CONSTRUCTION & BIM
maintaining their buildings to the highest standard, especially when it comes to fire and emergency escape door compliance?
BIM in practice BIM has paved the way for compliant construction and safe buildings by allowing architects and designers to visualise aspects of a construction project to ensure safety ahead of erection.
“The ‘golden thread’ is both the information that allows you to understand a building, and the steps needed to keep both the building and people safe.”
For example, ASSA ABLOY’s Openings Studio software application is an add-on to the commonly used design platforms. This enables seamless extraction of door design intent and all relevant interfaces to assist project design teams to seamlessly develop complete door requirements that meet building regulations.
Product information, performance data and budget information are captured within the BIM design environment, and through real time, collaborative working, these designs can be validated for compliance, functional performance, and aesthetics, plus presented as 3D views that can be fully re-integrated into the overall project design.
This provides a unique collaborative tool for all project stakeholders, helping to minimise costs and streamline the data sharing process throughout the entire project lifecycle – from the initial design, right through to construction, delivery, asset management and beyond.
Ongoing door inspections An extension to Openings Studio has recently been developed, which offers a mobile solution that directly accesses this data for use during the door installation process.
This ensures full validity of the finished product prior to project completion - but more importantly, the
application enables detailed on-site inspection of doors in service using the same data thereby verifying continued compliancy, an ideal tool for facilities managers.
Detailed and summary reports are automatically produced and logged. This unique application provides the essential ‘golden thread’ between the design intent and the door in service.
The complete data associated with the door and hardware can be developed in partnership with the architect through collaborative 3D capabilities, seamlessly extracting and inputting all the door information from and to the building model or uploading the data in 2D format from developed schedules.
With linked internal systems, ASSA ABLOY uses this final schedule of information to manufacture the complete doorset solution including the leaf, frame and all specified hardware. The mobile app is then used by engineers on site to install, check and verify the compliant and completed products in line with the specification and schedule during construction.
The app offers an easy to use ‘check box’ system so facilities managers can arrange detailed inspections to be carried out and captured based on the specific details of each door included in the schedule.
Alternatively the door schedule can be easily populated post construction through a detailed on-site survey service, capturing all elements of the existing assets and providing a database on which future inspections can be quickly completed, records of checks retained along with details of all maintenance, repairs and/or modifications.
The future of BIM This solution is where the future of BIM lies, offering reports to validate if a door has remained compliant or identify what elements of the door need to be corrected or replaced to return the product to the standard required.
The software also provides full traceability and ownership of all changes at all stages, including the detailed inspection and service records, helping facilities managers to manage the doorset as a holistic compliant solution. It also meets the expectations outlined by Dame Judith Hackett, and most importantly, it connects all elements of the doorset through a single source.
This eliminates the risk that doors are pieced together as an assembly of parts from various sources by a joiner or builder on site, and maintained and repaired as a collection of individual door components by a building maintenance engineer.
To enable BIM’s full potential, facilities managers need effective tools and software, and when it comes to doorsets and ironmongery, using applications such as Openings Studio can truly unlock the potential of BIM and create the ‘golden thread’ for safer buildings now and in the future.
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