3 Processes for managing entire construction projects life cycle (DESIGN +BUILD+OPERATE) by SketchUp I have used Sketchup in the way that most people do not do. Because, I am in the construction industry, my work is to use Sketchup to promote collaboration between our clients (owners), my consulting team and our sub-contractors. The collaboration can be done in 3 ways. 1. PIECE-BASED ASSEMBLY MODELING I call this process Piece-Based Assembly Modeling. This process is very simple. Firstly, changing all data in our purchasing department into components within Sketchup. All specification, cost, time, and installation manual and so on will be embed into these components. The key is to plan ahead about the breakdown items of Bill of Materials (BOM) so that after I finished assembling the project prototypes I can get very precise BOM in the form of very detailed breakdown cost with more accurate than ever before. Imagine you can count the number of nuts and bolts if you want to...and I think it is awesome. 2. 3D CONSTRUCTION MODELING This process is to use the finished project prototype to be verified by all stakeholders who are involving in the project and let them be able to exchange their ideas. I believe in this words 90% of a construction project is to talk and exchange ideas. My teams are trained to have a quick hand skill so that in the meeting between owners,construction management teams and contractors, they can move, rotate and scale all components in the model in the way that all people want.The objective of the meeting is to get the project prototype in which when it goes to the construction phase it will not change!. To do this is easy, firstly show the owner the prototype and walk him through the model as if the owner playing game. The owner can change whatever he wants to....do not let him makes change when things in the real world are done..it is awful. The second step, is to do 4D. The construction management team and contractors will be responsible to simulate the construction project in the virtual environment. 4D is to link time with components, so I put components that are constructed in week 1 into the layer-week 1 and put components in the week 2 into the layer-week 2. After finishing planning in the virtual environment, then making seances of all layers starting from week 1 to the last week of the construction. Play the animation and see the animation of the 4D construction. If nothing wrong....then we are ready to move to the construction phase. Before we are going to the construction phase, all required resources will be arranged by using 4D information which is reported directly from the project prototype. The reported information will allow the purchasing team to understand the need of the construction team so that the supply of all materials will be accurate so that it will not make the construction delay. Google Drive is also applied to promote the collaboration between the owner, consulting and construction team. This cloud technology along with the accurate 3D construction model will now change the way we manage the construction project forever. 3. FACILITY MANAGEMENT MODEL In the past, the owner would receive a long list of paper based construction drawings after a construction project was finished. They (Construction drawings) were less in detail and difficult to change as time goes by. In the past few years, Building Information Modeling or BIM has been applied to manage buildings and facilities just like Facility Management (FM) tools. This BIM software has proven to be very useful. However, because of the difficulty to implement, BIM and FM software were not famous in today work place. I am trying to use this simple 3D Modeling program (Sketchup) to integrate with operation and maintenance information of the wastewater treatment. The result is the Facility Management Model. The technique is quite simple. Firstly, embed data which are required of operate and maintenance work. This information is mostly informed by the owners and operators. The operator will used this easy-to-use 3d modeling program integrated with Google Drive to manage the system.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 02:18:19 +0000
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