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Air Force Center for Engineering

and the Environment I n t e g r i t y - S e r v i c e - E x c e l l e n c e

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Building

Information

Modeling in the

U.S. Air Force

Major Patrick C. Suermann

PhD, PE, LEED AP

Aim High! Fly – Fight – Win

Overview

Personal Intro

Overheard…

Air Force MILCON

CENTCOM HQ,

MacDill AFB, FL

Current Initiatives

Future Initiatives

Summary


Personal Intro

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Overheard from the Field…

“Sounds like GIS -

only inside a

building”

“BIM won’t take hold

until the school

house changes”

“We can’t even get

our CAD 100%”

Aim High! Fly – Fight – Win 5

A7C - Our Priorities

4“Sustain risk in infrastructure and facilities…”

Goal 1: Build Ready Engineers

Provide more effective Civil Engineer

expeditionary and emergency response

and management capabilities to meet

current and emerging Air Force and

CCDR requirements.

Goal 3: Build Sustainable Installations

Develop sustainable installations by

implementing asset management

principles for built and natural assets.

Goal 2: Build Great Leaders

Organize, develop, enable, and retain a

trained and capable Total Force Civil

Engineer team ready to meet current and

emergent mission requirements

Everything we do is aligned to Air Force leadership priorities

Civil Engineering Strategic GoalsAir Force

Leadership Priorities

1. Reinvigorate the Air

Force Nuclear Enterprise

2. Partner w/ the Joint &

Coalition team to win

today’s fight

3. Develop and Care for

Airmen and their families

4. Modernize our aging air

& space inventories

5. Recapture Acquisition

Excellence


A7C Mission and Vision

Provide, operate, maintain, and protect sustainable

installations as weapon-system platforms

through engineering and emergency response

services across the full mission spectrum.

Lead DoD by providing global combat support and

efficient, sustainable installations using transformational

business practices and innovative technologies to enable

the projection of global air, space, and cyber power.

MISSION

VISION


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FY09 & FY10 Awards By Month (MILCON/MFH/BRAC)

FY09 Project Awards

FY10 Proj Awards

Cum FY09 % of Pgm

Cum FY10 % of Pgm

Capital Investment Management

Capital Construction (MILCON):

Design and Construction Management

(DM/CM) for all active duty AF MILCON

projects (including BRAC & MFH)

“Modernizing our aging facility inventories…”

CM Mission

On track for LEED

Platinum Certification


MILCON Funding Profile – FY10 PB(Total Force: $1,301M)

$0M

$500M

$1,000M

$1,500M

$2,000M

$2,500M

$3,000M

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ARRA

DERF & Supplemental

Congressional Adds

COCOM Support

AF PB

As Enacted PB/FYDP

MILCON Strategy

• Enable AF mission (to include new missions)

• Bases are AF’s warfighting platform

Facilities & Infrastructure


Flagship BIM: CENTCOM HQ

MacDill Air Force Base’s Central Command Headquarters rendering


Envisioned as a “flagship facility for all of the Department of

Defense” – Lt. Col. Jay Beam

Project goals include:

Flexibility for a changing mission

Architecturally appealing

Staff comfort

Sustainable

Innovative

A New Vision for CENTCOM


Project-level Initiatives

MacDill Air Force Base’s Central Command Headquarters BIM-based building model


Traditional 2D and BIM

Processes Compared Access to Information

Understanding of the Facility

Clash Detection

Level of Detail

Data Duplication


Lessons Learned: Comparing

2D vs. BIM

Graphic by: Patrick MacLeamy, FAIA

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A BIM Set Apart: Describing

the Level of Detail Architectural and Structural models included

Wall stud sizes

Parameter for

final paint

STC and SCIF ratings

Architectural precast

Fall protection system

False Joints in Precast

Piles


Pump Room


CENTCOM BIM Highlighting

Mechanical


Lessons Learned: Sharing

the Model

Valuable at multiple stages

Clients able to make better informed decisions

Can have unforeseen consequences


Cost per SM Comparison

HQ JICCENT

(traditional 2-D)

HQ US CENTCOM

(BIM-based)

Total Cost ($ Million)114.6 81.7

Total Square Meters (SM)24,962 23,844

Total Cost/SM ($/SM)$4,591 $3,426


FM integration better defined

Level of detail standards

More content available

Contractors participating earlier

Envisioning the Future of BIM


Creating a Culture of BIM

GSA: BIM Guides

USACE: BIM Road Map

and COS website

VA has BIM Plan

USAF has DPs, WBDG

site, BIM Flight Plan


http://www.wbdg.org/references/afbim.php

[email protected]

http://www.wbdg.org/references/afbim.php


DYNAMIC

PROTOTYPES

Module

Based

Examples:

Dormitory

Fitness

Center

Security

Forces Ops

STANDARD

DESIGNS

DESIGN

GUIDES

Program-Level Initiatives:

The Need for Design Standards

90%

Design

(Site

Adapt)

5% Design

(Scope &

Criteria

only)

Prescriptive

Based

Performance

Criteria

Based

Design-Build Design-Bid-Build

Examples:

Aircraft Hangar

Administration

Flight Simulator

Examples:

Munitions

Igloo

Firing Range

Dog Kennel

The key for Dynamic Prototypes: MODULARITY


Import the Basic

Module into project file

Dynamic Prototypes

Scenario: Dormitories

Choose a unit type module

Apply walls & roof

Replicate, assemble, and arrange

modules to fit the site

Integrate on the site


Cannon AFB

Program-Level Initiatives:

Dynamic Prototypes Applications

McGuire AFB


Facility Candidates for

Dynamic Prototypes

Lodging

Dining Facilities

Control Tower/RAPCON

Security Forces

Operations

Library

Youth Center

Dormitory

Fitness Center

Squad Ops

Munitions Igloo

Combat Arms Range

Dog Kennel

Administration

Fire Station

Facility types which are repetitive and have modularity

NOW!

UNDERWAY!

UNDERWAY!

UNDERWAY!


Policy-level Initiatives:

FY10+ MILCON Delivery Strategy

Building Information Modeling (BIM) based designs

required for all future vertical construction

FY10 inserts

FY11 MILCON and later

All vertical, eligible construction projects will be

certified LEED Silver at a minimum

Standard RFPs and Designs will be used to greatest

extent possible/practicable

Apply asset management principles

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RFP Contract Language

Design-Build or

Design-Bid-Build

BIM Scope of

Services

Minimum

Requirements BIM will be linked to

performance based

specifications

Format

Design Requirements

Submittals

Output

Handoff

Electives: Cost

estimating, project

scheduling and COBIE

initiatives are

Contractor

implementation

electives


Strategies and tactics used to

successfully implement BIM

Strategic

BIM Flight Plan, Alliances, WBDG site, etc.

Operational,

Dynamic Prototypes, Revit Template, etc.

Tactical

Hands-on BIM classes, grass roots efforts

“Carrots”

Scope Maximization, improved design value

“Sticks”

Mandates


Autodesk Blanket Purchase

Agreement (BPA)

Send questions about the Autodesk BPA and AF

Civil Engineering’s Autodesk software portfolio to:

[email protected]

AF/A7CRT Software Portfolio Manager

Agreement between DLT Solutions and AF/A7CRT

5-year purchase agreement

AF Civil Engineering only; use of BPA is required

Volume discount schedule

All Autodesk products and services (e.g.,

software training) available

Autodesk Revit and Navisworks network license

software is being served from AFCEE (for now)


Expectations

Expect a learning curve

Expect Attachment F mins

Expect firms to follow their

own BIM Ex/Imp Plan

Expect firms to answer more

design questions earlier

Expect a “build to the model

mandate (or mentality)”


Software Rollout

AF blanket purchase agreement

3 Kickoff Workshops

PMs, 3E5s, engineers, and

architects

Long-term Training at AFIT, Ft.

Leonardwood, USAFA

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Information developed during each phase of facility

life-cycle transitions and degrades at each handoff

points to be partially recollected at additional cost.

Solution: use standard framework to collect and

share information as it is generated on a

continuous basis.

Info

rmati

on

Valu

e

Planning Operations,

SustainmentConstruction

Design

GOAL: Continuous

Information Development

Time

WASTE

National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS)

BIM Flight Plan: Leverage

Facility Life-Cycle IM


Populating S-File Data

S-File

Space

Usage

Schedule

S-File

Properties

for Revit

room

object

OSCRE

fields

Revit Worksession – Room plan and S-Plan Schedule

views


Summary/Conclusion

Personal Experience

“If you don’t choose,

others will choose for

you.”

“What can be done?”

Air Force Initiatives

Dynamic Prototypes

“What has to be

done?!”

Moving from the

technology to the culture

BIM Flight Plan

BIM in Asset

Management

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