4. Nathan Hildebrandt
• Associate
• Project Architect
• Manage architectural team
• 11 years experience using
BIM software ‘ArchiCAD’
• OpenBIM advocate
• Graphisoft Development Panel
• ArchiCAD Beta Tester
• Member of BuildingSMART
• BrisBIM Committee Member
5. Challenges with BIM
• Significant shift in information creation
• Implementation needs to be staged
• Staff need to know how a building is built
• BIM is still in its infancy
• Standards are not in place
• Leading to confusion from clients
6. Challenges with BIM
• New Processes need to be developed
• Costly if you head up dry gullies
7. Why Fulton Trotter embrace BIM
MacKillop Catholic College Library | Warnervale NSW | 2004
• Why embark on BIM unless you benefit from it
• FTA Clients don’t require BIM
• FTA are embracing BIM as a process
• Efficiencies – quicker production
• Quality – less variations
• More time for design
• Future delivery process for all construction projects
9. Incorrect use of BIM Software
taken from Graphisoft ArchiCAD 8.1 Project Framework 2004
10. Case Studies
• Hinkler Hall of Aviation – 3d Structural Steel Drawings
• Wongaburra – Services Modelling
• Tamborine Mountain College – Mobile Technology
• Faith Lutheran College – Pilot full coordinated tender model
11. Hinkler Hall of Aviation
• Completed in 2007
• Complex Structural Steel Building
• Simple Architectural Cladding Shell
12. Hinkler Hall of Aviation
3D Shop Drawings
• 3D Structural Steel Shop drawings produced in Tekla.
• Quick and easy review process
• Model reviewed outside of ArchiCAD
• 1800 shop drawings produced but not necessary to review in
as much detail.
14. Hinkler Hall of Aviation
• Real benefits in the process.
• Benefits even greater today with Clash Detection Software.
15. Wongaburra
• Upgrade of Existing Aged Care Facilities
• Conversion of Undercroft Space into Administration Facilities
• Service Consultants delivering typical 2D documentation
16. Wongaburra
• 2530 Floor to underside of slab
• Habitable Space required to be obtained
• Modelling the only answer
18. Wongaburra
• Modeling on its own wouldn’t have achieved the outcome.
• Communication key to success of installation
19. Tamborine Mountain College
• Secondary School Library and Teaching Spaces
• 500sqm
• Consultants providing 2D information / documentation
20. Tamborine Mountain College
Communicating with a Virtual Model
• Already used as a tool for
• Design Reviews
• Consultants
• Client Sign Off on Design
• Architect review on Site
• Pilot project with Contractor.
• Issued for trialling on Site.
22. Tamborine Mountain College
• Challenge getting Contractor
to use technology on site.
• Provides a accompanying
piece of information to
drawings and specification.
• Development of software will
transform the Construction
Industry.
26. Faith Lutheran College
• Cost $10k timecost to test and develop workflows. Now in
place a good investment.
• Delivered the project with -0.3% in Latent, Authority,
Documentation Variations. Client Variations 1.4%
• Contractor didn’t embrace technology or 3D shop drawings
• Had Contractor engaged in process would they benefit?
27. The Future – where are we heading
• Everything is modelled
• All notation automated, derived straight from the model
• Specification & Schedules generated directly from the model
• Model checking software will perform majority of QA tasks
• Developing process of communication with our QS
• Developing processes with our builders so they benefit
28. Working with Tier 2 Contractors
• Uptake of BIM in Tier 2 is very limited
• Working with regular Contractors to show benefits of
adapting to technology
• Challenge is without standard deliverables from Clients
process development now could be a significant dry gully
• Sub Contractors are smaller and investment to great?
29. How will the industry adapt
• Question roles of Professional Consultants in the future!
• Where will everyone fit it?
• How do you adapt your business and remain relevant?
30. Road to Standard Deliverables
• BuildingSMART are working along with a number of other
NFP organisations to create Guidelines.
• Boost the uptake, clearer ideas of deliverables.
• Clients can ask for an reasonable outcome and Project Team
will know what is needed to achieve it.
