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Update 6 May 2006

US Army Corpsof Engineers®

So you have a BIM Model, What can you do with it?Facility Composer and other IFC-BIM Initiatives in the

US Army Corps of Engineers

The Facility Composer TeamPresented by Francois Grobler

FIATECH Technology ConferenceScottsdale, AZ08 May 2006

2 Update 6 May 2006


Tokyo/YokohamaAkizuki/KureZama/Sagamihara

Okinawa

PACIFIC

Aberdeen + 2,176

Ft Belvoir + 11,858

Ft Leavenworth +203

Ft Meade + 5,361

Ft Lee + 8,375

Ft Eustis Ft Eustis --1,0821,082

Picatinny +693

Ft Bragg / Pope AFB + 8,291

Ft Sam Houston +9399

Redstone + 1,655

Ft Knox +1,541

Ft Campbell +4,619

Rock Island Rock Island --1,2631,263

Net lossNet loss

Net gain: 1 to 1000

Net gain: 1001 to 5,000

Net gain: greater than 5,000

Ft Sill + 3,334

Ft Rucker + 1,888

Ft Jackson + 615

Ft Benning + 10,156

Ft Leonard Wood +1,665

West Point +264

The Challenge … Permanent facilities faster, better, less

expensive and greener

LEGEND

Detroit Arsenal - 647

142,000 people restationing142,000 people restationing

Ft Stewart + 1,921

Hunter Army Airfield + 2,041

Fort Drum +4,142

Ft Irwin +1,292

Ft Polk + 1,006Ft Wainwright +2,001

Ft Lewis +9,038

Ft Bliss +18,602

Ft Carson +9,638

Ft Richardson +3,652

Ft Riley +9,300

Schofield Bks +3,098

Ft Hood + 6,315

Ft Huachuca Ft Huachuca --336336

3 Update 6 May 2006


COE/ARMY needs

• Better, faster, cheaper, greener• Especially over facility life-cycle• Need a consistent way to make decisions• Need to create less adversarial contracting vehicles

This is about people working together to create better value.It is not about technology - it is about project teams executing better by using the right tools

4 Update 6 May 2006


Information sharingPointPoint--toto--point doesnpoint doesn’’t workt work

HVACArchitect

FacilitiesManager

ConstructionManager

LightingDesigner

StructuralEngineer

BuildingOwner

CivilEngineer

Energy, Env.,Sustainability

Commissioning

ConstructionContract

Project Feasi-bility & Funding

Portfolio & AssetManagement

Master planning

Project Program

Design & Constr.Documents

Building Information Model (BIM)

Repair & Refurbish Operations &

Maintenance

FM & SpaceManagement

Life cycle Interoperability: Building Information Model

“Official project/facility data” in one virtual place on internet, over life-cycle

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Shared Information Life cycle Interoperability Building Information

Model Enterprise FM


Commissioning




Master planning

Project Program




Maintenance



Commissioning




Master planning

Project Program




Maintenance



Commissioning




Master planning

Project Program




Maintenance



Commissioning




Master planning

Project Program




Maintenance


buildingSMART

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Facility Composer – Part of the SolutionFacility planning tool that accelerates the development and management of:• the project and building program• facility standard guidance• preliminary layouts based on program and facility standard guidance• standard data model for working with other AEC, cost estimating, and Building Information Model (BIM) applications•Complements design/build RFP initiative

Standard Dining Facility

7 Update 6 May 2006


Facility Composer and the MILCON Process

DetailedCost

Estimating

FacilityProgrammingRequirements

DD1391

RequirementsComposer

MIISuccess

Contracting/Data Exchange PointFacility Composer Planning ToolsCOTSGOTSPotential Interoperable Tools

RPLANS, FPSProjDoc (5034R)

Army, DD1391 ProcessorNavy, DD1391 EPG

DetailedDesign

TriformaArchiCADADT/Revit

Programming Planning Schematic Design Detailed Design

PACESParametric

Cost Estimate

Adapt-Reuse(for construction,operations, andmaintenance)

Facility ComposerTM Planning Tools

Proposed automated interface via IFC-BIM for populating selected fields/tabs in the DD1391 Form

PlanningComposer

LayoutComposer

IFC-BIM Early Programming and Design ‘View’

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Benefits• Rapidly generate standard facility requirements

and programmatic parametric cost estimates• Improve speed and quality of DD 1391

generation• Ensures propagation of facility requirements

standards, and best practices• Improve synchronization of requirements with

contractors (enabling e-gov)• Seamless electronic handoff of requirements

Building Information Model to contractors

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Requirements Composer (RC)

• Provides Center of Standardization (COS) the capability to rapidly update and distribute facility standards guidance (including energy, green…)

• Manages facility requirements and criteria libraries in a computable format

• Links building program information with facility requirements and criteria

• Provides input file to Planning Composer

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Requirements Composer



Planning Composer (PC)• Supports the development of project and building program• Supports the capture of project requirements during

planning charrette• Develop and report planned functional areas• Exports to IFC-BIM to PACES Cost Estimating software• Produces design analysis report for use in DD1391

development• Provides early design and planning information to Layout

Composer• Provides early design and planning information to

commercial-of-the-shelf (COTS) IFC-BIM applications



Planning Composer



Layout Composer (LC)• Supports the functional and space layout of a

facility, meeting project/building program goals• Supports multiple view representations for design

analysis (2D layouts, color by function, 3D mass modeling, bubble diagramming…)

• Tracks layout solutions against criteria and requirements

• Exports to IFC-BIM to PACES Cost Estimating software

• Generates IFC-BIM model for use in downstream AEC BIM applications



Layout Composer



Automated PACES Interface

• Supports IFC-BIM import file from PC and LC• IFC-BIM interface eliminates manual entry of facility information

in PACES, reducing time spent to create cost estimate

PACES IFC-BIM Interface

Parametric/Programmatic Cost Analysis

PACES Cost Summary Report



Planning Charrette Report

• Design Analysis• Programmed Area

Manual DD1391 Interface



Initiating the IFCModel



Initiating the IFC Model

Discipline tabs, with facility criteria and requirements, change according to level chosen on project hierarchy tree.



Initiating the IFC Model

Example: Construction Type requirement will be exported to the IFC as an IfcPropertySet called “Construction Type” which has properties of “Wall Construction” and “Wall Rating”.

Criteria and Requirements on Architecture Tab



Populating the IFC Model



Reusable Standard ComponentsUsing BIM to Reduce Redesign of Common Design Elements

IFC Repository/Model Server

ADA Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG)

Example 1: Reuse of assessable restroom IFC model with embedded accessibility criteria and requirements

http://www.access-board.gov/adaag/html/adaag.htm



Reusable Standard ComponentsUsing BIM to Reduce Redesign of Common Design Elements

Example 2: Reuse of arms vault IFC model with embedded Armycriteria and requirements



ProcessProcessfor Distribution and Use of Army for Distribution and Use of Army Standards in Planning CharrettesStandards in Planning Charrettes

DA FacilityStandardization

Portal

RequirementsComposer

PAX/DD1391Processor

PACES

User Purpose of Tool(s)

LayoutComposer

PlanningComposer

CentersOf

Standardization,ACSIM/HQUSACE

Web-based development offacility standard criteria,requirements and layout

Corps Districts,Installations

Distribution of facility standardcriteria, requirements and layout


Used during Planning Charrettesto determine project specific

criteria, requirements, and layout

Corps Districts,Cost Engineers

Generate parametric and/orprogrammatic cost estimates


Send data to DD1391 Form or ENG3086 Form

Proposed

Facility Approval Chain

Design Review(Dr. Checks) COS

UFCStandardDesign

Requirements

Design QualityLessons Learned

Project Management(ProjNet)



Federal Agencies Status

• U.S. Coast Guard – mission-driven requirements called for IFC-BIM– transferring all existing facility design to IFC-based BIM models

• General Services Administration– completed many pilot studies/projects– requiring IFC-based BIM for initial (15%) design submittals for 2006

projects• NASA

– SpecsIntact and the Unified Facilities Guide Specifications oriented to support IFCXML (then tracked in COE ProjNet)

• Smithsonian – Native American Indian Museum



International Activities – France Highlighted

Airbus Restaurant• New building (3 000 m2)

• Main Purpose : to populate the FM system (Allplan) with IFC files provided by the designers

• Context: real project• Status : started



France – Highlighted

Public schools Bourgogne• 1 500 000 m2

• All the public schools of the region will progressively become available in IFC format (CADOLE project, funded by the Region as facility manager)

• Active 3D platform• Status: tests completed; starting deployment



France – Highlighted

Green College (Paris)• Purposes:

– IFC transfer to FM at the end of the construction

– Promote collaborative working• Technical support for data exchange:

Architecture School of Marseille • Status: real project

under construction



France – Leading international project to include Bridge/Road capabilities in IFC-BIM



More International Examples• Singapore

– Leading international effort to standardize a framework for Product Libraries (computable product catalogs)

– Building Code Checking (ePlanCheck) and Digital Object Library Project (DOL) advancing

– Final Code Checking Certification (for Revit) 11/17/05 OOPS

Portal

BIMGuidelines

Technical Consultants

SolutionProviders

Appli-cations

IBP

IBS

DOL ContentProviders

Users

Schema / Dictionary



• EU– Established EIC ATHENA project

• Strategic Objective of ATHENA – “a permanent world-class European Hub acting as a reference point in interoperability”

• EIC is one of 15 actions spanning the entire scope of eEurope• IAI the construction industry representative in ATHENA

• Germany– New Audi factory fast-tracked with IFC in record time (12 months vs. 24

months) with no cost overruns and fewer error.– Berlin city model - BIM combined with GIS for Berlin Master Plan– 3D BIM of Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria



• UK– 3 pilot projects in Avanti program– Contract language for “real partnering”

Identify and manage risks, don’t just pass them to someone else

Risk Contingency

Actual Cost

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Ability to quantify risk



• Norway– Akershus University Hospital designed in IFC-BIM using Autodesk

Architectural Desktop (~ 1 billion N. Crowns)-- IFG project enabled seamless transfer IFC GIS for zoning and planning

Map approvale.g. base map

IfcGeographicMap

Building approvale.g. footprint, planning application

IfcBuilding

Linking of facilities and terrain maps



• Finland– Pharma giant Pfizer uses IFC design and construction of Nordic HQ in Helsinki– Sennaati (Finnish GSA) increasingly use IFC-BIM: 10 construction projects completed

and at least 30 under construction– Entire Finnish construction industry joined “Confederation of Construction Industries” to

move to “buildingSMART”

• China– Newest IAI chapter– Adopting ISO/PAS 16739 as basis for China industry standard of collaboration design– IFC-BIM as norm in construction in next 5-year plan (starting 2006).– ~30% of global construction in China

• IRAQ– U.S. and U.K. designed 65 prison complexes



Japan – focus on IFC-compatible software for domestic market

– Door & Window Scheduler

IFC IFC DataData

ServerServerArchiCADArchiCAD

MicroStationMicroStation

Door & Window SchedulerDoor & Window Scheduler

•GDL Objects contain•Pset_DoorCommon_Jpn•Pset_WindowCommon_Jpn

•Using Pset Configuration of ArchiCAD



Thank youQuestions?



Definitions• Interoperability - the sharing of information between

BIMs and associated design and engineering software applications

• Industry Foundation Classes (IFCs) - an international (vendor independent) data format for achieving interoperability between software applications

• Building Information Model (BIM) - a single, logical, and consistent source for information associated with a 3D building design

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