Has a client ever asked what would happen to the budget if you made one tiny change to the whole system? Have you been forced into the awkward position of trying to explain that answering that question would take a long time to work out, or that the estimate you are about to give cannot be trusted? Everyone says that it's important to take time to set up your models correctly from the beginning in order to make sure they stay useful throughout the project, but what does that mean exactly? This class will help you figure out what you need to think about in order to be the most nimble, informed, design consultant out there while also helping you understand how to use Revit software to accomplish much without a ton of work. Work smarter, not harder-start today!

The idea of using Building Information Modeling (BIM) models in facilities management has been raised for many years. One major reason why it isn’t widely adopted in the market is the mismatch between as-built model and built structure. Using reality capture technology, we can collect the scan data of the built structure and use it for as-built model verification. A list of discrepancies between scan data and the as-built model would be produced, and team members could validate the results and amend the as-built model when appropriate. This class will identify the workflow when using Revit software to verify the as-built model with the scan data, as well as the possible follow-up actions. We will use a third-party Revit plug-in for scan data identification with model category, and we’ll perform model checking using point clouds. We’ll explore a sample case to demonstrate the suggested workflow. This session features Revit and ReCap. AIA Approved

The 65,000-square-meter (70,000-square-foot) offices of Ilot Fontenoy-Ségur (IFS)—located in the heart of Paris’s 7th arrondissement near the Eiffel Tower—is a major renovation project for the French government. The client’s most notable requirement is a Building Information Modeling (BIM) model with facility-management capabilities. Our team at VINCI Construction France is currently in charge of BIM management for this project, which includes providing Revit software templates for architecture, structure, and MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) to all stakeholders. We also ensure the training of all the project members involved and the review of all models according to a predefined BIM-guideline set up in partnership with the facility manager (data codification, levels of details, and information). In addition to Revit software, we also used Revit software’s API and BIMLink to quickly implement information. All the 3D models are used during the current construction phase for 3D coordination, quantity takeoffs, drawings, and on-site communication with our building workers.

Hear valuable lessons related to Building Information Modeling-to-Facilities Management (BIM-to-FM) integration from an owner several years into the BIM journey. Why was this journey started? Which data should we capture about the facility? How is the data being used for operations or other purposes? How do you integrate deliverables—or the FM system itself—with record models and/or the data in them? This discussion will include details on how the Revit software COBie Toolkit was useful and how 1 owner is moving beyond basic integration with the company's computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) to implement forward/backward compatibility with models of 150 new and existing buildings across its campus.

The United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) develops, manages, and protects western water resources for the United States. Built in an age of slide rules and drafting, the USBR's 492 dams and 53 power plants were each created from thousands of individual engineering drawings. These dams are critical infrastructure and will continue to serve the nation for centuries. Effective facility management requires new methods and technology. Using Autodesk software, and with assistance from Autodesk, the USBR set out to create unified intelligent models of Glen Canyon dam and power plant. The use of laser scanning, photogrammetry, CAD, Building Information Modeling (BIM), and SONAR enabled the creation of multidisciplinary, comprehensive 3D models. The data and models will be used for design, operations and maintenance, security, education, and visualization. This project serves as a prototype to develop expertise, best practices, guidelines, and procedures with applicability for many industries. This session will discuss the objectives, procedures, and project status.

The main goal of this class is to walk attendees through the complete workflow of scanning the pressroom and basement at our FCA Sterling Stamping Plant located in Sterling Heights, Michigan. We’ll compare general baseline scanning to more-detailed equipment scanning. Participants will learn how scan data is collected, post processed, aligned, exported, decimated, segmented, and combined over time to create and maintain one virtual model of the largest stamping plant in the world. A key benefit of this class: sharing important ReCap software features and proposed ideas that can improve functionality and save post-processing time.

The demand for the construction supply chain to improve productivity and to meet compacted schedules with decreased budgets has led to substantial industry focus in automated construction techniques and enabling workflows. Off-site prefabrication of construction components has become a key factor in the improvement of labor productivity and increase quality on construction projects. Schedule and budget constraints can often be met through the effective use of prefabrication introducing overlaps in schedules and offsetting labour into controlled environments. Much of these savings has shown to come from the introduction of economies of scale and repeatable tasks and assemblies. BIM responds to the overall decline in construction productivity as compared to other industries. Efforts made in the field of manufacturing to automate processes and workflows are being introduced into the field of construction using LEAN theory and interjection of computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) techniques.

With Building Information Modeling (BIM), data now has the means to coalesce, become information, and be analyzed as never before. Data granularity and its volume achieved around BIM open the doors for the creation of a Google-like virtual model-based browser for the built environment. We utilize the combined design, construction, and operation know-how of TAV Construction and TAV Airports, based on innovative tools and technologies created for the built environment industry. Based on the success of the BIM-FM integration at the Medina Airport, we are expanding the use of BIM as a means to improve the operations of their investments. This effort has become a case study for us and for the industry in which several challenges have been addressed, opening the way for future possibilities. Using BIM as a platform to integrate existing digital infrastructure-such as computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) and BMS/BAS software-enables better analytics, performance for operations, energy management, sustainability, business, and more.

This class covers using Revit®-based software, BIM 360™ Field, and Navisworks® for the operation, maintenance, and lifecycle of facilities. We consider the progress of the facilities management industry in implementing Building Information Modeling (BIM) and review the outcomes of a project to use Revit, BIM 360 Field, and Navisworks to manage a new school in London. We also identify further opportunities to integrate BIM data into the delivery of facilities management services to owners and occupiers of facilities.

The Innovative Construction Solutions (ICS) Team at Skanska USA Building recently implemented BIM 360 Ops software for one of Skanska's commercial development clients to facility manage a newly constructed luxury condominium residential tower in Boston, Massachusetts. This particular client also requested model visualization to complement the mobile-first work order management capabilities of BIM 360 Ops, and required that the ICS Team partner with Autodesk to develop an API integration between BIM 360 Ops and its existing tenant concierge software platform. In this class, ICS Team members who worked on this project will share the lessons they learned and the workflow they developed using Revit software, Navisworks software, BIM 360 Glue software, BIM 360 Field software, and BIM 360 Ops.

This class will take a case-study approach to demonstrate a real-life example of harnessing BIM data throughout the facility management lifecycle of a corporate office.  IBI Group has developed a sound workflow to harness modeled data sourced in either Revit or Civil 3D within a custom-built asset management solution.  The service provided includes "gluing" asset-specific data together in a virtual environment including the BIM representation and offering the output as a managed solution for our clients / stakeholders.  This process involves strong definition of a project's BIM goal, stated BIM Uses to achieve the goal, and diligent Project BIM Leadership to accomplish the mission.  The solution provides web-based, or mobile access to asset information coupled with the ability to virtually interact with the asset as well as achieve real-world visual information, financial data, warranty timelines, and other pertinent information.  All this enhances the ability to plan OPEX / CAPEX.

The inclusion of point cloud support inside Autodesk® Revit® software means that documenting existing facilities is now easier than ever…hypothetically. With the advent of facilities management software and operations and maintenance databases reaching out to Building Information Modeling (BIM) for visualization and representation, the workflow seems obvious. Follow us through a real example of taking a building with no drawings from laser scan data to intelligent model, then to a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) database, and finally to facilities management tools.

MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) services are often considered by most in the construction industry to be a means to an end, restricting architectural and structural creativity. MEP services, however, are the lifeblood of a building and are fundamentally the main source of pain for facility managers. This class will focus on managing MEP data propagation from design concept through to facilities management, identifying the importance of MEP systems completion and appropriate assignment right through to addition of data to components at the various phases of the Building Information Modeling (BIM) delivery. This class will capitalize on an array of Autodesk, Inc., technologies, including Revit software, Navisworks Manage software, and BIM 360 software. For anyone involved in the MEP and construction industries, this class is a must as an aid in understanding the end goals for model handover and also the benefits to each project stakeholder at each BIM delivery phase.

Concluding the class presented at Autodesk University 2015, Elliott Crossley returns to discuss the construction phase of a £330 million project in the UK. This class reveals the strategy and workflows involved in integrating fabrication information back into the Building Information Model, divulging the toolbox of a multidisciplinary design team at BDP from inception to completion, challenging current technology throughout, to deliver an Asset Information Model suitable for use in building operation.

"Learn how Facilities Management (FM) teams use models to maximize their efficiency by visualizing all the buildings and assets together with information from the facility management system. See how Autodesk Forge and BIM 360 Docs can be integrated with Maximo and visualized in a modern, easy to use, web-based viewer. Understand the possibilites presented by Forge and BIM 360 and how you can integrate different systems with your models. This class will be using a real case study from Sweden, a complex hospital that is using BIM360 and Forge today to maximize their efficiency. The hospital contains over 600 000 assets that are being maintained using Maximo, delivered with the COBie standard. The models and assets are all visualized using a modern Sweco designed viewer, integrated with Maximo."

The Grande Arche is the iconic building of the business district La Défense in the Paris region. The two sides of the Arche are used as National Housing government offices and the roof section is targeted for exhibitions. The building was completed in 1989. 25 years later, the government entrusted to the Eiffage Group associated with the Valode & Pistre agency the renovation of workspaces in the south side and the roof section. The handover is scheduled for 2017. Even if Contractors have implemented a BIM process in design and construction phases, the client expressed the will to take advantage of the BIM D&B to enable O&M continuing the BIM methodology. This class will take the attendees through the journey of Grande Arche BIM implementation. You will receive an overview of the benefitsand lessons learned from the point of view of an owner and his BIM advisor. You will also learn about requirements to obtain a BIM model O&M-compliant and some workflows to connect it with O&M tools.

We’ll discuss overcoming design and planning challenges in an infrastructure project’s lifecycle by using smart solutions, including highlights of the following: How digital asset management can help evaluate future demands for regional infrastructure development, and the challenges to be faced; how BIM can support the asset management long-term strategies to mitigate the risks impacting the operations and maintenance of infrastructure; innovative solutions to develop a smart transportation infrastructure system; the main controls to achieve a successful BIM implementation process; single integrated asset management system with sustainable and cost-effective results; guidance on how to create and follow a clear road map to achieve an effective asset management system; exploration of the significance of integrating CAPEX and OPEX solutions; and the importance of implementing an integrated CAPEX/ OPEX solution for asset owners and operators.

Since the U.K. government Level 2 Building Information Modeling (BIM) mandate, BDP has actively pursued greater BIM adoption centered on Autodesk, Inc., software and the emerging British Standards. In autumn of 2014 BDP became the first U.K. business to achieve BIM Level 2 certification. This class will reveal workflows that BDP adopted in a multidisciplinary approach to address this mandate, enabled by the use of BIM technologies. In a critical analysis of a £330 million project, we will divulge the BDP BIM toolbox from inception to construction (with a tested strategy for facilities management), highlighting how the process has evolved over the past decade, as well as showing proven efficiencies and further development priorities to deliver a better product for our clients.

This course will present a novel framework and development works for enhancing building asset management, particularly operations and maintenance (O&M), by visually intuitive integration among Building Information Modeling (BIM), asset management (AM), and various electronics systems. A newly developed BIM-AM system provides an intuitive way to access heterogeneous O&M information of assets such as photos, attributes, equipment relationships, manuals, drawings, maintenance records, live views of closed circuit television (CCTV) systems, real-time sensing data from building management systems (BMS) and wireless ad-hoc sensors, as well as location information from a real-time location system (RTLS) in an integrated mobile platform. All of this information is accessible simply by asset repository, the maneuvering throughout a BIM model, or even a handheld radio frequency identification (RFID) scanning tool. The results have successfully demonstrated the use of BIM in O&M workflow, responsive incident handling, and enhancing building sustainability.

Using BIM (Building Information Modeling) data lets facilities managers more effectively populate facilities management systems through data importation. In addition to this, IoT is having a significant impact on both locating and providing data about assets. This presentation will demonstrate how using Revit models with BIM 360 Ops software and iBeacons provides wayfinding for facilities teams, tracking of mobile assets, and better work-order management using heat maps of tickets. The sessions will include best practices, case studies, and lessons learned from pilot and active projects.