Building Information Modeling

Shook’s culture is one of collaboration and cooperation. This culture provides us with the ability to listen to our clients, subcontractors and vendors in an effort to discover the best means possible to provide the team with an outstanding construction experience. This ability to listen enables us to maintain successful working relationships with clients, subcontractors and vendors while implementing cutting-edge technology on our projects.

One such innovation is the use of Building Information Modeling (BIM). Our team has extensive project experience and clearly understands the value that BIM can add to the outcome of a project. Our team’s expertise will benefit the project’s planning and construction management process - from the pre-bid phase through the commissioning phase. This is accomplished by executing a properly guided team approach and by harvesting and transforming the data embedded in BIM models into valuable information. BIM can be utilized through the full life cycle of a project:

Planning:

• Automated Quantity take-offs in which whatever limited information is available is fed into the model, assumptions are then made to fill out the model and then quantities (and therefore pricing) can be spit out.

Design:

• Visualization for the owner to picture their future project
• Laser Scan Surveying (renovations, poor or no as-builts)
• Design Estimating – efficient quantity take-offs that can then be applied to cost histories
• Clash Detection of different system

• Field Layout – planning, site logistics, visualize building footprint relative to lay-down area
• Field Visualization – think pre-fab, an image of a virtual rack and then the rack as built in the field
• Trade Coordination – in field clash detection, conflict resolution
• Scheduling – sequencing, trade coordination, visualization of the progress of the job
• Shop Drawing – no potential for information lost in translation because models of designer and contractors “talk to each other.” (design to construction translation)
• O + M Manuals – again no opportunity for information lost in translation because model of contractor and facility’s maintenance “talk to each other.” (construction to maintenance translation)

• Tying the BIM Model into a CAFM (computer aided facilities management system) for the ongoing operations and maintenance of the facility.