| In the construction industry, the only way to send | | | | up of hundreds of thousands tiny little vectors or |
| information from the main office to the field was | | | | coordinates that can be transferred to match up |
| to put it on a piece of paper, relying on your field | | | | with what is real time in the field. BIM Positioning is |
| crews to interpret those drawings to create what | | | | the process by which we find that information in |
| is intended to go in the ground and become what | | | | the field with a total station. How does 1/16th of |
| is supposed to be a building of some kind. I have | | | | an inch accuracy suit you? How does 60% |
| watched so many companies over the years | | | | increase in productivity or 4 times faster sound? |
| create magnificent 3D models of a buildings; MEP, | | | | Layout is the key to BIM in the field. If we don't |
| walls, and steel, that it made the hair on the back | | | | know exactly where it belongs, then we will put it |
| of my neck stand on end to see them take that | | | | in the wrong place...as we are doing everyday. |
| information and place it on a piece of white paper | | | | Coring, chipping, saw cutting; do these words ring |
| only to get marked up and destroyed in the field. | | | | a bell? It become a thing of the past and so will |
| This does not have to happen anymore... in fact, it | | | | you if you don't get on board with this process. |
| never has had to happen. It's just the way things | | | | Hundreds of contracting firms nationwide are |
| have been done since the beginning of time. I | | | | already investing in this. Why? Because it works |
| would like to make it known, that there is a way | | | | that's why! BIM Positioning is the fore front of |
| to bridge that gap, electronically, from the office | | | | every project. It doesn't stop there. So we can |
| to the construction trailer. The age of the BIM or | | | | find out where it goes in the field by transferring |
| building information model, is here to stay and | | | | information from the office to the field; how |
| those who are not up to speed will fall behind. | | | | about transferring it from the field to the office! |
| However, BIM is so complex and has so much | | | | Laser scanning is providing the fastest AS-Builts |
| depth. What I am focusing on is taking the | | | | and most accurate Reverse Engineered drawings. |
| AutoCad drawing and leaving it in its electronic, | | | | No more chicken scratch and lame drawings. This |
| perfect form, and transferring that information to | | | | is the real thing. A 3D image, measurable to |
| the field on a hand held computer. | | | | millimeter accuracy. Try doing that with a tape |
| What am I talking about? Robotic total stations. | | | | measure. This in turn also becomes an excellent |
| Relying on the AutoCad drawing is what we do in | | | | deliverable for the GC and the owner. |
| the first place. If you have a company that | | | | BIM Positioning is changing the way we do things |
| doesn't produce good drawings, it's not the | | | | in the field. Get up to speed or get left behind. |
| program, it's the designer. That drawing is made | | | | |