Chief Resilience Officer & Head of Engineering, NIBS
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Resilience Townhall: Mitigation, Community Resilience, Lifeline Infrastructure, and Investment
Join nationally-recognized subject matter experts and chairs of NIBS’ resilience councils for a discussion on cutting-edge initiatives to advance climate solutions and their adoption in the built environment.
The panel will brief the audience on the importance of mitigation, explain how adopting model buildings codes and implementing beyond-code construction methods can save lives and reduce economic impact, lead discussion on the significance of investing and improving the aging and vulnerable lifeline infrastructure, and elaborate on how we can create a resilience economy.
Professor and Associate Dean for Research, P.D. Koon Professor of Construction Management, Department of Construction Management, College of Built Environments, University of Washington
The Long Journey of Making Models as Contract Documents a Reality
In the last 15 years, BIM has proven its value in the AECO industry.
Models are commonly used as tools for service and as deliverables. Architects, engineers, construction managers and owners have developed skills, procedures, and expectations of how to work with models.
Nevertheless, we observe that in the relationship between owner, design team and contractors, models are exchanged, but not trusted. It is common practice that construction teams receive design models for information only, and authoritative information needs to be derived from drawings.
