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
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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. US Army Corps of Engineers速
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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”. US Army Corps of Engineers®
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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
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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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