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In the shift towards a low carbon built environment, new technologies, digital processes, fabrication and efficient assembly methods are transforming the way buildings are designed, built and operated. The “internet of everything” – IoT, Big Data and more - is connecting people, systems, buildings and communities in ways that will disrupt traditional policies, workflows and relationships. As the procurement, production and operation of buildings and cities moves from analogue to digital, project teams will need to collaborate fully and effectively.
Join us in Vancouver to learn more about new methods, technologies and relationships that will impact how we deliver smart, climate-friendly buildings and cities in the future.
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Join us on a two-part tour that will explore the advantages of timber construction.
The first stop is MEC’s head office, designed by Proscenium Architecture + Interiors Inc. They used innovative technology to minimize the building’s environmental footprint and provide an enhanced and healthy work environment for MEC’s employees. The heavy timber structure employs advanced lighting and air-control systems which coupled with a building envelope designed to maximize natural light; allows the structure to be 70 percent more energy efficient than a conventional office building. The building has achieved LEED Platinum certification.
We will continue to the StructureCraft shop in Abbotsford. StructureCraft Builders is an engineer-led construction firm specializing in timber and hybrid-timber structures; they have been engineering and building efficient, signature structures for architects, owners, and general contractors of North America and Asia for 20 years. They accomplish this by bringing the old-world tradition of Master-Craftsman to bear upon the new-world of high-tech construction. They are industry leaders in the “mass timber revolution” – answering the pressing need for increased quality and construction efficiency, at the same time reducing site erection time and risk.
During this session we will touch upon current best practice and industry research from the UK on effective digital information management to enable digital transformation across the construction sector. We bring together a series of industry research and practice projects funded over the past 12 months to propose how we might evidence a digital workflow that enables a digital golden thread of information; incorporating energy modelling and analysis, parametric and 4D modelling and the integration of sensor technology to offer robust evaluation of the environments we create. We will outline our pioneering work on integrating sensor technologies to monitor environment quality and provide actionable feedback to occupants, owners and building managers with a view to improving occupant health, enabling predictive maintenance and achieving ambitious energy and carbon reduction targets.
Fraser Health is one of five regional health authorities in BC working together with the Ministry of Health. The communities that we serve include more than 1.8 million people from Burnaby to White Rock to Hope and 32 First Nations bands. Fraser Health is responsible for 12 acute care hospitals, 7,760 long term care beds, out patient care, surgery centers, mental health, public health, home health and community care supported by over 26,000 employees, 2,900 Physicians and 6,000 volunteers. Fraser Health Facilities Management Vision Statement Enhancing the delivery of care through innovation and Leadership in Facilities Management. Create. Build. Sustain. Incorporating BIM within our major Capital Projects as an innovation tool directly aligns with our Vision Statement. BIM will be introduced across four divisions; Planning, Procurement, Implementation and Operations. Utilization of the BIM process will derive consistent digital data that can be used to reduce costs, reduce risks, drive downstream uses across the life cycle of the asset and as a Smart project, to integrate and collaborate with the Smart city to connect people, systems, buildings and communities to achieve synergies and efficiencies. Fraser Health has strategically analyzed the benefits and outcomes of BIM integration using four metrics; Symptom, Source, Solution and Adoption. In addition, our presentation will provide a synopsis of the process, challenges and benefits as we introduce BIM as a requirement both externally to our Industry partners and internally to our systems and support teams.
Globally the real-estate industry has lagged behind other industries as an adopter of new technology. As this industry struggles with new challenges, namely climate change and the need to reduce emissions integrating new technology in order to make better decisions has become a necessity.
Whether its in the development of new buildings and using new modeling tools in order optimize performance, or in the field of asset management where portfolio holders are trying to achieve operational and carbon savings new technology tools are becoming essential. This presentation will follow Concert Properties recent journey to modernize its technology infrastructure and adopt new tools. Concert is a developer and property owner with a national portfolio that has set aggressive social and environmental sustainability targets.
The discussion will focus on both new and existing buildings and the tools Concert has adopted to optimize its performance.
As the title would suggest, what owners want (need) out of their BIM is worlds away from what the architects, engineers and contractors need to build the owner’s building.
This session will discuss BIM-related challenges from both the AEC professional and owner’s perspective. We will also discuss why each side has their own unique takes on what is required with in a BIM, and why. Once an understanding of the unique needs is established, a roadmap can be developed that will enable collaboration through design, construction, commissioning and facilities management.
A hopeful outcome of this session is to shed some light on the AEC vs Owner challenges, and how each side could assist the other. The gap between the AEC and the Owner need to be closed to truly take BIM out of this world.
Review the learning objectives below for some of the ideas we will explore during this session.
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In face of climate change, building with wood is the architecture and construction industries' chance to challenge norms and drive the world's aspirations towards zero carbon emissions. This presentation will demonstrate the potentials of advanced wood design and construction at scales from x-small to x-large. We will present two Vancouver projects designed by Perkins and Will with world class innovation in-mind, and with aspirations to be a catalyst for change and connection with the city: The red Pavilion at Emily Carr University, and the Canada Earth Tower.
The Pavilion is both a landmark sculpture and a small coffee house building that anchors the regeneration of the False Creek Flats area. The structure takes inspiration from flowers - and is a layered composition of mass timber shell petals, digitally manufactured and assembled on site. The design process of the pavilion connects the dots between design, technological innovation, and hands-on physical construction.
Canada Earth Tower on the other hand, will become the world's tallest hybrid wood tower once approved in Vancouver. At 40 stories, the building will illustrate the advancements in tall wood engineering and construction. Beyond timber, the project will be a zero emissions development that will take energy standards to an unprecedented level with rigorous high passive house standards and dramatic reduction of the project's greenhouse gas emissions through carbon sequestration.
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The Lion's Gate Hospital Power Plant Replacement was the first job we've encountered that had a contractual BIM requirement. The two main challenges of the job were the retrofit of the existing building, and the complexity of the new power plant. We will be exploring the lessons learned from this job, and some of the innovative technologies we've used to meet project goals.
The learning objectives will be:
In this presentation an introduction to the “Emerging Building Systems and Wood Innovation” research and publication that has recently been undertaken by Forestry Innovation Investment where common barriers to the adoption of the use of mass timber in building systems has been explored. Part of this work has resulted in the developing and sharing of details collaboratively developed by leaders in the industry and populated in Revit format with embedded attributes to assist in making choices as teams develop their wood designs.
Attendees will come away with an overview of emerging building systems and wood innovation, how attributes within Revit can add value to details, how collaboration and sharing is vital to adoption of emerging building systems and why emerging building systems are critical as we move to a low carbon and climate resilient future.
Overcoming the Barriers to Digital Transformation is a panel discussion on the challenges faced in each firm that is transforming their practice through digital approaches, with a focus on computational design and production process automation. Each panelist has successfully contributed to the digital transformation in their respective firms, however obstacles were encountered, and new challenges will continue to arise as their transformation journeys continue. Presentations on computational design and process automation generally have a technical focus. On this occasion the panelists will also be asked questions regarding the business and professional development aspects of digital transformation.
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IBI Group would like to present a solution that connects a BIM to an Asset Management System as well as to our construction review process. One case study is focused on our office expansion where the assets within design model were cataloged and connected to a custom-built asset management system.
The workflow harnesses OpenBIM technology allowing the end user to experience a virtual representation of the asset via mobile devices as well as a medium to socially interact with them.
This data contains fused design information with records for maintenance along with social information identifying repair / replacements which can feed subsequent projects.
Outline:
This is a bold shift in mentality...we are "designing DATA" and from that information we generate various outputs including drawings.
Conventional design practices are being redefined by the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, 5G, and artificial intelligence (AI). On the forefront of innovation since the 1970’s, IBI Group has maintained its commitment to designing great places to live, work, learn, move and play through innovation, technology and creativity; and we know that leveraging emerging technologies to future-proof our design intent is paramount to our success. The way cities are built is shifting. The future? Smart Cities. How does the citizen’s experience fit into the picture? Let us show you.
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In the age of active digital transformation, every company is running up against tough decisions that require them to evaluate legacy software & platforms for their continued use in the modern age. When cloud based collaboration is the way of the future, legacy software paradigms need to be overhauled or left behind to make way for the modern tools
that will really bring value.
This presentation will go through ETRO's process in developing their tech stack and some of the decisions and lessons learned along the way.
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In 2019 FPInnovations initiated a research roadmap on the future role of industrialized construction in the building sector. The goal of this roadmap is to ensure that wood building systems are well positioned in the shift from site construction to the factory floor. This is in response to the culmination several market trends pointing to a future where construction is a digitalised and automated industrial process.
This presentation will provide an overview of the key research findings within the industrialized construction road map. The first topic is the role of digital tools (BIM and DfMA) in the shift to industrialized construction. The current physical and digital capabilities of the Canadian prefabricated construction industry is then considered in light of state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment and processes currently being used abroad. In general, the increase of digitization and automation comes with it an increased need for more precision in input materials such as lumber, engineered wood products, and mass timber. This road map lays out a research agenda to make the precision of digital construction work seamlessly with a natural material such as wood.
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This are the catch phrases we all hear and are coming into every project. But what are they? How should we integrate. Interactive discussion with discussion about these new 3D world technologies and what we all need ask and consider in implementing them.
We’ll discuss and answer some of the Who, What, When, Where and why’s these industry catch phrases that we now see everyday and are gradually becoming a requirement of every project.
IBI Group is increasingly using in-house developed tools through which people – developers, asset owners, residents, visitors – can connect to and interact with pertinent information about their surrounding built form and mobility systems. These tools can be catered towards specific needs, types of data, and desired outcomes, specifically increasing efficiency and enhancing user experience of the urban environment. Over the past decade, technology has changed at a rapid pace, and it will continue to do so in the years to come. Society has become accustom to access to information and thus have grown the expectation that this information will be ever-present. As an industry, we need to build and maintain a constant connection with the ever-changing world, and harness current and new technologies to ensure appropriately-paced advancements. The session will explore some of the tools we have been leveraging at our firm, the outcomes of their application and how users increasingly interact and experience cities, neighbourhoods and buildings through different lenses.
From engineering freeform timber structures to building some of the largest mass timber buildings in North America, use of technology and automation is at the core of StructureCraft’s project delivery method.
This presentation will focus on three challenges that we are addressing with technology:
Attendees will also see a brief peek into the future showcasing use of AR in our manufacturing process.
Many people talk about how the construction industry is undergoing a digital transformation. There isn’t a single optimal set of actions for organizations to take to achieve a successful transformation. Instead, each organization must chart their own journey. Oracle Construction & Engineering understands this and has taken steps to be a facilitator for the industry’s digital transformation.
During this session we’ll present:
The use of new, fast and frequently changing digital technology to solve problems in our industry has been ongoing since the adoption of Building Information Modeling. In social media we now hear about this digital transformation on a daily basis. Digital twins, machine learning, the Internet of Things, and robotics. How do we adopt rapidly changing technology, and how exactly are these technologies impacting the way we do business?
As the construction industry evolves, embracing innovations like BIM, is critical to ensuring success in rapidly changing times. Construction contracts and contractual relationships must also keep pace in order to stay relevant and reflective of recent developments. One contractual model that is an example of this change is Integrated Project Delivery (“IPD”). Instead of reinforcing a zero sum approach to contractual relationships, IPD fosters a change in behaviour and mindsets. Parties to a construction project are challenged to think and behave as a team in order to ensure overall project and individual success. IPD has unique contractual provisions that require careful consideration as they are drafted to address this change in behaviour. This panel discussion will examine the newest IPD contract published by the Canadian Construction Documents Committee (“CCDC”), -- the CCDC 30 (2018). A panel of leading legal practitioners will explore and provide different perspectives on how this new contract will bring change to the construction industry and how it will be beneficial to all stakeholders in a Construction Project.
