Delivering Results: Using Integrated Project Delivery Methods and Tools to Deliver High Performing Healthcare Facilities
Andrew Arnold, DPR Consulting
Biography:
Andrew Arnold, Ph.D. , is director of DPR Consulting for DPR Construction. He offers a unique blend of business and technology expertise to the AEC industry. As director of DPR Consulting for DPR Construction, one of the nation's top technical builders, Mr. Arnold applies more than 25 years of experience in product design and management, product, and process modeling for AEC software applications and consulting to help DPR customers and teams establish the appropriate lean construction, building information modeling (BIM) and integrated project delivery (IPD) strategies and practices for their projects and facility operations after project turnover. Most recently, Mr. Arnold assisted in a BIM for facilities management implementation on a large-scale healthcare project in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Mr. Arnold received his Ph.D. in construction engineering and management in 2000 from Stanford University at the Center for Integrated Facilities Engineering (CIFE). His dissertation investigated the exchange of design and engineering information and services between suppliers and buyers of products installed in buildings, and interoperation between component analysis applications and BIM. Subsequently, he worked in technology startups, designing and managing products and services that focused on modeling and indexing product performance information with BIM, BIM content management solutions, and BIM analysis applications, including quantity take-off and cost estimating, LEED® contribution and documentation, and immersive BIM visualization on the desktop and Web.
Mr. Arnold has presented on BIM and IPD at several conferences, including the Construction Specifications Institute BIM Chicago Seminar; Forbes Conference: E-Business in the Construction Industry; and the American Institute of Architects, Technology in Architectural Practice conference.