) data format for achieving interoperability between software applications • Building Information Model (BIM) - a single, logical, and consistent source for information associated with a 3D building design

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