GRUG 11 February opening presentation 20130220

2. • Welcome…….Thank you all for attending!
• Please Turn OFF your Mobile phones
• Thank you to Mott MacDonald for providing
the venue for this meeting.
• Housekeeping……. In the event of a fire ….

3. Welcome To GRUG
• Meet with local Revit users to discuss and share the platform's
use for BIM implementation.
• GRUG on Linkedin - Main source of information, events and
discussion
• GRUG on YouTube - GRevitUG
• GRUG on Twitter - @glasgowrevit

4. Meet The Team
• Graham H Stewart
• Technical Associate – Head of BIM – Structures - Ramboll UK
• Colin Hutton
• Architectural Technologist - BIM Consultant – Mott Macdonald
• Allan Brown
• Technical Director – URS

5. Meeting 11 – 20th February 2013
• 6:20 – 6:30 – Welcome and Introductions
• 6:30 – 7:10 – Willie Robertson - BIM Manager at LOR - Presenting on
• Design Revit MEP to Design for Manufacturing & Assembly
Work Flow.
Revit MEP +’s & -‘s.
Contractors use of the Revit MEP model.
Exporting Revit MEP for use in Manufacturing / Assembly.
• 7:10 – 7:30 – Break/Networking (Beer courtesy of GRUG)

6. Willie Robertson - Crown House
technologies
• Currently CAD / BIM leader for Crown House Technologies, the Laing O’Rourke
MEP business unit. 17 years in the position, in the time has been instrumental in
the development of CAD from its inception within the company to its current
position when 95% of all projects are developed on a 3D platform within the Revit
MEP, AutoCAD / Fabrication CADmep platform.
• Leads the introduction of various CAD to CAM packages within the Crown House
Manufacturing centre, FABmep & ESTmep.
• Prior to this William was with Babcock for 14 years working with both Pipework
and Nuclear business, based in Renfrew where William was a Piping CAD
Draftsman then section leader.
• William has been using various CAD packages since 1983 including IBM’s
mainframe CADAM system, CATIA through to various AutoCAD.
• Projects worked on include; The Hydro - Glasgow, XScape, Forth Valley Hospital,
T2a Heathrow, Arora Hotel T5 - Heathrow and Air Traffic Control Centre - Prestwick.

7. Aaron Maller - Beck
• Aaron is currently the BIM Manager at The Beck Group, specializing in Revit
Implementation. His current role includes streamlining use of the program,
exploiting its efficiencies amongst the Architectural Design, Architectural
Production, Preconstruction and Construction groups at Beck, as well as Revit
Infrastructure Management and Training for all users. He is also responsible for
writing their customized training material (6 day curriculum), and maintaining
their templates and content. He currently supports 500 people in more than 5
cities. His work experience includes more than 5 years working in Architectural
Design and Document Production, as well as Implementing and Supporting
Revit in a variety of offices. He has been Revit for all phases of Architecture
(from Design to CA, plus various uses in Construction and procurement), on
projects of varying scopes and genres. Passionate about Revit, Architecture,
and Fabrication, he’s an avid contributor on AUGI (twiceroadsfool) and
RevitForum.org (twiceroadsfool) and is active in the Revit Community, teaching
at Autodesk University and the Revit Technology Conference.

8. Meeting 11 – 20th February 2013
• 7:30 - 8:15 – Aaron Maller - BIM Manager at Beck Dallas - presenting on
• -Modeling intense masonry detail for design/estimating/coordination
Our project team is working on the design and modeling of an ornate
masonry building, which is then being used by the preconstruction and
estimating team for evaluating the cost of the building. Even through the
complex design of the building, a few systems of Shared and Nested families
make modeling the intensity of the design simplistic, while still affording the
Construction team all of the Data they can leverage for costing and logistics
planning.

9. Meeting 11 – 20th February 2013
• 7:30 - 8:15 – Aaron Maller - BIM Manager at Beck Dallas - presenting on
• Revit and Field Layout
After building a model similar to Parkland Hall, our Construction Teams in the
field then use these models to lay out the project: Foundations, Formwork,
penetrations, walls, and more. Quite literally, we have taken the drawings off
of the table (and off of the computers too). In doing so, teams can move
quickly with handheld mobile devices or Total Robotic Stations, to ensure
more accurate (and faster) layout for construction. This also helps us in
maintaining proper clearances for Prefabricated pieces

10. Meeting 11 – 20th February 2013
• 7:30 - 8:15 – Aaron Maller - BIM Manager at Beck Dallas - presenting on
• Direct Fabrication from Design Intent Modeling
Carrying on the concept of letting the model do the talking, some simple (and
I do mean simple) interoperability workflows have made it possible to take
“concept models” from earlier in design, direct in to fabrication and shop
drawing production. What this means is cheaper production, but also the
right person working on the project at the right time, instead of designers
trying to articulate fabrication, so the fabrication teams can rework it later in
the process.

11. Meeting 11 – 20th February 2013
• 8:15 – 8:30 – Discussion on AU & Gunslinger then Closing remarks
• 8:30 till late –BIMBeers @ The Lab, 26 Springfield Court

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13. Events Of Interest
• 5th Mar - EcoBuild 2013
• 30th Apl - BIM Show Live 2013
• 11th July - RTCUSA
• 27th Sept - RTCEUR
• 3rd Dec - AU2013

14. Standards
• D-Day is coming – 28th Feb
http://www.bimtaskgroup.org/

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