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Level 2 of BIM maturity
Retail real estate
Gilbane

Develop a 14-story, 765,000 SF facility to house 2,000 employees in the heart of Pittsburgh’s central business district

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Gilbane Inc. is., headquartered in Providence is one of the largest privately held family-owned construction and real estate development firms in the industry. Concentrating in select markets throughout North America, as well as internationally, Gilbane has more than 45 office locations around the world, as an industry leader in construction and real estate development.

With several billion square feet of successful project completions to our credit, including some of the most complex assignments, we have demonstrated time and time again our expertise in turning the most challenging situations into successfully completed buildings.

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Gilbane has spent a lot of time correlating data flows between diverse departments and workflows within these departments

  1. For example, what type of data should an estimate engineer receive, what should he do with them and how should he present this data in relation to his industry? This allowed the company to identify inefficient moments in everyday work processes.
  2. In addition, such an analysis allowed WYG to choose the right tools for each employee and get a clear idea of how they should interact with each other.
  3. Cooperation is the key to the development and maintenance of business success in the future, and the introduction of a standard set of tools covering all areas of business will allow teams to work together effectively and efficiently.

Solution

Gilbane has been using AutoCAD since 1998, but in 2006 it was decided to introduce Revit in engineering departments as a tool that provides the most effective way to create drawings.

By now, the use of data-centric Revit has become the standard for Gilbane's project departments, and workflows from Autodesk using tools such as InfraWorks are becoming increasingly widespread.

The company's design teams now view the construction site through the prism of InfraWorks models, which play a key role in the workflow.

Results

The use of Autodesk products to create a compatible information infrastructure and the implementation of 2-nd level BIM processes ensured the functioning of all Gilbane's diversified divisions in accordance with the modern level of technologies and processes within an integrated environment.

A leading BIM group from the UK is working closely with clients such as the Ministry of Justice, the Defense Infrastructure Organization and the Ministry of Health of England on the implementation of second level BIM and technology-oriented projects that will provide cost savings and set construction goals until 2025.

Expert opinion
expert
Trevor Moore
BIM-Director of Gilbane

«Thanks to the introduction of BIM technologies and digital workflows, we have remained competitive and can offer customers the best service. Now we can win more tenders and offer a higher, more attractive level of service — just what our customers need! We would not be able to receive the orders that we are receiving now if we had not implemented BIM processes and technologies at such a level.

Using the best Autodesk products in the industry sets us apart from the competition, which allows us to hire and retain the best talents in the industry.»

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Beginning

Since 2006, Gilbane has been steadily implementing digital technologies, BIM technologies and, more recently, second-level BIM processes throughout its organization in order, firstly, to ensure compliance with the British BIM mandate, and, secondly, to increase the efficiency of its divisions by adopting more informed decisions. Gilbane has spent a lot of time correlating data flows between diverse departments and workflows within these departments. For example, what type of data should an estimate engineer receive, what should he do with them and how should he present this data in relation to his industry?

This allowed the company to identify inefficient moments in everyday work processes. In addition, such an analysis allowed Gilbane to choose the right tools for each employee and get a clear idea of how they should interact with each other. Cooperation is the key to the development and maintenance of business success in the future, and the introduction of a standard set of tools covering all areas of business will allow teams to work together effectively and efficiently. The correlation process mentioned above allowed WYG to demonstrate how data can flow between the various technologies that a business uses. At the same time, the goal was to show how diverse divisions can interact more closely with each other, eliminating historical barriers due to differences in data and culture, which can be considered a common problem of businesses growing due to the absorption of other companies. Workflows based on AutoCAD and CAD began to play a prominent role at Gilbane starting in 1988. Later, in 2006, the company introduced Autodesk Revit into its practice.

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Extracting all the benefits of
BIM-technologies

To demonstrate the possibilities of cooperation using the latest technologies, Gilbane sent its team to participate in the 48-hour virtual design competition Build New York Live. The goal was to show how data can be exchanged between different systems, and what benefits this brings to interested parties. The competition was attended by 16 diverse divisions of Gilbane, which included about 45 employees. Each team had to provide its own solution for a design assignment for a certain development area in New York. After 48 hours, each team had to submit a completed coordinated package of documentation for construction and infrastructure management.

They had to create working documentation for the construction and consider the issue of maintenance and redevelopment of the proposed solution using Autodesk products, ensuring data exchange between team members located in different UK offices of Gilbane. The use of the recently implemented virtual desktop system has significantly increased the possibilities of cooperation between departments located in different offices of Gilbane.

With the «right» tools at their disposal, the Gilbane team was able to demonstrate an unprecedented level of teamwork and eventually win the main prize of the competition!

After the use of InfraWorks helped the company's team win the Build New York Live competition, Henry Fenby Taylor, who now leads the work on the implementation of InfraWorks at Gilbane, said the following: «Using InfraWorks at the planning stage expands our opportunities for interaction with stakeholders, which improves communication during the design process and feedback communication from urban planning authorities. The implementation of InfraWorks in our organization has a number of advantages: we can better interact with stakeholders who do not have a professional knowledge of the integrated development environment, for example, at the stage of public participation in planning. When using the model created in InfraWorks, local residents can easily determine the location of the objects being built relative to local landmarks and get a clear idea of the visual effect they produce. What I like the most is bringing together various consultants who have traditionally had difficulty interacting digitally, and ensuring that their work is seamlessly integrated. After combining the landscape layout of the site with the buildings executed in Revit, the relevant design departments have a much clearer understanding of the design consequences of the solutions proposed by the consultants.».

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testing in practice

Collaboration with Autodesk allowed Gilbane to create workflows for data exchange between diverse departments that depend on solutions that they have historically developed. For example, how can a high-level master plan be transformed into an InfraWorks model, and how can this model then be transformed into separate building models in Revit for planning on individual construction sites? These workflows provide a more accurate assessment and understanding of the project, which allows project teams to more clearly show the client the available opportunities already at the first stages of conceptual development. It also helps to ensure that the project is information and technology-oriented from the very beginning.

Combined with BIM, this provides a very powerful solution for clients who want to get the most out of their investments and create projects in the shortest possible time. Gilbane plans to continue its movement towards the implementation of BIM, taking into account the lessons learned from their early projects. It encourages departments working in a wide variety of business areas to use second-level BIM and a high-tech integrated environment in order to continue to maintain Gilbane's ability to adapt to an ever-changing market.

Stages:
level 2 of BIM maturity
  1. pre-project work
  2. design
  3. project expertise
  4. budgeting
  5. planning
  6. construction
  7. exploitation