Session 2.2
75,000 drawings in one project, finding the limits and delivering efficiency at scale
Synopsis:
Setting the scene for social housing in New Zealand for the next few decades Context Architects have pushed the limits of every software and platform to develop fully co-ordinated houses in BIM to central government for the largest Multiproof consent ever.
Learning Objectives:
1. What are the limits of software and how to work around them
2. BIM and document management strategy for large projects with many consultants and stakeholders
3. Enabling the safe use of BIM & CAD content distributed nationally
Body:
Context Architects led the way to drive efficiency at every step for the urgent need for social housing in New Zealand through a standard house programme and central government consenting process. But to create quality urban outcomes the need for variation has created hundreds of homes all derived from the same chassis. The inevitability that each variant of standard social housing could be built thousands of times meant that the level of front-end design resolution and BIM co-ordination was critical and extensive and never attempted before at this scale.
With approx. 500 variants each having around 150 drawings, documents and specifications the number of sheets suddenly pushed the limit of what any CAD, BIM or Document Management platform could handle. So a strategy was developed for the efficient creation, updating and management of all outputs so every consultant and contractor in New Zealand could work with the new standard for social housing.