Weizig Building Pilot Project

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Building area: 2600 sqm

Construction type: Concrete Structure Office Building

The Weizig Building was developed as a pilot project to simulate global BIM management capabilities. The solutions are developed over the course of a year and delivered to meet specific project milestones and information requirements. Among the solutions demonstrated by our international team of six experts are:

1. Establish asset information management standards and specifications.

2. Implement CDE, openBIM practices, and contractual frameworks to develop collaborative workflows.

3. Demonstrate expertise in 3D, 4D, 5D, 6D, and 7D BIM simulations.

4. Demonstrate Agile and Lean management capabilities.

Jessica is an architectural designer, BIM specialist and creative director at Eliah Studios. As a designer, her ultimate goal is to rethink and reshape physical and systematic infrastructure to develop communities. Collaborates with educators and industry professionals on the development of technology and design.

Simon is a global entrepreneur and strategist, specialized in technological innovation and sustainable development.

Ayodele is a registered civil engineer and a BIM expert in Nigeria. Over the past ten years, he has gained extensive experience as a construction expert, contributing to the successful completion of numerous building projects across Africa. He is enthusiastic about optimizing client success using his proficient knowledge of authoring and BIM.

Oshadi has a UK chartered construction manager qualification. He is an experienced quantity surveyor and preconstruction manager with over 12 years of experience.

Sean is a certified building design practitioner with a background in architecture and structural engineering. Having worked in this construction industry for over twelve years, Sean is proficient in a variety of BIM tools. Moreover, he is very collaborative with both internal and external teams.

A PMP, PMI-RMP, PMI-SP, P3O, and Autodesk Certified Professional in Revit for Mechanical Design, Osama has 12 years of experience in the construction industry. Self-motivated and organized, he has a thorough understanding of numerous industryrelated software packages.

BIM SQUAD offers Building Information Management services and consulting. We are an international team of architects, structural engineers, mechanical engineers and project managers committed to providing the highest level of asset management and development services. Our research and innovation team explores the latest standards, technologies, tools, and methodologies available around the world to improve Building Information Management and asset management.

What is BIM?

There is a common miscommunication of the term BIM within the industry. Besides being confused with 2D and 3D CAD, there are in fact three definitions of BIM, which are collectively used to develop a high level of BIM maturity. They include:

BIM as Building Information Modeling

Building data generation and utilization is a process for asset life cycle development, construction, and operation. Through interoperability, and between technology platforms, BIM allows all stakeholders to access the same information simultaneously.

BIM as Building Information Model

A facility’s digital representation of its physical and functional characteristics. Thus, it serves as a shared knowledge resource for information about a facility, forming a reliable basis for making decisions throughout its life cycle.

BIM as Building Information Management training in new processes when traditional systems have been around for centuries and millennia? In short there are two main reasons why you should consider implementing BIM:

Information Management, utilizes the information in the digital prototype for the purpose of organizing and controlling the business process over the lifecycle of an asset. Communication is centralized and visual, options are explored early, sustainability is maintained, design is efficient, disciplines are integrated, site control is maintained, and as-built documentation is available.

In summary, BIM is a process of analyzing, generating, filtering, organizing and sharing data.

1. Resource Development

2. Waste Reduction

We live in an unprecedented time where old adages such as “Rome wasn’t built in a day” have less value, and nations radically transform their systematic and physical infrastures record times. Open BIM provides several tools that improve quality assurance, expedience and efficiencies of asset management and production.

Even more valuable is the development prospect of the most valuable resource, the human resource. By eliminating repetitive and mundane tasks, for example, developers can focus on growth and innovation and expand their contributions to their environments. BIM also encourages collaboration through interoperability and openBIM implementation. Open BIM implementation processes include standardization, classification, accessibility to high quality data and bigdata, and common data environments. Interoperoperabily include the use of common language such as Industry Foundation Classes that allow disciplines to develop models and information requirement in a convenient native software and export an accessible and non-editable output can be accessed and referenced by all parties via Common Data Environments or free IFC viewers that can be access via cloud even in remote locations. Developers can establish meaningful relationships and collaborations that share risks, responsibilities and rewards. This collaborative process encourages collaborative growth.

Humans rely on biological automation to prioritize brain processing on whatever they choose to focus and think about. This however can create great opportunity for waste, as individuals may copy habits they observed from others or simply establish bad habits. Employing Agile and Lean methodologies to frequently access implementation processes and clearly communicate, illustrate and monitor development and drastically reduce production and time waste.

Why should you consider implementing BIM ?

Technology is interesting but why invest time, resources and

According to architecture2030, the built environment generates nearly 50% of annual global CO2 emissions. Of those total emissions, building operations are responsible for 27% annually, while building materials and construction (typically referred to as embodied carbon) are responsible for an additional 20% annually. BIM enables the exploration of generative design to provide sustainable solutions that employ passive and digital solutions that reduce energy consumption, recycle waste and reduce carbon footprint. This is NOT some speculative dream for the future. BIM can provide improved quality assurance via model validations and clash detections, analyses, simulations and fabrication developments just to name a few examples.