Unlock the Potential of Digital Sales Automation for Construction Industry

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my name is xena dia i'm a bim project manager here with healthy canada and we are very excited to be here and to talk to you today about the future of digitalization and automation leveraging new technologies and processes that enabled new and improved ways of working together like bim or building information modeling and how they can help us be more efficient spend less time money and deliver a better outcome before i start i'll hand it over to my co-presenter serge he will introduce himself and walk us through today's agenda good afternoon again everyone my name is serge abinader i'm the digital construction manager for hilti canada so i'm going to go just straight into the subject i'm going to go through the agenda what we're going to be covering we're going to give you just a general overview about the healthy organization who are we and then the the second point it's gonna be we're gonna talk about like the shift to how we're gonna get how we can digitalize our projects today what are some of the some of the challenges some of the benefits and some of the opportunities that we can take advantage on and when we talk about digitalization i think we're pointing straight to bim so this is the enabler the driver uh to the to everything that is related to any digital flow across the construction today we're going to dig in deeper in getting like a clear understanding about bim and how it's implemented today in our industry so why detailed planning in bim is there like are we fully or partially doing the adoption of bim is there any missed opportunities that we have to take into consideration when it comes to increasing the level of design in our model that will definitely bring in more added value across the entire entire workflow of our projects today we're going to get some of the best practices and examples on like used cases inspired by the industry practices and just to wrap it up we're going to just resume with what does good looks like when it comes to a full digital cycle on a project and we're going to open it up for you for questions and answers thank you so we'll start with a quick introduction about our company healthy healthy is 100 family-owned company that was founded in 1941 in sean lichtnerstein we have more than 30 000 team members that create enthusiastic customers in more than 120 countries around the world with more than 40 innovative products released each year as the industry is changing and advancing every year we have been also changing developing leading edge products solutions technologies and softwares for the global construction industry helping our customers build better faster safer and greener so digital technology plays a main role and helps us resolve many issues in the construction industry that we're facing today one of the major issues is improving productivity although the construction industry is one of the leaders in the world's economy it still lacks when it comes to productivity world economic forum and boston consulting group identified these 10 major technologies and trends that improve productivity and they also anticipate that within 10 years full-scale digitalization could actually save the construction industry between one to one point seven trillion dollars annually and today we are trying to test and to research all these mega trends that are happening in the industry and we're also started to implement some of them and make them part of our workflows for the time we have today we're not going to go through all 10 but we will mainly focus on prefabrication and module construction autonomous construction and building information modeling that actually ties most of these trends together we have seen that there are some other challenges in the construction industry besides productivity like lack of skilled labor high project and material cost in fact more than 70 percent of projects spend more than what was initially planned also safety on job sites with the construction industry having the highest number of accidents among its workers also transparency the need for proper documentation digitalization is one of these challenges the need for efficient communication and data management and with the right use and adoption of digitalization we can actually resolve most of it of these other issues that we just mentioned here bim or building information modeling is a key player in digital project delivery so today we'll be talking about bim one of the advancements that the digital age has brought to us so i'm not sure how many of you are already using them or in your projects uh you may or may have not so we'll just give it brief just in case for those who might not be very familiar with bim what is bim so bim to understand it we need first to understand what we had prior to bim or what we have on many projects still today so prior to bim we had 2d drawings that were done independently using autocad software as a tool and it kind of imitates the paper and pen working process and in case of any changes all the data must be manually updated on every single drawing and all the project participants must be informed about that so this requires a huge coordination effort that can really be reduced with the bim approach with bim we have a 3d model a 3d representation of the project that includes coordinated inputs from all the trades all changes are done respective changes are done to this one centralized 3d model file of the project and all drawings and data would be automatically synchronized and immediately accessible to all project parties so that's why and from the name bim building information modeling we won't get only a 3d model that contains like let's say what we call a digital twin or our you know a replica of the real project but now what we can have also what is more important than that all the information of all the objects and the properties tied to that model so and everyone working on a project can coordinate seamlessly and know exactly because everything is in this centralized source we have seen that also there are some huge advantages of implementing bim in construction projects starting from reduction in cost time labor it gives us insights into design constructability also helps us with sites coordination and collaboration it helps also owners in their predictive maintenance asset tracking and facilities management that helps for of course future changes and renovations so this is not a new idea or concept and it has been with us for some time now and here on the left you can see this famous mcleany curve which is a strategy of shifting design efforts forward in time and it's showing us by utilizing them and investing in them early on we can achieve significant savings and improvements in collaboration and construction projects so any iterations done in that stage earlier on would mean less work less effort less cost than doing it later on in the construction stage with all the expensive fixes and all you know you have to bust up concrete or you know to just try to solve an issue so it's just a matter of time before bim techniques will completely replace the traditional working and construction methods many countries around the world started paying attention to their bim adoption but the bim implementation for different countries is on like at different maturity levels also surveys show that during covet 19 lockdown bim was more widely adopted in the aec industry thus enabling projects to continue in a more in a digital and virtual environment also eliminating the risk for project team members to have to meet and work together canada has made tremendous efforts in the shift to digital project delivery so we have many companies started adopting digitalization and more owners are actually requesting for it so as an 80 year old direct sales organization we must embrace the reality that bim is driving upfront design decisions and looking at the full bim workflow or even the project life cycle we wanted as a company to be part of this bim transition as we wanted to say like how can we be part of this transition and how can we better serve our customers so we have identified some process improvements using the bim model as a tool and what we did we adapted to that by adding structures on the field and also in the back office on top of our existing experts and while we are known for our strong specifications fire and protection solutions and also for our engineering we wanted to bring thought leadership to the table with bim and now we have this new division in our organization to adapt to this and to be able to work with our customers throughout the whole life cycle of the project and offer them end-to-end services by being able to work with them earlier on in a more collaborative manner so now we can start from the design going all through construction operations and maintenance what did we what process improvements did we identify we looked at the bim model and normally not everything is integrated into the bim model sometimes for example here we can see these mep pipes are modeled but the matching fire stopping for these penetrations are not being part of the model and with hilti having more than 30 years of experience in providing internationally approved and tested fires fire protection products we see that there are some challenges of not integrating the fire stop into the bim planning one of the risk is higher risk due to improvised solutions on site also having to deal with multiple ulc systems and products on the same side job site which would lead to more complicated procurement and or inspection process downtime on site waiting for engineering judgments or firestop custom details to come through and also productivity loss due to all this wasted time spent on the job sites same goes for the supports for these mep services we see sometimes supports modeled but they're not fully engineered or optimized and there are also some major challenges of not including them into the bim model like higher safety risk to site improvised solutions instead of having indeed solutions that are fully engineered fully optimized with all clashes resolved up front and also with all the documentation needed like when you hand over to the owner you have everything planned ahead and optimized so with our bim services we are aiming to change this process so what we've done is we now can design and model firestop and support systems and by doing so not only we could go inside the model and identify issues and resolve them but now we can actually work on optimizing these designs by being able to for example this fire stop reduced number of ul systems used on a job site we can identify these non-standard cases that require firestop custom details and either work around them or if not possible issue them same goes for the supports instead of just having improvised welded systems we can go with multi multi-trade systems or fully modular racking systems and we've seen by doing that we can not only it will you would gain the full benefit of having a bim project and we can actually also bring up the level of detail um from let's say 300 all the way to 500 by attaching non-graphical information to the model elements also a thing how last minute i want to add to during covet 19 stock has really been an issue on all projects so by implementing this early on we can you know be able to forecast and know exactly what material we need where we need them and at what time so we can plan this months ahead of time so hill team design services were built around these six use cases that were inspired by the industry practices and that we bring value to projects and uh and it depends of course on the type of project but for the time we have today we are going to mainly talk about the first four design optimization prefabrication advanced logistics and bim to field so design optimization being able to access the model earlier on would give us the flexibility of choosing most optimized mvp and firestop solutions solutions that are fully engineered with all clashes resolved up front so this pre-designed firestop supports including firestop and anchors we can build multiple disciplines into one single design proposal and by placing that inside the model we can we can see massive optimization potential when we identify clashes all up front finish the engineering work before anything is really even installed on site rework would be would be reduced and safety would also increase and that will also enable us to do pre-fabrication and the advanced logistics so with this early design partnership we always look at ways to fully uh standardize our designs having everything designed and modeled also it will enable mounting sequence by trade so we look at ways to really optimize and really make make it possible for every single trade to work together and many times even they can share the cost so this is an example just want to show for a multi-trade mounting sequence it's a hospital project that health is done in the denmark it's 800 beds so here you're looking at this long corridor that used one single design that was very smart and very optimized because it used the ceiling and the walls and with this we reduce the number of anchor points reduce the time spent on site and you can see here your hvac then you have your plumbing and you have your electrical everything is very flexible the system is not welded it's just having some simple connectors that you can connect and even assemble or disassemble and then you would allow also for future disciplines to be added as well so this is just to give an example of and this design was one design optimized for the whole corridor moving down to prefabrication we actually offer to kit cut and prefabricate all our firestop casting devices and support systems so these three uh precast devices or or supports would be all fabricated in our production environment using advanced logistics and everything all these assembled hardware would be sent to the job site directly and we've seen by doing that we can actually reduce the time spent on installation by more than 50 and also reduce wastage by 20 percent then moving to advanced logistics instead of having material sitting on site waiting to be used now we have dedicated project managers that would work with our just-in-time logistics team and our customers planning teams so what we do is we work on the project schedule and we make sure that everything is delivered on-site ing to that schedule so ing to your poor date ing to whatever when and where you need everything and this is also a live document so we are like let's say offer a partnership so we sit down in these vdc meetings and all these bim coordination meetings make sure that we are on top of everything and that we are also updated and have the latest and communicate that back to our um let's say the logistics team make sure that everything is done properly i'll hand it over now to serge so now that we've built this digital masterpiece how how we bring this digital information to the field today so and this is this is this is where we see clearly gaps today on the majority of the construction sites because we see that there's like a cut in flow of digital information so we're going to go through how this is done and we're going to we're going to look at some ways of improving this keeping in mind this the sole objective of increasing productivity efficiency and accuracy on our projects today so this phase i would like to describe it and call it as the last hundred feet so after doing everything in the design in the model and everything the last hundred feet this is where this model this digital piece first touches ground and we need to start building the project so in this last 100 feet we see that the model undergoes today a dramatic change moving this digital information and handing it out as a paper plan to the contractors to start building the project so clearly as i've mentioned before this is a cut in the flow of the digitalization in the process so uh clearly to go more in depth about uh what are like the disadvantages of working with bim and handing out a paper plant to the to the field to start the construction a paper plan with dimensions this is definitely will this will encourage like the contractors to use manual layout and this is where they start like pulling off their tapes and start their measurements from structural pieces or elements on the projects we think that those structural elements are accurate but in fact the reality doesn't show that they are accurate and examples of these structural elements are like column offsets sometimes we take edge of slabs offsets some snap control lines on long distances given by the general contractor so this is just to zoom in on an example for example on where we start like building up the foundation and we see some inaccuracies in the structural elements and if we don't capture these inaccuracies ahead of time this these errors are going to be compounded because if those contractors are pulling out their starting point from these elements and they're not accurate so moving forward with the layout there will be errors that are going to be compounded and you know like in order to be able just to make corrections on errors down the way it's going to be too late and you see that the cost is going to increase we're going to fall behind schedules and it's going to be like cumbersome on them so the true value of bim would be realized when digital plans stay digital through across the entire flow of the project and through specifically those last hundred feet so imagine like if we compare the traditional way of doing things this is like a control point where two people will take for example a tape on a long distance and they're gonna pull from that line in order to lay out an element whether in a mechanical electrical or any trade you name it compared to if we keep a digital digital flow on the project where we can use digital layout solutions where we can put some prisms or targets around the job that they're fixed they don't move and everyone can rely on them this is where we can increase the accuracy of our project as well as the productivity and the efficiency so how healthy can help today on this bim to field we have like a full portfolio of product hardware software and services that we can offer today we have dedicated digital consultants across u.s and canada that can support in the deployments of such technologies and innovations we can support earlier on prepping the plans we offer some cat services when it comes to cleaning up the files aligning the file uh selecting the layout points or anchor points you name it and then we have we can support an offering site control consultation i'm going to elaborate more about this and at the end we have our digital layout tools and most recently we've introduced as well robotics into the construction with our jbot that we're going to see later on so site control consultation this is like a very simple and relatively low cost low cost service that our digital consultants are trained what does it entitle so this is where we go and we we work with the gc with their surveyors to be able just to set up controls on a project so the first thing that we do is that we we plug in targets or prisms strategically around the project that covers the entire area of the project we position a digital layout tool based on the control points given by the certified surveyor the surveyor of the job once this is done we're measuring and recording all these control points or the prisms and we're bringing them back to the model this this is going to be like a single source of information when it comes to control that all subs can use moving forward to do their layout so we don't have any more any subs just pulling out tapes and using any starting point on the job however everyone is using a digital layout tool to position it with those targets that are sent back again to the model so this way we keep this digital information across the entire workflow so comparing just traditional to setting up controls on a project this is this will make more uh will will keep the sub have high confidence to be able to position himself anywhere on the job where he can access any of these targets position in a high accuracy and do his layout so there will be no more fighting for example in with a plumber whether it's the sleeve is in the wall the wall is in the right place not the sleeve is in the right place and so on and on so definitely being able to set up controls on a project digital controls will support in deploying solutions like robotic solutions automation and digital layout tools on the project this is this is just three measurables like uh advantages that we can bring with this which is you have like fewer people required to layout one person on a total station or digital layout will be able to layout up to 400 points per day so look at the increase in productivity three times the number of points per day and then we we're minimizing rework due to layout error and then at the end of the day we can enable time saving and deployment of technologies like robotics prefabrications and digital measurement tools so this is just a use case or an example on increase in productivity up to 400 percent laying out with the total station on a project this is again another use case with our jbot 600 percent of productivity jbot can go up to 700 layout points per day and what do i mean by that layout points jbot can layout can drill overhead and can mark the whole if we have a coordinated mep system that we need to do on a project so with that i'm gonna go just to show you this innovation this is a a can bim winner price number one our new semi-autonomous uh overhead drilling machine which is driven by bim data from the model we bring it into the jbot and jbod is going to go and do the overhead drilling for the mep trades digital planning and building information modeling or bim are now the norm for many north american projects by applying the bim process mep coordination already happens in the design phase of a project powered by the data in this bim model j-bond is a complete self-contained software and hardware system for semi-autonomously locating drilling and marking anchor locations overhead this makes it the perfect solution for the faster safer and more accurate execution of digitally coordinated mep systems on the job site the operating software is easy to use and has simple guided workflows for each application this enables a quick ramp up for operators to more safely and productively use this product in the field the system arrives on site in a container that can be lifted by a forklift or crane allowing easy access to the work area when not in use this container also works as a charging station and secure storage when it's time to work the operator simply drives jbot out of this container directly to the working area in transport mode jbot is less than three feet wide and less than five and a half feet tall this means it can be easily driven through standard doorways or transported in an elevator or hoist once in the working area the first step is to set up a plt-300 the digital layout system which tracks jbot as it moves around the job site the auto leveling and auto stationing features of the plt with the step-by-step guided workflow make this easier once stationed and connected to j-bot the plt tracks the movement of the prism on the j-bot arm to within 1 8 of an inch jbot will operate completely cordlessly for up to eight hours and the drilling arm comes complete with a dust shroud connected to a built-in vacuum in order to help virtually eliminate dust additional drill bits dust bags consumables and even a spare drill can all be stored in the on tool compartments to help maximize productivity and reduce downtime jbot is designed to execute the standard hole diameters for post-installed mep anchors with an optimal drilling range from 3 16 of an inch to 5 8 of an inch with the ability to operate on slabs with heights between eight and a half and sixteen and a half feet this system will work on a wide range of projects in the commercial construction sector jbot syncs with a dedicated project cloud to access the most up-to-date design data enabling in-field access to the planned anchor locations for the entire project to get started the operator simply selects the drilling size and trade then drives jbot into the area as indicated by the software a simple traffic light system makes it easy to raise the drilling arm to the correct height and then at the click of a button jbot will autonomously drill and mark all the selected anchor locations within a six foot diameter jbot will mark each set of holes with a unique spray pattern as designed by trader system type in the bim model and in the case of rebar hits or other in-field issues the operator can skip holes or move anchor locations as required of course the as built hole locations and drilling progress sync back to the cloud and can be accessed live in the office good so just to wrap it up on we just started the session with the shift to deliver a digital project and this is this is how does a full digital project cycle looks like and hilti today can support you and help you on each and every step whether going up the design phase where we can optimize the design and then we can provide engineering solutions optimize engineering solution analysis and drawing we can even support on the modeling side where we can model those solutions inside of the digital piece of your project we can provide certified 2d shop drawing with bill of material and that's what xena has described as well when it comes to prefabrication and advanced logistics cutting kitting and full assembly and a full product portfolio hardware software and services when it comes to robotics automation and digital layout tools to bring that digital piece from the bim model to the field so thank you very much thank you for your participation have a good day thank you thank you thank you