 | ASCE New Orleans Branch Members & Subscribers: The ASCE-SEI-NO Chapter Presents Transforming The Project Delivery Process Using Building Information Modeling (BIM)
The complexity and rapid paced development of today's projects are challenging the industry to find new, innovative approaches to project delivery. Building Information Modeling (BIM) is emerging as high-tech, process transformational method to address some of these challenges. The BIM methodology enables owners, consultants, and other stake holders to visualize and understand evolving designs and collaboration issues as never before. The information packed digital assets produced during a BIM based project have the potential to transform the way supply chain partners work together to improve the design and construction process by enabling early identification and removal of problems. This is resulting in cost and schedule benefits and assisting projects to avoid costly delays. In addition to the benefits to design and construction, the digital assets associated with the BIM offer potential to improve the facility management and operations process long after occupancy begins. When compared to the traditional approach for designing and building projects, BIM offers many advantages in the areas of multi discipline collaboration, cost and schedule reduction, improved understanding of the project and improved constructability of the design. Unlike the drawing-centric approach used by the traditional delivery process, BIM project participants are able to access the various digital models throughout the design process without having to wait until paper drawings are produced and delivered. This provides a multi-discipline view of the project can be shared with all participants early in the process and continuously throughout design and construction. Experience shows that collaborating in this fashion produces break through results that are not possible by using drawings alone. Higher-order collaboration among project participants, and better understanding of the design through visualization, are just two of the immediate and impressive benefits the BIM approach will bring. These two factors alone will result in a substantial reduction in RFIs and field rework which will, in turn, lead to improvements in project schedule and cost reliability. This session will provide an overview of the BIM delivery process from the perspective of the Structural Engineer, describe today’s practical realities of BIM design as well as explore the multi discipline collaboration processes and opportunities available on BIM based projects.
| Speakers | | James G. Jacobi, P.E. | | | | Senior Principal | | | | Walter P. Moore and Associates, Inc., Houston | | | | | | Date | | Wednesday, August 5, 2009 | | | | | | Location | | UNO Kirschman Hall, Room 122 | | | | 2000 Lakeshore Drive, New Orleans 70148 | | | | See Link for Details and Map | | | | | | Cost | | $35 All registered on or before August 3, 2009 | | | | Free - Full Time Student with valid ID registered on or before August 3, 2009 | | | | Free - Engineers 65 and older registered on or before August 3, 2009 | | | | $45 All registered at the door | | | | | | PDH | | 2.0 PDH can be earned by attending this seminar | | | | | | Program | | 5:00 PM Registration (Sandwiches & Soft Drinks) | | | | 5:30 PM Introduction | | | | 5:35 PM Main Presentation | | | | 7:35 PM Questions & Answers | | | | | | Registration | | Registration for is attached at the bottom or this email | | | | If you have any problems with the attachment, then Download the Registration Form Here | | | | |
Registration forms and additional information on upcoming seminars are available on the ASCE New Orleans Branch SEI website. Please assist us in registration efforts by complying with the cutoff dates.
Also, as a reminder, The ASCE New Orleans Branch will be recognizing our peers for outstanding achievement at the 2009 Awards Luncheon, to be held July 22 at Ralph's on the Park. Please join us in recognizing the following individuals for their commitment to excellence: - Outreach - William H. Sewell, Jr., P.E.
- Outstanding Young Civil Engineer - James R. Martin, Ph.D., P.E.
- Outstanding Government Civil Engineer - Reid L. Dennis, P.E.
- Outstanding Civil Engineer - Frank M. McCaskell, P.E.
- Lifetime Achievement - Om P. Dixit, P.E.
- Wall of Fame - Robert H. Boh
- President's Medal - To Be Announced
For more details on this luncheon, please visit this link or visit the event calendar on our website, listed under Upcoming Events. For registration, please contact Darla Morales at Linfiled Hunter & Junius at 504-833-5300 or at dmorales@lhjunius.com.
For more information regarding the ASCE New Orleans Branch, including news and upcoming events, please visit our website at http://www.asceneworleans.org/. For more information regarding the Structural Engineering Institute New Orleans Chapter, including upcoming seminars, please visit the SEI webpage located at http://www.asceneworleans.org/index.php/asce-sei-no or contact Om P. Dixit, P.E. Also, the Louisiana Section and New Orleans Branch now have a Louisiana Chapter of the Transportation & Development Institute; for information regarding upcoming seminars, please visit the TDI webpage located at http://www.asceneworleans.org/index.php/asce-tdi-la or contact Om P. Dixit, P.E. Sincerely, ASCE New Orleans Branch
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