COLLECTUS USE CASE: AEC Teams Proactively Deliver DATA-RICH BIMs for Post-Occupancy Digital Twin Needs
Overview: This use case illustrates the proactive application of Collectus by architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) teams as an established standard for Building Information Models (BIMs) to significantly enhance project deliverables. Emphasizing a collaborative approach, the AEC teams utilize Collectus to ensure seamless integration across all project phases—design, documentation, construction, and post-construction—while strictly adhering to the Collectus BIM Execution Plan (BEP).
Objective: This strategic usage is specifically aimed at crafting superior BIM deliverables that not only effectively employs real-time collaboration among the AEC BIM teams through their project scope, but also facilitates the harvesting of BIM data into the owner’s digital twin for optimal facility management post occupancy.
Process:
1. BIM Creation and Standardization:
Initial Development: At project kick-off, AEC teams collaboratively develop the initial BIMs, integrating architectural designs with structural and MEP systems in Revit. Collectus ensures all components adhere to standardized data parameters aligned with the project's BEP.
Data Framework Establishment: The BEP is embedded into Collectus from the outset, establishing a consistent data framework for model creation, data management, and compliance monitoring, specifically aimed at enhancing future facility management through the digital twin.
2. Continuous Integration and BEP Compliance:
Model Updates and Checks: As the BIMs evolve, each discipline updates their components using Collectus to verify each update against the BEP, ensuring model organization and integrity.
Compliance Monitoring: Continuous compliance monitoring by Collectus identifies and resolves any discrepancies, ensuring BIMs adhere to the execution strategy and is suitable for post-occupancy applications.
3. Stakeholder Review and Feedback Incorporation:
Access and Review: BIMs are intended to be made accessible to stakeholders, allowing for real-time Collectus review and feedback. This stage is critical for incorporating changes and finalizing the data, all while ensuring compliance with the BEP.
Data Extraction: Collectus facilitates the extraction of specific data compliance reports for stakeholder reviews, aligning feedback with BEP requirements and the digital twin data needs.
4. Final Adjustments and BEP-Compliant Documentation:
Final Revisions: Necessary adjustments are made based on comprehensive stakeholder feedback, with all changes revalidated through Collectus to ensure ongoing compliance with the BEP.
Project Delivery: Upon final approval, Collectus data-rich BIMs are BEP compliant and ready for efficient transition into the owner’s digital twin for ongoing facility management.
Outcome: The AEC teams deliver a fully integrated, BEP-compliant BIM, optimizing the construction process and enhancing post-occupancy facility management. The systematic use of Collectus minimizes errors and aligns the project with defined BEP standards, ensuring the BIM is primed for effective integration into the digital twin.
Benefits:
Enhanced Coordination: Improves communication across disciplines, maintaining BEP compliance.
Efficiency in Updates and Approvals: Reduces turnaround times for design updates and stakeholder approvals.
Increased Accuracy: Increased BIM accuracy, significantly reducing errors and omissions during construction.
Efficient Project Handover: Facilitates a smooth transition comprehensive, BEP-compliant BIM for facility O+M needs.
Project Success: Demonstrates how Collectus can effectively support varied projects, fostering cooperation among AEC teams and ensuring that project execution adheres strictly to the BEP for optimal integration into the digital twin.
This refined case study narrative ensures that the strategic use of Collectus not only enhances the immediate project delivery but also supports the owner's long-term operational and maintenance strategies through the digital twin framework.