The following article is excerpted from Civil Design Innovation, a whitepaper developed by Dassault Systèmes and SMEDI. To read more, download the full whitepaper here.
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Thursday, November 26th, 2015Think a Zero RFI Goal Is Impossible? Consider These Strategies for Improving Project Coordination
Thursday, October 29th, 2015
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Reducing RFIs, reducing change orders
The typical commercial construction project generates on the order of 3,000 to 20,000 RFIs (Requests for Information). It’s a staggering number, especially considering reviewing and documenting each RFI takes time. Studies show each RFI resolution costs about $1,000 in time and labor, even when BIM design tools are utilized.
RFIs are an indication of a lack of understanding of the design, as well as a lack of close coordination among the project teams. Further, RFIs are the source of changes in scope, costing the project owner more time and money than expected.
For AEC teams aiming to improve performance and predictability in construction, the goal should be to reduce RFIs as much as possible.
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Watch the “Optimized Planning” Industry Process Experience at work for AEC Project Managers and Construction Planners [VIDEO]
Friday, October 16th, 2015
JUST RELEASED: a 5-minute video illustrating just a few common use cases for Optimized Planning powered by the 3DEXPERIENCE platform from Dassault Systèmes.
In this video, you will see how the Project Execution System helps a project manager resolve discrepancies between a construction plan and the actual execution plan.
The project manager manipulates a 3D view of the supply, status and delivery schedule of materials. He or she also uses Last Planner methodology to validate parts, materials, and contractor supply availability.
Shanghai Foundation Engineering Group Brings Information-Based Approach to Civil Engineering Projects
Thursday, September 24th, 2015Shanghai Foundation Engineering Group has implemented “advanced construction process simulation methods” with the Optimized Planning Industry Process Experience.
Shanghai Foundation Engineering Group is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Shanghai Construction Group. The firm has 1,680 employees and is focused on foundation engineering, constructing harbors, bridges, tunnels, and other large structures.
Highly regarded through the construction industry globally, Shanghai Construction Group has built a large number of important, iconic and award-winning projects, all using the latest technologies. To ensure leadership in professional construction technology, the company and its subsidiaries are committed to the pursuit of excellence, continuous innovation in research and development, and rigorous project and process management approaches.
Spotlight on PHI Cubed: Guiding the AEC Industry Toward Greater Levels of Integration
Thursday, September 17th, 2015
Hector Lorenzo Camps has set his sights on integrating the AEC industry at its earliest stages.
The former architect and current building information consultant teaches a course on the Dassault Systèmes 3DExperience platform at the University of Miami School of Architecture with the goal of increasing collaboration in all areas of the industry.
How to Eliminate Waste and Increase Profits with “Optimized Construction”
Thursday, August 27th, 2015The Optimized Construction Industry Solution Experience from Dassault Systèmes integrates AEC project data, tracks progress, and brings together project teams – including owners, architects, engineers, general contractors, fabricators, and sub-contractors – all on a single, intuitive, collaborative platform.
You get the value of:
- Integrated Project Plans—where project data files are integrated with plans in the same location – bringing together all information in one place.
- Project Visibility— through real-time dashboards that summarize project status and give visibility to all participants. With real-time updates, you can identify potential problem areas and take action early on.
- The Power of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform— that puts everyone on the same platform, giving people the ability to talk, discuss, chat, and collaborate on a project together;
Optimized Construction connects the dots between project progress, project efforts, and corresponding 3D data – bringing it all together under one 3D umbrella for a “single source of truth”.
Optimized Planning: Analyze and verify your construction sequence before breaking ground
Thursday, August 20th, 2015
The Optimized Planning Industry Process Experience is for construction planners, project managers, and safety engineers to collaborate on a digital model that is true to the reality of the construction process.
It allows teams to simulate and validate critical project activities—even worker tasks—before arriving onsite.
Spotlight on Lionel Lambourn of Syntegrate: Looking Beyond BIM to Improve Construction Efficiencies
Thursday, August 6th, 2015
Admiralty Station, Hong Kong
Lionel Lambourn, director of Syntegrate, first gained familiarity with the possibilities afforded by BIM during his studies at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, before putting those possibilities to use at Gehry Technologies. During his tenure there, he helped set up the company’s Middle Eastern branches, using BIM tools in real-world applications.
Lionel L. Lambourn, Director, Syntegrate
It was that firsthand exposure to the ways that technology can boost efficiency in the construction process that led Lambourn to launch Syntegrate. The consultancy’s name was coined to describe the company’s focus on “synthesizing disciplines and integrating technologies.”
Why integrated technologies? As Lambourn quite simply explains, construction is a highly integrated discipline. It requires the work and knowledge of multiple disciplines to create something so complicated as a building, but it’s often at the intersection of trades where problems arise. Today’s advanced software technology can easily be leveraged to ease the coordination required among building professionals and smooth the transitions of trades and materials.
“In this day and age I see integration of technology as the best way to address some of the accepted, in-built assortments of waste and inefficiency in the construction industry,” Lambourn says. “Our mission at Syntegrate is to leverage technology to realize our built environment more appropriately, more efficiently and more sustainably.”
Five Steps to Industrialized Construction
Thursday, June 18th, 2015
This post is an excerpt from the paper, “Industrialization of the Construction Industry,” by Dr. Perry Daneshgari and Dr. Heather Moore of MCA Inc.
In today’s construction environment the value transferred to the customer for every dollar spent is only around 46 cents. More than 40% of the tradesmens’ time on a job site is spent on material handling; most of the work on a job site is performed by highly trained and paid skill tradesmen.
To achieve comparable results as have been seen in the manufacturing and other industries the construction industry has to take these same five steps:
1. Segregation of Work
The most important contribution of Fredrick Taylor’s work to industrialization of manufacturing was his ability to observe the skilled and unskilled tradesmen at work for a long period of time and being able to breakdown the conducted work. Once the work was broken-down it could then be managed by better management of time, location and contributing resources.
Once the work was visible and understood, it could be designed in the most optimal manner, and segregated amongst the resources available.
“Principles of Scientific Management” by Fredrick Taylor
Industrializing Construction: Solutions for Productivity Breakthroughs
Thursday, June 4th, 2015This post is an excerpt from the paper, “Industrialization of the Construction Industry,” by Dr. Perry Daneshgari and Dr. Heather Moore of MCA Inc.
An important study by the National Research Council, “Advancing the Competitiveness and Efficiency of the U.S. Construction Industry” identified solutions for breakthrough improvement of productivity.
Five Key Areas for Productivity Improvements in Construction
- Widespread deployment and use of interoperable technology applications.
- Improved job-site efficiency through a more effective interface of people, processes, materials, equipment, and information.
- Greater use of pre-fabrication, pre-assembly, modularization, and off-site fabrication techniques and processes.
- Innovative, widespread use of demonstration installations.
- Improved performance measurement to drive efficiency and support innovation.
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These findings are very much in line with what the manufacturing industry had realized after the advent of industrialization. The Industrial revolution, which started in mid 1700, led to an increase in population due to the first time in the human history that production levels were higher than self-consumption of the working man.
With higher population also came new markets and customers. The production facilities had to become more productive.
