FEBRUARY - 2022CONSTRUCTIONTECHREVIEW.COM9Material Procurementteam can schedule all the pre-fabrication across our company on one common platform. This ability to be transparent enables us to flatten our labor curve and minimize the amount of overtime hours and fatigue to our employees. I am pretty confident in saying that this would be a time consuming and a difficult task to accomplish without the BIM metadata helping us understand metrics like: Pounds of sheetmetal, Quantities of welded pipe,Linear footage and Diameter Inches of planned pre-fabrication, and other such volumetric information that is critical to keep our manufacturing team on time and successful.At ColonialWebb, our goal is to model as we install. Another advantage of taking our BIM efforts to the next level is that we are able to link data dashboards directly to our model to generate material lists for quoting and purchasing materials on our projectsAt ColonialWebb, our goal is to model as we install. Another advantage of taking our BIM efforts to the next level is that we are able to link data dashboards directly to our model to generate material lists for quoting and purchasing materials on our projects. We are easily able to filter down material lists by categories such as Floor/Trade/Materials our purchasing agents can release these orders to our shop and field teams in a manner that coincides with performing their installs.Having the BIM model coordinated helps our company minimize the amount of material overage and directly leads to savings both by buying exactly what we need to build the system, as well as optimizing our systems during the initial stages of modeling. We can cut our material cost down, which translates to labor savings and a more efficient project for the customer.Fabrication and Installation TrackingThe latest generation of Building Information Modeling technology, we are incorporating at ColonialWebb are cloud based model tools to help our project teams track the progress of jobs by communicating through a data driven cloud based selection interface. This tool was developed by our corporate owners, and allows our teams to select model elements and tag them with data fields once the work is complete for the referenced elements. The interface can be accessed by teammates even without CAD software, and brings us closer to a new dawn of project tracking. We track the reported model information closer to real time, which allows us to provide and verify forecasts of project completion in a digital manner.The construction technology sector is an extremely exciting space to be in at ColonialWebb. We are envisioning and creating applications for our business through the BIM model at warp speed. Our ColonialWebb leaders provide our family with the freedom and innovative environment to create real competitive advantages in our industry. We pride ourselves on utilizing the BIM model as a project asset for coordination, planning, purchasing, and tracking/forecasting. We are looking toward the future, while staying grounded in our present capabilities, staring through the lens of our virtual model, and aiming our sights on making the built world a better place for our communities.
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