Study in Success - California Lottery Wins Big with Integrated Project Delivery

Ideate is proud to announce publication of its latest Study in Success entitled California Lottery Wins Big with Integrated Project Delivery.

The subject of the study is the California Lottery Headquarters. The Ideate developed Study in Success details how the technology-reliant process of Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) facilitated the successful creation of the six-story, 155,000-square-foot headquarters project throughout the phases of design, fabrication, and construction.

As a green building project, the California Lottery Headquarters project was to meet standards set by the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). It was also the first IPD mandated project for the California Lottery. The project partners – LPAS Architecture + Design, Buehler & Buehler Structural Engineers, Inc., Interface Engineering, Architectural Glass & Aluminum and Otto Construction – formed a collaborative IPD alliance. Ideate, Inc. assisted with training and consulting in Building Information Modeling (BIM) solutions including software, technical support, training and consulting.

Excerpts from California Lottery Wins Big with Integrated Project Delivery

According to AGA Project Manager David Peck, “When we would come to the weekly IPD meeting, we would have as many as 30 items to discuss. And, each issue would be discussed. None would linger past two weeks. We see this as a double win. The separate trades don’t wind up having to explain added costs because there are no added costs. There’s no finger pointing. And the owner gets exactly what is expected and paid for.”

Gregory Jones, Project Architect, LPAS, remembers, “Ideate provided us with focused training on how best to translate the design effort we had done in SketchUp to Revit. From this great starting point, we were able to overcome the challenges of modeling a very complicated curtain wall and ultimately our efforts were rewarded in receiving the AIA Divine Detail Award for the way we were able to resolve the curving and stepping planes of the curtain wall.”

“With the IPD process, we were able to shave two months off the schedule.” —Brady Smith, Principal, LPAS

The project was completed under budget and ahead of schedule and is on track for LEED Gold certification.

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Revit Community - BIM and IPD Bring New Ways to Think About Teams

Are you using BIM or thinking about using IPD?

Our friends at Revit Community reviewed a recent webcast by Reed Construction Data. As Lauren Browne notes, the webcast makes clear that some believe a successful future will only exist for architects using these tools, processes and technology.

BIM and IPD Bring New Ways to Think About Teams

By Lauren Browne, ConnectPress Editor

Integrated Project Delivery (IPD): we hear a lot about this process but how many people are actually implementing projects with it? While building information modeling (BIM) technology seems to be used somewhat frequently in projects, IPD hasn’t caught on as fast. In a webcast, “Lessons in BIM Adoption: How Integrated Project Delivery Can Work,” by Reed Construction Data on February 25, 2010, Markku Allison, resource architect, American Institute of Architects; Robert M. Leicht, PhD, BIM manager, DPR Construction; and Scott Simpson, FAIA, LEED AP, senior director of Kling-Stubbins, addressed issues on BIM and IPD adoption, and how a successful future includes both.

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BIM for Contractors at AGC University

Ideate is proud to be a a professional associate member of the Oregon-Columbia Chapter of the AGC and an inaugural faculty member at the newly established AGC University.

AGC University has been created by the Oregon-Columbia Chapter of AGC with the specific purpose of providing quality, relevant courses designed to meet and exceed Oregon’s new continuing education requirements that become mandatory for Oregon commercial contractor licenses new or renewing after July 1, 2010.

Ideate's David Haynes will be presenting Beginning Building Information Modeling (BIM) for Contractors on March 11. Join David as he reviews trends in the construction industry regarding how buildings are built. This presentation will help contractors understand the roles, responsibilities, and rewards as part of the BIM and integrated project delivery process (IPD), and how to get started. This course is a must for all contractors, large, medium, and small. Learn how to win more work and have greater profit in those projects you build.

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Model Based Estimating to Inform Target Value Design

Saurabh Tiwari, Josh Odelson, Alan Watt, Atul Khanzode
DPR Construction

The use of Target Value Design (TVD) or Target Costing is one of the focus areas of the application of Lean Construction methods to large healthcare projects. The Lean Construction Institute defines Target Costing as a practice which incorporates cost as a factor in design to minimize waste and create value. The cardinal rule is that the Target Cost for a project should never be exceeded. In most traditional project delivery approaches, cost follows design, but on projects where the TVD approach is used, cost should dictate what gets designed to ensure that the target cost is not exceeded. As a result, rapid cost feedback to the design team is paramount in this process. One mechanism for providing this rapid cost feedback is extracting quantities from the virtual model and model-based estimates. In this article, we discuss the lessons currently being learned in applying Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools, such as model-based estimating, for TVD on a large healthcare project in Northern California.

Project Background
Sutter Medical Center Castro Valley (SMCCV) is a $320 million, six-story, 130-patient bed replacement hospital in Castro Valley, CA, for Sutter Health. Sutter Health adopted Lean Project Delivery for all its projects in early 2003 and has been promoting the use of the Integrated Form of Agreement (IFOA) as the contract method for project delivery. The IFOA approach is similar to the Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) framework promoted by the AIA. DPR Construction is the general contractor and one of 11 members of this IFOA/IPD team for the SMCCV project. DPR was selected as the builder and part of the IPD team for this project having successfully completed a variety of Sutter Health projects, including the Camino Medical Office Building in Mountain View, CA. The Camino Mountain View project has served as an early, and very successful, example of the implementation of Lean Construction methods and the use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) for healthcare projects.

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