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Envisioned Roles of BIM for Design Delivery under Design-Build Projects
Project delivery describes the system used by the project owner to plan, design, construct, operate, and maintain facilities by entering into legal agreements with one or more entities or parties. Building information modeling (BIM), on the other hand, is a process involving the generation and management of digital representations of physical and functional characteristics of places. While BIM and its associated tools are argued to be applicable to all types of project delivery, their successful implementation by engineering firms on projects is still not being achieved consistently. The application of BIM to support an optimal cross-disciplinary and cross-phase collaboration creates a new vision for the roles and relationships among all project participants. In particular, the architect/engineer (A/E) who is accustomed to playing an independent role under the traditional delivery approach is now a design subcontractor under the design-build (DB) delivery approach or a project team member under the integrated project delivery (IPD) approach. Through focusing on the DB delivery system, this paper investigates the applicability, in terms of the usefulness and the degree of relevance, of BIM to DB projects. This is achieved by modeling and comparing the design-construct phase in traditional design-bid-build (DBB) projects and in DB projects, both under a BIM environment. The main contribution of this analysis is to offer a better understanding of the use of BIM on DB projects. Designing in concurrency with construction under the DB approach in a BIM environment is envisioned to have a crucial role in providing documented historical data on the levels of development for modeled elements, when applied systematically. Future analysis of this data using statistical methods is expected to reduce the rework associated with the fast-tracking nature of this approach.
Envisioned Roles of BIM for Design Delivery under Design-Build Projects
Project delivery describes the system used by the project owner to plan, design, construct, operate, and maintain facilities by entering into legal agreements with one or more entities or parties. Building information modeling (BIM), on the other hand, is a process involving the generation and management of digital representations of physical and functional characteristics of places. While BIM and its associated tools are argued to be applicable to all types of project delivery, their successful implementation by engineering firms on projects is still not being achieved consistently. The application of BIM to support an optimal cross-disciplinary and cross-phase collaboration creates a new vision for the roles and relationships among all project participants. In particular, the architect/engineer (A/E) who is accustomed to playing an independent role under the traditional delivery approach is now a design subcontractor under the design-build (DB) delivery approach or a project team member under the integrated project delivery (IPD) approach. Through focusing on the DB delivery system, this paper investigates the applicability, in terms of the usefulness and the degree of relevance, of BIM to DB projects. This is achieved by modeling and comparing the design-construct phase in traditional design-bid-build (DBB) projects and in DB projects, both under a BIM environment. The main contribution of this analysis is to offer a better understanding of the use of BIM on DB projects. Designing in concurrency with construction under the DB approach in a BIM environment is envisioned to have a crucial role in providing documented historical data on the levels of development for modeled elements, when applied systematically. Future analysis of this data using statistical methods is expected to reduce the rework associated with the fast-tracking nature of this approach.
Envisioned Roles of BIM for Design Delivery under Design-Build Projects
Kalach, Mayssa (author) / Srour, Issam (author) / Abdul-Malak, Mohamed-Asem (author)
Construction Research Congress 2018 ; 2018 ; New Orleans, Louisiana
Construction Research Congress 2018 ; 552-561
2018-03-29
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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