Offered By: WPL Publishing Company
Professional Development Hours: 1.5
Course Number: AEP8017/BIM-2-02/20/08

A Roadmap to BIM 2008
BIM in Public Building: The GSA and Corps of Engineers BIM Initiatives
Part 2 of a 5-part series

Archived CD-Rom and Presentation Materials Now Available.

A 90-minute interactive teleconference moderated by leading experts of Building Information Modeling (BIM). Learn how public agencies are jump starting BIM; successes to date and new program developments. To get more information, visit: www.bimroadmap.com.

Course Outline

Presented by Chuck Hardy, GSA and James T. (Toby) Wilson, US Army Corps of Engineers

BIM in Public Building: The GSA BIM Initiatives. What GSA has done to jump start the BIM process; outlining its experience to-date and where to look next. This session will also discuss the goal of our industry to achieve optimized projects, with fully collaborative, fully integrated, and therefore highly productive project teams can be achieved through leveraging Building Information Modeling and Virtual Design and Construction (BIM/VDC). This presentation will touch on the premise that the transformation and implementation tends to be 10% technology and 90% sociology. It will begin to discuss how your operations can develop appropriate business models that match your talent, market, goals and technology. Additionally, it will speak to the level of integrated project delivery maturity that you are at and which is required to achieve the full benefits of BIM/VDC. Through proper implementation, the benefits of both technology and true process transformation can occur, providing repeatable high performing projects.

The Corps of Engineers uses BIM for planning, design, construction and operations and maintenance. The Corps sees BIM as a tool that will capture data during each phase of the building lifecycle and carry it through to decommissioning. You will learn about the Corps decision to use BIM and:

• Goals to use the MILCON Transformation program ($45b) to jump start use of BIM,
• Corps BIM training program
• BIM roadmap
• Contract language for delivering BIM to the Corps, and
• Plan to use “adapt-build” BIM models

Topic Areas and Industries

• Architecture
• Claims & Dispute Resolution
• Construction
• Contract Management
• Cost Engineering
• Cost/Schedule Control
• Decision & Risk Management
• Engineering
• Facilities Management
• Information Technology
• Legal Claims
• Planning & Scheduling
• Project Control
• Program & Project Management
• Value Engineering & Constructability