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PiVDC Drives Efficiency in George Mason University's Life Sciences & Engineering Building Project
Location:Virginia, USA
Area:98,720 Sq Ft
LOD:LOD 300
Team Size:NA
Software Used:Revit, Navisworks
Trades Covered: 3D Modeling, Clash Coordination, MEP BIM Services
George Mason University’s Life Sciences and Engineering Building stands out as a significant construction project, supporting the increasing graduate-level curriculum focused on science, technology, engineering, and health.
Covering a substantial 98,720 sq. ft. in Virginia, USA, this four-story building project posed unique challenges that PiVDC successfully addressed throughout Pinnacle’s scope of work. Pinnacle Infotech was entrusted with 3D model creation for piping and plumbing trades, spool sheets creation, and clash coordination of the model.
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Spool Creation
Annotation
Hanger Placement
Traditional spool creation involves tedious, repetitive steps. The challenge in this project entailed manually selecting thousands of elements, repeatedly adjusting naming conventions, renaming spool views, and dragging them on spool sheets. While maintaining a consistent project format for BOM was labor-intensive and hampered the project workflow.
However, PiVDC addressed this challenge like a pro through its dedicated tools. One of them is
Spool Window:
This tool streamlined pool sheet creation effortlessly. The project-specific configuration and templates aided by dynamic color coding to avoid duplication has resulted in a remarkable 30-40% time saving for the team.
Manually annotating over 600 spool sheets with countless tags, numbers, and dimensions was time-consuming and affected team productivity.
PiVDC’s custom plugins automate the process, saving about 30% of the annotation time. A few examples include
Renumbering:
Used 462 times, this tool helped the team quickly assign part numbers to elements with similar parameter values. With this, the project team could group elements, place tags, add suffixes and prefixes, and organize the spooled elements, making aesthetic management super fast and efficient.
Adjust Dim Text:
This tool automated the arrangement of dimension texts in the drawings. The plugin provides some predefined formats for quick adjustment while also giving the option to set custom rules based on project reference, enhancing the detailing and quality of the project.
Maintaining the distance between the fitting to the first hanger and hanger to hanger was a daunting manual task. It required repeated dimension placement to adjust and maintain the required distance, consuming huge amounts of time.
This issue was also met head-on by the PiVDC solution with dedicated tools including???
Hanger Tool:
It automated the process and helped the project team select multiple target host elements and place hangers at once. The tool also took care of the distance automatically and attached the hanger rods to the structure ceiling, eliminating repetition and saving time.
The PiVDC suite, with its versatile plugins, was utilized 1,797 times on the George Mason University project, saving 5-7% in project hours l, boosting the quality and efficiency of the project. The strategic implementation of the PiVDC tools showcases Pinnacle Infotech’s commitment to excellence in construction automation.
VP, Product Design
This was my 2nd project with Pinnacle and I have been satisfied with Pinnacle’s problem-solving approach and quick turn-around. The project at this time was a bit unique and challenging, but the positive attitude by Pinnacle team mitigated.