Discussion Outline

What we aim to solve?
• Can IPD & VDC be accomplished without a thorough model?
• Establish best practices for what to model and when to start detailing
• Understand what value the model has downstream and why it may be important to others.
• Understand what role manufactured or pre-manufactured content may be relevant.

Does BIM Mean Revit?
• Other modeling Software?
• Leverage Autodesk Products?
o Civil 3d
o Inventor?
o Navisworks
o ???
• Supporting Software?

What considerations need to be made when developing the model? Key discussion Points
• What does the Contract require?
o Contract types
 Design-Bid-Build
 Design-Build
 CM At Risk
 IPD (Integrated Project Delivery)
 VDC (Virtual Design & Construction)
o Do we just deliver a set of CD’s and call it good.
o How do we differentiate ourselves.
• What would help make design decisions?
o Materials
o Counts
o Proto-typical situations
o Programming
o Etc.
• Are we adding value to our clients?
o Win and keep new work
o Energy Analysis
o Virtual Environments
o Metrics for Decision making
• What does the client need to be informed? (Provide Value as a Master Builder)
o Renderings
o Gant Chart
o Programming Requirements
o Programming Variation
o Maintenance items
o Accessibility
o Simulation (can it be built as designed)
o Staging,
• Informed Model, what does that mean?
o Keynotes
o Descriptions
o FM Considerations
• Content
o Is it Manufactured?
o Is it Pre-manufactured?
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• Limitations in modeling everything?
o Time
o Model Size
o Nesting objects don’t schedule
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• Are we developing information for manufacturers?
o Is our information too detailed?
 Casework example (could this be done in Inventor). Owner feels too much time spent on this process. Client doing an Animal Hospital.
o When should we interface?

• What are the different model types?
o Analytical model -
o Constructability model
o As-built / FM model
o Not-categorized
 Presentation Model
 Design options study
 Energy Model
 Manufactured Model
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