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

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.

Brentwood Tower 3 | Residential Tower

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Colleague, Ryan Wells, exhibiting in one of my favorite images. I had arranged for an ultra short throw projector to be mounted on a late 80s era drafting table. The projector was connected to a laptop running a cloud app to digitally review drawings. The same tools that most senior reviewers used could be used on this set up, straight edges, rulers and french curves... just needed the stylus in place of the red pen.

There was a lot of work Stantec did at the Amazing Brentwood site for Shape Properties and Tower 3 was the first of the work to be an all Stantec design and delivery. This was also the first project at Stantec where I was given the opportunity to set up the Revit environment with all of my preferences. After the success of my other technology research initiatives I was also given carte blanche for the environment and I choose to experiment with A360 Team. 

The most impressive aspect of pushing into this new technology was that it was truly cloud based. Review teams no longer needed special software to be a part of the project and even our client was given Autodesk accounts to log in and check on our BIM progress. This was a brave new world of collaboration and one of the biggest jobs was to have all of the teams agree to the new digital environment... this took time but ultimately we were able to showcase the time being saved and that the security was even better than we could afford to provide.

At the time in 2016, A360 Team was a brand new online collaboration and delivery platform from Autodesk that leveraged C4R (collaboration for Revit). This allowed teams to collaborate with a cloud based central model and freed the teams up from having to exchange background files every week. Brentwood Tower 3 was the first large scale project at Stantec to leverage this tool and explore all of its features with my advocacy and interest for better collaboration.

Capturing the markup process has been an endeavor that I have been continually searching for better ways to solve with technology. The industry is stuck in a very old fashion of putting red ink on paper, or digital red ink on PDFs but there has yet to be a truly intelligent way to capture the process and store the completion in a database of sorts. There are other tools, like Revizto, that do solve that very problem that I'm currently attempting to advocate for. BIM360's commenting feature is a big more like a social media platform and not a functional capture but it's ease of access is unprecedented. Log into a website on any device and start marking up drawings. It's incredible.

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I was interviewed along with my colleague, Felix Tan, on our success with BIM360 Team at Autodesk University in 2016. This video continued to be their marketing piece for BIM360 through 2018.