The positive experiences Gilbane Building Company is realizing with prefabrication and building information modeling (BIM), as described in the Autodesk Redshift article “4 Ways Prefabrication and Modern Construction Methods Will …
A Brief History of Prefabrication
Prefabrication is not a new concept. In fact, its use is documented as far back as 1624 with a panelized wood house shipped from England to Massachusetts. Over the next …
Moneyball, MEP and eVolve
Billy Beane of Moneyball fame spoke at Connect & Construct Summit , the opening day of Autodesk University 2019. For those of you who are not baseball fans, Billy was …
Reducing the Top 6 Construction Risks
Time, quality, cost. Small words with large implications on a construction project. Risk arising from them sends chills up the spine of every project manager out there. Since risk is …
4 Best Practices for Managing Offsite Prefabrication
Prefabrication involves constructing chunks of a project in a factory or other location separate from the main project site, then hauling them to the jobsite at the right time in …
Transitioning from traditional FAB to a BIM-driven workflow
The payoff for transforming your fabrication workflow from a traditional paper-based method to a digitally driven fabrication workflow can be well worth the effort in time and materials savings alone. …
Tagging eVolve Points in Revit
If you’d like a little help annotating your points you’ve placed in your Revit model, check out David Ronson’s newest how-to video “Tagging eV_Points Family in eVolve MEP.” In this …
Improving Job Site Safety Using BIM Technology
Adopting the building information modeling (BIM) process isn’t just about compressing a project’s schedule, reducing costs and improving productivity. Metrics show that using BIM can also make the construction jobsite …
Prefabrication in Construction – Will it Last This Time Around?
Prefabricated construction is not a new concept. I remember dozens of families in my home region of central Pennsylvania buying “modulars” back in the 1960s and 70s. Buying a modular …
Fabrication Bearer Lengths in Revit using eVolve MEP
A question that sometimes comes up in classes and demos revolves around dimensioning the total bearer length and getting the information on drawing sheets and schedules. The problem originates from …