Onuma - New Orleans

New Orleans - March 2 - April 2, 2008

The Scenario

Who can Play:

Assessors
Appraisers
Architects
Brokers
Building Inspectors
Building Product Suppliers
City Agencies
Developers
Economists
Emergency Responders
Engineers
Facility Managers
Landlords
Lenders
Other city and state agencies (domestic and international)
Owners of Existing Properties
Planners
Tenants

The BIMstorm™ is a non-linear process with multiple activities and teams working in parallel in real time. The intent is to demonstrate the potential of real time collaboration using open standards and to define and explore workflows that will support the industry in a multitude of ways.

Response to Program Requirements
Urban design
Sustainability
Integrated Practice and Collaboration
2030 Carbon Neutral Goals
Level of interaction with multiple teams and processes

Playing Field

Building Information Modeling (BIM)
Open-standards exchanges using IFC for BIM

Tools
Note: It is not necessary to know all of these tools. Excel and basic internet navigation are all that's necessary.
Archicad
Autodesk Revit Architecture
Autodesk Revit Structural
Camtasia
DDS CAD
DDS IFCViewer
Excel
Ecotect
EliteCAD
ESRI
Gehry Technologies
Google Docs
Google Earth
Google Maps
Google SketchUp
GoToMeeting
Graphisoft
Green Building Studio
iPhone
Nemetschek IFC Viewer
OPS Editor
OPS Reader
OPS Web Feature Service
OPS Forum
SketchUP
Skype
Solibri
Tekla Structures
VectorWorks
Zoho Docs

The ONUMA (OPS) IFC Model Server will be used by all entries to geo-spatially locate projects and manage project data in one centrally accessible place for all teams.
- Open Geospatial Exchange Web Feature Services (WFS) will be used
- Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) files for exchange
- CITYGML files for GIS
- KML for Google Earth

Traditional Tools
Hand Sketching

About
The building industry is being equipped with nascent tools that radically improve design, construction and operation.

To help people understand the tools available, how to use them and the benefits they offer society, a series of large-scale educational exercises are planned to demonstrate improved productivity and profitability available today.

The BIMstorm™ engages architects, engineers, contractors, developers, building owners, urban planners, code officials, lawyers, insurers and other building industry professionals in accelerated design and analysis.

Pre-registered professionals will interact with a core team to provide their expertise and advice for the virtual design project.

The BIMstorm™ will demonstrate the high level of meaningful, large-scale design that can be created in a short period of time when professionals are organized using new process enabled by advanced technologies.

Participants will Learn How

Data from Excel spread sheets can easily be imported to design software to generate meaningful, 3D massing models
People without CAD experience can shape 3D massing models and land them on Google Earth to engage urban planners, government officials and the general public
Robust open-standards are for data exchange, allowing altered massing models that can be exported to a variety of design and analysis software
Data exchange provides ample information to check assumptions and feasibility with little or no lag time
Cost estimates can be accurate for developers to calculate business, environmental and societal Return on Investment

Results

Floor and site plans
3D Building Information Models with data
How the project fits on the site and in the context of the city, shown in Google Earth.
Facility Square Footage Reports
Preliminary Cost
Code Compliance Reports
Energy calculations
Carbon Footprint
LEEDS
Other Reports

How to Play in BIMStorm™ New Orleans: (Requires Pre-Qualification)

P1. Create Master Plan
P2. Define a Project
P3. Excel Upload to OPS
P4. View and Interact with Reports
P5. Design Project(s)
P6. Use BIM to Design Project(s)
P7. Use BIM and OPS to Design
P8. Manage Projects in OPS

P1. Create Master Plan
Utilize urban planning principals to define the zoning and overall vision of the project area. This will form the basis of requirements that all projects in the area will follow.
Who: City agencies, master planners and the community
When: Between March 2, 2008 and April 2, 2008.

Result: Each property within the BIMStorm™ will have a defined use. Overall plan in place. Analysis prior to any detail building designs are started is also possible. For example for fire departments to define where optimal locations for their facilities will be. Plans will be inserted into OPS and made available online through the BIM on Demand page:
http://onuma.com/products/BimReports.php

P2. Define a Project
In narrative format or with optional data such as total area or total number of rooms, such as 400 room hotel, and other basic information about a project.
Who: Developers and owners can post project requests here:
http://www.onuma.com/products/BIMonDemand.php
When: Between March 2, 2008 and March 29, 2008,
make a request before the actual BIMStorm™, in a similar sequence to how a project would actually be requested by owners to architects. Once requests are made, the participant can either actively engage in other levels of "Play" or drop back to an "Observe."
Estimated Time: 5 Minutes - One hour depending on the level of detail submitted
Result: Projects will be reviewed for fit into the P1 Master Plan and assigned a site. The project is now available for teams to start working on. If an Excel file is posted, some basic info such as area and initial cost are available in reports.

P3. Excel Upload to OPS
Create Building Program in Excel. Basic Excel skills to fill in program areas. The minimum needed is room names and areas. More detail can be added based on the Excel template on this page:
http://www.onuma.com/products/BimRequests.php

Who: Real Estate Developers, Property Owners and others can post project requests here:
http://www.onuma.com/products/BimRequests.php
When: Requests can occur between March 2, 2008 and March 29, 2008, before the actual BIMStorm™, similar to how a project would be requested by owners to architects.
Estimated Time: Depending on the Excel file level of detail, it could range from a few minutes to 30 minutes to prepare. Option to locate the Excel file on Google Earth will take an extra 5 minutes per site.
Result: Individual project requirements are loaded into OPS and ready for the design teams to work on. Projects will be reviewed by the BIMStorm™ team for inclusion into the project area.

P4. View and Interact with Projects
Reports of project progress can be downloaded live as they are available here:
http://onuma.com/products/BimReports.php
These will include reports such as: Cost Estimates, Energy Analysis, and Google Earth Files The reports will change as the various teams work on the projects. Viewers can download the various reports, analyze them and post comments or files back to OPS. For example, an architect may define the project in OPS, then an appraiser may download various reports from the project, create a new PDF document of an appraisal report and post their comments back to OPS attached to that project.
Alternatively the BIMstorm™ forum at:
http://onuma.com/forum/
Can be used for discussions about reports.

Who: Pre-Qualified Users
How to Qualify Review material from BIMStorm LAX, watch videos, read forum. Apply processes from LAX to New Orleans.
When: March 2, 2008 - April 2, 2008
Estimated Time: Varies. Depends on the level of interaction. It could be as simple as downloading a report and giving immediate feedback, or a longer sequence of interaction.
Result: The data from OPS would be available to various experts who can interact with the data and respond. The responses will be associated with the projects.

P5. Design Project(s)
No technology expertise needed. Only design skills. However, you must work with a team that has other capabilities to get your design into BIM and OPS.
Who: Pre-Qualified Architects and Planners
How to Qualify Submit a short proposal of what you are going to design. Make it relevant to New Orleans. Review material from BIMStorm LAX, watch videos, read forum. Apply processes from LAX to New Orleans.
When: March 2, 2008 - April 2, 2008
Estimated Time: Varies
Result: Completed design that would then be handed to team using BIM or OPS.

P6. Use BIM to Design Project(s)
The process could start from BIM tools such as ArchiCAD, Revit or VectorWorks. For example one of the projects could be for a retirement community. An architect that may specialize in retirement communities may be using Revit. The BIMStorm™ project would have a site defined and the architect would design a project for the site using Revit.
Who: Pre-Qualified Architects and Planners
How to Qualify Submit a short proposal of what you are going to design. Make it relevant to New Orleans. Review material from BIMStorm LAX, watch videos, read forum. Apply processes from LAX to New Orleans.
When: March 2, 2008 - April 2, 2008
Estimated Time: Varies depending on the level of detail of the submittal.
Result: Project(s) submitted to BIMStorm™

P7. Use BIM and OPS to Design
Go to web site:
http://www.onuma.com/products/WfsCatalog.php
using group name: BIMstorm LAX
Password: Will be provided to registered Players and Observers
Download BIM IFC files, import to Revit or other BIM Application
Design in BIM
Post results back to OPS
Individual teams can decide what to “design” using BIM. Some teams may want to reformat the project using the program requirements defined in the IFC file from OPS and post their suggestions. Others may only focus on the form of the building from a master planning perspective and others may want to get into the interior of the building and layout. There are no set minimums.
Who: Pre-Qualified, Architect, Engineers
How to Qualify

Submit a short proposal of what you are going to design.
Make it relevant to New Orleans. Review material from BIMStorm LAX, watch videos, read forum.
Apply processes from LAX to New Orleans.
P7 players must have successfully placed projects using OPS in previous BIMStorm, or demonstrate by March 14, that they can place projects in this BIMStorm.
Players must have a one year OPS Editor Pro, Studio Pro or Enterprise. One month accounts from BIMStorm LAX will not work.

When: March 2, 2008 - April 2, 2008
Estimated Time: Varies depending on level of detail.
Result: Completed design of project

P8. Manage Projects in OPS
OPS capable users will be interacting with all the data and experts in levels 1-8. Import and export of data from OPS to various tools. Aggregate all projects into OPS for analysis across the entire site.
Who: Pre-Qualified Experts
How to Qualify

Submit a short proposal of what you are going to design.
Make it relevant to New Orleans. Review material from BIMStorm LAX, watch videos, read forum.
Apply processes from LAX to New Orleans.
P8 players must have successfully placed projects using OPS in previous BIMStorm, or demonstrate by March 14, that they can place projects in this BIMStorm.
Players must have a one year OPS Editor Pro, Studio Pro or Enterprise. One month accounts from BIMStorm LAX will not work.

When: Feb. 15, 2008 - April 30, 2008
Estimated Time: Varies depending on level of detail
Result: Completed BIMStorm™