Advanced BIM modeling made it possible to construct a 65.000/117.000 m2 commercial building complex, the Statoil building at Fornebu, Norway, in only 20 months on site.
Thanks to thorough planning, advanced BIM-modeling and a fruitful solution-oriented dialogue, the team behind the realisation of this project - the client and owner, construction companies, all subcontractors and last but not least the architects from A-Lab along with their trusted BIM advisors from Symetri, were able to complete the complex design of the Statoil construction on schedule. Initially, when the A-Lab team started designing and planning the Statoil building, it was still in the early days of BIM management. However, the BIM manager and architect at A-Lab, Angie Arroyo Mendez, saw no other way than to start working with BIM using IFC.
Challenges
Implementation of BIM / IFC – upgrading from ACAD
Development of methodology
Solutions
Customised solution with Naviate add-on to Revit
Coaching and teaching of new methodology
Solibri – visualising
Benefits
Challenging questions are answered with high end solutions
Through discussions with skilled people, we learn something new all the time
Consultancy made the further development possible = time saving procedures
A-lab saved 10% of the costs on site by fixing the problems virtually in Solibri
A support team on a Scandinavian level yet close to Autodesk makes a difference
Thanks to BIM 360 Field, the whole building site is being digitised and not just the drawing and the model. All the work that so far has been done around the computer screen in the ‘building shed’ is now being moved out to the building site.