The fifth web session describing BIMStorm Washington DC is described in a "Cliff's Notes" summary of the hour-long presentation

1. 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

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

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

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

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

6. 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

7. 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

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

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

10. First, the ONUMA Planning
1
System was used Excel programs
to create bubble diagrams of floor
plans that were refined quickly
2
3
Then rooms were designed with
furniture in more detail

11. Progam data can move from Excel to refined plans quiclky

12. Plans can become highly refined and all changes are stored

13. Room plans can include furniture and equipment data

14. The data can be shared among many professionals easily

15. Low level of detail Cost Estimates are available immediately

16. Data is easily exported for more detailed analysis in other software

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

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

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

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

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

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

23. 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