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Professor Mohammed Dulaimi
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Dubai Past

Dubai Present Dubai a traditional trading city, developed excellence inlogistics and supply chain management, in addition totourism.
 Abu Dhabi major oil and gas producer, investing in

manufacturing (oil and gas obviously), renewableenergy (MASDAR), Aluminium, Aerospace,..etc.
 Sharjah is the third largest economy with concentrationof SME (about 85% of the UAE’s)2

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 A survey of innovation confidence (2007)

measured the willingness of people and nations toaccommodate innovation.
 UAE ranked 1 out of 20 with a score of 76

compared to 44 Finland, 68 Brazil, 60 China, 58
US, and 55 UK.

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 The most dominating clients in construction

are public organizations and “semi public”
organizations.
 Understand the affect of the demographics ofthe country on the public client priorities
 Key to success of business is in the ability tounderstand the clients’ priorities, mind sets,concerns and aspirations.

 Clients would support innovation but theconsultants and contractors are expected totake the risk of innovation
 Case Study: Public Private Partnership Project The client did not want to take risk for◦ Fluctuation of prices◦ Losing jobs for locals◦ The private consortium failed

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 German Consultant working for 5 years inUAE
 Completed major projects successfully but

all were for German clients!
 Failed to build a strong relationship with thelocal client.
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 Dominated by foreigners many throughJoint Ventures, 51% local- 49% Foreign Profit sharing not necessarily aligned withpercentage ownership which gives more
freedom for foreign partner to operate Examples: Belhasa-SIX, Al-Futtaim Carillion,ASGC

 Dominated by traditional Design-bid-Build.
 Consultants work with the client to develop

designs
 Competitive bidding is dominant, lowest priceis king
 Tried Partnering with mixed results
 The MENA region is interested in PPP in a bigway

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 In 2006 the UAE committed itself to address

the massive environmental footprint it has
 Construction boom made big contribution tothis footprint.
◦ Foreign designs were copied,◦ Envelops that fit the climate of cities such as that ofLondon and◦ Designers were a bit tardy with orientation

Case Studies

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Project Type: Sustainable
Residential Masterplan
Client: Dubai Properties
Design leader: X-Architects
Sub Consultants: Buro
Happold, SMAQ, Reflexion,
Johannes Grothaus
Location: Dubailand, Dubai

Factual Data

Xeritown

 Client Brief: Mixed used development, 59 hectares,

housing 7000 people.
 The Client told us “this is the land. Show us what

you can do” (Senior Architect).
 X Architects, a local firm, founded 2003, its strategy

is based on research and collaboration
 Invest in R&D and strong links with universities8

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 Client is seen as a collaborator, rather than customer,

taking part in “idea evaluation”
 No iconic design but to “let the built environment

emerge from the context”.
 The designer need to show their ability in creating a

micro-climate that is comfortable for people and energy
efficient in the harsh weather of Dubai
 X Architects leading role ensured the centre of gravity

was strongly and firmly in Dubai

Client: RTA
Architect: Aedas
Architect of record: Rafael Viñoly
Architects
Associate architect: Carla Bechelli
Architects
Interior designer: KCA International
Engineer(s): Atkins
General contractor:Dubai Rail Link (DURL)
Consortium
CAD system, project management,..etc: AutoCAD, Aconex

Factual Data

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 An iconic representation of an aspect from theheritage of Dubai.
 Aedas, formed in 2002 (HK+UK), global firm

 It is a more “mature” organisation
 Station Architects were in Singapore, UK

teams designed the depots & provided themodelling support
 Centre of gravity was not in Dubai

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 The industry is almost all foreigners
 An integration challenge far more complex

than just language differences.
 Innovation faces challenge as to which

standard to follow, e.g. sustainability (LEED,BREEAM,..etc)
 BIM is likely to face the same problem.

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 Many companies are embracing BIM in theGCC region and UAE
 The driver for such move is two fold

◦ Consultants and contractors embracing BIM as thenorm at their own home country.
◦ Major clients, especially public, are demanding theuse of BIM to realise the expected benefits.
 Major challenge is the lack of readiness ofindustry at SME levels.

 An infrastructure mega project with simple

Architectural design, complicated systems
and complicated operational requirements.
 BIM is critical to project success in enabling

fast tracking through early detection of
clashes in the complicated design Creating confidence to start construction ofearly packages and allow early completion.

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 Convincing and enabling the different

subcontractors and consultants to work on thesame platform Availability of the hardware needed to navigate

easily through the project Lack of experience meant some clashes in thedesign went undetected because designers
misread them
◦ More traditional/manual checking was done Very helpful in design review
 Most of the design clashes were detected Valuable lessons were learned by staff giving

them the confidence to use BIM in the future.
 Now the client has made the use of BIM

mandatory for all mega projects

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CASE STUDY OF
BIM IMPLEMENTATION

Presentation in Collaboration withHASSAN HELMY, PMP
Assistant Vice President, Projacs InternationalAnd

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This case study discusses how the owner/PM initiated theBIM effort on NBK project after design using 2D tools had
already started and was at final stages, and how BIM wasintegrated into the design and construction of the project.
DESIGN

BIM

CONSTRUCTION

HOW BIM WAS INTEGRATED INTO THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE PROJECT?

PROJECT OVERVIEW

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Project Name:NBK New Headquarters

Location:

KuwaitConstruction Cost:

US$ 400 Million

Build-Up Area:

130,000 m²

Project Delivery:

Multi-Packaging

LEED:Gold Certificate.

Bid-Packaging
StrategyOwner:

National Bank of Kuwait

Project Manager:

Projacs International ,Kuwait

Architect:

Foster + Partners, London

Engineer:

Buro Happold, London

BIM Consultant:

BIMES, UAE & Egypt

Contractor:

Ahmadiah Contracting & Trading

Bid-Packaging
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NBK PROJECT ANIMATED
METHOD STATEMENT(SAMSUNG C&T)

The architects wished to retain control of the external
geometry of the tower’s envelope while the engineers
would design the structural system to support theenvelope. A hypothetical boundary surface was discussed
that separated the domain of engineering responsibility
from that of the architects.

The geometry of this interface layer was controlled by thearchitects and passed to the engineer.
PARAMETRIC DESIGN AND COLLABORATION

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This complex tower’s geometry raised many coordination problems
between architecture and structure and other trades and identifying
those problems proved to be difficult with the traditional 2D CAD
tools. Being responsible for performing design review services,
Projacs had to find a solution to this problem.

INEFFICIENCIESOFTRADITIONAL
PRACTICESINEFFICIENCIES OF TRADITIONAL PRACTICES IN COORDINATION REVIEW

Full BIM Implementation(Construction Phase)
Coordination/ Clash Detection(pre-construction).Construction planning (4D).Use of design model as basis
for fabricated components.Integration with facility management.Discovery of design errors and omissions
before construction

Auto- generated
Quantity Take Off(pre- construction).Automatic corrections when changes
are made to design.Extraction of accurate
bills of quantities (5D)

.Generation of accurate and consistent
2D drawings at any stageNBK PROJECT- BIM TARGETS

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The BIM consultant initially developed design model, using
ARCHICAD and TEKLA software, based on the 2D CAD drawingsof the project. The first versions of the BIM model, prepared by theBIM Consultant, were unexpected….

LOD 200 MODELNBK PROJECT- IMAGE OF EARLY DESIGN BIM MODEL (PRE-CONSTRUCTION PHASE)

HVAC

CLASH
DETECTIONNBK PROJECT- STRUCTURE/ MEP 3D COORDINATION REVIEW USING BIM MODEL19

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CLASH
DETECTED

CLASH
DETECTIONNBK PROJECT- STRUCTURE/ MEP 3D COORDINATION REVIEW USING BIM MODEL

CLASH
DETECTEDDESIGNDESIGN
BIM MODELBIM MODELSteel
Column

CLASHDETECTIONNBK PROJECT- STRUCTURE 3D COORDINATION REVIEW USING BIM MODEL20

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Steel
CLASH
DETECTED

Concrete
Column

HVAC

AirHandlingUnit

CLASH
DETECTIONPumpNBK PROJECT- STRUCTURE/ MEP 3D COORDINATION REVIEW USING BIM MODEL

Quantity Take OffRealizing the benefits of BIM in clash detection,
the project team decided to explore anotherarea of implementation: quantity take off.
AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF QUANTITIESProjacs requested the BIM consultant to autogenerate quantities for the structural steelworksin orderto verify thosepreparedmanually.

BIM QUANTITY TAKE OFF(PRE-CONSTRUCTION PHASE)

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TENDER PHASE

Tender Stage:
Also realizing the benefits of BIM in planning sequencing, Projacs
requested bidders during tender stage to submit an animatedmethod statement.

TENDER STAGE (PRE-CONSTRUCTION PHASE)

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One of the main challenges for the project team (especially thecontractor who was using BIM for the first time on a large complexproject) was transitioning from 2D CAD environment to 3D BIM modelsystem.

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TRANSITIONING FROM 2D CAD ENVIRONMENT TO BIM MODEL SYSTEMThe below organizations were extremely helpful and madesignificant efforts to share their stories and provide images,
information, and important insights to this case study.

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 mohammed.dulaimi@buid.ac.ae

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