Excellent presentation by Patrick Davis of HNTB Architecture and Jan Reinhardt of Turner Construction on the realities and evolving resolution of successful Integrated Practice.
Thorough discussion session followed. There are such things as stupid questions. Fortunately, none were asked.
To those organizations not engaging in this business process: your competition continues to thank you.
Critical to the process is knowing the difference between Intent and Content during design iteration. Surprisingly, Content is not as important during the design phase as you might initially think. What's most important is the communication of design Intent; sometimes as geometry (even if generic) - but frequently via metadata associated to geometry or spaces.
One point of frustration: Walls in Revit don't schedule according to Level. Seems crazy - but not being able to schedule walls according Level is important to the contractor and QS teams. Being able to schedule Walls by Level remains an important area of improvement for the Revit team. Until then? The alternative is a lot of manual (and error prone) processes.
4 comments:
Whats happens when walls span more than one level? Or have level offsets that make them project up or down a level or a partial level? If Revit could schedule by level, should it split these walls at level lines for you? Just some thoughts....
Hiya Scott - There's precedence for this: Columns.
For walls?
Base Constraint / Base Offset
Top Constraint / Top Offset
The parameters are in the Instance Dialogue. Of course not all walls have consistent base/height relationships. So knowing if their attached at the base or top, or if the profile is edited is important. But these are the exceptions.
Perhaps it's more of a Level / Multi-Category Schedule. Except that Host Elements are not included in MC Schedules.
Grrrr......
I agree with Phil. The information is there, hardcoded in fact, why shouldn't we be allowed to schedule it. Sure, we could screw the schedule up, or mis-interpert the data, but that is my fault. I suppose someone might be inclined to attempt to blame autodesk, but isn't that when lawyers actually become useful? :)
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