Proposed Research and Development Activities Advanced Integrated Building Information Modeling Prepared for:

1. Proposed Research and Development Activities Advanced Integrated Building Information Modeling Prepared for: US Army Corp of Engineers Architect & Urban Planner Under the Supervision of: Mr. Kenneth W. Cook, AIA, NCARB Acting Chief CAD/BIM Center Coordinated by: Andrew Strelzoff, Ph.D – USM School of Computing TulioSulbaran, Ph.D – USM School of Construction

2. Agenda • Call to Order and Purpose of the Meeting - Ken Cook • Introduction - Andrew Strelzoff / Tulio Sulbaran • Proposed Research and Development Activities • The Virtual Reality BIM Immersion Experience - Daniel Comeaux / James Ross • Fostering Construction Management Implementation of BIM at Engineering Research Development Centers - Cara Percy • BIM in the Battlefield - Corey Berry • Mobile BIM Annotation - Trey McSweyn • BIM TeleEngineering - Isaiah Williams • Presenting 5D BIMs Using a Specialized Video Editing Tool - Lewis Jones • Virtual BIM Code Compliance - Lacey Duckworth • Open Discussion

3. Introduction • USACE CAD-BIM Center Interests • Develop Student-Researchers with skills that match the current and future needs of ACE • Develop tools for use by ACE world wide • Use BIM in the design process more efficiently • Push BIM beyond Design into Construction Management and Building Maintenance • Advance Knowledge through publication and presentation

4. Student Presentations • Students were given list of USACE CAD-BIM center research interests (Thanks to Keen Cook and his team!) • Students selected the research interests which most closely matched their own and wrote short white papers describing • Research Objective • Approach & Deliverables • Benefits and Innovation • Personal Goals • Faculty edited only to refine students’ proposed approach and to narrow the scope of projects to target completion in 18 months.

5. The Virtual Reality BIM Immersion Experience • Anticipated Research Leaders: Daniel Comeaux & James Ross • Objectives • Display BIM Models imported from commercial software in open source client-server Virtual Reality using 3D screens and goggles. • Facilitate collaborative immersive editing of BIM model sub-object properties (this pipe should be copper rather than PVC…) • Enable limited editing of sub-object dimensions, shapes and textures (we don’t want to compete with commercial design software) • Provide a “round trip” be exporting the group-edited model back to the commercial design environment.

6. The Virtual Reality BIM Immersion Experience • Approach • Select Open Data Format • Import BIM Model embedded information • Display and Editing of BIM model and information • Simple editing of shapes and dimensions • Export back to commercial design package • Deliverables • Open Source software package • ½ day workshop presentation • Quarterly and Final Reports

7. The Virtual Reality BIM Immersion Experience • Innovation • “Meeting of the Minds” across disciplines in hard • Immersive Virtual Reality will allow USACE staff to visualize and edit BIM model properties together • Client-server Virtual Reality will allow participation from districts around the world. • Use of Open Source software will make the project useful as a building block for other efforts.

8. The Virtual Reality BIM Immersion Experience • Personal Goals • We have enjoyed working on several Collaborative Virtual Reality Projects for professors Strelzoff and Sulbaran. • We would love the learning experience of working with the Army Corps of Engineers CAD-BIM center on virtual reality systems and BIM. • Our goal for this project is to produce a tool that becomes widely used by USACE to help develop BIM models which are used as designs for real world construction projects.

9. Fostering Construction Management Implementation of BIM at Engineering Research Development Centers • Anticipated Research Leaders: Cara Percey • Objectives • To provide specific operation guidelines to determine each USACE districts’ visions and expectations for BIM usage in Construction Management. • Increase uniform adoption of BIM in Construction Management through the development and use of a workshop curriculum which meets the needs expressed by the USACE districts.

10. Fostering Construction Management Implementation of BIM at Engineering Research Development Centers • Approach • Identify current status quo • Assist the ERDC in determining and defining their visions and expectations • Create and action plan • Development of BIM adoption workshop curriculum in collaboration with USACE CAD-BIM staff. • Delivery of BIM adoption workshop at Construction Management conferences and USACE districts chosen in collaboration with ACE CAD-BIM staff. • Deliverables • Action Plan (50 pages) • ½ day workshop presentation (s) • Quarterly and Final Reports Time Management Quality Management Cost Management Safety Management

11. Fostering Construction Management Implementation of BIM at Engineering Research Development Centers • Benefits and Innovation • Reduce Time • Fewer RFI’s • Field Coordination • Reduce Cost • Increase Return • Productivity Improvement • Improve Quality Control • Improved accuracy • Overall Increased Clarity

12. Fostering Construction Management Implementation of BIM at Engineering Research Development Centers • Personal Goals • Use and advance my skills in 2D and 3D design • Work with USACE to make BIM the ultimate tool to manage projects from design to construction. Capstone Project Modeling & Animation Modeling & Animation

13. Retrieving BIM Information on the Battlefield • Anticipated Research Leaders: Corry Berry • Objectives • Produce a prototype heads up display system capable of retrieving BIM information associated with a building location by reading a semi-permanently emplaced RFID tag • Retrieved information will be displayed in a heads-up display (HUD) allowing rapid hands free retrieval of BIM data • Simple voice commands will allow the operator to find the desired data embedded in the BIM model

14. Retrieving BIM Information on the Battlefield • Approach • Select Target BIM software • Synchronize hardware: RFID tag, RFID Reader, portable microprocessor, BIM database, Heads-Up augmented reality display. • Develop display program • Develop voice (or other) indexing to allow dynamic search and retrieval of BIM data • Field testing • Deliverables • Open Source software and hardware system • ½ day workshop presentation • Quarterly and Final Reports

15. Retrieving BIM Information on the Battlefield • Benefits and Innovation • Advanced Battlefield knowledge and command • Potential Implementation into Future war-fighter project. • Open Source HUD BIM data lookup capabilities potentially useful in other projects You Are Here

16. Retrieving BIM Information on the Battlefield • Personal Goals • Use my existing skills • expanding my knowledge in new areas

17. Mobile BIM Annotation • Anticipated Research Leaders: Trey McSweyn • Objectives • Utilize existing SMS text messaging systems to provide an easy way to annotate BIM models remotely from mobile phones • Keep BIM models up to date with “as built” modifications • Study the workflow which would help and encourage construction managers to utilize the new tool Special adviser: Dr. BeddhuMurali, USM School of Computing Former Mississippi State ERC employee Currently working with CZMIL on Image reconstruction Expert in web services for image processing

18. Mobile BIM Annotation • Approach • Identification of Initial Target BIM Repository • Development of “TwitterBIM” Bridge • Extensive Field Testing • Deliverables • Open Source software package • ½ day workshop presentation • Quarterly and Final Reports TwitterBIM Joe Smith: 4/11/10 PVC used in 2nd floor NE bathroom

19. Mobile BIM Annotation • Benefits and Innovation • Encourage regular annotation of BIM models to produce the “as built” version • More frequent annotation will lead to greater confidence and usage of BIM in building maintenance • Open Source building block which may be useful for other projects

20. Mobile BIM Annotation • Personal Goals • Complete my Master’s in Computer Science at USM • Develop a tool which is widely used by USACE • Develop a relationship with CAD-BIM personnel which may lead to a research-oriented job where I can work on interesting projects and can help people worldwide

21. BIM Tele-Engineering • Anticipated Research Leaders: Isaiah Williams • Objectives • To provide a virtual meeting place where subject matter experts can meet to discuss and develop new BIM models • Focus on issues of performance to be able to deliver world-wide capability to host and join Virtual Meetings with potentially large numbers of participants • Develop easy-to-use paths to combine virtually-presented BIM models with other useful data such as GIS sources Special adviser: Dr. Ray Seyfarth, USM School of Computing Former NASA Employee, Currently working CZMIL on LIDAR and Image Mosaics Expert in Parallel Processing and Open Source Development

22. BIM Tele-Engineering • Approach • Utilize Grid of open source RealXTend/OS-Best Virtual Reality Servers • Optimize grid performance in response to needs described by the USACE CAD-BIM center • Discuss, select and implement additional capabilities needed for global meetings such as the ability to import USGS height maps (example to the right) • Deliverables • Open Source software package • ½ day workshop presentation • Quarterly and Final Reports UCSB Lagoon, from USGS Seamless height map

23. BIM Tele-Engineering • Benefits and Innovation • Reduce meeting travel expense • Increase timeliness of responses to questions and concerns from the field • Open Source building block which may be useful for other projects

24. BIM Tele-Engineering • Personal Goals • Expand on my experience as a USM systems administrator • Expand on my experience as a Construction-Computing research facilitator • Work with fascinating new technology • Solve Problems with world wide scope

25. Presenting 5D BIMs Using a Specialized Video Editing Tool • Anticipated Research Leaders: Lewis Jones • Objectives • Design and create a specialized open source video editing tool for the USACE that can be used to more easily create educational, training, outreach and promotional videos utilizing 5D BIM Models • Inline 5D BIM-specific tools to auto-generate desirable video effects • Demonstrate the full capabilities of the new tool on a complex real world 5D BIM example

26. Presenting 5D BIMs Using a Specialized Video Editing Tool • Approach • Select existing open source editor – tool will be a plug-in • Develop 5D BIM import plug-in which brings both the sequence of 3D images and also the embedded data • Develop “director” functions within the video editor to enable rapid development of interesting and informative segments of video from the imported 5D BIM model • Deliverables • Open Source software package • 20-40 Minute sample 5D BIM video showing new capacities of software • Quarterly and Final Reports

27. Presenting 5D BIMs Using a Specialized Video Editing Tool • Benefits and Innovation • Easier and faster development of demo and promotional videos which explain BIM with more interesting effects • Easier and faster development of training and educational videos using 5D models • Wider acceptance and understanding of BIM concepts and advantages

28. Presenting 5D BIMs Using a Specialized Video Editing Tool • Personal Goals • Build on Senior Project which involved development of Virtual Reality education game for construction managers • Build on video editing experience and talent (USM School of Computing uses one of my films for promotion and outreach)

29. Virtual BIM Code Compliance • Anticipated Research Leaders: Lacey Duckworth • Objectives • Develop a BIM Code Compliance tool for a client-server virtual environment • Allow construction management people to load a building model into a virtual environment, and determine if the building complies with required codes • Development of extensible and easily modifiable tool to deal with inevitable changes in code and BIM technology Special adviser: Dr. Randy Rapp, Purdue University, Department of Building Construction Management Company Commander.  326th Engineer Battalion, 101st Airborne Division (retired) Professional Civil Engineer, Government Contracting

30. Virtual BIM Code Compliance • Approach • Selection of initial target building code • Importation of BIM model with embedded information in client-server VR • Development of object-oriented building-code/BIM comparison engine • Development of indicators and pops-ups in the VR to show areas of non-compliance • Deliverables • Open Source software package • ½ day workshop presentation • Quarterly and Final Reports

31. Virtual BIM Code Compliance • Benefits and Innovation • Cost savings through immediate correction of code compliance errors prior to construction • Client-server VR solution allows participation in compliance reviews from anywhere in the world. • Open source and extensible solution in anticipation of inevitable changes to building standards

32. Virtual BIM Code Compliance • Personal Goals • Continue my PhD work on extensible Virtual Reality simulations • Continue work with Dr. Rapp, Purdue University • Provide an immediately useful tool for the USACE

33. Open Discussion