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Offsite construction for a smarter tomorrow

The Future is Digital – but why?Lorraine Mc Morrow

Digital Construction Manager

The McAvoy Group


The McAvoy Group

• One of the UK’s leading offsite specialists

• Independent, family-owned

• Established principal contractor

• Delivering high quality buildings for education, healthcare, residential, commercial and infrastructure

• Harnessing digital technology to streamline processes and further improve the quality and efficiency of buildings

• Expansion into offsite housing

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Winner of RICS Award for Best Virtual Reality BIM Smart facts

1st offsite specialist to achieve BIM Level 2

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2 purpose-built offsite manufacturing centres spanning 120,000sqft

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BIM & VR – a vital part of our business

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Bespoke offsite solutions for nearly 50 years

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• Series of ‘Modules’ or Units

• Bespoke shapes / sizes (3.6m wide x 4m high x 16m)

• Approx 70% finished prior to dispatch

• Suitable for transport across the UK

Volumetric Construction


BIM and Offsite Construction

• More effective collaboration

• Shorter design periods

• Streamlining of processes

• Better quality decisions

• Improved client engagement

• Tremendous synergy with offsite

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CASE STUDY - Passenger Boarding Zone, Dublin Airport

The UK’s largest single

span modular building

• Client – Dublin Airport Authority

• 2,200m2 boarding facilities to meet growth in passenger numbers

• Extensive use of BIM and Virtual Reality

• Accommodates 8,000 passengers a day

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One of the fastest

projects ever completed

at Dublin Airport

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The Project Challenges

• Programme – 16 months including planning and design

• Highly constrained airside site

• Full integration of airport M&E

• Clear uninterrupted spans over 19m

• Stringent fire safety standards

• Enhanced acoustics


The Offsite Solution

• Manufactured offsite to reduce disruption to airport operations

• 77 steel-framed modules installed in just 16 days

• Ready for occupation after 45 weeks on site

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How were BIM and VR used?

• BIM used extensively – tender and design

• Virtual reality model – demonstrate building design to stakeholders

• 3D drawings – steel structure and architectural modelling

• Analysis tools – simulated building construction on restricted airport site

• Streamlined co-ordination of workflows –time savings


The Benefits of Digital Construction

• Fully immersive VR experience – informed key design decisions such as innovative acoustic ceiling solutions

• More informed decision making at an earlier stage – allowed stakeholders to review and experience the space

• Client could make real-time changes to the internal layout

• Clash detection between structural and M&E elements – reduces risk of re-working in design, manufacture and on site

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A Highly Flexible Airport Facility

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The Client’s Perspective

“This is one of the fastest projects we have ever completed at the airport – from planning to the first flight in just 18 months. The finished building speaks for itself. It is a handsome new facility with high quality finishes and clean architectural lines.”

“We were working to a very constrained programme to have the building operational ahead of the busy summer season. The project and its innovative use of offsite construction is a fantastic achievement for the whole team.”

“We were impressed with how McAvoy used BIM and virtual reality. As an airport we have a complex approvals process, but the digital techniques allowed the senior management team to ‘walk through’ the building and to experience the facility, which facilitated design sign off.”

Iain Heath, Project Manager, Dublin Airport

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Virtual Reality

• Clients feel and experience the building

• Enhanced engagement in design

• Removes potential for misinterpretation

• Mobile VR and permanent VR on site for major projects

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Design


Virtual Reality

• Easy transition to VR from the CAD authoring package

• ‘One click’ VR

• Bi-directional link between VR session and the CAD authoring package

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Live Design


Virtual Reality

• Provide a collaborative experience

• Remote sessions can be hosted

• Ability to tour guide any user around our design models, irrespective of their location

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Multi-User


Virtual Reality

Deliver:

• H&S training

• Site Inductions

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Staff Training

Develop specific VR experiences to train factory / site operatives on repeatable tasks


Augmented Reality – The Next Development

• Allows projection of CAD data onto world around us (mixed)

• Allows you to superimpose the building on a site

• An excellent planning tool

• Wearable & tablet based

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Daqri smart helmet

Microsoft hololens

Tablet or mobile device

AR


Augmented Reality – The Next Development

Deliver drawings, works instructions, and data to the

factory and site – in a better way

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AR – Proof of concept

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Bathroom pod constructed directly from AR model

• No drawings

• No measuring tools, plumb lines etc,

• Just the projected AR model

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The Challenge Ahead


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