Cover Story:
Changing the Risk Equation on Projects Involving Underground Utilities
by Andrew D. Lund
It all started over 40 years ago, when Alan Witten and Tony Devaney roomed together at Rochester University.
3D Enabled Lean, Collaborative Design-Build Delivery
By Jack Hallman, Alex Ivanikiw, and Robert J. Mauck, AIA, P.E.
Five years ago the World Wide Facilities Group (WFG) of GM launched Virtual Factory — an initiative to bring the same lean (waste eliminating) and 3D math-based advantages to construction that their product colleagues had achieved in manufacturing — where waste accounts for 26 percent of the value stream vs. 57 percent of the construction supply chain.
Designing Smart Greatly Improves the Delivery Process
By James G. (Jim) Jacobi, P.E.
The AEC industry recently has been incorporating an emerging combination of technology and process known as Building Information Modeling, or BIM for short.