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BIM at LOD400: Why Level of Development 400 matters for design and virtual construction

BD+C

By broadening design to anticipate construction issues and delivering a fabrication-ready model, engineers can create more certainty in cost, schedule, and design intent. It is this uncertainty that is the breeding ground for risk, unmet cost and schedule expectations, and loss of trust between project partners.

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BIM for Reinforced Concrete – From Design to Detailing in One Model

BIM & Beam

Increases transparency and quality of the model information being used from bidding to procurement by not only providing quantifiable information, but also enabling access to it in collaboration friendly environments. The software provides functionality to create 2D detail drawings and bar bending lists to country standards.

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Talent and Tech: The Keys to Unlocking Prefabrication Success 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Additionally, firms can leverage BIM to gain a more comprehensive view of the project to coordinate various components and make sure the project stays on schedule. To be successful, teams need a clear understanding of material needs, labor requirements, and scheduling.

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How a Leading Australian HVAC Contractor Met the Ever-Changing Demands of Tailor-Made Solutions

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Ellis Air works with developers, general contractors and building operators to design, fabricate, install and maintain mechanical services. They have also enhanced their data management, with Revit Scheduling now managing equipment, field-to-model and procurement scheduling, to maintain a central database for the whole supply chain.

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Why Projects Fail

Job Order Contracting

Organizations that do not implement and continuously import upon a program-based approach, under which all projects a planned, procured, and executed, suffer from unclear objectives , shifting requirements , unrealistic schedule s, and reactive planning , Poor planning and poor change management impede individual project successes.

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FORMWORK AND GOOD FORMWORK PROPERTIES

The Constructor

Its importance is evident when you consider that the cost of fabrication, erecting and striking the formwork, often exceeds the cost of the concrete it is designed to shape and support. For anything other than most smallest of concreting jobs e.g. walls over 1m in height, a drawing should be provided, showing what formwork is required.

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COMMON STRUCTURAL FAILURE CAUSES

The Constructor

2) poor communication between the fabricators and erectors. (3) 8) inadequate preparation and review of contract and shop drawings. (9) 3) Bad workmanship, which is often the result of failure to communicate the design decisions to the persons, involved in executing them. (4) 9) poor training of field inspectors. (10)

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