Metabolizing Your BIM

John Tocci, Jr., Gilbane Building Company
John Myers, Gilbane Building Company

Tocci and Myers, two in-the-field Virtual Design and Construction experts, will deliver a presentation that boils down the key aspects of Building Information Modeling as they relate to sustainable laboratory design and construction. Most owners know that they want to use BIM for their projects, but without the right knowledge and execution plan, can be at risk for spending a lot of money on something that does not provide the right value.

Presenters will explain from start to finish the major components of a BIM enabled project, from the technology to the people to the overall process. They will review how to create a BIM framework so that the project can be a highly collaborative one.

It's a process that involves creating the standards that the design team is going to adhere to to creating standards that the construction team is going to adhere to. The presentation will also detail how it's possible to have a dashboard of reports throughout the design and construction process.

Finally, presenters will approach the discussion beginning with the specific challenges of laboratory design and construction and how you can use BIM to address those. Challenges such as operations disruption in an existing building (noise, vibration), lab space flexibility, being able to evaluate decisions in a timely fashion so that you do not have to go back and re-evaluate them.

Using BIM, you can develop standards specific to lab construction projects that, for example, require renovation adjacent to existing facilities. Presenters will discuss how BIM can work with those unique requirements as well as how to use virtual design and construction as a risk mitigation tool for these scenarios.

Biographies:

Education: BS, Pepperdine University Director of Virtual Design and Construction for Gilbane; oversees projects across the country Leading expert in field of virtual design and construction Integral part of BIMForum's development in 2005: created name and developed the first iteration of website. Organization now boasts 1,400+ members worldwide. Presenter at Autodesk University focusing on early versions of various BIM tools and future direction Part of Autodesk Revit and Navisworks alpha and beta testing programs Founding member, youngest charter member, BIMForum. Co-chair, Emerging Leaders Subforum. Pro bono adjunct faculty, Arizona State University. Teaches course on Revit and Navisworks Honors & Awards 40-under-40 Award Building Design + Construction 2011 AIA TAP BIM Award: Process Innovation AIA Technology in Architectural Practice Committee March 2012 Gilbane President's Award for Innovation 2009 AZRE Top People To Know In Commercial Real Estate

John Myers is a Virtual Design and Construction Engineer for Gilbane Building Company out of Boston. He focuses on Master plan Coordination, Design Model Coordination, Trade Coordination, QTO Analysis, 3D/4D Visualizations, and more. He was previously with SPACE Architecture + Design in St. Louis, MO. He has a degree in Architecture from the University of Kansas.

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