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Royal Columbian Hospital | Fraser Health

Royal Columbian Hospital | Fraser Health

My work on Royal Columbian Hospital began with my Regional BIM Role providing oversight onto the agreements being made around BIM delivery. This project was unique since it was the first one for the Fraser Health Authority to have their new relationship with Summit BIM, a BIM consultant group in Canada. This project was to kick off the Fraser's road to full life cycle BIM and intelligent Facilities Maintenance. 

Mechanical and Structural Coordination

Mechanical and Structural Coordination

My role grew from BIM oversight into being the lead for digital agreements on the team with Bird Construction and Stantec. Outside of that, my rendering abilities were also leveraged with the newly available Enscape rendering tool for Revit. The rendering work turned into updating families across the project so any portion of it could be visualized with the real time rendering engine that Enscape provided.

We explored new coordination technology from Revizto on this project. While I can't see it was a "cultural" success within the large and diverse set of teams it was certainly a good proof of concept for the project leaders. Fraser Health and Bird liked so much they both became clients of the software and we continue to discuss how it could be built into the project workflow better on future projects.

I keep a relationship with BIM TOPiCS Lab at UBC with Dr. Sheryl Staub-French where she sends her bright students to intern with me. Jatin Maheshwary was one of those students who took a deep dive into automating BIM Compliance and Management under my and Ryan's supervision for RCH.

Robson Square | UBC Student Entrance

Robson Square | UBC Student Entrance

University of British Columbia has one of the most interesting sites in the city of Vancouver, right in the middle of downtown at the most public square in the community - Robson Square. The site is incredibly contentious, with many parties having a say in what happens on the land. 

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I had the pleasure of working with Designer, Kim Glauber and Project Architect, Doug Hamming; both of whom had been on the project a couple of years before I came along. The project needed to produce a set of schematic drawings to go another round of public engagement sessions and I was given the opportunity to help make this a Revit project.

Interestingly, there was a surveying company in town that had lidar scanned the site and covered the point cloud into an IFC model that I was then able to bring into Revit. I used a deductive modeling approach to capturing the glazing system in Revit so the glass box could have a parametric relationship (hosted by reference planes) between the complex primary structure. 

Kim, was crucial in the BIM at the Human Scale research to figuring out the spherical output from 3DSMax and made this one of the first projects at Stantec to be showcased in mobile Virtual Reality. 

This project was a great showcase of modeling approach and was selected as a Case Study Project to present at the 2016 North American RTC Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. 

Stantec Tower | mixed use

Stantec Tower | mixed use

This was a multi-office project between Vancouver, Edmonton, Victoria, Boston, Calgary and Toronto that involved all disciplines of Stantec. As Stantec's new headquarters building, it was an honorable project to participate on that pushed the boundary in every way. To make things even more complicated, Dialogue was the Prime Consultent for the Parkades that connected the entire city center and tunnels underneath the towers and arena together which added another layer of coordination on top of general building performance.

As a Revit project, I was brought on to lead the the BIM Management for the project as it transitioned into Construction Documents from Design Development. The previous management was relieved of their oversight after the project experienced poor performance. I broke up the many models and optimized them for loading time with worksets and different models for heavy annotation portions of the documentation. The project transitioned from Revit Server to BIM360 Teams and even leveraged Stantec's shiny new datacenter for remote users loggin in via Citrix. 

From the fruits of labor the BIM at the Human Scale R&D, we were able to showcase the Spherecase immersive rendering workflow to the client. Although they did try using the cardboard VR viewers, they preferred just a portal view on the iPad. Very much a win for the spherical rendering output.

Click the above image to check out the spherical VR

Click the above image to check out the spherical VR

I helped manage the models, model complex architecture, render, BOMA, area calculations, quantity take off and documentation. 

Virtual Reality Study at Ziegler Cooper

Virtual Reality Study at Ziegler Cooper

In the spring of 2014, my ongoing relationship with WorldViz turned into a business case for a short stint of research and development at Ziegler Cooper. WorldViz used the proprietary "Vizard" game engine to run the models from digital architecture models. The workflow wasn't quite ready for large scale commercial work as the model optimization process required the geometry to a low amount of polygons and the yield from Revit was too high and too much rework for office projects.

The research did bring the Oculus SDK1 into the office and everyone enjoyed the initial real demos as a part of the research. Movement was tracked via a Kinect sensor.