Construction & Infrastructire
planning and execution phases, primarily by taking modelling and simulation to a greater level of detail than is currently practiced. In the BIM projects he sees, he finds architects, engineers and fabricators may do just enough modelling to create a detailed drawing for their own use, but rarely does he see these efforts integrated. This lack of data integration leads to change orders and other slowdowns in the field.
maintenance and future design teams to retrieve asset engineering data. Should the building owner want to upgrade or modify one of their properties, the design team simply needs to search and retrieve the current information related to the asset, do their design work and then, once the design is finalised, the building owner can upload new information for future access by their maintenance provider.
“There’s a lot of problem solving onsite, and all of this is waste,” Miletic says.
Next steps
But there’s another area where greater use of integrated modeling tools can drive efficiency, and that’s in facility management and operations. “The design and construction phase is really minimal compared to the 40-50-year lifecycle over which the building has to be maintained,” Miletic says. “Managing that information through the life of the effort is really the biggest opportunity.” In that regard, MEMKO was able to use the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform from Dassault Systèmes, for whom MEMKO is a valueadded reseller, to help one Australian Government Agency to digitally structure its building data from hand drawings dating to the 1890s to today’s CAD files.
Miro Miletic.
“The challenge they were facing was to manage that information so it’s easy to retrieve for their maintenance and design providers,” Miletic explains. MEMKO used the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to create an electronic drawing management system that stores and indexes building information, making it easier than ever for
For now, the evolution to more integrated design and construction teams is still at the beginning. There are great opportunities to improve efficiency in entire lifecycle. AEC customers need to consider how to connect architectural design to the fabrication or construction phase by using sophisticated BIM solutions like 3DEXPERIENCE Platform. Miletic points out that Australia is a country of growth, and as the growing population drives the need for more infrastructure and other construction, it will become increasingly necessary for AEC professionals to bring projects more quickly, affordably and successfully to market. To do so will require greater collaboration across companies and, perhaps, industries. www.memko.com.au
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