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HUT600 case study
An IFC milestone: the new auditorium for the Alvar Alto designed Helsinki University of Technology.
Apart from the prestigious architecture, what's so special about this project? Eight different applications used IFC to exchange data! The client, Senate Properties used this project to set benchmarks for IFC based collaboration. Benefits they recorded were:
The HVAC engineers for the project was Olof Granlund, a pioneer of building thermal analysis using building models. This Finnish company has a long history of involvement with energy simulations and interoperability between design softwares, currently providing its own software tools for both. Reijo Hänninen, MD of Olof Granlund, notes that its first product model based simulation tools were introduced in 1997, and Spring 2004 the firm built its 500th model. (GRANLUND Software)
The interoperability between design softwares is achieved through Granlund's BSPro COM-Server for IFC Files www.bspro.net. BSPro is used also in LBNL's EnergyPlus for transferring the architect's model into simulation software.
HUT600 has a special distinction: not only a success story under the direction of a client with a strategic interest in the better management and delivery of its building portfolio, they also commissioned CIFE, Stanford to carry out an independent analysis of the project.
The PM4D Final Report, CIFE Technical Report 143 (download report) documented the pros and cons of this BIM/IFC based project. Senate properties’ ambitions were not been completely met, but the CIFE evaluation clearly shows that substantial benefits were achieved where IFC collaboration was successful; the report not only identifies positive issues, it also examines why communication failed and how this might be improved. The assessment covers the priorities of the many participants and from the client’s perspective the project made enormous progress in showing the benefits based on this new process and data sharing protocol.
Importantly the review confirmed the strategic benefits of this approach for industry.
Auli Karjalainen, Customer Manager at Senate Properties confirmed the organisation’s continuing commitment to model based faciltiy development. [ link ]:
“Working as a team with Product Models in Virtual Reality will result in:
Apart from the prestigious architecture, what's so special about this project? Eight different applications used IFC to exchange data! The client, Senate Properties used this project to set benchmarks for IFC based collaboration. Benefits they recorded were:
- shorter design iteration,
- a truly reliable budget,
- visualisation fostered early communication amongst the project team
- and substantially improved interdisciplinary collaboration.
The HVAC engineers for the project was Olof Granlund, a pioneer of building thermal analysis using building models. This Finnish company has a long history of involvement with energy simulations and interoperability between design softwares, currently providing its own software tools for both. Reijo Hänninen, MD of Olof Granlund, notes that its first product model based simulation tools were introduced in 1997, and Spring 2004 the firm built its 500th model. (GRANLUND Software)
The interoperability between design softwares is achieved through Granlund's BSPro COM-Server for IFC Files www.bspro.net. BSPro is used also in LBNL's EnergyPlus for transferring the architect's model into simulation software.
HUT600 has a special distinction: not only a success story under the direction of a client with a strategic interest in the better management and delivery of its building portfolio, they also commissioned CIFE, Stanford to carry out an independent analysis of the project.
The PM4D Final Report, CIFE Technical Report 143 (download report) documented the pros and cons of this BIM/IFC based project. Senate properties’ ambitions were not been completely met, but the CIFE evaluation clearly shows that substantial benefits were achieved where IFC collaboration was successful; the report not only identifies positive issues, it also examines why communication failed and how this might be improved. The assessment covers the priorities of the many participants and from the client’s perspective the project made enormous progress in showing the benefits based on this new process and data sharing protocol.
Importantly the review confirmed the strategic benefits of this approach for industry.
Auli Karjalainen, Customer Manager at Senate Properties confirmed the organisation’s continuing commitment to model based faciltiy development. [ link ]:
“Working as a team with Product Models in Virtual Reality will result in:
- a better quality of process and product
- better solutions of spaces for the client
- opportunities to change functions in the future
- better opportunities for making decisions during the process, especially in early phases of projects
- client commitment
- an effective process through networking ”
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