INNOVATIVE PRACTICES DIGITAL PROJECT DELIVERY LEADING BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING (BIM) CREATIVE AND OTHER STATE-OF-THE-ART COLLABORATION TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES
INNOVATIVE PRACTICES DIGITAL PROJECT DELIVERY LEADING BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING (BIM) CREATIVE AND OTHER STATE-OF-THE-ART COLLABORATION TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES
Guadalaja Public Library Project Guadalaja, Mexico
INTRODUCTION Newman Architects provides planning, architectural, and interior design services, with a focus on architecture for education and community: schools, colleges, civic buildings and mixed-use commmercial and residential projects. Our work is found on campuses, cities, and towns cross the United States. To create value at every step of design and construction, and to bring out the best in our project partners, we utilize multiple forms of integrated digital technology. Today’s project opportunities and challenges require nimble teamwork and the removal of obstacles to the collaboration between designers, constructors, and owners. Leading in the new normal of perpetual, rapid change – and driving change in beneficial directions – requires helping creative teams to combine talents, perspectives, and aspirations. “The advent of cloud-based software tools not only made it easier for Newman to partner with other architecture firms but also transformed the way the firm works internally and with consultants. The technology allows different people to access the same file stored in the cloud and make changes in real time. ‘We’re not wasting time sending drawing files back and forth,’ Leo Gonzales says. ‘This cuts down on excuses, improves communication, and saves money.’ ” - Autodesk blog, Redshift
Our tradition of fostering open communication, generous collaboration, and good listening, creates a receptive setting for applying the latest design and communication tools. This approach increases team-member productivity, creativity, innovation, and accountability. This booklet illustrates the range of digital tools we have developed in response to these conditions for leading creative collaboration throughout the project-delivery process in the service of our clients’ missions.
BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING CHANGING THE PACE Building Information Modeling (BIM) uses special software to design in 3-D. BIM enables us to build twice: first in virtual space, then in real space. As early adopters of Building Information Modeling (BIM), we now employ Revit as our primary modeling platform and require the same of our consultants. We have found that many construction managers, subcontractors, and manufacturers have adopted the same technologies along with some institutional owners. We discovered that initiating 3D integration early in each project takes advantage of the freedom and power of early design decisions (graphed at upper right), alerting teams to unknowns, conflicts, and constructability issues with time for resolution. It also enables documenting more comprehensive and integrated information, leading to more accurate bidding and construction. We have altered our work plans to learn from this lesson, emphasizing front-loaded information gathering, lengthening Design Development phase, and shortening Construction Documents phase. These changes help us give Owners more insight and control from early in the project.
Cloud-Based BIM Collaboration Owner Team Leadership, Constituencies, Consultants
Construction Team Construction Manager, Sub-contractors Design Team Architects, Engineers, Consultants
Regulatory Team Building Department, Field Inspectors Industry Team Fabricators, Suppliers
MULTI-TASKING Since the 1980’s, Newman Architects has adopted a growing list of digital platforms, blending them into a multifaceted tool box that includes the platforms summarized at right. Many of these platforms tap Revit’s automation and informationmanagement powers for a variety of uses. Sharing a single model that resides in a “cloud” enables sharing information, communicating, and collaborating creatively as unified teams, greatly speeding delivery and reducing problems (lower left). Examples of how we deploy these tools in each phase appear after this summary, followed by a portfolio demonstrating what they allow us to accomplish in the service of our clients’ missions and visions.
PROJECT PROCESS PLANNING
Digital Planning and Master Planning enable teams to: • Map conditions and resources with increased depth and accuracy • Interconnect mapping with facility and benchmarking data • Quantify efficacy of alternatives for achieving institutional goals and values
LAYERS OF COMMUNITY 1 2 3 4 5 5a 5b 5c 5d 6 7 8 9 10
Campus Spaces : Dining Hall Multipurpose Social Event Performance (Cabaret) Multicultural center Other Wellesley Initiatives Arts and Media Language and Area Studies Science and the Environment Sports and Wellness Digital Media Lab Art Studio Formal HiTech Conference Room Bike Repair Shop Storage Neighborhood Spaces : Multipurpose/Small function Group Project work room Music Practice Room Fitness/Yoga/Dance Recreational Outdoor living/playing spaces Bus Stop Limited Parking
Mapping Campus Resources
Graphic Information Systems (GIS)
Media, Arts 1 3 5a 6
7
Keohane Sports Center
Pendleton
Science Center
Jew ett
Determining “What” to do together before designing “How” to do it helps teams focus on institutional priorities.
We lead our teams in employing our digital tools to expand and enhance productivity and creativity in each project phase.
Events 1 2 5b 8
Science, Multicultural 1 4 5c
Clapp Library
Sports & Wellness 5d 9
Wellesley Residential Life Campus Master Plan
PROGRAMMING Engaging campus communities broadly and vigorously during Programming helps teams capture stakeholder input, test alternatives, and build consensus. Digital Programming tools include: • Portable-device-based live polling for on-campus workshops and focus groups • On-line surveying for gathering information from the entire community • Spreadsheet and database information and analysis • 3D room prototyping
On-Line Surveying
What percentage of your classes are in the sciences?
Live Polling 3D Room Prototyping
CONCEPT EXPLORATION Vividly exploring a range of design concepts early assures that teams do not overlook viable alternatives or miss important consequences when selecting preferred directions for design. SketchUp, Bing and Google Earth, 3ds Max Design, Rhino, Dynamo, Grasshopper, and V-Ray (and various various rendering programs) enable rapid development of concepts, even at this early stage. Digital tools for quick, effective studies include: • Non-parametric modeling • Static and dynamic visualizations with a high degree of realism • Daylighting models • Energy efficiency models
Animated Building and Site “Tours”
Photo-Realistic Visualizations
Energy Models
DESIGN + DOCUMENTATION During the design phase, qualitative assessment of formal explorations is pursued in Revit, greatly facilitated by the single BIM in a “cloud”. Once we have identified preferred design concepts for development, we fully transition to BIM, periodically translating components back into SketchUp and other study programs for quick exploration of additional alternatives along the way, taking advantage of these platforms’ unique capabilities and the instantaneous sharing of the “cloud” BIM. Digital Design & Documentation employs: • Laser digitizing of existing site and building conditions for building BIM • Capture of field measurements and existing-conditions photographs interlinked and connected to physical locations through the BIM
Building BIM for Renovation and Restoration (Yale Calhoun College)
Coordination Session with Remote Teammates
• Parametric (BIM) modeling in increasing detail from Schematic Design through Construction Documents • Generation of alternative versions of all components • Data extraction for analysis, visualization, and quantification • Linking BIM to technical specifications
Accruing Addressable Building and Furnishing Information
Exploring Alternatives in Adaptive Re-Use (Dolan Hall at Fairfield University)
Supporting Visualization
• Parametric modeling of architectural details in tandem with moveable partitioning and furnishing systems to support new and evolving use patterns • Incorporation of furniture and partition manufacturer’s BIM components to tap the power of the marketplace
Modeling New Flexible, Transparent Environments for Collaborative, Active-Learning
ANALYSIS + COORDINATION As designs and their components develop, team members apply their individual disciplines and coordinate results using powerful, analytical tools, instantly seeing each others’ work in the “cloud” BIM. Digital Analysis & Coordination enables: • BIM civil/utility, structural, MEPF, and IT engineering • BIM and other specialty applications (lighting, acoustic, AV, food service, athletics, performing arts, laboratory, etc.)
MEPF Modeling
Envelope Modeling
Holistic Analysis & Coordination of a Student Residence
Photometric Modeling of Site Lighting
Structural Modeling
Energy Modeling
• Energy and sustainable-design modeling • Automated clash detection and constructability analysis • Identification of project unknowns and assessment of risk exposure
BIM Coordination Model
Risk Assessment
Detailed Clash Resolution Session with Remote Partners
Automated Clash-Detection Report from Navisworks
As Built
VISUALIZATION Vividly visualizing potential outcomes as designs develop expands our teams’ exploration of alternatives and enables well-informed decision-making. Digital Visualization employs: • Enhanced BIM and non-parametric modeling of forms and details • Photo-realistic rendering • Static and dynamic viewing • Immersive experiences via Interactive 3D & Virtual Reality (VR)
Interactive 3D: Changing Materials on Screen
VR Viewing via Headsets
Experiencing Potential Outcomes Vividly and Compellingly (School of Nursing, Fairfield University)
QUANTIFICATION Quantifying scope and cost consequences of developing designs accurately gives teams on-going control of budget and schedule, allowing them to apportion project value to client priorities. Digital Quantification employs and supports: • Addressable modeling of component parameters • Manual and automated scope takeoff • On-going cost advising and milestone estimating • Life-cycle costing
Building-in Info from Probes and Mockups into Digital Models for Later Use
On Screen Takeoff (OST) at Estimating and Procurement Times (Yale Calhoun College)
IMPLEMENTATION A variety of tools help constructors refine plans for procurement and construction sequences, building on team-generated information with team support, making CM/GMP, Design Build, and Public Private Partnership delivery methods all run smoother. Digital Implementation enables: • Subcontractor design-assist and market-place input via early model sharing • Detailed construction logistics planning • Construction-sequence optimization for dollar-cost, manpower-use, and time parameters • Model sharing as part of the bidding process for lower, more accurate bids • Coordinated tracking of multiple bid alternates • Coordination of packages in multidocument and multi-contract settings (fast-tracking, enabling projects, outside vendors, etc.)
Proactive Construction-Logistics Planning
Animated Visualization of Construction-Sequence Analysis
CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION Today’s construction process goes paperless, with digital bid documents, components robotically fabricated from digital models, and everyone from CM’s and architects to iron workers, plumbers, and electricians wielding laptops and pads on site.
“[BIM] has even had a positive impact on the construction-administration phase because it is easier to issue revisions to the drawings as changes come up during construction. ‘If you have high-speed Internet on the job site, and you go out there with a notebook, you can access the model from there and issue [new] sketches,’ Leo Gonzales says.” -Autodesk blog, Redshift
Digital Contract Administration and Construction Management draws on: • Sharing of model and indexed 2D documents by construction team via the “cloud” for improved access to information • Shop drawings built on shared BIM for improved follow-through on design intent and coordination of trades • Digital review of shop drawings and submittals for faster, more accurate review • Digital processing of requests for information for faster response • Multi-media field reporting for improved coordination and faster dissemination • On-going capture of sketches and field changes for more accurate record documents
Architect’s Field Observations Report PROJECT NAME: PROJECT #: DATE: ISSUED BY:
STEM Residence Hall 20140025/ UConn# 901805 February 7, 2016 José A Hernández, AIA
REPORT #: DATE OF OBSERVATIONS: TIME OF OBSERVATIONS: WEATHER CONDITIONS: PRESENT AT SITE:
February 2, 2016 10:00pm – 11:30pm Clear, high 40s Jose A Hernandez Sal Emanuele
FR – 01 8
Rm C2D; Corridor
Drywall is installed, taped and floated. Cooridor walls are primed Door frames are primed and painted
Rm C2B; Corridor
5/8" Cement Board Substrate as per wall type S4.T2.R1.A
Newman Architects
Comments 9/2/16 in Construction Portable-Devices
05 5000-3-2 Metal Fab Stair & Model for Stair 197S
Multi-Media Reporting of Construction Observations
VIEW FROM EAST, FACING WEST
All steel tube stringers to be coped and welded cleanly, typical
NOTE: Details should incorporate break points between guardrail assemblies for shipping. Design field connections with concealed fasteners and overlapping tabs, such as set screws from below or something similar. The detail seen in the CAD model looks good, please elaborate details in shop drawings.
Digital Shop Drawing Reviews in 3D
Critical-Path Scheduling
OWNERSHIP + OPERATION Long after construction close out and occupancy, the record version of the BIM can assist owners in operating their facilities effectively and efficiently, beginning to participate in the Internet of Things (IoT). Digital Ownership & Operation of facilities can increasingly take advantage of: • Digital record BIM memorializing the actual built facility • Use of the record BIM to inform campus GIS • Use of the record BIM by campus space-inventory and facility-scheduling platforms, including recording modifications to the facility over time • Rapidly expanding potential for interfacing the record BIM with sensor-based lighting and HVAC control equipment, and with building-management and campusmanagement platforms for unified optimization of lighting, HVAC, and other systems
Monitored Categories Climate Control
Centralized Monitoring and Control
Room Scheduling and Utilization Tracking Digital Facility Management Systems
These project illustrate the range of collaborative design efforts facilitated by our digital tools. Samples from blue-highlighted projects appear on subsequent pages to demonstrate scope of teamwork and accuracy in predicting outcomes.
RESIDENTIAL LIFE
PORTFOLIO OF RECENT WORK
Calhoun College Yale University, New Haven, CT
HOUSING
NextGen Residence Hall University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
LIBRARIES
Vidal Court Stamford, CT
Memorial Hall Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT
John Jermain Memorial Library Sag Harbor, NY
Meriden TOD Meriden, CT
Leslie C. Quick, Jr. Recreation Complex Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
Slover Library City of Norfolk, VA
PLANNING AND FEASIBILITY STUDIES
15 Washington Street Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
Sterling Memorial Library Exterior Envelope Yale University, New Haven, CT
Yale Club Dining Room The Yale Club, New York, NY
Fairfield Public Library Fairfield, CT
Snyder Sanctuary Lynn University, Boca Raton, FL
TEACHING AND LEARNING
East Campus Renovation Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
Swing Residence Conversion Yale University, New Haven, CT
Fisk Hall Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Hartford Ballpark Hartford, CT
Meditz Hall Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
The Morgan School Clinton, CT
Space Utilization Study and Master Planning Union Theological Seminary, New York, NY
Law School Servery Yale University, New Haven, CT
Boger Hall Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Residential and Dining Master Plan Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Patapsco Hall Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
School of Management Yale University, New Haven, CT
Conservation Studies Program George Mason University & The Smithsonian Institution, Front Royal, VA
Dolan Hall Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
Center for Teaching and Learning Sterling Memorial Library Yale University, New Haven, CT
Kahn Hall Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH Headington Hall University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
School of Nursing Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT Exley Science Building Lobby Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Manuscripts and Archives Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT Coliseum Site Redevelopment New Haven, CT
Tribute Community Oshawa, ON Canada
NEXTGEN RESIDENCE HALL University of Connecticut Storrs, CT
• • • • •
New construction Student residence Design Build Digital construction administration LEED Silver (pending)
Digital
On this large, complex Design-Build project on a tight budget and timeline, our digital tools expanded our ability to provide continuity as design and bridging architects by expediting design options for the University, enabling tightly coordinated bridging documents, and supercharging our responsiveness in supporting the constructors and their A/E team during construction.
Modeling enabled thoughtful shaping of a very large mass to scale it down and form new campus outdoor spaces.
Constructed
Constructed
LESLIE C. QUICK RECREATION COMPLEX Fairfield University Fairfield, CT
• Renovation and new construction • Athletics/fitness • Digital construction administration
Digital Digital
On this renovation and expansion of the University’s fitness complex on a tight budget and timeline, digital tools facilitated Value Management in juggling multiple scopes and priorities for best overall value proposition while still creating several exciting new features, as well as closely coordinating new and existing systems for smooth implementation.
Constructed
Constructed
Constructed
Digital
SNYDER SANCTUARY Lynn University Boca Raton, FL
• New construction • Religious
Digital
Our digital tools expanded our invention of new forms for this multi-faith center, generating many design options quickly and vividly, then documenting its complex form clearly for accurate and efficient construction.
Digital visualization enabled thoughtful placement and shaping of form in relation to key campus views.
Constructed
Digital
Modeling enabled detailed manipulation of walls and openings to animate space and control daylight.
Constructed
MEDITZ HALL Fairfield University Fairfield, CT
• New construction • Residence Hall • LEED Silver equivalent On this new undergrad apartment residence on a tight budget and schedule, our digital tools expedited rapid generation of options, juggled multiple unit types to maximize bed count, and created a building mass that forms a significant new campus outdoor space while remaining inside of tight zoning height and size limits.
Modeling enabled exploration of rich and playful facades that echo forms and colors of disparate neighboring buildings.
Digital
Digital Campus Place Making
Constructed
Constructed
HEADINGTON HALL University of Oklahoma Norman, OK
• New construction • Mixed Use Residence Hall • LEED Certified
Digital
Our digital tools enabled a large team located in multiple cities to collaborate closely, smoothly, and quickly in developing a large, complex multi-use student residence for high-performance athletes that forms a new quad space beside a major campus street.
Modeling expedited thoughtful use of the university’s unique “Cherokee Gothic” signature campus architectural language.
Digital Campus Place Making
Constructed
SLOVER LIBRARY Norfolk, VA
• Renovation & Addition • Library
This very large and complex renovation, restoration, and expansion project, and the large team required to delivery it, drew on all our digital tools to organize and deliver a monumental new home for an important public institution, with a welcoming civic gathering space at its heart, state-of-the-art technology throughout its collaboration and learning spaces, and an overarching public architectural ornament program.
Digital
Digital
Constructed
Modeling enabled exploration of options for the form of additions and their ability to interconnect renovated existing structures.
Constructed
FISK HALL
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
• Renovation • Teaching & Learning
Digital tools expedited reorganizing outmoded facilities in historic Fisk Hall to create a welcoming, innovative new home for the University’s Center for Global Studies and Center for Pedagogical Innovation on a tight budget and time line, including community engagement, capturing and testing program input, rapid generation and visualization of design options to give form to a new kind of facility, rapid documentation, smooth construction, and on-going post occupancy monitoring of successful use. Digital
Digital
Constructed
Constructed
BOGER HALL
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Digital visualization facilitated detailed refinement of new addition facades to form and animate an outdoor pedestrian promenade. • Renovation & Addition • Teaching & Learning • Career Center On this gut renovation of an historic but unused building, our digital tools allowed our team to create an exciting new destination facility and energize a campus neighborhood, including reimagining tall interior volumes creatively to welcome and promote collaboration while meticulously restoring three McKim, Mead, and White facades and designing a slender addition to complete an unfinished fourth side.
Digital
Constructed
Modeling enabled development of a complex arrival and circulation armature for welcome and way finding.
Constructed
Digital
Constructed
MANUSCRIPTS & ARCHIVES Yale University, New Haven, CT
• Renovation • Feasibility Study • Library
For this adaptive-reuse study, digital tools enabled our team to explore options quickly, efficiently, and thoughtfully for re-purposing a beautiful yet under-utilized precinct in historic Sterling Memorial Library, vividly visualizing potential outcomes.
Existing
Digital visualization enabled subtle refinement of options for re-purposing historic library architecture sensitively.
Digital Proposed
Digital Place Making
RESIDENTIAL & DINING MASTER PLAN Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
• Renovation & New Construction • Master Plan • Student Residence & Dining
Our digital tools allowed our team to demonstrate that re-purposed existing footprints could accommodate the desired future residential program without additional space, to reimagine the role of dining on campus creatively, and to design a multi-phase, multi-priority implementation plan for renewal and transformation.
Multiple digital modalities for combined spatial and numerical analysis of each building and campus space.
Digitally Imagining Restoration of Historic Spaces
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Newman Architects PC is a collaborative design firm based in New Haven, Connecticut in the heart of the Yale University Campus. Newman’s Washington, DC branch office is located in Georgetown, and supports our ability to serve our clients in the Mid-Atlantic region. The quality of our work has been recognized through publication and awards. We have received more than 150 design excellence awards, including awards from the American Institute of Architects, the Boston Society of Architects, and the International Interior Design Association. As architects, we are dedicated to a human-centered design philosophy that seeks ways to contribute to the built environment and make a lasting, beneficial impact on the way people live. We believe that architecture should dignify and enrich the lives of those who experience it. The most enduring architecture accommodates and celebrates those fundamental patterns of human behavior that are immutable - such as the need for human interaction, the need to see and be seen, the need for privacy, and the love of ceremony. We create space for these timeless needs, using the clarity of path and structure, the luminance of natural light, and the humanizing quality of natural materials as elements to honor and accommodate them: places that enhance the quality of life and encourage communication and interaction. As architects we do not work alone and what we create is not due to us alone. It is the work of many, and can never be considered whole without the engaged involvement of those we design with and for. None of us know, when we begin, what the result will be. For everyone, our process and the outcome necessarily involves exploration and discovery.
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