BUILDING INFORMATION
MODELING (BIM) FORUM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

8:00

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30

Welcoming Remarks from Insight Information

8:35

Co-Chairs' Opening Remarks

Sheryl Staub-French
Associate Professor
University of British Columbia

Rod Yeoh
Principal
Omicron Architecture Engineering Construction

8:45

Writing an RFP with BIM Specifications: What Owners Need to Ask For to Maximize the “I” in BIM

Michael Horta
BIM Director
Kasian Architecture Interior Design and Planning Ltd.

• Do Owners understand what they are asking for?
• Helping Owners understand the full capabilities of BIM
• How much information do Owners want?
• Setting up a plan for managing the information once the model is handed back to the Owner
• Awarding the contract:
  • Defining bona fide BIM users — what is the difference between 3D CAD users and BIM users?
  • What seals the deal?

9:30

Avoiding Disputes with Efficient Contracts: BIM Addendum Contract Initiatives

Kimberly A. Hurtado
Managing Shareholder
Hurtado, S.C., Counselors at Law (Wauwatosa, WI)

Charles G. T. Wiebe
Partner
Glaholt LLP (Toronto, ON)

No BIM conference is complete without an understanding of recent legal developments in the industry. Contracts play a major role in defining deliverables, interactions with project stakeholders, and risk obligations for commercial building projects. This presentation will focus on:

• Using BIM to identify potential legal disputes and solve them efficiently
• Solutions to the causes of the most common complaints
• Preparing a Canadian BIM Addendum – what should it specify?
• Reasons for a hybrid version of the ConsensusDOCS BIM Addendum and American BIM contract documents
• Lessons from the American experience – A commentary on issues that have come up in the U.S regarding the ConsensusDOCS BIM Addendum (and the AIA BIM Addendum) in recent years
• "Made for Canada" only – or leaders in BIM contract development globally?

10:20

Networking Coffee Break

10:35

Evolving Business Challenges Facing Design and Construction Teams

Rod Yeoh
Principal
Omicron Architecture Engineering Construction

• Keys to BIM implementation
• Fees involved with BIM workflow – overall savings, how should fees (and risks) be distributed?
• Design changes – how they affect and are affected by the BIM process
• Quality control and cost-based decisions in BIM
• Is there an ROI from BIM?
• Sharing the model, internally and externally
• New opportunities to expand design services
• Re-purposed models – what's next?

11:15

Using BIM for Estimating and Takeoffs: Target-Value Design and True-Value Engineering

Tony Toppenberg
Chief Estimator
Turner Construction Company (Seattle, WA)

This topic will explore the benefits and challenges of implementing and using BIM through the estimating and preconstruction process. Specific topics will include:

• Enhanced accuracy in quantity survey to maximize the budget by reducing "hidden contingencies" within the estimate
• Using the model to understand constructability issues and develop alternates, or means and methods, that are value added to the client while producing a more competitive price
• Iterating estimates more quickly to provide pricing feedback to expedite decisions
• Driving collaboration by communicating estimate assumptions for pricing accuracy and subcontractor buyout
• Practical tips and lessons learned for the implementation of Model Based Estimating

12:00

Networking Luncheon

1:00

CASE STUDY

Organizing BIM on a Project: Lessons from the UBC Pharmacy Building

Moderator: Sheryl Staub-French
Associate Professor
University of British Columbia

Marwan Bakri
Manager BIM/Virtual Construction Services
Ledcor Construction Ltd.

Kevin Collier
Construction Manager
Keith Plumbing and Heating Co. Ltd.

Bill Qually
Superintendent
Keith Plumbing and Heating Co. Ltd.

Nicolas Worth
Architect
Hughes Condon Marler Architects (HCMA)

This session will discuss the construction team’s experience with 'collaborative BIM' on the Pharmaceutical Sciences Building project, a fast-track project currently under construction at UBC. This session will start with a brief overview of the project, and will then open the floor up to questions from the audience. Specific topics to be discussed include:

• Formulation of the BIM Execution Plan
• Organization of the project team including the sub-trades
• Coordination of the modeling effort between the consultants and trades
• Benefits and challenges encountered

2:00

How Sub-Contractors Successfully Organize and Implement BIM Within Their Organizations

"If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse!" Henry Ford

Tim Luke
CEO
Basepin, Inc. (Kenmore, WA)

This BIM session will focus on the MEPF subcontractor’s role and factors to consider when implementing a BIM/CAD and Coordination Group (BCCG). Project stakeholder cultures will be discussed and strategies for improved BIM collaboration. Practical applications such as budgeting, training, in-house buy-in, and adding value, will be presented based on experience.

Balancing risk and expectations caused by BIM technology

• Building the information management system
• Design documents – can we build with them?
• Applying BIM technology to CAD detailing and shop drawings
• Managed approach to setting up a BIM/CAD and Coordination Group (BCCG)
• Implementing the BCCG group
• BCCG Group – value-added culture

3:15

Networking Refreshment Break
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3:30

BIM: The Devil is Hiding in the Details Dissecting the Five Levels of Development for Clear Project Communication

John R. Jansen
Building Solutions Team Manager
IMAGINiT Technologies (Virginia Beach, VA)

• How well do you know your model?
• How well do you know the model you share?
• When working on a project are you setting clear expectations for what you will produce in BIM?

Communication errors in a large-scale BIM project can cause enormous problems. Ensuring all parties’ understanding of the deliverables is the key to success. Join IMAGINiT Technologies expert John Jansen as he provides an in-depth analysis into the levels of BIM development and how to avoid potential costly mistakes. This session will explore how you can be more precise in your delivery of BIM products to ensure clients/owners are getting exactly what they ask for and are 110% satisfied with the end result.

4:15

CASE STUDY

4 Different Building Skins, 3 Different Installers: Use of BIM to Identify Issues Between Shop Drawings and the Design Model

Nathan Wood
Project Engineer
DPR Construction (Redwood City, CA)

In this session, you will see how BIM was used to identify issues between sub-contractor shop drawings and the architect’s design model for the exterior skin of the Sutter Medical Center Castro Valley project, due to be completed in 2013. This bowtie shaped, 7-story patient tower extends up through a 3-story rectangular podium, creating complex skin interfaces at odd angles and differing elevations. The difficulty for DPR and the rest of the Building Team was ensuring that the shop drawings from each of the three detailers aligned perfectly with each other as well as the architectural 3D model. The team also faced challenges coordinating skin connections around the immense amount of rebar and steel in this seismically-compliant hospital. For example, 200+ in/out connections were coordinated with rebar and drilled. The precast subcontractor did not originally account for rebar spacing during design. More than 50 of those connections were moved during BIM model coordination.

5:15

Conference Ends for the day followed by
Reception hosted by

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

8:00

Continental Breakfast

8:30

BIM: An Owner's Platform for New and Augmented Reality

Caesar Ruest
BIM Solutions Executive
Autodesk Inc. (Toronto, ON)

Owners have a significant opportunity to leverage design models for the purpose of monitoring the environment and usage of a building. This session will examine key findings from the Autodesk corporate research team and explore the increase of BIM adoption by owners. Additionally, we will review a private initiative that extends the use of BIM through Smartphone technology as augmented reality.

9:15

BIM from the Owner’s Perspective: Government Mandates and Private Projects

John Hale
Chief CAD/BIM
Department of National Defence (Ottawa, ON)

Richard Brown
Manager
Design and Construction
Vancouver Island Health Authority

The speakers will provide owners/purchasers of construction perspectives and discuss initiatives undertaken to leverage the use of BIM and IPD so that projects are delivered faster, more economically and with reduced environmental impact.

10:00

Networking Coffee Break

10:20

BRING YOUR iPADS ... HANDS-ON SESSION

Getting Real with BIM, GIS and Facility Management: The Huge Opportunity for 21st Century Architects, Engineers, Contractors and Owners

Kimon Onuma
President
Onuma, Inc. (Pasadena, CA)

Using your iPads, laptops or handheld devices, discover how real time interaction on the Internet is possible today through BIMStorms. In this real time, interactive session you will see first hand how cloud computing through the Internet with interconnected applications allows all levels of users to collaborate with open standards based information in unprecedented ways. Kimon Onuma, a leader in the BIM world and creator of BIMStorms, will demonstrate how you can maximize the value of the “I” of BIM to meet the sustainability goals of the 2030 challenge + Executive Order 13514 can be addressed with Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the cloud.

The session is geared for all levels and illustrates how to make facility information more connected and relevant today, so that the final product is a sustainable high performance building completed on time, within budget, and aesthetically designed for future needs.

• BIM
• GIS

BIM and Facility Management

• BIMStorms
• BIM and Cloud Computing
• Open Standards
• BIM and Building Automation Systems
• Keeping complex data simple for everyone to participate

12:15

Networking Luncheon

1:15

Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) & Lean Construction: Developing a High Performance Team

Atul Khanzode
Director of Virtual Construction
DPR Construction (Redwood City, CA)

This session will discuss a contractor’s experience on IPD projects in the US. Specific topics include:

• How to organize the team
• When to bring on team members
• How to use different types of relational agreements
• How to set up the BIM modeling requirements and responsibilities
• How IPD, lean thinking, and BIM work together

2:10

BIM: A Valuable Tool for Retrofitting and Marketing Existing Buildings and Their Interiors

Krista Nozack
Director of Operations
PLANiT Measuring® (Mississauga, ON)

Older buildings need a competitive advantage when competing for tenants with newer, energy efficient structures. In this session learn how, by using data obtained from a BIM model, older buildings with character can be retrofitted and transformed for new uses to give them an edge to survive.

• Real estate and leasing – benefits of data obtained from BIM
• for decision making and marketing
• Keeping the retrofit project on track and on budget as a result of BIM and integrated project delivery
• Transforming complex facilities with knowledge transfer through BIM
• Creating an environment for the usage of the building
• Energy incentives – how to measure ROI
• Beyond energy savings – other benefits to measure including increasing workplace productivity
• Lessons learned

2:50

Networking Refreshment Break

3:00

The Ultimate Savings: Lifecycle BIM for Facilities Management

Igor Starkov
President
EcoDomus (Washington, DC)

The presenter will explain how Building Information Models (BIM) improve data handover in the most efficient manner. Using case studies (NASA LaRC New Town project, GSA Region 4 BIM/O&M portal) Igor Starkov will demonstrate the benefits of BIM for new and existing facilities and show visual inventorying of assets, how BIM can help improve energy efficiency by integrating with Energy Management Systems, and how to integrate BIM with CMMS applications (such as Maximo, FAMIS, TMA, AssetWorks, Four Rivers TMS, etc.).

• Learn how to establish BIM-to-FM project execution plans
• Gain an understanding of COBie, SPie, OmniClass and other open standards
• Discover what cost benefits BIM brings to FM
• Find out what software solutions exist for bringing BIM to FM

3:45

Leveraging BIM for Project QA/QC

Dimitri Harvalias
Senior Technical Consultant
Summit Technologies Ltd.

The session will focus on how Building Information Models can be leveraged to provide dynamic feedback to designers, contractors and building owners during all phases of project design and delivery. By viewing and filtering the data and object properties imbued in the BIM, project views can inform design decisions and provide quality assurance and control for all stakeholders.

• Validating functional program data in real time
• Schedules – more than just counting
• Printed output – creating consistent and predictable results
• Driving the decision making process
• Don’t ask the model, let the model tell you
• Tracking construction progress graphically

4:30

This course has been accredited by The National Gold Seal Committee (2 SICS).

• Architects, Engineers & Design Consultants
• BIM Development Managers
• BIM Solutions Executives
• In-house Counsel

• Owners & Developers
• Project Managers
• Contract Administrators
• Specifiers
• Government Officials

• Contractors
• Estimators
• Educators
• Insurance Agents
• Construction Lawyers

• Facilities Managers
• Surety Companies
• Software Vendors
• Construction Associations and Trades Reps

Dear Colleague:

Back by popular demand, Insight Information's 2nd Annual BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING (BIM) FORUM in Vancouver covers a broad range of topics to assist you in furthering your understanding of how highly BIM-enabled, collaborative projects can transform project delivery at all levels.

Designed for owners, architects, engineers, contractors, sub-contractors, facilities managers, virtual project managers and legal advisors, a faculty composed of North American industry experts in the use of BIM and IPD will share how to increase efficiency and profitability by maximizing the “I” in BIM.

Gain answers to critical questions:

• How do I implement BIM in my organization?
• Where does the team start when organizing BIM on a project?
• How can I apply BIM technology to CAD detailing and shop drawings?
• How to organize a project using Integrated Project Delivery (IPD)?
• What solutions exist for bringing BIM to Facilities Management?
• How will becoming BIM enabled give me a competitive edge?
• What are the risks if I don’t become BIM-enabled?

Highlights and Case Studies include:

• Organizing BIM on a Project: Lessons from the UBC Pharmacy Building
• Using BIM for Estimating and Takeoffs
• Collaborative BIM: Sutter Medical Center Castro Valley Project
• Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) and Lean Construction: Developing a High Performance Team

Hands-on Feature: Bring your iPads, laptops or handheld electronic devices so you can participate in a hands-on exercise led by Kimon Onuma, creator of BIMStorms. This real time, interactive session will demonstrate how cloud computing through the Internet with interconnected applications allows all levels of users to collaborate with open standards based information.

Delegates will leave this conference with valuable execution strategies and insights into business uses of BIM so that they can experience increased productivity gains and get the real payback of true integration.

We are confident that you will find this unique conference and the networking opportunities to be an excellent investment of your time and look forward to seeing you in September.

Sheryl Staub-French
Associate Professor
University of British Columbia

Rod Yeoh
Principal
Omicron Architecture Engineering Construction

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