CEE320: Seminar on Integrated Facility Engineering:

Introduction

Martin Fischer, Instructor

Big Idea: Design organizations and processes that make building projects sustainable. Use the computer to model, analyze, and visualize project alternatives.

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Agenda

• Case examples for 3 levels of VDC• A challenge for your

– For this quarter– For your time at Stanford– For your career

• Acronyms:– VDC: Virtual Design and Construction– POP Modeling: Product, Organization, Process

Modeling

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Design-Construction Practice à Goals

>= 50% of supply and sales

SomeGlobalization

Better: > 20% better than baseline

PoorSustainability

Good – betterGoodSafety

+- Very small+- BigFunction

+- 1-5%+- 5-30%Cost

1 y Design< 6 mos Construct

+- 1-5%

1-6 y Design~18 mos Construct+- 5-100%

Schedule

Goal: 2015Practice: 2004

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Will we get there with current practice?

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Construct in 6?

Photos Courtesy Fluor

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CIFE Interactive (iRoom)

• Multiple screens• Multiple views

– Product, Organization, Process

– Function, Form, Behaviors

• Unified, yet flexible control– Multiple screens,

applications

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Vision for Civil Engineering• Design

– Buildings, and– Corresponding processes and organizations

• For– Best use by today’s and future users

• With– Most efficient use of resources

• Considering– The triple bottom line: economy, ecology, equity

• Using computational methods– To model, simulate, analyze, and visualize the design and

its fitness for purpose• To

– Communicate design options to all relevant stakeholders,– And generate a clear execution plan

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HOW: VDC Levels1. Visualization (assume manual integration)

•Routinely model and visualize all “expensive” elements of the product, organization and process

•Get input from all stakeholders when it matters•Manage with model-based methods• Incrementally enhance current business goals•Requires (possible with) project justification

2. Integration (computer based)•Product, organization & process models “interoperate”, i.e.,

notify, highlight, control, propagate, parameterize•Single data entry • Incrementally enhance business goals•Requires corporate multi-project support

3. Automation•Automated design and (CNC) manufacturing•Do high-quality work really fast all the time•Enables breakthrough project performance •Requires corporate multi-project support

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Disney’s California Adventure™: We’ll just change it later.

“Through 4D modeling we were able to visualize concurrent activities at a macro level.”Project Manager, Owner

4D model courtesy of WDI R&D, Glendale, CA

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How to build the roller coaster?

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4D model of Paradise Pier

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Benefits of 3D/4D models on Paradise Pier• Preconstruction

– Unprecedented stakeholder involvement (400 in 2 months)

– More precise specifications

• Bidding– Bids within 2% of each other– Contractors understood scope and challenges

within 48 hours, could use rest of time to work on bid

• Construction– Contributed to reduced change orders (with

potential for further reduction)

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Sharing of building information models (product model exchange) during schematic design of HUT600

Mechanical Designer

StructuralEngineer

ArchitectGeneral Contractor

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Design and Analysis Tools in HUT600 Project

15Calvin Kam / CIFE - Stanford University

Decision Support by Visualization and VR Technology

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displacement cooling mixed cooling

Am I selecting the right systems?

Virtual building model enabled CFD simulation provided the decision basis to select the more expensive displacement cooling system.

Snapshots courtesy of Granlund, Helsinki, Finland

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Parametrically designed and detailed restrooms for refurbishment projects at Heathrow airport

Snapshots courtesy of MACE, London, UK

How long will the restrooms be out of commission?

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Automation -> prefabrication -> quality & economy

Construction: 8 wks -> 3.5 wksDesign time/effort reduced by 75-85%

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POP Modeling and Visualization

• Product Model 3D Model (ADT/ArchiCAD)

• Process Model

• Organization Model }} SimVision Model

• Product + Process Model 4D Model (CP4D)

3D ADT/ArchiCAD SimVision CP4D

Schedule (P3, MSP)

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Stanford CEE 243 mini-internships

• Obayashi– Tokyo main train station track move

• Swinerton– Template hospital

• Walt Disney Imagineering– Demolish, rebuild Space Mountain

• Webcor– Roof construction for new Renzo Piano

Academy of Sciences building

• CCC– Ammonia Plant

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Method to Achieve Breakthrough Goals

Controllable factors - Visualization phase:– Modeled Scope: VDC models to build; factors to consider– Managed Scope: model-based management methods– Organization design strategy– Coordination activity– Prediction basis: computer-based models– Design versions

Controllable factors - Integration phase:– Integration focus: VDC models

Controllable factors - Automation phase:– Automation focus: design, fabrication tasks

àMeasurable process improvement– Field material delivery– Decision latency (Decision-making promptness) – Response latency (Decision-making no earlier than necessary)– Field-generated Requests for Information– Rework volume

à2015 Breakthrough goals