“You mentioned that to me once,” said Musolino in response. “I still remember it; on the typical job if we inherit someone else’s design and then have to go build it, we’ll see about 4,000 clashes on average. Versus that first MEP Design Build job we coordinated in-house.”
Lemaster replied, “Yeah, less than 200 clashes on that job.”
“That’s a huge difference, especially when it’s also about efficiency and labor,” said Musolino. “Our only asset is our quality people, our teams. The experts we count on are limited. And it takes a long time to develop these complex buildings. So to have a person on the job who only has 200 clashes or issues to resolve instead of 4,000, they could build 20 jobs instead of one.”
The team nodded in agreement while also acknowledging the role technology plays in unified efforts.
“And it allows the various trades to interact,” added Musolino. “Which is representative of project-based and process-based consolidation. We can take things from soup to nuts with what we’re calling “BIM-driven Ops”. Here, we use our technology to take the design, do real-time estimates on the fly, take-off quantities, and do price-checks all the way through to delivering a construction estimate.”
From clash detection during design to technology paving the way for BIM-driven ops, the value became clear throughout the conversation. “Through our unified approach, we’re shortening the timeline so there’s less overhead costs to carry during the whole process,” concluded Zeltser.
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