Rooting out conflicts
Our in-house BIM team can shorten your schedule and expose hidden, potentially costly building conflicts. A value-added service, BIM is often used for constructability reviews. With it, we generate a 3-D rendering of your building that, at its extreme, can encompass literally every last nut and bolt. Not every client wants to use it, nor do we always recommend it. But BIM can reduce coordination time by months, and information is more readily available than with paper plans. It’s especially helpful with mechanical/electrical clearance issues—increasingly an area of concern.

Some highlights of this demanding process:

Integration. Before construction documentation is produced, our BIM team integrates the project’s architectural and structural systems with mechanical/engineering/plant equipment and service runs to expose and address any clashes.

Subcontractor documentation. We require bidding subcontractors to fully document the scope of their work, their sequence of operations, their methods of installation and their interface with other trades. We review this documentation for completeness and accuracy. In this way, we verify each trade’s work and its relationship with all other work before building starts.

Clash detection. Throughout the project, we run multiple “clash-detection” analyses to prevent errors.