In this webinar, Bruce will focus on how BIM and Lean combine to improve both Design & Construction outcomes.
In Design owners/customers ask what am I getting for my fees, when will I see the results and will the Design process yield innovative solutions to improve delivery of my products & service or enhance my firm's brand awareness. In construction an owner/customer wants the builder to reduce risk and provide certainty.
To meet these goals and value proposition many different strategies have been adopted prior to Covid pandemic. The project delivery process ( DBB, DB or IPD) has been evolving to face the challenges of today’s AEC Building projects. Bruce will review from his over 40 year experience how BIM and Lean are aligning to face the challenges of remote work, social distancing and other consequences of the pandemic. He will discuss how Covid has accelerated innovation in project delivery methodology and has driven Lean & BIM closer together for improved project outcomes.
BIM historically has provided benefits to projects primarily to major trades MEPF, Structural Steel and others. However, with the advent of COVID requirements for social distancing and remote work, project teams have sought and found remote collaboration solutions essential to support effective remote collaboration and social distancing protection for both designers and builders alike. This also has benefited from reliable cloud SAS platforms like AutoDesk BIM 360, Trimble Connect and Procore. And on the horizon Consumer grade AR & VR hardware & software.
However, up to last year BIM had few standards and was thought of as simply a”Brighter Light Table” to seek out clashing geometry, it was rarely used by either designers or builders as a project management tool either in design or construction. With the availability of cloud based collaboration platforms BIM software developers are responding to create more standardized BIM tools and processes. These evolving planning processes and tools that have their origin in BIM execution plans (BIMex).
In the past, creating a BIMex was a long process that amounted to a static checklist and, more often than not, ended up on a shelf and never referred to after its creation. Now with applications like “Plannerly” we create a living document that defines a plan for project design deliverables from the design phase through to construction and occupancy. With this documentation of the BIM process, teams in early phases can refer to Levels of Development (LOD) of a projects components and create conditions of satisfaction (CoS) for all those upstream users of the BIM data, milestones can be established and effectively managed using the Last Planner System®️ and other Lean tools to provide data transparency and continuously improve or remove waste from all project phases.
The Webinar will explore:
Evolving BIM Standardization with ISO 19650 and a unified approach to BIM information management including discussion of the establishment of the Common Data Environment (CDE)
Model management and workflow strategies from the BIM information contained in the CDE.
The concept of a Digital Twin and life cycle of the BIM Model and the data it contains to manage the Building throughout its life.
The benefits of current cloud software platforms for communication, upstream data use and other beneficial outcomes of an integration of Lean & BIM
How BIM & Lean combine to make project controls most effective for agile project teams by making the work visual in simulations & prototypes
Suggested “Best Practices” for the workflow of virtual project management within a CDE based process
The future of AI-ML and AR VR and MR in Design, Construction and Occupancy.
Bruce C. Cousins AIA
Architect, Lean Sensei
With over 40 years as a practicing architect, Bruce Cousins AIA, has both designed and lead design/build for mixed use, healthcare and residential projects. He has coached high performing project teams in setting up collocated workspace, implementing Target Value Design, aligning interests and building collaborative trust-based project teams -- both in preconstruction and through the construction phase of a projects. As a senior leader He has established and managed Lean and BIM construction departments for both Architects and ENR 100 Contractors. He has written extensively about Lean for design phase management and project production planning for commercial building projects.
Cousins is a Registered Architect in New Mexico, Colorado and a certified trainer for AGC-Lean CM. He holds a Master of Architecture from University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor of Arts, Urban Studies from the University of Denver.
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AGC recognizes this webinar as quality Lean Construction content and it qualifies for 1.5 hours of AGC CE credit. All attendees can forward the receipt of the webinar to AGC and have the webinar count towards renewing their CM-Lean certificate.
