Jennifer Wools, Director, North Reading Virtual Planning and Construction Group, Headquarters The Columbia Construction Company in Massachusetts put her in a job.
In front of her is a life science project that requires 60,000 feet of linear process piping – worth over 11 miles – must Install in a short time.
The renovation of a 60,000-square-foot facility for vaccine production in the 1980s raised the thorny Extraordinarily difficult: The plumbing is complex, and facilities in the Boston area need to be highly specialized.
In addition, due to its well-equipped facilities, the site includes three different processing laboratories with mezzanine levels. Because everything about this project was so complex and specialized, there were problems with using traditional methods, Wools said.
“The 2D drawing just didn’t cut it,” says Wools.
She turned to reality capture technology for as-built Avvir from New York City to help with pipeline layering, September 2021 Start working with the company and end in May 2022. Wooles said the company’s software took a heavy load off her shoulders.
Once a week, the team will walk through the building using a lidar scanner that uses a laser to collect the space Information about a given area. The scans will be sent to Avvir, and the team and stakeholders will then be able to view the finished product — a combination of customer-provided models and reality-captured data.
This program is able to view both lidar scans and plans, and can compare the as-built version with the planned version of the build.
3D Pipeline
Avvir claims to provide “BIM-centric reality analysis”, including other contractors such as Skanska, AECOM and DPR as their client. Wooles’ team used the software to check their construction, especially the location of the pipes. The software can be accurate to ⅛ inch lengths and can tell if the layout of the pipe deviates from the plan for how it was installed.
Avvir’s software can detect how far the pipes are placed from the plan. Permission granted by Avvir
Columbia is also at the 3rd in Cambridge, Massachusetts The software was used in two projects. Wooles said the data helped create a collaborative environment between the relevant owners of the second project and the Columbia team.
” being able to grab and pull out the diagrams and show them in the model, ‘Hey, this is still The plumbing that has to be [installed],’ that’s a huge benefit,” Wools said.
According to a Colombia/Avvir Case Study. Additionally, the software can help Colombia find issues that require immediate attention.
Wooles said the project that benefited the most, Avvir, was the most complex, and the Colombian team was discussing what would be best for each project.
Data Challenge
There were some pain points initially, Wooles said, with so much data being sent to users, and the steep learning curve at first, Wooles said. However, once the system is finalized, the environment becomes collaborative.
“There was a little bit of growing pains in the process, but I think it pretty much allowed us to get out of each other’s differences ideas and have [a good] level of comfort. If I can’t keep up with them, or if they need to do something for me, then we’ll have an open conversation,” Wools said.
