Going Beyond BIM using 3D Visualization in Laboratory Design

Chuck Yocum, Laboratory Consultant, BioFacilities Planning & Management
Andrew Beall, WorldViz, LLC

Using a sophisticated 3D visualization program that uses the BIM project data the design team can illustrate in very realistic details the design elements to the end users, operators, clients. The program will enable viewers to "see" and walk through the laboratory of the intended final completed project. Colors, patterns, relationships, heights, equipment placement are all "seen" by the client as they walk through their labs. Designers can utilize the extreme detail of the designed spaces to communicate to the researchers the final product. Pre Occupancy before construction. This allows for the design team, owner, facilities department to capture any changes PRIOR to construction. Imagine holographic laboratory design using a headset to allow end users/owners to walk through their newly completed laboratories PRIOR to construction.

Biographies:

Chuck Yocum has over 25 years of project, consulting and development management experience on a wide range of complex institutional, biotechnology, and life science projects. His expertise includes programming, development management, permitting/licensing, and management of design and construction activities related exclusively to research and manufacturing in the Life Sciences. Mr. Yocum has had the privilege of consulting to Harvard, Children's Hospital, Dana Farber, Mass General, and Boston University. He has also had the opportunity to consult to many emerging growth companies for their research laboratory requirements.

Andrew C. Beall is currently the CEO and CTO of WorldViz, LLC, a global virtual reality software and hardware provider. He earned his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (1997). In 2002, he helped found WorldViz. His vision has helped the company become a leading turnkey interactive virtual reality solution provider for Fortune 500 industrial customers as well as numerous government agencies including NASA, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Toyota, Nissan, Disney, National Institutes of Health, Stanford University, and MIT. Typical applications include Product & Design Visualization, Safety & Industrial Training, Consumer Research & Insight and Interactive Education. The company's turnkey Architecture Visualization Solutions let AEC professionals literally walk through their CAD models and experience a stunning sense of their space in 3D.

 

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