BIMStorm Washington DC Presentation 5 Report

BIM Education Co-op provides a “Cliff’s Notes” report on the 5th web presentation in

preparation for BIMStorm Washington DC The entire session is at www.BIMStorm.com

The BIMStorm activities in Washington DC will be continuation of what was started in Oslo

Sponsors and participants in the Oslo activities focused on real hospital planning will be in DC

The ongoing theme is to focus on Open BIM Standards and what the extensive benefits that are achievable today

There were many people involved in preparing for the Oslo event held in conjunction with buildingSMART International

The 5th web presentation for the DC activities focused on having professionals work together over the web to use BIM from programming to Facility Management

1) A Model is created based on Excel Data 2) Many levels of planning is conducted 3) detailed equipment is added 4) before exporting useful data to Revit and other programs

Cost estimating is conducted in real time through the entire process based on normalized data in Model Server

5) The real space and equipment data is exported to a Construction-Operation Building Information Exchange format and 6) made available for Facilities Applications

First, the ONUMA Planning System was used Excel programs to create bubble diagrams of floor plans that were refined quickly

Then rooms were designed with furniture in more detail

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Progam data can move from Excel to refined plans quiclky

Plans can become highly refined and all changes are stored

Room plans can include furniture and equipment data

The data can be shared among many professionals easily

Low level of detail Cost Estimates are available immediately

Data is easily exported for more detailed analysis in other software

Tokmo scheduling, project management and cost estimating software allows for real-time estimates

Cost Estimate reports are available faster to inform early decision making that can provide significant savings

The interface between OPS and Tokmo allows real time cost reports in a way that is similar to Exedia travel options

dRofus software allows furniture and equipment to be accurately tracked in design and used in construction and operations

Using Excel from programming to operations can be an automated process learned from participating in BIMStorm activities

BIMStorm Washington DC information is available at www.BIMStorm.com

BIMStorm events can be created to help your region or association members better understand the dramatic benefits of BIM

Information is available from Michael Bordenaro mbordenaro@cs.com