Building Information Modeling (BIM)
ERDC TR-06-10Building Information Modeling (BIM)A Road Map for Implementation To Support MILCON Transformationand Civil Works Projects within the U.S. Army Corps of EngineersOctober 2006Beth A. Brucker, Michael P. Case, E. William East, Brian K. Huston,Susan D. Nachtigall, Johnette C. Shockley, Steve C. Spangler, andJames T. WilsonBuilding Information ModelingOverview: U.S. Army Corps of Engineer RoadmapEngineer Research andDevelopment CenterInitial OperatingCapability (IOC)Establish Life-CycleInteroperability90% compliant withNational BIM Standard(NBIMS)8 Centers ofStandardization (COS)productive in BIM by 2008All districts productive inNBIMS2008Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.Full OperationalCapability (FOC)Automation of LifeCycle TasksNBIMS used for allprojects as part ofcontract advertisement,award, submittalsLeverage NBIMS data forsubstantial reduction incost and time ofconstructed facilities201020122020
ERDC TR-06-10October 2006Building Information Modeling (BIM)A Road Map for Implementation To Support MILCON Transformation and Civil WorksProjects within the U.S. Army Corps of EngineersBeth A. Brucker, Michael P. Case, E. William East, and Susan D. NachtigallConstruction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL)U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center2902 Newmark Dr.Champaign, IL 61824Steve C. Spangler and James T. WilsonInformation Technology Laboratory (ITL)U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center3909 Halls Ferry RoadVicksburg, MS 39180-6199Brian K. HustonU.S. Army corps of Engineers, Louisville District600 Martin Luther King Jr. PlaceLouisville, KY 40202Johnette C. ShockleyU.S. Army Corps of EngineersOffice of Technology Transfer and OutreachEngineering Research and Development CenterC/O Peter Kiewit Institute University of NebraskaRoom 175D, 1110 South 67th StreetOmaha, NE 68182-011Final ReportPrepared forUnderU.S. Army Corps of EngineersWashington, DC 20314-1000ERDC P2# 121775
ERDC TR-06-10Abstract: Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a technology that israpidly gaining acceptance throughout the planning, architecture,engineering, construction, operations, and maintenance industries. Thechallenge to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is to proactivelyprepare for BIM, use it to drive down costs and delivery time, andmaintain or even improve quality at the same time. This documentoutlines the strategic and implementation plans for using BIM technologyto improve USACE planning, design, and construction processes. Itdescribes how USACE will meet or exceed the vision of its customers,including the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), the Army, and theAir Force. The scope of this plan is to focus on the implementation of BIMin the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer’s civil works and military constructionbusiness processes, including the process for working with the USACEArchitectural Engineering Construction (AEC) industry partners andsoftware vendors.DISCLAIMER: The contents of this report are not to be used for advertising, publication, or promotional purposes. Citationof trade names does not constitute an official endorsement or approval of the use of such commercial products. All productnames and trademarks cited are the property of their respective owners. The findings of this report are not to be construed asan official Department of the Army position unless so designated by other authorized documents.DESTROY THIS REPORT WHEN NO LONGER NEEDED. DO NOT RETURN IT TO THE ORIGINATOR.ii
ERDC TR-06-10iiiContentsFigures ivPreface v1Introduction. 11.11.21.31.41.52BIM Status, Requirements, and Goals. 62.12.22.32.42.52.63Background. 1Objective . 4Approach. 4Scope . 5Mode of Technology Transfer . 5Vision. 6Status of BIM in the Corps . 6USACE Technology Requirements. 7Customer Technology Requirements. 8Long-Term Strategic Goals . 9Short-Term Strategic Goals . 11Conclusion.13Glossary of Terms.14Acronyms and Abbreviations.19Appendix A: Strategic Plan-Goals and Objectives.21Appendix B: BIM Implementation Plan for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.29Appendix C: Dataset Evolution Instructions .51Appendix D: BIM Design Team Work Instructions .57Appendix E: A/E Contract Language.71Appendix F: District Oversight and A-E BIM Implementation Guidance .73Appendix G: Example – Army Position Description for BIM Manager. 74Appendix H: Memorandum, Subject – Realignment/Establishment of Centers ofStandardization (COS), FY06 .79Appendix I: BIM Related Roles and Responsibilities .87Report Documentation Page.91
ERDC TR-06-10Figures1Long-term strategic goals for BIM, NBIMS and interoperability in the U.S.Army Corps of Engineers. 92Short-term Plan for implementing BIM at Corps Districts and Centers ofStandardization and supporting the Corps interoperability goals .12C1Data set evolution.56D1Example workflow used by the Louisville BIM design team.60iv
ERDC TR-06-10PrefaceThis study was conducted for Headquarters U.S. Army Corps of Engineers(HQUSACE) under the project: “A Road Map for Implementing BuildingInformation Modeling (BIM) to solve the Time and Cost Challenges ofMILCON Transformation.” The HQUSACE POC was Mr. Robert Bank,CECW-CE.The work was co-executed by the CADD/GIS Technology Center of the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) and the Engineering ProcessesBranch, Facilities Division (CFN), of the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL). ERDC authors included: Mr. James T. Wilson,Ms. Beth Brucker, Mr. Stephen Spangler, Dr. Michael Case, Dr. WilliamEast, and Ms. Susan Nachtigall. Other special contributing authors wereMr. Brian Huston, BIM Manager, Louisville District; and Ms. JohnnieShockley, Technology Transfer Coordinator, USACE Peter Kiewit Institute.Reviewers of this document include the Computer Aided Design andDrafting Communities of Practice (CADD CoP), the BIM Sub Communityof Practice (BIM Sub-CoP), and the Field Advisory CADD (FAC) groups.The Director of ERDC-ITL is Dr. Jeffery P. Holland. The Director ofERDC-CERL is Dr. Ilker R. Adiguzel.The CADD/GIS Technology Center, CERL and ITL are elements of theU.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), U.S.Army Corps of Engineers. The Commander and Executive Director ofERDC is COL Richard B. Jenkins, and the Director of ERDC is Dr. JamesR. Houston.v
ERDC TR-06-101Introduction1.1BackgroundBuilding Information Modeling is an emerging technology with the potential to enable significant improvement in the speed, cost, and quality of facility planning, design, construction, operations, and maintenance. * According to the National Institute of Building Sciences:A Building Information Model (BIM) is a digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of a facility. As such it serves as ashared knowledge resource for information about a facility forming a reliable basis for decisions during its lifecycle from inception onward. †The potential of BIM stems both from its value as an open interchangemechanism between the tools used to perform the various functions of theAEC industry (standards) and the ability of computational tools to manipulate the model directly, with or without human intervention (computability). In a typical BIM-enabled process, the data model serves as theprincipal means for communication between activities conducted by professionals. When fully implemented, BIM will increase reuse of designwork (decreasing re-design effort); improve the speed and accuracy oftransmitted information used in e-commerce; avoid costs of inadequateinteroperability; enable automation of design, cost estimating, submittalchecking, and construction work; and support operation and maintenanceactivities.This move to model-based standards and computability is not withoutprecedent. Facing global competitive pressures on every front, automobile,airplane, electronics, and consumer goods manufacturers turned long agoto model-based digital design processes based on data that supported engineering analysis, bill-of-material generation, cost modeling, productionplanning, supply-chain integration, and eventually computer-driven fabri-* BuildingInformation Modeling may offer even more significant cost savings over operations andmaintenance phases of the facility life cycle, but this document primarily focuses on those areaswithin the purview of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.† D. K. Smith. (2006). Presentation. “Building Information Models: A Revolution in the Construction Industry.” Accessible through URL: http://www.nibs.org/BIM/BIM Revolution.pdf1
ERDC TR-06-10cation on the factory floor. * International and domestic governmentalagencies are beginning to require Industry Foundation Class (IFC) basedsubmittals to acquire work. For example, Singapore is requiring IFC basedsubmittals of government projects for code checking and permit approval.The General Services Administration (GSA) is requiring IFC-based submittals for spatial program validation for all projects, 2007 and beyond.As a technology, BIM is rapidly gaining acceptance throughout the planning, architecture, engineering, construction, and operations and maintenance (O&M) industries. The challenge to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is to proactively prepare for BIM, to use BIM to drive downcosts and delivery time, and at the same time to maintain or even improvequality. BIM will be implemented for both Military and Civil Works processes. There are costs and risks involved, however. BIM technology willtake time to mature and to be adopted by industry. This strategy seeks toclearly articulate a phased approach that enumerates our goals in adoptingBIM, communicate our intentions to industry to encourage technology development, work with our customers to deliver their required products,and anticipate future technology that will advance productivity. Thephased approach is designed to allow USACE to update and adjust thestrategic plan every few years to match an evolving business and technological climate.DoD strategies are also focusing attention on “shared knowledge” resources. The DoD Net-Centric Data Strategy (May 2003) outlines the vision for managing data in a net-centric environment. Net-centricity compels a shift to a “many-to-many” exchange of data, enabling many usersand applications to leverage the same data-extending beyond the previousfocus on standardized, predefined, point-to-point interfaces. Hence, thenet-centric data objectives are to ensure that all data are visible, available,and usable—when and where needed—to accelerate decision cycles. Thisstrategy includes installation assets, which could be represented by BIMs.DoD Directive No. 8100, dated 19 September 2002 † states that the GlobalInformation Grid (GIG) shall support all DoD missions with information* P.G. Bernstein and J. H. Pitmann. Website. “Barriers to the Adoption of Building InformationModeling in the Building Industry. Accessible through URL:http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/BIM Barriers WP Mar05.pdf† Department of Defense (DOD). (19 September 2002). DoD Directive 8100.1. Global InformationGrid (GIG) Overarching Policy. Accessible through /d81001p.pdf2
ERDC TR-06-10technology, for national security systems, joint operations, joint task force(JTF), and/or combined-task force commands, that offers the most effective, efficient, and assured information handling capabilities available,consistent with national military strategy, operational requirements, andbest-value enterprise-level business practices.BIM is related to enterprise geospatial initiatives by the need to geolocatefacilities, but distinct in the type and detail of modeling required. The U.S.Department of Defense (DoD) is developing a new and distinctly differentapproach to how it creates and manages its geospatial information resources to manage defense facilities. This approach is named the DefenseInstallation Spatial Data Infrastructure (DISDI). The creators of DISDIenvision an institutionalized process where installation geospatial data (inGIS, CAD, and imagery formats) are assembled, disseminated, and maintained in a fashion that supports validated DoD installation managementand strategic basing decision missions worldwide. DISDI focuses on thebusiness processes, people, and policies necessary to provide installationvisualization and mapping capabilities, not on Information Technology(IT) acquisition and IT development. DISDI is not a system but rather amechanism by which geospatial data stewarded at and by DoD installations can be shared with validated stakeholders to meet their critical installation visualization requirements. The USACE BIM strategy will require a strategy for connection to geospatial data in general and DISDI inparticular (http://www.acq.osd.mil/ie/bei/disdi.htm ).The BIM strategy will also be required to consider the General Fund Enterprise Business System (GFEBS), a web-based system that will allow theU.S. Army to share financial and accounting data across the Service. * TheGFEBS implementation involves standardizing all financial managementand accounting functions, resulting in a system for Army financial professionals to access timely, reliable, and accurate information. GFEBS includes real property accounting functionality, including information typically found in a BIM. All of these tools will improve cost management andcontrol, allow more time to perform financial analysis, and facilitate amore accurate understanding of the value and location of property.* U.S.Army. Website. General Fund Enterprise Business System (GFEBS). Accessible throughURL: http://www.gfebs.army.mil/3
ERDC TR-06-10Each strategic goal listed in this document is accompanied by a theme,metrics, target date, and objectives (as appropriate). Objectives may alsohave a metric and description. This work summarizes the BIM implementation plan that describes how its goals and objectives will be achieved.1.2ObjectiveThe objective of this work was to outline the strategic and implementationplans for using BIM technology to improve the planning, design, and construction processes of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. This documentdescribes how USACE will smoothly meet the vision of our Department ofthe Army (DA) proponents, including the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), the Army, and the Air Force.1.3ApproachThe following Vision and Road Map is a culmination of the lessons learnedon BIM from participating COE districts, A-E industry, and facilities research and modeling standards organizations. The key to success in theimplementation of BIM is not to simply automate existing processes, butrather to create a new leaner business process enabled by BIM technology.The appendices to this report contain more detailed information for BIMsupport and implementation: Appendix A: Strategic Plan-Goals and Objectives (p 15) Appendix C: Dataset Evolution Instructions (p 45) Appendix B: BIM Implementation Plan for the U.S. Army Corps ofEngineers (p 22)Appendix D: BIM Design Team Work Instructions (p 51)Appendix E: A-E Contract Language (p 64)Appendix F: District Oversight and A-E BIM Implementation Guidance (p 65)Appendix G: Example – Army Position Description for BIM Manager (p 66)Appendix H: Memorandum: Realignment/Establishment of Centers of Standardization (COS), FY06 (p 71)Appendix I: BIM Related Roles and Responsibilities (p 72)4
ERDC TR-06-101.45ScopeThe scope of this strategic plan is to focus on the implementation of BIMin the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer’s civil works and military constructionbusiness processes. This will include the process for working with theUSACE Architectural Engineering Construction (AEC) industry partnersand software vendors.1.5Mode of Technology TransferThis report will be made accessible through the World Wide Web (WWW)at URLs: The CADD & BIM USACE Communities of Practice (CoP) Portal onthe Technical Excellence Network (TEN):https://ten.usace.army.mil/TechExNet.aspx?p s&a COPS;14 Engineer Research and Development Center my.mil
ERDC TR-06-102BIM Status, Requirements, and Goals2.1VisionUSACE will be a leader in using Building Information Modeling to improve delivery and management of facilities for the nation.2.2Status of BIM in the CorpsThe Corps of Engineers has already begun to prepare for BIM in a numberof ways. First, a Project Delivery Team (PDT) was formed in March 2005to investigate the potential of BIM and make recommendations for anadoption strategy. This road map is a product of that PDT. As part ofMILCON transformation, the Design-Build model request for proposaltemplate includes language to encourage contractors to use BIM as part oftheir responses. This important step is a practical way to alert the industrythat USACE supports the use of BIM and is moving in that direction, without being prescriptive or placing an undue burden on contractors.USACE has also provided guidance to the Centers of Standardization(COS) that they will be required to use BIM on their standard designs. Asstated in the “Realignment/Establishment of Centers of Standardization(COS)” memorandum, dated 3 March 2006 (see Appendix H), the COSwill be responsible for developing and/or maintaining BIM mode
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