INTEGRATED PRACTICE - One Hundred Percent BIM - by Michael Tardif, Assoc. AIA Contributing Editor
Summary: When the Onyx Group, an Alexandria, Va., firm with a strong core business in planning, set out to grow its fledgling five-year-old building design practice, building information modeling (BIM) was not on its radar screen. But when Rob Smedley, AIA, first met with the firm’s leaders to explore joining the firm as director of design, he made it clear that BIM would be part of the equation. “This is the way I work,” he explained.
“[Before BIM], I spent most of my time marking up drawings, preparing redlines for less-experienced team members,” said Brainerd. “Now I walk around, look at the building model, and watch the changes taking place. I conduct interference checking on the model all the time; it’s one of REVIT’s most important features. We’re building a virtual building, so we don’t have to mentally or manually coordinate plans, sections, and elevations. We can constantly check things such as wall types and make adjustments on the fly, and then send that information to our design-build contractor partners, especially material quantities. The final documentation is much more coordinated.”...continue reading...
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