A high quality tool for true quality control

A HIGHQUALITY TOOL FOR TRUE QUALITY CONTROL

“R eliable software is the tool that helps achieving comp any’s goals” claims Lukas Rimkus, BIM manager in Lithuanian construction company UAB Merko statyba.

He shares his experience on how BIM together with Solibri helps to ensure quality, reduce operational risks, save resources and prevent errors, which is crucial for projects like Kaunas

Police Headquarters in Lithuania.

UAB Merko statyba represent Merko Ehitus group in Lithuania. Depending on customers’ needs, the company performs both smaller construction work and also handles larger-scale, complex and innovative projects, ranging from

buildings to infrastructure facilities, energy installations and road construction. The Merko Ehitus group includes construction and real estate development companies in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Norway that offer comprehensive solutions, focusing on prime contracting and project management. Merko Ehitus is one of the leading residential construction companies in the Baltic states.

For the Merko Group, BIM is one of the key quality management tools for construction projects, which reduces operational risks and saves resources. The money invested and the time spent at the beginning pays off over the life cycle of the building. “These advantages

still have to be constantly emphasized to other construction project participants, designers, investors and clients,” underlines Lukas.

The main company targets are related to BIM - quality management of construction projects, cooperation with other project parties and streamlining activities in BIM environment. Integration of BIM is constantly changing process, it challenges other day-to-day activities for innovation: communication, collaboration, coordination.

One of the Merko statyba current projects is Kaunas Police Headquarters, where the team is using Solibri. The concept of the Kaunas Police Headquarters building focuses on a compact and rational structure to create an aesthetically pleasing environment of social responsibility for both the staff and visitors.

To accomplish these goals, the building was designed with two internal and external atria, which provide natural daylight to the compact structure and complement the qualitative parameters of the interior. The designed buildings have an A++ energy efficiency rating where almost all the energy required for the operation of the building will come from renewable energy sources and it will be one of the first such buildings in Lithuania. The design solutions of the Kaunas Police Headquarters building complex provide for significant changes in the undeveloped premises – construction of a new administrative object, which will stand out with its original architectural design and artistic solutions.

It is a public-private partnership project where the design and construction will take 3

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The Kaunas Police Headquarters in Lithuania

years and the operation of the building- another 12 years. All these aspects emphasize the importance of project quality management, where BIM and Solibri plays a crucial part.

Lukas Rimkus, BIM manager at Merko Statyba, tells us, that Solibri has been used since the beginning of the project: to coordinate the work of the designers, share the data with construction team and will be used to maintain the building. “There is no need for other software to perform daily tasks any more. Even e-mail remains secondary, as all communication with the team can be done successfully with the Solibri Communication function.”

He continues: “The simple user interface, fast operation of the software and great functionality allow an increasing number of my colleagues to master Solibri and adapt it to everyday activities. Before using Solibri, in order to achieve a similar result, it took at least several different software to review models, combine models, detect clashes and extract quantities. Each additional software required time and effort to complete the tasks successfully. That’s why there was a need to have a simple but functional tool that could be used by all team members.”

Lukas tells, that one of his favourite features of Solibri is the synchronization of presentations on the server: “I believe that this saves a lot of time for the whole team and ensures efficient task management which is necessary to achieve the set goals and have quality results. In the future, I also plan to use as many verification rules as possible for better quality and more efficient work.”

“A quality project is a well-managed project. In order to achieve the best result, you need to manage everything: designers, contractors, documentation, information, time, money. New advanced methods change old processes and technologies to make it possible to minimize risks and manage data through lifecycle of construction projects and be one step ahead. Reliable software is the tool,” Lukas Rimkus concludes.

LAIMA NATKEVI ˇ CIU –TE ˙

MARKETING MANAGER INTELLIGENT BIM SOLUTIONS, UAB

LUKAS RIMKUS

BIM manager UAB Merko statyba