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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION Turner Reaps the Rewards of BIM during Yankee Stadium Project For T urner C onstruction C ompany, the c ompletion of Yankee Stadium not only marked the end of a $1 billion dollar plus project, it also marked a point in time where the use of building information modeling (BIM) “just click ed as a new way of life.” Although Turner has been using computer-aided modeling on projects for the past 10 y ears, with the Yankee Stadium p roject, the c ompany c ould truly reap the rewards of its past experiences using BIM. As a result of the use of BIM, there was a reduction in field initiated RFI s and c hange or ders and an acceleration of the schedule, which is a monumental t riumph in a pr oject of this size. “That’s a tremendous benefit to our clients,” said Turner’s Vice President and Principal-in-Charge Mark Pulsfort. With the use of a trademarked construction management pr ocess T urner calls, “Virtual T rade C oordination” (VTC) and Autodesk’s NavisWorks software, BIM was int roduced at the desig n and de velopment stage of the p roject long befor e the pr oject star ted in the field. While softwar e is an impor tant aspect of BIM, the process by which it is used is e ven more important, said James Barrett, Manager of Virtual Construction Technologies for Turner. With the use of BIM design software, 3D models w ere made of every major building component - from its architectural and st ructural elements t o its HVAC, electrical, plumbing and fir e protection syst ems. Combining these into a c onsolidated model, Turner can instantly identify 100% of the syst em’s spatial clashes and c onflicts. For the Yankee Stadium project, the VTC process identified thousands of clashes and conflicts between trade systems. An on-site iRoom (an interactive BIM coordination r oom) was established in one of the jobsite trailers where subcontractors br ought their lapt ops and int eracBIM 27
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