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BIM Management Consultancy Services

Through our technical team with a long experience in migrating customers to 3D modeling and Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology, SES offers its experience to companies that want to migrate to BIM technology and integrate this technology between different workflow and departments.

Building Information Modeling is important for all stakeholders in the construction industry. Solid specializes in BIM consulting and helps firms in BIM implementation. Benefits of choosing Pinnacle for BIM implementation include:

• 3D visualization of the building spaces
• Improved constructability analysis
• Detection and resolution of component clashes
• Quick Quantity Estimates/Material take-offs
• Easy implementation of changes
• Exploration of design options during the conceptual stage
• Facilities management throughout the building lifespan

BIM Strategy Formulation

BIM Strategy helps in the development of AEC business. Solid enables AEC industry to embrace latest BIM technology. Using our expertise and research, we provide training and advisory services to the organizations that are willing to adopt BIM processes within their projects or businesses. Our BIM strategy focuses on the tangible and intangible staff training requirements of organizations. We consider the following elements while formulating a BIM strategy:

• Cost to Benefit Ratio of BIM Strategy Implementation
• Acquisition & Incorporation of New Software within Existing Systems
• Incorporation of BIM Principles into Existing Work Procedures

Cost to Benefit Ratio of BIM Strategy Implementation

We estimate the costs and benefits of implementing BIM carefully, considering both the short term and the long term expenses. Short term costs are associated with upgrading technology and staff training, whereas the long term costs are pertaining to the transition period in which an organization moves from the existing workflow to BIM implementation. Once the transition period is over, BIM becomes an asset for a construction firm, resulting in financial boosts from various angles like waste prevention, time savings, cost savings, energy conservation, improved coordination and better end product. We analyze the ratio between the outgoing costs and cost benefits to figure out which BIM implementation is applicable and evaluate the level of risk associated with it. This helps us modify BIM strategy and make it useful for the short, medium and long terms.

Acquisition & Incorporation of New Software within Existing Systems

Acquiring the right BIM software program is crucial for any BIM strategy. We consider various BIM software programs available online and evaluate them with regard to the software system currently used by an organization. Comparing multiple options with regard to what they are capable of and how they are compatible helps us in developing a BIM strategy prudently.

Incorporation of BIM Principles into Existing Work Procedures

We create BIM strategy combining existing workflow systems with BIM procedures. Our aim is to recognize productive components in existing systems and maintain them in the new system

Templates & content creation

We provide a cost-effective method of content creation for organizations. Our experienced team transforms products and systems into fully parametric BIM objects using Revit. Content creation in Revit helps to make the products readily available to designers. Moreover, it implements quick design change, facilitates easy scheduling, creates different views, aids pre-fabrication and marketing and offers accuracy with regard to quantity, specification and coordination.
The libraries we have created for Architecture, Plumbing Fixtures, Mechanical, Pipes, Chillers, Structural, Air Diffusion, Fire Protection, Electrical and Public Health include:

Architecture – Door Handles, Doors, Furniture, Furniture Systems, Lighting Fixtures
Plumbing Fixtures – Specialty Equipment, Walls, Windows
Mechanical – Air Handling Units, Boilers, Calorifier, Chilled Beams, Cooling Towers, De-Aerators, Dispersion Tube, Exhaust Utility Set, Expansion Vessels, Fan, Gas, Heat Exchangers, Heaters, Heating Coils, Line Clean Out, Micro turbines
Pipes – Pressurization Units, Pumps, Valves
Chillers – Compressors
Structural – Trusses
Air Diffusion – Fans, Humidifiers, Inline Equipment
Fire Protection – Fire Hydrants, Manifold, Valve Sets
Electrical – Batteries, CRAC Units, Generators, Junction Boxes, Switch Boards, Bus Bar, Containment
Public Health – Sump Pumps, Tanks

Template Creation

We also provide template creation, which serves as a starting point for a new project, acting as a pre-defined setting. Our templates contain preloaded families, settings, views, sheets, schedules and geometry required for new projects. Instances of Revit templates created by Pinnacle include:

Drainage Template
Fire Fighting Template
Mechanical Ducting Template
Mechanical Piping Template
Water Supply Template

Bim execution planning

The importance of implementing the right technology with a view to future needs is critical. Pinnacle transforms current business processes with the use of latest software applications. We review the current processes and ensure that we can define, train and implement technology for improving the overall processes.

Our BIM execution planning involves the following processes:

1. Getting the Right Software Package for better functionality – We choose the right software program for BIM implementation by testing various software packages.
2. Ensuring an Expert in the Lead Position – After sourcing the right software package, we select the right project managers for your organization and impart special BIM training program to them.
3. Creating a Well-Defined Plan for BIM execution – We incorporate BIM in the existing system of a firm by planning the transition properly.
4. Establishing In-House Standards and Policies – Interoperability and standardization are the biggest challenges with BIM. In order to prevent such issues from affecting an organization we establish in-house standards and policies for governing the way of BIM operation.

IT infrastructure planning

Our team has the expertise in controlling and guiding the current and future needs. We conduct an audit for an existing IT infrastructure and make a detailed discussion with suitable heads on future expansion and budgets in terms of hardware and software requirement. After reviewing, we provide a detailed recommendation to ensure that the future implementation can be smoothly executed. The review becomes more critical when multiple office locations across various continents are to be linked together. Our implementation strategy ensures that adequate team members, technical groundwork, teaching and knowledge management are customized for each office location.

Benefits of choosing Pinnacle for IT Infrastructure Planning:
• Increased clarity of project intent to stakeholders
• Ensuring data fidelity & continuity across project life-cycle
• Providing critical foundation for business agility

Contract Language Definition

We write and define BIM clauses for your RFPs that reflect the goals and uses of BIM to your business. Laying out how project information will be created, managed, and shared from initial concept onwards insures effective project collaboration.

• Workshops to define goals and uses of BIM
• Create an RFI/RFP checklist with appropriate BIM language and specifications
• Audit existing projects – comparison to brief

BIM Strategic Support

We develop your strategic approach to BIM based on your goals. Mapping BIM project deliverables to your key business drivers, we work with you to assess your current state, map workflows, and oversee and coordinate the BIM process.

Identify BIM uses with key stakeholders

• Complete a stocktake of your current BIM maturity
• Develop best practices and workflows
• Deliver project-based training

BIM Standards Development

We help you develop the key guiding documents that regulate the information flow between all project participants.

• Develop and document BIM standards
• Write the BIM Project Execution Plan (BIM PEP), Level of Development (LOD), and Model Progression Specification (MPS)
• Propagate the BIM Plan to the project team

BIM Project Audits

We audit the digital model and data to insure compliance with industry standards, the standards laid out in the BIM Project Execution Plan, and the data requirements of other project participants.

• Compare actual output with established BIM standards
• Confirm that data is where we expect it to be
• Complete variance audits that pinpoint what has changed between shared models

Coordination and Clash Detection

At agreed upon project stages, we integrate the models from the architect, structural engineer, MEP engineer, and other stakeholders into a single digital model and identify any inconsistencies that need to be resolved.

• Deliver a comprehensive clash detection strategy
• Communicate issues out to project team
• Prioritize and resolve issues before they arise on site

Connect BIM to Facilities Management

We establish data delivery protocols that support FMO at the outset and complete data audits throughout to insure that the information is captured correctly.

• Collect and collate data
• Bring the data into a single digital model that can be accessed by all users

Implementation Services

Ready to get started with a BIM process? No matter how big or small your company, the key ingredients to success are an understanding of what you hope to achieve with BIM and a transition plan that helps you move to this new way of working.
We work with you to design an implementation plan that identifies the goals of BIM for your company and insures that you will meet them. We then help you establish a repeatable BIM process that suits your office.

• Define the value of BIM to your team and how it will be measured
• Establish a BIM framework including items such as naming conventions, graphic standards, view templates, and defining how documentation will look
• Complete project setup and the creation of a structured model
• Provide a complete training program and ongoing guidance

Collaboration Services

Looking to work with multiple firms over short, long, and even continental distances? We work with you to identify the best strategy for connecting your project teams and promoting communication.

• Complete an audit of your current IT infrastructure – hardware and software
• Develop a collaboration strategy that leverages Revit Server or Collaboration for Revit and provide network optimization recommendations
• Recommend workflows that support optimal model performance

BIM Management

Do you need a full-time BIM Manager? Why not work with a team of BIM experts who have a broad range of experience in helping companies just like yours implement BIM. Instead of one person’s knowledge, you can leverage our entire team to set up and maintain your BIM protocols and process.

• Develop organizational BIM protocols
• Project setup and organization
• Provide ongoing guidance and mentoring

Knowledge Development

If you want to expand the value of BIM, there’s no better way than giving your team the skills to use it to its fullest extent.

• Grow and refine your BIM process with personalized project-based training
• Provide ongoing project mentoring that puts the knowledge in your team’s hands as they need it
• Demonstrate how to work more efficiently by minimizing repetitive drafting-based tasks

Model Performance

Throughout the design and construction process, we insure that the digital model continues to be nimble and focused on meeting project requirements.

• Complete model audits at defined points, identify issues, and make recommendations to maintain its agility and increase model performance.
• Ongoing guidance and model monitoring to insure that BIM goals are met

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