April 2012 through present Lucrosol working with Hensel Phelps Construction Company successfully provided Intel Corporation Virtual Design & Construction and Building Information Management services for their Ocotillo manufacturing plant in Chandler Arizona.
Every eighteen months Intel replaces, or upgrades their semiconductor fabrication plants worldwide. This is referred to as Tool Install. The reader should accept that virtually all facts surrounding this project is considered Intel Confidential. As such exacting details can at times be elusive. That aside the numbers provided are staggering. The production schedules and trade subcontractor accomplishments indeed impressive by any standards.
Success was measured using several metrics.
Project completion schedule expectation was exceeded
Cost reductions were documented
Trade Subcontractor production improvement was recorded
Additional Value was added with:
Innovations,
1 Popout tracking 9 Automated Clash Detection graphic (Ninja)
2 Facility Point of connection tracking 10 Automated assembly of coordination files
3 Laser Scanning 11 Automated segregation of coordination files
4 Laser Scan graphic tracking 12 Developed 3D model into Laser scan method
5 Laser Scan fulfillment system 13 Sequenced schedule into 3D visualizations
6 Creation of routing zones, cubing 14 Developed computer performance enhancements
7 Programmatic Equipment Point Of Connections 15 Created 3D model & Field Validation process
8 Database driven Asset management (Scenerio) 16 Education and Training (Wiki, WMVs, instructors)
Education and training. Early recognition of trade subcontractor modeling inadequacies were mitigated and reversed with our education and training interventions.
We methodically showed the advantages of early 3D design visualizations, model reuse, prototyping, quality control, and prefabrication. As trade subcontractor production increased, schedules were met or exceeded, and profitability increased so did the belief in BIM.
Some project metrics:
Project site is 525 acres.
Building acreage 50.3 (LCE 2.6, Fab 12 16.5, Fab 22 7.5, Bridge 2.5, Fab 32 10.3, Fab 42 11)
There are four main project federated models, each averages 500 megabytes. Navis Manage
When combined into a single project model the file is 3.1 gigabytes. Navis Manage
The 3.1 gig model contains 1.8 billion entities. Yes we can load and view this single file.
There are over 136,000 laser scans. We track these laser scans with a Hensel Phelps innovation, a Laser Scan Identification Module program, which allows trade contractors to locate the scan they need.
There are over 250 types of piping systems.
We use more than ten types of 3D and laser scan software daily, the main software in use in Navis Manage.
In my forty year career I have never seen or heard of a more technically challenging yet successful VDC / BIM project.