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Client: Gandy and Roberts Consulting Engineers
Location: Hobart, Australia
Industry: Architecture Engineering and Construction
Solutions: Revit, BIM Collaborate Pro, Docs, Navisworks
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Services Provided
BIM Management and structural services delivering innovative, cost-effective building structures as well as environmentally sensitive hydraulic engineering services.
Customer Challenge
It’s a challenging program with long lead times for CLT and Glulam timber components. Risk mitigation is another issue to allow reliable pre-fabrication of components. Another big difficulty is the Mass Timber components on this project is part of the base structure. It’s one of the first items on a construction program, thus exacerbating the difficulty to order components in time without causing significant delays.
Project Goals
By implementing this project, the client wants to reduce project risks and liabilities, optimise contingencies, and design outcomes, and develop fully coordinated and clash free design models for fabrication handover.
Solutions
The client used Revit as the main design tool by Architects, Engineers, and Designers. Federation of design models is done in Navisworks and ACC. Timber fabrication models produced in proprietary software are successfully integrated in coordination model using open standard format IFC. Coordination and Clash reviews are done in Navisworks and Docs/Coordinate.
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Business Outcomes
The solutions delivered helped in completing the design coordination with clash free and thoroughly reviewed models which provides confidence in the design to allow pre-fabrication with limited risks. The design coordination processes also allowed for optimisation of services corridors and reduction of contingencies in the structural components.
Conclusion
The implementation of BIM on this project was driven by the acknowledgement of the long lead times of timber pre-fabrication and the associated risks to order components without confidence that the design is fully resolved and clash free. Mass Timber buildings require a very high level of attention to detail and consideration to future-proof a building during - Download the full Case Study to read all project outcomes and conclusions...
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