“We’re actually working in the space in all the phases every day for every type of client. That really helps us understand the challenges not only from an organization standpoint, but also from a user standpoint, so that helps us be a little bit more defined in what our solution is.” many cutting edge technologies that provided the owner transparency into the design and construction phases. Some of these notable softwares were Autodesk A360 for model, data and document management, as well as Revizto for design intent and drawing visualization. This project was setup as a design assist where the sub-contractors were constantly providing feedback and input into the design of the MEP/FP [Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing/ Fire Protec- tion] systems. We also leveraged virtual reality and realistic walkthroughs to the owner and other stakeholders to gain sign-off and replaced some need for the creation of typical area mock-ups. These mock-ups can generally be very costly.” Di Iorio equates the evolution of his business process with the reality of BIM: “You have to go through growing pains with business. There’s no way around that, right? You could cut maybe three years off of six years of pain. But the bottom line is no matter what, you have to live through it. You really have to use the products and go through the pain. All around the world architects use the product, yet engineers only very little, and so the process really is not going to work unless the whole design community uses the product cor- rectly.” It is in this vein of patience and progressive modelling that ENGworks has begun “pushing the end envelope of the life cycle,” Di Iorio insists, and rethinking “facility management” in business
global leaders like TCC and Fortune 500s throughout the United States affirms their engineering profession- als’ reputation for transcending the usual reach of BIM competitors into multiple business sectors. “We have different partners. We partner with the big software companies, like Trimble and Autodesk ; we get in with the partners of our big clients and contractors. We’re working on elec- trical and coordination at the new Orlando airport expansion and we’ve worked on LAX and O’Hare.” Di Iorio is also quick to sing the praises of the Microsoft Data Center in Illinois, a project where ENGworks provided an on-site team, 3D modeling, coor- dination, installation drawings for the Electrical Contractor, and real-time architectural/structural modeling adjustments for the General Con- tractor, Turner Construction . The future path for ENGworks will continue along its current domestic and international trajectories. Di Iorio and his team feel strongly that there is a great global knowledge gap in the BIM industry and that an American company like ENGworks is in the perfect position to close it by modelling its holistic BIM approach. “The U.S. is the most advanced as in knowledge and adoption because we’ve just been doing it longer. When you go into the U.K. and Aus- tralia, you have good knowledge and you have increasing adoption. South America and China, when you go into those spaces they want to use it and they’re starting to use it on the construction side but the design side and especially the engineering is very early in its action so it really matters where you are in the globe,” argues Di Iorio. For Mercy Hospital and Medical Center (MHMC), Illinois, ENGworks developed a complete lifecycle exe- cution plan for a large patient tower addition and implemented it through design and construction. “ ENGworks also provided assistance to the Archi- tects-Engineers (A/E) team for design coordination, model and data man- agement,” Di Iorio says. “We used
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