The Hedberg

BIM Consulting, Coordination and Management provided to the design team. Establishing BIM Execution guidelines and produce LOD300 models of the base building objects for handover to the general contractor.

Description

The final building provides improvements to the Theatre Royal, and a new University Conservatorium of Music; it will include new performance venues, public spaces and an international research institute.

Before the BIM coordination and LOD300 delivery process started during construction documentation, design collaboration & coordination was largely conducted through exchange of 2D CAD drawings.

The general contractor commissioned the design team to provide design models to LOD300 as part of construction documentation. The BIM Consulting team from Gandy & Roberts negotiated the collaboration procedures within the design team, as well as the model deliverables with the client.

The main tool for model coordination was Navisworks©. All design models were checked visually for consistency. The Navisworks clash detective was used to identify clashes between critical model objects. Coordination and clash reports were issued to all project stakeholders in Navisworks© NWD and HTML format.

Challenges

• Consideration of different design software platforms (Revit, Archicad).
• Incorporation of 8 main design models from 4 consultants.
• Inexperience of design team parties in LOD300 BIM deliveries.
• Setup of BIM protocols and significant design changes late in the design process.
• Very complex and irregular building with several acoustically detached sub-structures within the main building.
• Tight services corridors.
• Design team members in remote locations (Singapore, Melbourne, Hobart).
• Incremental issue of individual LOD300 models to meet program requirements.

In consideration of the capabilities of all project team members and used software platforms, procedures were developed to facilitate an effective model-based collaboration within the design team. The procedures were implemented by Gandy & Roberts’ BIM Consulting Team successfully through provision of manuals, short videos, workshops and 1 on 1 training sessions.

Many industry leaders are suggesting that BIM must be implemented at an early stage of a project to be successful and effective. BIM on The Hedberg has proven that this is a misconception and that coordinated BIM can be implemented successfully at any stage, even when design models are already well established and not setup with coordinated BIM in mind.