How to decide to BIM in the Cloud Bob Smith, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, CSU; building SMART alliance member working on Standards Alan Redmond, MCIS, MCOB Sr. Lecturer, Design Economics, Anglia Ruskin University; bSa, C-FIRE © 2012 Autodesk

Class Summary 

Over a hundred owners, architects, engineers, contractors, and software developers engaged in a more than 2-year academic study to identify and prioritize Building Information Modeling (BIM) approaches to cloudbased computing.  This knowledge was then applied to support a BIM project, oriented to Autodesk® Revit®, for a large organization that budgeted for a 3-month project. At Eco-Build 2011  Our BIM cloud approach was completed under budget in just 3 days! 

Using practice guidelines from the National Building Information Modeling Standards 2.0 -Example templates will be available to attendees

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Learning Objectives At the end of this class, you will be able to: 1. Orient yourself to the world wide BIM community rapidly and effectively; 2. Locate Key tools and perspectives (NBIMS Standards) you can actually apply to leverage smart solutions to big design problems; 3. Pilot test a project using a BIMStorm Cloud strategy; 4. Know how to apply Autodesk’s vast network to your strategy; 5.

Pull it all together for a specific future project.

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Who we are: Bob Smith, Ph.D. 

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Professor Emeritus, CSU (25 years – decision support systems; strategic planning at Fed, State, and Local levels); Currently Chair of Green Energy Committee, City of Huntington Beach, CA, Environmental Board; Director of Resiliency Engineering at Tall Tree Labs; SG Consortium Lead on the NIBS’s NBIMS 2.0 Implementation Committee – LoD and Information Architecture; C-FIRE Council. [email protected]

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Alan Redmond, MRICS, MCIOB 

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RICS – Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors; Chartered Institute of Building Council on Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate - NIBS (C-FIRE) MARS City – NASA and NIBS; STEM Integration and Resilience Engineering demonstrations; [email protected] .

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Full Disclosure 1. Focus on BIM Cloud Diagrams, Maps & Layers for geospatial context and professional conflict resolution early in the process:

2. What we are NOT addressing: (See other AU Classes) 1. technical security topics; 2. Legal litigation topics; 3. Community goal alignments and mediation; 4. Ideal standards development for CLOUD BIM; 5. perceptual details of design graphics and the evolution of BIM ideas over the past decade.

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Learning Objective 1 – the world BIM community 1. A 

short personal history and context

You and your team want to pilot test doing BIM on a Cloud for a real or hypothetical Client;

Alan’s surveys in Ireland indicated several years ago that a market exists for collaborative BIM on a cloud 3. Plans were also underway to publish a NBIMS 2.0 with 3 major topics 4. Use these Best Practice Guidance to help your team SCOPE the problems, define your roles and relationships, and formalize a process. 2.

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BUT the NBIMS 2.0 Guidance largely ignores Cloud topics and related key project boundaries and hurdles;

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How Alan and Bob got here – with BIM Templates* 

from ~1988 thinking about extending CAD files to knowledge bases for 2014-2016 city sustainability design (Post Sandy….) 1.

2008-2009 Dublin Institute of Technology’s CITA Grant

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2010 Eco-Build: Connect with Deke, Kimon - and the California Community College database;

Dec. 2011 Eco-Build: Apply research to a specific building during BIMStorm ; 4. Jan. 2012 NBIMS 2.0 Ballot Submittal for a bim XML; 5. Jun. 2012 Framing the Lessons Learned for the new NBIMS 3.0 Team; 6. Aug. 2012 Adapting Owners Performance Requirements Tools; 7. Sept. Co-Designing a Smart City Building Management system for California; 8. Ongoing MARS CITY explorations around NASA and NIBS; 9. Oct. 2012 AIA 2030 (and Smart Building Management Certification) – AIA 2013. 3.

* BIM and BIMStorm Templates

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What Alan learned from the 100+ surveys:

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The architecture that Alan developed for Cloud BIM

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Objective 2 1. Locating 1.

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Key tools and Perspectives

NBIMS Standards you

can actually apply to leverage smart solutions to big problems; Package the NBIMS 2.0 sandwich between two slices of “common sense” maps BIM Forum - http://bimforum.org/ Fiatech – www.fiatech.org BIM Score and BIM project tracking of results over time http://www.bimscore.com/ Major university programs in Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management. The Built Environment; Dozens of BIM Blogs

2. Ask

your company’s CIO and Operations Manager about customizing a company specific BIM

Manual like AECOM, HOK, DRM, the VA, GSA, major universities, and many other organizations © 2012 Autodesk

Key Steps 1.Using

Revit BIM and Building Information Modeling Information Exchange Standards; Show URL to www.NationalBIMStandard.org and sign in

2.Cloud

computing and Collaborative Building Modeling using the “Ecosystem” approach; 3.Physical Buildings and Digital Building Modeling Distinctions 4. Roles of adaptive tracking and fast learning 5.Conscious design of a “BIG Little Design Room”

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National BIM Standard version 2.0 Table of Contents

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NBIMS 2.0 Table of Contents – part 2

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Now – Customize the Strategy and Tactics to your own organization – being careful to consider Cloud Computing – such as AECOM has for XED

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Our Standard provides graphic support…

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And lots of “Lessons Learned” in Template Forms (but of course needs some customizing for your org. culture)

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Alan synthesized parts of PxP with the Cloud Issues – Bob modified – these Visio files available

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Other BIM Community sources – BIM Forum

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Other BIM community sources – FIATECH.org

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Learning Objective 3: 1.What

is a BIMStorm?

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long have BIMStorms been available? 3.What are the advantages and disadvantages of a BIMStorm Pilot? 4.What will it cost me and my organization? 5. How do I find out more?

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Speaker Greg Hale describes additional Clouds 

Within the last year or so several platforms that offer some project integration via cloud based services have emerged:  Onuma Systems + Fusion + GIS (we use this)  CSG Revit Model Hosting  BIM 9  Advance 2000  ASite  Autodesk 360 (Buzzsaw rebranded)  GTeam

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Why we selected OS to work with Autodesk (tm) Revit Architecture 

Cloud BIM pioneer;  Cost (Free for Alan; $45 a month for Bob);  Convenience;  Functionality;  Pilot worked;  Training and Video;  Revit 12 Plug-in consultant (Amber H.);  BIMStorms are an excellent opportunity to test ideas and get feedback from a wide range of professionals from different disciplines and interests. © 2012 Autodesk

Your Revit work station can exchange data with OS in a BIMStorm Cloud because:

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Revit and BIMStorm Workflow Basics

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Strategic Roadmaps from NBIMS 2.0 – Project Execution Planning (PxP) – PennState – John Messner - Overview

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The Client – California Community College (CCC)  71

million square feet of community colleges statewide – 2.75 million students – 112 California locations;  One of 5,200 buildings in the California Community College (CCC) Facility Condition Assessment program;  Survey in November 2010 indicated graphically on a facility condition map that the MCO Facility Building 4200 had a Facility Condition Index (FCI) of greater than 10% and thus should be demolished. © 2012 Autodesk

MiraCosta College is one of 73 Districts – Demolish Building 4002?

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Creating a BIM of “Facility 4200” Retrofit and 3D – 4D – 5D models  Revit

2012 model developed at a low level of detail  Project created in OS + FUSION + GIS Cloud  Problem

to solve: use this Cloud platform to report retrofit costs vs. demolition costs to Client (Fred Harris, VP, CCC);

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appropriate party tools to develop 3D to 5D models with cost and performance data: Google Earth, DDS, Vasari EA, Synchro, Costos, Palisades Risk Management © 2012 Autodesk

Step 1 – Access FUSION – locate target building

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Step 2 – Understand the building’s Condition Index

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Step 3 – Correct FUSION errors in size, room shapes

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Step 4 – Keep working on getting the missing files

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Step 5 – Access DSS for improved 3D modeling

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Step 6 – Bring in Vasari for Energy Analysis per Roadmap

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Step 7 – Bring in Synchro for 4D

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Step 8 Bring in Costos for 5D analysis and modeling

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Step 9: Scrutinize the Cost Data and Simulate Options

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Step 10: Run Risk Analysis and record results

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Verify File Size Differences (127 x) and Speed

‘File size of IFC’

‘File size of bimXML’

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Wrap Up the BIMStorm in a Cloud ExperimentSynthesize findings what bimXML and IFC allows

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Revit Users Support in BIMStorm – part 1 - Exports

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Revit Users Support – Part 2 – Install Revit – Vasari Plug ins

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Revit Users Support – Part 3

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Revit Users Support – Reverse Direction of Data Flows

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Revit Users Support – Known Issues and Collaboration avenues between OS and Autodesk

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Objective 4 1.Where

Autodesk’s vast network fits into your strategy:

 Autodesk

on the Cloud;  Autodesk REVIT user groups (i.e. SCRUG);  Autodesk University;  BIM and CLOUD search yields  *Part

of this will be anticipating other content at the AU 2012 Sessions

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Objective 4-1 Continued

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Brian Mackey (The Revit Geek) on AEC Magazine article by Carl Bass, Autodesk CEO 

http://bdmackeyconsulting.com/revit_2014/  In a recent post from AEC Magazine covering a speech from Autodesk CEO Carl Bass, “Death of releases?  So there may not be a 2014 release, which raises all sorts of questions. 

The company’s decision to concentrate more on its breadth of applications and increased reach with mobile products

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The push is now on omnipresence of data, workflow and the computational and optimisation benefits of cloud. © 2012 Autodesk

Objective 5: Pulling it all together – for a future Revit Cloud project

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Question early assumptions: Role of Standards in BIM & CLOUD performance: Standards and templates can be used to leverage smart solutions to big problems: Examples of how to leverage specific standards to wicked problems: Summary and future work: AU 2012 - Deciding to BIM in a

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Our Focus – Standards that Support Your Thinking =NIBS 3.0 Needs & Hopes Explained

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NEEDED: Simultaneous Planning for Sequential Analysis for Decision Making: Towards a “Linear” Process Map 

Describe your project and your Work Station 

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Navigate to NIBS 2.0 and get access to Project Execution Planning templates (MS Visio- for now) Navigate to OS, Log In, Open FUSION Studio Select MiraCosta Campus, Building 4200     

Create a New Project using your name-CloudBIM Navigate to relevant building (Facility 4200) Review Building Settings and related data Install Revit 2012 Plug-in and related 3rd party applications Access and Apply:       

Google Earth and geo positioning and geo referencing Energy Analysis –Vasari Three D Views – DDS Schedule – Timing- Synchro FM – Cost – COSTOS Risk Assessments - Palisade Risk Analysis Use OS Reporting system to provide selected results. © 2012 Autodesk

Suggested “Rules of BIM Cloud Project Success”  Does

your team knows what “BIM” means?

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you use “the Cloud” to align BIM Execution Plans & Models with knowable realities and wicked problems? 

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you have “standardized” process maps & quality tests?

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you worked thru the most problematic strategic issues?

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Cloud strategic thinking and rapid collaboration is more UNSTRUCTURED  Process

Maps of formalized linear processes will not likely fit;  Creative designs and counter-designs will create useful fiction;  Ad hoc processes need to be modeled, and as tasks become clear, then formalized;  Overly bureaucratic early design stages will be brittle and likely dysfunctional;  Next: Examples of two kinds of Process Maps:  Linear

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Workflow Modeling Types: Linear – Sequential OR Linear Communication (Bureaucratic or Professional)

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Ad Hoc workflow (or a loose BIMStorm) – NO Sequence, just flows of Information (Look at the Arrow Heads)

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Help add content to NBIMS 3.0 – Start with issues in 2.0 Watch the Video http://www.nationalbimstandard.org/introduction.php

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ISO Standards, if done right, can drive the virtual (Yellow) process and product into physical results available to you via Catalogues

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GSA and Federal BIM Mandates 

The GSA, however, has mandated the use of BIM for spatial program validation to be submitted prior to final concept presentation on all its projects starting from 2007. 

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The GSA has provided more details about how to create this Spatial Program Validation BIM for its projects in a special Guide that is available on its website.

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Thinking ahead about needed BIM Retrofit Markets Performance metrics- be clear about building performance, NOT process or hardware – Ontolog BSP Wiki and Toby Considine’s points; 2. General – owners performance requirements now much easier to capture with 3D visualizations once we are on a Cloud; 3. OPR Tool for initial assessment of owner – investor values ( and regulatory dynamics) 4. NIBS’s Council on Finance – Insurance – Real Estate (C-FIRE) Risk of Climate Change’s Sea Level 1.

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Learning Objectives At the end of this class, you will be able to: 1. Orient yourself to the world wide BIM community rapidly and effectively; 2. Locate Key tools and perspectives (NBIMS Standards) you can actually apply to leverage smart solutions to big design problems; 3. Pilot test a project using a BIMStorm Cloud strategy; 4. Know how to apply Autodesk’s vast network to your strategy; 5.

Pull it all together for a specific future project.

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Session Feedback

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Thank you for participating 

Questions?  

Bob – [email protected] Alan - [email protected]

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