Maria Lennox has an impressive resume. Prior to joining Datacubist in February 2022 to lead the company’s BIM services, she spent several years as an architect and several more in giant structure corporations. His first move to NCC Sweden, where he had time to expand how structural corporations can take full advantage of BIM. Lennox then became BIM Director at SRV in Finland.
At NCC, Lennox first assumed that there was no challenge with BIM knowledge: groups create models, other corporations use the models, but the truth was much more complex. Together with their small team of BIM experts, they have developed all kinds of use. instances for load estimators, design managers, site staff, as well as rules for designers to cater to the needs of structure corporations.
After a while, the team realized it was a futile effort, offering guidance and engineers and architects to ask them to upload data for their use cases, as Lennox explains: “You can’t expect other people to upload data that they’re not responsible for. They are not interested in the knowledge that a construction engineer wants to identify on a schedule. Even if you ask them to provide concrete data about the state of the model, and they do it once, it will never be updated again. .
“It’s exactly the same with everything else, like classifications or the ability to take an object to buy it, or quote the estimate, are other types of categories or needs. You just can’t depend on it.
In 2016, Lennox started employing Simplebim in projects and found that his team could control the internal knowledge of the models, so instead of asking other people or designers to fix their models or upload more information, the resolution was the opposite: ask as little as you can imagine and minimize expectations!
Instead of looking to have 15 to 25 non-unusual fields of knowledge, the team got by with two or three. Based on this concept, his team added everything else for their own use cases. By creating knowledge and managing their own knowledge, they can only retain style data in IFCs. Lennox refers to this procedure as establishing internal “BIM knowledge factories” to automate the maintenance of IFC data layers. In a typical month at SRV, Lennox explained that there would typically be between 500 and 900 IFC styles coming from all disciplines, automatically controlled through the system, creating styles that made sense for structure teams.
In today’s global BIM, even with BIM criteria and quality with Solibri, backed by contractual obligations and national criteria, this is still a deplorable process. The simple answer would be to settle for the fact that a better overall cannot be achieved. However, there are teams that can make sense of madness, as Lennox explains, “This is a big plus, because, after a little work, you can know it yourself. “
Simplebim provides manual and automatic strategies for processing knowledge distributed across many types of asset sets or filtering out too much information. Just create a new set of homes in Simplebim and normalize it in this new layer, clearly checking if critical knowledge is missing. Then let the software select the quantities.
The first step is to normalize the data houses to enrich the values and equipment of elements to be outlined as assemblies to be used downstream. Obviously, if you have 900 consistent templates per month, even with one team, it’s not possible, so Simplebim has a scripting capability that drives the creation of these.
In Dropbox or OneDrive, you only want two folders: the “In” folder and the “Out” folder. By dragging and dropping IFC in the “In” folder, Simplebim will run its automation, enrich the IFC and save IFC to date in the “Out” folder. They can be architectural, structural, electrical, plumbing or MEP models.
I think in structured corporations there are a lot of internal BIM models of potential waste because other people don’t know how to use it, it’s too difficult.
Templates can then be loaded into Simplebim for refinement, such as sections created, new teams created, and even more tactics to create complicated “rope teams. “
In an ideal world, Simplebim advises you to create the same teams in your templates, as this makes them much less difficult to use. You can, for example, upload a group of “pre-made elements”, which makes the user’s programming life much easier. the prefabricated elements.
“From my point of view, I think in structured corporations there are a lot of internal BIM styles potentially wasted because other people don’t know how to use it, it’s too complicated,” says Lennox. The knowledge itself is very complicated and is adjusted both times and both. When you transfer to another project, you get someone else’s files, knowing that fields of knowledge may change. You deserve not to want to be a true expert, but you deserve to be able to be the site engineer. . We just want to be able to use the style temporarily and temporarily and move on instead of being a BIM expert. And that’s all we seek to make imaginable with this [Simplebim] to make it as undeniable as it is imaginable for a person.
That’s when I missed Bruce Lee and his philosophy of fluency and adaptability to replace: “Clear your mind, have no form. Formless, like water. If you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now the water can flow, or it can collapse. Be water, my friend. It’s much bigger with Lee’s delivery.
However, it is vital to realize that many of the clutters caused in BIM workflows, especially at IFC, are similar to labeling errors and missing data. By accepting the nature of the humans who created the models that run in their direction, Simplebim can transform the most difficult problems. torrent of non-aligned IFCs in calm waters by automating model naming, labeling and bundling, and building that logical layer.
Using Simplebim’s hub and scripts is a vital skill to take care of a large number of models with a higher transaction point and get reliable popular models at the other end. Centralize knowledge control and automation eliminates hard work.
BIM-based assignments come with increasingly overwhelming delivery/documentation style requirements. Some are over three hundred pages long and written by other people who have more to do with BIM theory than the practicality of what is useful. The allocation plus. The challenge is that they come from clients treated through academics. The answer is to adopt an open popular deliverable and be like water.
This is the two-part article about Simplebim.
Read Part 1 here
The structure of the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in Somerset, England, is all the rage, with the country caught off guard in generating its own electrical power during the recent force crisis. It is one of the largest infrastructure projects in the UK at the moment.
The new nuclear power plant will supply 3,200 MWe, enough to power six million homes. Although announced in 2010, the structure only started in 2017 and has suffered additional delays due to Covid-19, with the most recent estimate that it will charge £26bn for full until 2027.
After testing, Bylor (a joint venture between Bouygues Travaux Publics (TP) and Laing O’Rourke) chose Simplebim to manage the housing structure of the estimated 30,000 concrete pouring of the project’s 50 million rebar.
Despite thousands of IFC files, Simplebim automates the cleaning, mapping, and structuring of knowledge. This allows the Bylor team to wait for quantities of curtains, as they should. It allowed the team to more successfully plan resources and manage supply chain and logistical issues. This is vital because it also corresponds to how Bylor is paid, that is, according to the number of walls, slabs, ceilings, etc. that produces. The ability to quantify and track each task drives billing, as well as quality management, which is incredibly vital in this type of facility.
By keeping all engineering knowledge at IFC, assignment knowledge is successfully combined and in a format that can be reused to fit daily activity on site. result of many concrete pourings or discrete structure processes. Simplebim provides Bylor with the team to break down the style at a granular point to outline knowledge about how it will be built. In addition, if adjustments are desired due to delays or structure clutters, these can be highlighted and updated without problems. All activities within Simplebim are recorded, so there is a complete history that can help analyze beyond performance, allowing groups to be informed beyond experiences.
“It’s not necessarily about doing something new. It’s about making it more efficient, more scalable, with fewer resources and, in the end, more flexible,” said Terry Parkinson, senior digital engineer at Bylor. “Simplebim allows us to adjust and refine the data to our processes. It provides us with a checkpoint we’ve never had before.