Building & Facility Owners Lifecycle Management Needs Define Digital Deliverables
So why are building owners redefining the deliverables for architects and engineers?
Let's look at some statistics that affect building owners:
We found one study that showed a building with $200 per sq ft construction costs, will cost the owner $40 per sq ft to manage and maintain.
Another study shows annual management and maintenance costs range from 4-10% of the original construction costs...depending on the quality designed into the building.
A typical $100m building project generates 150,000 separate documents: technical drawings, legal contracts, purchase orders, RFIs and schedules.
New wiring: Construction and the Internet: Builders go online 01/15/2000; The Economist Copyright© 2000 The Economist; Source: World Reporter™- FT McCarthy
Lastly building owners are trying to minimize the waste that they inevitably pay for with the construction process we have in the U.S.
"...inefficiencies, mistakes and delays account for $200 billion of the $650 billion spent on construction in America every year."
New wiring: Construction and the Internet: Builders go online 01/15/2000; The Economist Copyright© 2000 The Economist; Source: World Reporter™- FT McCarthy
They need to manage the lifecycle costs of their buildings after construction. They need a three-dimensional, digital model that accurately stores the original design of the building. As they revise the building's use, they need to analyze, simulate, save and track those changes in a digital format.
Paper drawings and CAD entities (lines, arcs, circles, dimensions) are not going provide the solution they need.
If you click on the title to this blog you will be able to download a whitepaper that I wrote on Building Information Modeling (BIM). CSI-Chicago and Association of Licensed Architects (ALA) published it in their respective magazines over the last year.
Click here to get BIM Whitepaper
Autodesk Revit Building is a software package that designs, analyzes and simulates a building using BIM methodology. Autodesk Revit Building
Let's look at some statistics that affect building owners:
We found one study that showed a building with $200 per sq ft construction costs, will cost the owner $40 per sq ft to manage and maintain.
Another study shows annual management and maintenance costs range from 4-10% of the original construction costs...depending on the quality designed into the building.
A typical $100m building project generates 150,000 separate documents: technical drawings, legal contracts, purchase orders, RFIs and schedules.
New wiring: Construction and the Internet: Builders go online 01/15/2000; The Economist Copyright© 2000 The Economist; Source: World Reporter™- FT McCarthy
Lastly building owners are trying to minimize the waste that they inevitably pay for with the construction process we have in the U.S.
"...inefficiencies, mistakes and delays account for $200 billion of the $650 billion spent on construction in America every year."
New wiring: Construction and the Internet: Builders go online 01/15/2000; The Economist Copyright© 2000 The Economist; Source: World Reporter™- FT McCarthy
They need to manage the lifecycle costs of their buildings after construction. They need a three-dimensional, digital model that accurately stores the original design of the building. As they revise the building's use, they need to analyze, simulate, save and track those changes in a digital format.
Paper drawings and CAD entities (lines, arcs, circles, dimensions) are not going provide the solution they need.
If you click on the title to this blog you will be able to download a whitepaper that I wrote on Building Information Modeling (BIM). CSI-Chicago and Association of Licensed Architects (ALA) published it in their respective magazines over the last year.
Click here to get BIM Whitepaper
Autodesk Revit Building is a software package that designs, analyzes and simulates a building using BIM methodology. Autodesk Revit Building
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