This document discusses how clients are seeking more data-driven and fact-based decision making early in projects to minimize risks. It suggests architects embrace new ways of working like using BIM for planning, forecasting, operations and portfolio management. Architects can provide value throughout a building's lifecycle by linking BIM to other data like sensors, GIS and smart grid systems. To succeed, architects will need more collaborative and technology-enabled practices that consider buildings in broader geospatial and facility management contexts.

1. “All the big problems
happen on the first day
Understand the world in context
Move fluidly between geospatial and micro scales

2. Clients seek new ways of
doing business more
effectively

3. • Clients need teams and tools to help them
make more informed, fact-based decisions…
Well before they expend significant
resources

4. Revit Architecture Archicad VectorWorks Nemetshek SketchUP Solibri
& Structure - IFC IFC IFC IFC Viewer IFC IFC
Google Earth Onuma Planning System FFE
IFC, KML,GBXML, CSV
Excel
Reports
KML
IFC
IFC
IFC
Acusourcing
Revit
IFC IFC 3D Model
BIM 2/20/08
Elite CAD
IFC Whitestone
O&M
Rhino GBXML
IFC
4D In GE GBXML
Ecotect O&M
DDS CAD
Green Building Studio

5. • Clients need to make go/no-go decisions
very early in the process
• They need to minimize the chances of
being over budget, late or buried in
problems

7. • Clients know that they cannot rely on
anecdotal tales and history…
The fact that it we did it that way for twenty
(or 200) years does not work anymore
• They know the risk of making decisions
without facts

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CONCURRENT DESIGN

9. • They know that the pace of change, politics
and financial complexity increase the
opportunities for catastrophic errors of
judgment
• They must manage their ASSETS, not just
their projects

10. “The data about our facilities,
is more valuable than
the physical facility itself”

11. Some architects are managing
these concerns

12. • They use BIM to provide improved early
decision-making facts that support both ends
of the cradle-to-cradle built world...
They capitalize on the “bookends” of
traditional practice

13. • They use rules-based tools
• They are highly collaborative
• They use commercial-off-the-shelf
technologies
• They concentrate on information, not just
graphics

14. Their opportunities come outside of the
“normal” design process and after
construction
They use early stage BIM to level the playing
field

17. • Planning
• Forecasting
• Development
• Portfolio management
• Property management
• Operations
• Real estate

18. 1
Import + merge BIM data from
multiple sources (CAD models,
programming lists, databases,
etc.)

19. 2 Import from COBIE Excel file to automatically create
Building, space and furniture in 2D and 3D
A B
COBIE
15 Sec. to Import LIVE

20. 3 Bidirectional
CMMS

21. ...and, if you are like most architects,
you have been doing many of these as
freebies (or near freebies) for years

22. • Today you can make them a part of your
services profitably
• You can expand and leverage what you do
• You can be more valuable

23. But you MAY have to
change your definition
of architecture

24. ...and you WILL have to
change how you work

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ONUMA

32. Embrace real
collaboration

33. Design BIM
g SMARTa l l iance
bu ildin Construction BIM
LEAN
IPD

34. Embrace design in a
geospatial context

35. GIS + BIM
WORLD CLOUD
COMPUTING
SITE
BUILDING
SPACE

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Lon: -71.05
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BIM

37. Geospatial Building Data
Sample Data

38. Real Time BIM Data in Google Earth
O
ONUMA Sample Data

39. Embrace
technology...not as
software, but as a force
multiplier

40. BIM + Live Sensors
Live BIM
Web CAM
Edit BIM
on Web
Live Sensor
Web Services
Block & Stack
BIM
Geo Reference

41. Real Time Web Cams Linked to BIM
O
ONUMA Sample Data

42. Lighting Levels
O
ONUMA Sample Data

43. Real Time Occupancy Sensors
O
ONUMA Sample Data

44. Real Time Sensor Data
O
ONUMA

45. Automatic Out of Range Warnings
O
ONUMA

46. Real Time Energy Sensors
O
ONUMA Sample Data

47. Drill Down to Equipment Data

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ONUMA

49. BIM + Smart Grid

50. You have to “walk the
walk...not just talk the
talk”

51. ...and look at the architecture profession in a
much larger context than just designing
buildings and projects

52. • Build on your ability to synthesize information
• Embrace the entire built environment
• Architects are the best equipped to work at
this level of complexity and contradiction
• T-Shaped is the new paradigm