CETI Award Recipients

2010

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EcoDomus

Life Cycle Building Data Management

The Texas A&M University Health Sciences Center project consisted of a $68 million health professions education building, a $60 million medical research and education building, and a central utility plant. The university wanted to use open standards, such as COBie and Omni Class, to collect data during design and construction. This project was the first large project in the world to use COBie. The savings from using the process, managed by Broaddus & Associates and EcoDomus software, reached 45 percent of the standard handover costs. In addition, EcoDomus software enabled connection of the 3D CAD model to the collect COBie dataset, enabling creation of an intelligent BIM model from the 3D CAD. Element 9 of the Fiatech Roadmap, Life Cycle Data Management and Information Integration, focuses on the problems solved within this project.

2009

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Blach

BIM FM

Blach Construction's drivers for the Alum Rock Union School District project were: 1) enhance construction processes by providing model-based access to all relevant project data for onsite construction teams during construction, 2) create an as-built construction model that exists for the life of the facility, and 3) secure a majority of virtual design and construction efforts by the same software package to maximize interoperability. The benefit to the school district is that it has a visual tool to see and select an object in the model and retrieve all relevant data. The end result is both lower maintenance costs and increased sustainability through reduction in the district's carbon footprint.

2008

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ARX (Algorithmic Research): Braun Intertec Implementation of the CoSign Digital Signature Solution

Braun Intertec implemented the CoSign digital signature solution in order to facilitate secure collaborative work and streamline processes by allowing engineers to digitally sign e-drawings and other electronic documents. Since CoSign's signature verification does not entail any software installation on the receiving end, the company uses it in its communication with partners in addition to internal needs. Braun Intertec estimates its overall savings at over $100,000 in less than three years. The average cycle time for the delivery of one key report went from six weeks to three days and, in some cases, report turnarounds have been reduced from days to minutes.

Dr. Arto Kiviniemi, Olof Granlund

Arto Kiviniemi led the Finnish national technology program "VERA" with a budget of $62 million. The program established Finland's position as one of the leading countries in utilizing integrated BIM in Real Estate and Construction industry. He led the global development and deployment of the integrated BIM concept. Kiviniemi was a member of Industry Advisory Board and Technical Advisory Committee of CIFE 1999-2005, and a member of the Scientific Committee of the BuildingEnvelope.org project at Harvard University 2001-2004. In September 2008 Kiviniemi returned to the industry to lead BIM development and implementation in Finland's largest building services engineering company, Olof Granlund.

2007

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Bechtel, Fluor, Bentley Systems & NRX Global: Accelerating the Deployment of ISO 15926

ISO 15926 is a suite of standards that supports interoperability for data about the equipment and systems used in industrial processes over the life cycle of those objects. Some typical scenarios for its use are: sharing information between engineering contractors and subcontractors, acquiring information from equipment vendors, handing over data to operators of a new industrial plant, and harmonizing information across an enterprise that owns many plants.

2006

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GSA Office of the Chief Architect: National 3D-4D BIM Program

In 2003, the General Services Administration (GSA) Public Buildings Service Office of the Chief Architect established the National 3D-4D-BIM Program. The primary goal of the program is to promote value-adding digital visualization, simulation, and optimization technologies to increase quality and efficiency throughout GSA project life cycles and beyond.