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Integrated Project Delivery:  Intelligence by the AEC community  

Resources:

Beyond IPD


Future of Construction





Building 3D:


Intelligence one
 step at a time.





Development of intelligence as an information resource to integrate project delivery:
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We know how it's built.  Crucial to the development of our documents, accurate details and information that support the design and agency requirements are the most valuable intellectual legacy of our profession.  These elements are incorporated into blocks and assemblies stored in our library, assigned by the professional in charge. The basic building blocks are established from design and field experience and stored as 3D files.


2
This information is controlled and managed.  That's our responsibility.  All the information is overviewed through an online management portal that is available to the team at all times.  Design and production is directed in real time by the responsible professional without any need for manipulating software. Clients are able to see project visual progress and not just the bills.


3
A project database is information that has value.  It is valuable to us as well as to our clients and the lifetime of their project solutions.  Whether these are 3D digital constructs using parametric software, 2D cad plans, Photoshop graphics, CSI specifications, financial projections,  code and agency analysis, engineering calculations, design material illustrations, LEED submittals, Form Z renderings, or any thing else, it creates an information set that is irreplaceable. This creates models for future solutions as well as a means to feed back modeling case studies for that building type. Each firm builds on its own information base that is readily accessible to its teams and incorporates feedback.

An open and flexible platform, the web model, not the software model, is central to this process.


4
Communication is crucial to project management. Especially accurate and timely communication that is secure and in real-time. Information should be ported quickly over the web. Communication should be intuitive, accurately recorded, and available to the entire team. Collaboration is supported with central information management by the responsible professional who is overseeing the team.


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Feedback from the jobsite is important. This information in the form of reports, photos, realtime videos, shop drawings, construction refinements, cost tracking and so forth, must be incorporated into the database. This informs future projects with accurate construction information and predictability.


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