The Bradley BIM Initiative has partnered with SysQue to provide “prefabrication-ready” Bradley product models in both;

• SysQue (Revit MEP format \ RFA) and
• Autodesk Fabrication (AutoCAD format \ DWG-ITM).

— Skanska Revit-MEP Prefabrication | BIM Means Business ASPE Magazine —

The initial SysQue Bradley Llibrary will feature these Bradley product models:

• Thermostatic Mixing Valves (TMV)
• Shower Valves
• Hose / Supply Boxes
• Dialysis Boxes
• Recirculation (Mixing) Stations (initial offering)

While these products exist in the Bradley Revit Library; these models were built by SysQue to meet the specific fabrication requirements of SysQue and/or Autodesk Fabrication.

Visit our Bradley BIM for Design-Build | IPD Page to learn how Bradley BIM \ Bradley Corporation is expanding its support for Design-Build, Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) and Prefabrication processes.

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Three Winning Advantages of BIM Software Rental Licensing

My April Sourcceable.net article highlights three financial situations; where current BIM-CAD software licensing; became an extreme financial liability. It recently affected hundreds of firms and thousands of design, engineering and construction professionals.

BIM and CAD software licensing has been transitioning toward subscription-only programs. These programs are best described as pay-as-you-go, software rental, subscription or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) programs.

In 2016, Autodesk Subscription Licensing Programs begin a major transition to BIM-CAD software rental or pay-as-you-go licensing programs. As new licensing is incrementally rolled out, this model will eventually become the standard software delivery-access process for design professionals.

If Revit-AutoCAD software rental licensing had been available prior to 2009 –the financial  and employment impact on the AECO market would have been different. It affected hundreds of my clients, colleagues and my career. Which is why the article is titled;

Three Winning Advantages of BIM Software Rental Licensing

Daniel Hughes April BIM Article for Sourceable.net

My 30-Year Journey of Autodesk Licensing – It’s Time for a Transition

My first PC CAD software license was AutoCAD 1.x (1984) and my first BIM software license was Revit 4.0 (2002) The AutoCAD software was a perpetual license but the Revit license was an annual subscription (rental) license.

The AutoCAD perpetual license worked 24\7\365 –and allowed us to choose when or if we upgraded to the next software version. The Revit subscription (rental) license worked for 12 months and then required payment to run for another 12 months.

There was the infamous AutoCAD 2.5x software license; that included a hardware lock (licensing) device. The device connected to the computer’s parallel port (printer) to verify that it was a legal license. Without the hardware lock, the CAD software license would not to run. Eventually, Autodesk issued authentication codes with software licenses; that needed to be entered at the time of installation.

— Revit 2016 – AutoCAD 2016 Software Licensing | Reducing Cost of Ownership —

My Revit subscription (rental) license periodically “pinged” the Revit Corporate web license server to authenticate my laptop license. However, a few times when Revit tried to authenticate the license; I was not connected to the internet.

In those situations; the Revit license operated only in “Demo Mode” and could not save changes to the project file. I needed to connect my laptop to the internet to authenticate my license to obtain “Edit Mode” functionality for my project.

Eventually, Autodesk switched Revit to a perpetual license –but maintained both the annual version updates and the upward-only file compatibility process started by Revit.

As Autodesk transitions its software to the cloud to offer the benefits of Revit Cloud  Computing –rental software licensing delivers 3 financial and strategic benefits:

Three Winning Advantages of BIM Software Rental Licensing

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Greetings & Welcome to the Bradley Revit – BIM Resource Portal

The Bradley Revit-BIM Family Library has more than 1,000 Revit Family Models; representing 10′s of thousands of Bradley Corporation’s Commercial Plumbing Fixtures and Washroom Accessories Products.

I encourage BIM and VDC Managers to visit the Bradley BIM FAQs Page.  It provides a technical overview of Bradley’s Revit modeling standards and quality assurance procedures.

Daniel Hughes | Bradley Corporate BIM Strategist

Image Gallery | Bradley Revit Product Models

• For technical assistance with our Revit Library, please visit our Contact Us Page.

• Speaker or Article requests may be submitted through the Speaker-Author Page.

• Bradley BIM Academy Onsite \ Online Class requests via Education-Consulting Page.

Welcome to Ms Yang Clark, Bradley International Business Development Manager.

Based in the United States, Yang Clark will be serving the global architects and engineers headquartered in the U.S.A., United Kingdom (UK) and Canada –with international projects based in  Latin America, the Middle East, Australia and Asia projects.

Ms Clark’s 15+ years of global specifications and project experience has given her keen insight to cultural dynamics, international construction trends and customer requirements.

Since January, she’s been visiting US design firms with international projects; while visiting project sites & design shows in Europe, UK and Dubai.

Contact information for Ms Clark and  key Bradley International Team members is located on Page 2 (right margin) of the Bradley Bradley Passport.

Download Bradley Passport 2015 1st Quarter International Newsletter 

The 2015 Q1 Bradley Passport Edition highlights:

1. Ms Yang Clark joining the Bradley International Team as Business Development Manager
2. the New Bradley ELX Express Lavatory System,
3. New Terreon Solid Surface Material & TerreonRE Recycled Solid Surface Material Colors and
4. the international trade conferences attended by Bradley  International Team.

The Express ELX-Series Lavatory Revit family models are available for download from the Express Lavatory Systems – Revit Library.

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A LinkedIn connection recently sent me this message: I’m seeking helpful tips about network and hardware requirements for best performance in Revit model links.

Our model is almost 400MB size and we’re trying to find a solution through changes in the network hardware. We have a network speed of 1GB and we are facing a problem of Revit crashing when synchronizing to central model especially the MEP. While we’re working with Autodesk, have you any suggestions?

Update: Thank you Daniel, these suggestions were helpful.

Here are the Revit worksharing suggestions that I sent via LinkedIn.

1. Revit performs best with lots of RAM, Fast Hard Drives with a high percentage of open file space, and Fast Network Connections (1GB)

2. Install 16, 24 or 32 GB of RAM on the local PCs, obviously using a 64-Bit OS & 64-bit Revit software. RAM is a one-time purchase. The ongoing mounting costs of downtime and troubleshooting user issues due to lack of RAM –its pays for itself with one “downtime event”. The larger firms that I’ve visited (last 12 months) have minimum RAM specifications of 24-32GB of RAM.

3. Configure the local computer’s Paging File, file size –to be equal to the “Recommended” size in the  Virtual Memory dialog box.

Control Panel > System > Advanced Systems Settings

(Verify there’s enough open disk space & verify w/ IT Manager prior to using this)

4. Selective purging of unused content within the project file to minimize file size. We recommended this process at project milestones: Schematics, DD, CD and/or document releases or document printing.

5. Use a Save-to-Central and select the Compact File Option to reduce Revit project file size regularly. This option works with non-workset configured Revit Project files (RVT) and/or Revit Family (RFA) files — to reduce file size.

6. Create a schedule for users to stagger their Save-to-Central – so 2 or more users are not waiting or  saving to central at the same time.

7. I suggest creating a new local file for each user a few times per month. The local files become bloated and less efficient over time. Note: Save to-Central prior to creating new local project files.

8. The Ideate Tech Support Article; “The Importance of Auditing Revit Models” Tip#3 reviews auditing a Revit  to improve performance.

Tip #3: If your Revit model is starting to take its time opening or you notice general performance issues, then auditing it may improve the time it takes to open your project.

9. Consider performing a  monthly Clean Disk and Defragment routine on each local computer to remove all temp files. Prior to running this routine, EXIT all software  programs and close ALL files.

10. Review your Revit Workset organization  against your Revit project workflow. Do they include too much information; that users don’t always need to load. If you distributed the Revit content into more, but smaller worksets –does that perform better?

10. Make sure that ALL Worksets don’t load when opening a Revit project file. We usually set the structural grid to auto-load so we knew where we were in the building. Then request users to manually load what they need.

11. Make sure each Linked CAD file is assigned its own workset–as CAD files can bog down a Save-to-Central

12. Make sure each Linked Revit model file is assigned its own workset including any terrain or landscaping files.

13. Does the Server have a high percentage of open disk space

14. Does the Server have disk speeds faster than the local PCs

15. Are the Server specifications better than the Local PCs?

16. Are you working in the cloud or remotely? How fast are your web connections to the remote server?

17. Make sure the server is not performing file backup-maintenance or running virus scans during working hours. I’ve personally encountered networks; that started file backup routines and/or virus scans on the server, over the lunch hour — which completed later in the afternoon.

18. Verify Folder \ File \ User Permissions; that may block or slow a Save-to-Central.  Consider reviewing this tech doc; “File not saved during synchronize with central troubleshooting“.

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Free Bradley BIM Flash Drives (1,000 Revit Families) are joining the 2015 BradVan BLITZ | National Summer – Late Fall Tour.

BIM Flash drives include more 1GB of content including the Bradley Revit Library of 1,000 families, Bradley Revit Material Library, Bradley BIM newsletters, links to Revit tutorials, videos and much more.

4th Generation BradVan Mobile Showrooms have a variety of Bradley commercial plumbing & Washroom products installed within the showroom. Showrooms vary with selected products.

The BradVan fleet consists of 3 mobile environmentally-controlled Bradley product showrooms. They will be making scheduled visits (by request) to architects, engineers, contractors and facility owners at their offices across the US and parts of Canada.

Review BradVan Travel Calendars below, then use the Request Forms below to request a convenient site visit to your office.

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2015 BradVan BLITZ | Mobile Showroom Travel Calendars

2015 BradVan BLITZ — EASTERN Region Travel Schedule

2015 BradVan BLITZ — CENTRAL Region Travel Schedule

 2015 BradVan BLITZ — WESTERN Region Travel Schedule

 2015 BradVan BLITZ — CANADA Region Travel Schedule

BradVan Mobile Showroom | Onsite Visit Request Form

Please Contact John Suberlak via his office number with schedule requests\questions:

Office: 262 532-1039

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My May 2015 Sourcceable.net BIM article features a creative, business development strategy for any firm to transition from AutoCAD to Revit.  More than 15% of my clients initiated and completed this lower-cost Revit implementation strategy; that spans one year.

This process minimizes the initial staff training costs  and non-billable time. It positively engages the owner- executive team as we utilize existing software inventory –while limiting the new equipment investment.

Key to Lowering BIM Software and Implementation Costs

The process features a “Plan B” — for if or when the initial Revit team is feeling overwhelmed by a tight schedule and can’t complete the project in Revit.

It creates initial Revit building component content for the firms’ standard Revit library. The core processes are documented and become the firms’ Standard Revit Processes –defined by each firm’s graphic standards.

The final Revit deliverables are scaleable based on the technical skills of each team. This clearly avoids the one-size-fits-all Revit implementation-training-process.

Best of all, their Revit models were simple. More than a dozen firms initially used only two Revit materials in their models: White Foam Core and Clear Glass. They wanted to produce the digital equivalent of their physical White Foam Core board models.

Discover how firms are winning business while implementing Revit:

Key to Lowering BIM Software and Implementation Costs

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Today’s innovative buildings’ exteriors and interiors are not always designed as  orthogonal or linear –which prompted the design options of the Bradley’s lavatory deck systems.

Bradley Corporation developed an innovative manufacturing processes to create “molded shapes” from engineered stone (natural quartz and granite) to accent linear design or  complement the parabolic curves, arcs and elliptical features within the design interiors.

Evero®, Bradley’s Natural Quartz is the engineered stone within the molded shapes of the Bradley Verge Lavatory System Series.

Bradley Verge VLD-Series:  Product Page | Revit Models

Bradley Verge VGD-Series:  Product Page | Revit Models

Bradley Verge VRD-Series:  Product Page | Revit Models

Terreon®, the Bradley solid surface material produces another series of lavatory systems –that also includes recycled materials in the TerreonRE Material Description selection.

Bradley Advocate AV-Series: Product Page |  Revit Models

Bradley ELX-Express Lavatory System: Product Page | Revit Models

Bradley Frequency Lavatory System: Product Page | Revit Models

Bradley Omnideck Lavatory System: Product Page | Revit Models

Download Bradley HS Undermount Basin Revit Family Library

A 2-year collaborative design and manufacturing project between HOK Product Design and Bradley Corporation –has produced the solid-surface Terreon®,HS Undermount Basin Products with theHS Undermount Basin Revit Library.

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Our sincere thanks to the thousands  of global visitors; that downloaded over 20 Million Bradley Revit family model files from the Bradley Revit Library since 2011.

Bradley Corporation launched the Bradley BIM Initiative in June 2009 with a collaborative team of engineers, product designers, executive marketing & sales professionals. Bradley built from scratch — over 1,000 Revit models from June 2009-2012. Revit models are part of our New Product Launch manufacturing and documentation processes.

Our thanks to the thousands of design, engineering, construction & facility owner professionals; that shared their Revit family requirements and standards with Bradley–

— via phone calls, emails, BIM surveys, support requests, BradVan visits, educational speaking engagements, trade shows & conferences, Autodesk University,  onsite office & project visits since 2009.

Your input from those thousands of conversations helped create;

1) Bradley BIM Resource Portal | 80,000 Unique Visitors (2014) \100’s of Articles

2) Bradley BIM Revit Library | 1000 Families | Bradley BIM 2.0 Library Upgrade (2014)

3) Bradley BIM Revit Library Customer Technical Support \ Online Model Standards

4) Bradley BIM Library – Autodesk Seek from Revit | 89% are Return Clients each month

5) Bradley BIM for Automated Construction Specifications –  e-SPECS

6) Bradley BIM for MEP Prefabrication\SysQue (Revit)\Autodesk Fabrication (AutoCAD)

7) Bradley BIM Revit Family Support from Bentley Systems AECOSim software

8) Bradley BIM Library for Vectorworks

9) Bradley BIM for Design-Build \ Integrated Project Delivery (IPD)

10) Bradley BIM Support for Bradley Global Rep  Network | 5000 Client BIM Flash Drives

11) Bradley BIM Education Association Speaker\Authoring  Support | AIA,CSI,ASPE,AGC

Technologies and processes are always changing. Bradley BIM is working on at least 10 Revit \ BIM supporting programs for both national and international BIM Initiatives.

Use our Contact Page to share your thoughts on additional Revit\BIM support; that Bradley BIM can add to our existing and/or future offerings to the AECO community.

We appreciate your continued support of Bradley Corporation’s Bradley BIM Initiative!

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View a 15-minute video clip of the USIBD Level-Of-Accuracy (LOA) comparison with the BIM FORUM [AGC] Level-Of-Development (LOD).

Download the 60-minute MP4 file to view and listen to the entire discussion.

My thanks to a former colleague, Dave Males who briefed me on the USIBD LOA specification as it relates to 3D Laser Scanning and BIM LOD. Dave provided the introductions; that connected me with John Russo, AIA (USIBD President).

Dave is Director of Sales & Marketing, Reality Computing Division for a civil engineering firm Servant, Dunbrack McKenzie & MacDonald located in Halifax, Canada.

Thanks to John Russo for sharing the USIBD links of their joint presentation with BIM Forum –and the MP4 video download of the complete presentation.

Key learning outcomes from this LOA and LOD comparison webinar:​

• Understand the significance of the Level of Accuracy (LOA) and Level of Development (LOD), and their differences
• Understand the current needs for standards in the reality capture and BIM professions
• Learn how to specify Level of Accuracy (LOA) and Level of Development (LOD) on your project.

USIBD LOA Standards, Specificaitons and Documentation mentioned in the presentation may be obtained from the USIBD website.

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Rachel Hughes, 2014 Bradley BIM Intern graduated with Honors in May from the Architectural Commercial Design (ACD) Program at WITC in Rice Lake, Wisconsin.

 View Rachel Hughes LinkedIn Profile \ Portfolio

Congratulations to Rachel on the job offer; that she accepted with the nationally recognized Wisconsin engineering firm; Excel Engineering Inc. (Fond du Lac, WI)

Excel’s an employee owned multi-disciplinary engineering firm (120+ engineers-architects) working nationally with registrations in 49 states.

WITC was ranked #4 US Community College by Washington Monthly

• WITC has semester-long concentrated construction classes for cost estimating, building codes, construction practices, HVAC, Plumbing & Electrical –with more than a dozen field visits to project sites over the 2 years.

• WITC ACD Program Graduates leave with a 50-70 page commercial project portfolio; that are completed in Autodesk Revit, AutoCAD, SketchUp and hand sketches. More than 20 hours per week is spent using Revit and AutoCAD software to create project documentation.

• Deb Kutrieb has grown and currently manages the WITC | Architectural Commercial Design Program;. Th program is considered unique in the State of Wisconsin based on the overall integration of BIM & CAD processes, dedicated construction classes, a semester-long Design Service Project for a local organization(s) and construction project field visits.

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It was July 2005, when a call from our Marketing Director positively impacted my career.

“Dan –You’ve been training our Midwest Revit and AutoCAD clients, delivering onsite & technical phone support and speaking at our AIA educational events & webinars.”

“Would you be interested in writing technical and business articles for our new blog?” he asked.

“What’s a blog?  What would I write? Who’s my audience?” I asked.

“We felt you could start by providing customer Revit support tutorials and provide pre-sales\post-sales Revit support for our Midwest clients & sales teams. What do think?

2005-2009: Fast-forward four years — we had been acquired by IMAGINiT Technologies and I now authored their ‘Architectural Blog‘. By then, I had written 350+ blog articles; that shared Revit & AutoCAD learning content, industry application trends and Revit implementation strategies –to over 10,000 global visitors/month. In 2006, I started a personal blog; ‘Revit Jobcaptain‘ using Google’s Blogger platform.

Basic Blog Tools: In 2005, I authored my articles using a PC HTML editor; while using  a FTP client to upload\publish the coded content to our website blog. We validated the final published code thru another website to insure our coding met RSS feed standards. Today Blogger & WordPress  blogging platforms do that automatically.

2009-2012: ‘Revit Playbook‘ was my personal blog from 2009-2012; while I was self-employed and marketing my services nationally via Excel Engineering Inc.

Early Bloggers: My article content was  linked to and shared between other newbie bloggers like Steve Stafford, David Light and Chris (Mr Spot) Price. Autodesk had maybe 7-8 Bloggers; like Shaan Hurley. Today, Autodesk has over 100 Autodesk Technical – Business Blogs.

2011-Present:  In 2011, I began authoring ‘BradleyBIM‘ for Bradley Corporation. It helped market the Bradley Revit Library quality, standards and methodology –for our global clients and rep sales network.

Early Social Media: Autodesk forums, RevitCity, Ten Links & CADDigest helped  syndicate our articles and increase our daily visitors. Today we have LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter social media sites to syndicate our articles.

Timing is Everything –

1. I had the good fortune of learning & applying PC CAD as an AutoCAD 1.x user.
2. Volunteering to learn Revit from its founders in 2002; when Autodesk first acquired Revit –started another amazing journey.
3. Blogging was new in our 2005 market. My goal was simple. Provide article content of client-tested processes; that I experienced in my Chicago and Midwest client offices.

Show Feature Benefits\Return-On-Investment (ROI):  While software & technology can be ‘Scary Cool’…they are only valuable when you demonstrate measured business value within the AECO market processes they are serving.

Success stories, featuring how my peers successfully extracted value from implementing new technology and processes –has been a popular theme over the last 10 years.

However, sharing the ‘How To’ success stories from working directly with my clients on their projects –remain the most successful educational articles.

My personal thanks to the visitors of the last 10 years; for reading, commenting, referring and sharing my articles. Cheers!

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Client Question: The various Bradley Toilet Tissue Dispenser Revit models display a toilet paper roll. When I load the Revit model, the paper roll does not always display in my Revit project views. How can I best control the paper roll visibility? 

Answer: Here are a few display options for controlling the toilet paper roll visibility:

I’ll use a Bradley Diplomat (Recessed) Dispenser Revit Model in this tutorial.

1) Verify the Paper Product Visibility Parameter is Turned ON; when the Revit family is selected.

2) The Toilet Paper Roll visibility setting is ON –for Medium / Fine, not Coarse.

3) Open the Bradley Revit family and change the Visibility Settings for COARSE.

• Go to a 3D View
• Select the Paper Roll
• Pick Visibility Settings Button above
• Check the Coarse Setting to enable viewing of the paper roll with Coarse setting.
• Pick OK.

* Tip: Notice the 3D solids’ visibility settings are unchecked (OFF) for Plan/RCP, Front/Back and Left/Right -so solids are not visible in the orthographic views.

— Revit Project Performance | Revit Family File Size vs Family Visibility Settings —

After changing the visibility setting, load or reload the family into the project.

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Consider using these four tips\processes; while creating manufacturer product Revit families and to assist with the design \ layout of these space types:

• toilet rooms, locker rooms, washrooms
• commercial kitchens & food service
• mechanical & utility rooms
• office, retail, education & healthcare space w/ furniture, fixtures & equipment

— Revit for Restaurant Prototypes | Core Business-Design Values —

1) Revit Family Reference Planes Aid Dimensioning

The image on the left is a front view of a Bradley solid surface lavatory Revit family.

The PLAN & FRONT ELEVATION images on the right; show the lavatory family installed into a Revit project.

The lavatory Revit family (on the left) embeds vertical and horizontal Reference Planes (green dashed lines); that define the vertical \ horizontal surfaces or center lines of lavatory components.

Tip: This includes Water & waste connections, electrical, faucet & soap dispenser placement, lavatory structural support and installation height locations.

Images on the right (above), show dimensions often used in PLAN\ELEVATION view in architectural, plumbing and/or contractor drawings.

Reference planes in the Revit Family are set to WEAK Reference; thereby allowing the Revit Project to dimension these locations.

Solid surface lavatory units typically have edges and corners with a radius.

Creating Reference Planes at these intersections; allows Revit to connect dimensions.
For example; a small radius exists on the front edge of the deck. A Revit dimension will not connect due to that radius.

A Reference Plane is created horizontally on the lavatory deck top; which allow Revit to connect to the surface and display the deck height dimensions.

2) Revit Project Reference Planes for Toilet Room Design-Layout

Both of these images show how the designer created Project Reference planes to coordinate placement of the solid surface fixture with mirrors, accessories and lighting — in both PLAN and ELEVATION views of the toilet room.

Revit Symbolic Lines (dashed circles) are used to represent the 5’ wheel chair turning-diameters within the floor plan.

Critical wall clearance dimensions can be locked in Revit to avoid accidental movement of walls or fixtures into the clearance space.

For this example, the 5’ dimension has been selected which displays the Revit Lock icon. Pick the “lock” icon to lock the 5’ dimension clearance between the two walls.

3) Data Coordination for Revit Schedules, Tags and Labels

Synchronize the Building Product Manufacturers’ data with the BIM\VDC Managers’ common parameters; that will be used within schedules and tags: For example the Door, Window, Plumbing Fixtures and Specialty Equipment Schedules.

In Revit, parameters need to be System Parameters or Shared Parameters for them to appear in Schedules and Tags.

Revit Tags are view-specific. This means users can create duplicate PLAN & ELEVATION views; while using tags that display different embedded information from the Revit family model. The PLAN view tags  (above) display the Revit family Type –and the ELEVATION view tags display the Revit Model value.

4) Revit Clearance Box Family for ADA \ Universal Design Review

BIM Managers will create an ADA Model Component of the Wheelchair knee and foot clearance required beneath a Solid Surface Lavatory Deck. It insures the deck mounting height meets the clearance standards.

This Revit family is a simple extrusion can be placed under a Solid Surface Lavatory Deck in a Revit Project or it can be nested into a Lavatory Deck family.

The solid extrusion is assigned a transparent light red material.

The Toe-Knee-Space-Length is a Revit “Instance Parameter”; providing users grip editing to lengthen or shorten the object via the “end grips”.

The critical dimensions that shape the clearance box object are locked so they remain accurate to the defined ADA dimensions.

The Right Image shows the Visibility Settings for the solid extrusion.

The extrusion’s visibility is turned OFF in the PLAN/RCP, Right/Left, Back/Front views.

Symbolic lines (red dashed) are traced over & locked to the perimeter of the extrusion.

The dashed lines will be visible for Coarse, Medium & Fine.

So they’ll be visible in these orthographic views; PLAN, FRONT & RIGHT Elevations.

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Download 2015 60-page BIM Report:

McGraw-Hill BIM Report | Measuring the Impact of BIM on Complex Buildings

August 18 Update: The correct document is now linked for download. We apologize for any inconvenience.

BIM Report Contributors: 391 owners, architects, engineers and contractors indicated they had a moderate to high level knowledge on the use of BIM within their organization.

1. 40 Owners
2. 183 Architects
3. 68 Engineers
4. 100 General Contractors

Excerpts:

These 10 Activities of Planning, Design and Construction defined the real Impact of BIM on Key Outcomes for Complex Projects:

1. BIM Impact on Owner Engagement and Understanding
2. BIM Impact on Design
3. BIM Impact on Documentation and Constructability
4. BIM Impact on Estimating and Bidding
5. BIM Impact on Construction Phasing and Logistics
6. BIM Impact on Contractors’ Understanding of Design Intent
7. BIM Impact on Cost Control and Reduction
8. BIM Impact on Schedule and Project Duration
9. BIM Impact on Unplanned Changes, Rework  and Out-of-Sequence Work
10. BIM Impact on Labor, Safety and Material Waste

6 Metrics for the Impact of BIM on Complex Projects

1. Percentage Reduction of Final Construction Cost
2. Percentage of Accelerated Project Completion Due to Schedule Compression
3. Percentage of RFI Reduction
4. Percentage Reduction in Number of Reportable Safety Incidents
5. Percentage Reduction of Site Labor Due to Increased Offsite Fabrication
6. Forecasting the Future Impact of BIM on Key Project Outcomes

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On Thursday night, our facility engineer showed me an as-built AutoCAD sketch for his toilet room renovation project in our Ohio manufacturing facility.

He asked if I could enhance the sketch with Revit for his Tuesday meeting; with the contractor and facility engineers.

Starting Friday morning, it took 4 hours using Revit –to create a fully coordinated set of

1. floor plan,
2. interior sections,
3. interior elevations,
4. reflected ceiling plan,
5. plumbing fixture and washroom accessory schedules,
6. 3D plan and 3D interior views.

I linked his AutoCAD sketch of field measurements into the Revit file for tracing and as a reference for his ADA-toilet partition proposal.

Using the View Visibility (VV) settings, I set the  Imported Category (Linked CAD file) to Half-Tone to make it less pronounced in the views.

Our interior designer provided a spreadsheet of components with their respective materials and model numbers for each room.

While she didn’t specify the location of components; interior elevations and sections displayed product locations and heights for her review.

Using Bradley’s pre-built Revit Family Library, the interior views and schedules immediately updated as the Revit components (lavatories, toilet partitions, accessories) were added to floor plans.

— Key Costs for Building Revit Families | 1000 Bradley Revit Family Library —

We added a Revit COST parameter to another plumbing fixture\accessory schedule (not printed). We exported the schedules to a spreadsheet to assist with the contractor’s quoting process.

Revit Room Objects accurately reported each room’s square footage for the floor finish renovation of each room. Additional face-to-face dimensions were added to field verify clearances between existing walls.

Cross sections were created to field-verify clearances between the ceiling and structure.

It took 2 minutes to create a ‘blank”, correctly oriented reflected ceiling-tile plan from facility engineer’s photos. He wanted to enhance the discussion of ceiling fixture placement (lights, vents, diffuser) with the lighting and HVAC engineering contractors.

The project was printed to scale –on C-size PDFs; that are easily viewed or printed. Revit annotations (hatch, text, dimensions) automatically re-size and updated as we “played with each view’s scale” to fit them on C-Size title block.

— Revit for Restaurant Prototypes | Core Business-Design Values —

This plant facility is still managed in AutoCAD. However, we can export the Revit views to AutoCAD for inclusion into the facility’s existing AutoCAD master file.

Revit delivered these bottom line results;

• design intention was very clear with accurate, coordinated plans, schedules, elevations, sections and 3D views.
• faster creation of documentation with pre-built Revit 3D/2D product models; that include 3D & orthographic viewing options.
• efficient, shorter long distance onsite contractor & facility engineer meeting,
• the contractor received accurate counts & square footage of product to be installed.
• improved construction communications (less travel) between Wisconsin and Ohio with unlimited 3D viewing.
• improved installation coordination with 3-dimensional documentation.

Like most projects, our facility engineer returned from his trip with red marks, notes and decisions; that needed to be applied to the Revit file.

However, in Revit — changes made to plans, elevations, sections or schedules are IMMEDIATELY updated in all the other views. This is the native functionality of Revit; because all of the  project views are contained in one project file.

Free Bradley AIA-CES  Accredited Webinar

Thursday-October 8 2015 | 1:00pm EDT \ 12:00pm CDT

Registration Link

Bradley Corporation is proud to sponsor a new live Continuing Education course titled;

“Solid Surface Solutions for Wash Stations”

AIA-CES Course -Webinar Description

InfoSpec, Inc. is the Education Provider for this course.

AIA Course Number: IBR10F

Course Title: Solid Surface Solutions for Wash Stations

Course Credit: 1 AIA HSW CE Hour

— Engineers Receive PDH Credit for Bradley AIA-CES Webinar —

Course Objectives:

Discover the properties and benefits of solid surface material when used in the toilet room.

Learning Objectives:

1. List the health, functional, and aesthetic issues related to public wash station design
2. List the history, benefits, and limitations of Solid Surface Material
3. Select appropriate materials for commercial and institutional wash stations
4. Learn suggested BIM & CAD documentation procedures for prefabricated Solid Surface wash stations

Group Registration

How can we register a group of people attending the event from a single location and working with the same organization?

One person from the organization needs to register for each location.

• At the time of the presentation, the webinar facilitator will ask each designated registrant of each group to record the roll call of those in attendance.

Our webinar provider will register each attendance with AIA National; however the roll call list needs to include each attendee’s —

1. first and last name,
2. email address,
3. AIA Number and
4. Phone number is optional. The webinar provider may need to contact them if they encounter any problems with registration or email address.

The designated registrant  needs to email the roll call list within 24 hours to our webinar provider –whose email address will be given at the end of the session.

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The Integrated Project Delivery Alliance sponsored an Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) Survey-Report conducted by the University of Minnesota, titled:

REPORT | PERFORMANCE, EXPECTATIONS, & FUTURE USE

This IPD survey remains open until September 15, 2016 to increase the number of responses. Take the survey and add your IPD Project experience to their results here:

>>>  Take IPD Survey Here.  <<<

The entire survey, both quantitative and qualitative input, should take you four to six minutes to complete. The survey will also request your use of BIM within the IPD process.

Visit :  Bradley BIM Design-Build | IPD | EPC Resource Page

Download:  Bradley Design-Build | IPD | EPC Resource Guide

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• Download McGraw-Hill BIM Report | Project Delivery Systems

AU 2015 will be held at The Venetian in Las Vegas from December 1-3 2015.

The Bradley BIM Booth #10 is located just inside the entrance to AU Expo Hall on your way to Autodesk BIM City (Booth #403)

Visit the Bradley BIM | AU Exhibit Booth #10 and pick up your free 4GB Bradley BIM Flash Drive. (while supplies last)

Since 2009, the Bradley BIM Initiative has been producing and distributing Bradley plumbing and specialty equipment products; through the Bradley Revit Library. (1,000+ Revit families)

From January 2012 – June 2015 more than 20 million Bradley Revit families were downloaded from the Bradley website.

Bradley BIM uses several Autodesk software tools (Autodesk Revit [Architecture and MEP], AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, and Autodesk Seek) to deliver more than 1,000 Revit families; to architects, engineers, contractors and facility owners.

My flights, hotel and class registrations are complete.

We’ll see you see you in Vegas for AU 2015.

Autodesk Revit 2016 New Features List | Videos – Downloads – System Requirements

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As you review your Greenbuild 2015 Conference Schedule, floor plan and video –consider visiting the Bradley Corporation Booth #3123 while attending Greenbuild 2015 International Conference and Expo in Washington DC. (November 18-20 2015)

The Bradley Corporation Greenbuild 2015 booth –will feature several new and expanded green-sustainable plumbing and washroom accessories product lines.

Here are just a few  Bradley green-sustainable product examples:

Advocate AV Series| Compact 3-In-1 Touchless Handwashing System \ ADA Compliant

Keltech Tankless Water Heater | Commercial\Industrial Grade High Performance Systems

Verge Lavatory Systems | Low-Water \ ADA \ Quartz Recycled Material-Greenguard

Solid Surface Lavatory Systems | Low-Water Usage \ ADA \ GREENGUARD Certified

Lenox Plastic Locker Storage Systems | Recycled Plastic Design Options

Bradley Mills Stainless Steel and Powder Coat Toilet Partitions provide LEED credits:

• Download Bradley 2015 LEED Credit Material Chart

— 5 Sustainable-Quality Benefits of Powder Coat Paint Partitions | Revit Models —

The Greenbuild Bradley Team has a limited amount of Free Bradley Revit Flash Drives.

Request a free Bradley Revit Flash Drive at the Greeenbuild conference or contact your local Bradley Field Representatives.

Our flash drive contains 1,000 Bradley Revit families, Bradley BIM newsletters, videos, Bradley Revit Material catalogs and more.

Visit the Bradley EarthSmart Webpage for additional Bradley sustainable products and material information.

We look forward to meeting you at Greenbuild 2015.

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