1. CIFE welcome

2. CIFE Overview 100% funded by industry 1988-2000 2000-2010 2010+
Building owners
Design and construction companies
Software and hardware vendors
Building Information Modeling (BIM)
Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) – project focus
2010+
Optimize Facility Performance
Enterprise focus 2

3. Current success stories: Reports from 2012 CIFE Summer Program
Designers/engineers:
30% reduction in project schedule (GPLA)
33% cost reduction (Sera)
328x increase in number of design versions (Arup)
99.99% reduction in design cycle time (Beck)
Design-Builders:
48% reduction in man hours (Beck)
30% reduction in cost (NCC)
>99% reduction in design batch size (GT)
85% reduction in effort to track supply chains (Optima) 
Builders:
95% reduction in field rework (DPR)
20% improvement in field productivity (DPR)
0% reduction in scope (DPR)

4. CIFE Current success
Evidence-based management: metrics on organization and process performance
Multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO): Automated rapid generation of (thousands of) design alternatives
“Big data”
Professional VDC Certificate Program

5. Plus-Delta of Civil and Environmental Engineering
US Department of Commerce, compiled by P. Teicholz
Persson, Sustainable City of Tomorrow: B01—Experiences of a Swedish Housing exposition
Guilllermo Gomez, PUChile
Provides fixed physical assets and wealth of society
High global demand for infrastructure and housing
Opportunity to impact global climate challenge significantly
Low productivity  compete with other ways to spend $
High energy use and rising energy costs
Structural reliability << societal need (Chile)
Environmental degradation

6. The CIFE mission
to be the world's premier academic research center for Virtual Design and Construction of Architecture - Engineering - Construction (AEC) industry projects.
Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) is the use of multi-disciplinary performance models of design-construction projects, including the Product (i.e., facilities), Organization of the design - construction - operation team and Work Processes in order to support business objectives …
… to support exceptionally reliable engineering and management processes to plan, design, construct and operate sustainable facilities

7. The CIFE mission
to be the world's premier academic research center for Virtual Design and Construction of Architecture - Engineering - Construction (AEC) industry projects.
Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) is the use of multi-disciplinary performance models of design-construction projects, including the Product (i.e., facilities), Organization of the design - construction - operation team and Work Processes in order to support business objectives …
… to support exceptionally reliable engineering and management processes to plan, design, construct and operate sustainable facilities
…is there something better to do to meet these goals?

8. CIFE methods Entirely industry-funded
Needs to simultaneously serve diverse constituents:
(Industrial) sponsors
(Academic) stakeholders: dean, faculty
Students
CIFE has a 25 year history
Practice
Research
Education

9. Summary of CIFE role
CIFE translational research gives practitioners the opportunity to identify, explore, develop and apply new methods that have great potential value … with low risk and (relatively) low cost
Practice
Research
Education

10. VDC elements
Slide by Martin Fischer

11. VDC has a management focus
Design of
Product: classic focus of engineering design and analysis
First object-oriented CAD models at Stanford
Organization:
Necessary because of complexity
Process and production management
Necessary because projects live over time
Emerged from discipline of CEM, started at Stanford

12. Management objectives and metrics
Coordination latency (days)
What they are: metrics, target and measured values, status (R/G/Y) .
Latency of different teams

13. Management objectives and metrics
Management maturity definition
What they are: metrics, target and measured values, status (R/G/Y) So what: Bloom et al.
Performance tracks management

14. (Multiple) Predictable performance objectives: Drivers
Production management: short intervals
(Multiple) Predictable performance objectives: Drivers
Outcomes: major milestones
Controllable
Process
[Conformance to plans]
Outcome [Project/ Enterprise Performance]
Product, organization, process designs
Latency: mean <= 1; 95% within 2 working days
Safety: 0 lost hours
Coordination activity: planned, explicit, public, informed > 90%
Field-generated Requests for Information: 0
Schedule: 1 y Design
< .5 y Construct
95% on-time performance
Facility managed Scope: 100% of items with > 2% of value, time, cost or energy
Rework volume: 0 (for field construction work); objective = 10-20% (virtual work)
Cost: >= 95% of budgeted items within 2% of budgeted cost
Prediction basis: > 80% of predictions founded
*Function (quality) conformance (%): >= 99%
Quality - Delivered Scope: 100% satisfaction by POE
Design versions: 2 or more >= 80%
Schedule conformance (%): >= 80%
*Sustainability: >75% better energy, water, materials, than 2002, profitably
Staff trained in VDC: >= 4/project
Cost conformance (%): >= 95%
Globalization: >= 50% of supply and sales

15. Performance objectives for DPR - 2018
Production management
[Conformance to plans]
Outcome [Enterprise Performance]
Latency: mean <= 1; 95% within 2 working days
Safety: 0 lost hours
Field-generated Requests for Information: 0
Schedule: 1 y Design
< .5 y Construct
95% on-time performance
Rework volume: 0 (for field construction work); objective = 10-20% (virtual work)
Cost: >= 95% of budgeted items within 2% of budgeted cost
*Function (quality) conformance (%): >= 99%
Quality - Delivered Scope: 100% satisfaction by POE
Schedule conformance (%): >= 80%
*Sustainability: >75% better energy, water, materials, than 2002, profitably
Cost conformance (%): >= 95%
Globalization: >= 50% of supply and sales
Staff trained in VDC: > 90% of all projects have >= 4 VDC specialists
Other:
Drivers
Courtesy: DPR

16. External objectives to clients
Broad, disciplined adoption - field: Breakthrough performance objectives for 2015
Internal objectives
External objectives to clients

17. 4D+: 4D with analytics Enables: Multi-disciplinary teams
to visualize construction of large (or small) projects and
View multi-disciplinary predictions of value and costs
Over time

18. Current success story: Multi-disciplinary design Optimization for AEC
Flager: MDO
Current success story: Multi-disciplinary design Optimization for AEC

19. Cloud-based multi-disciplinary design optimization
Basbagill, Flager: MDO
Cloud-based multi-disciplinary design optimization

20. Morkos: Space Constraint MDO Method
Current success story: Schedule by exploring many “or” schedule options
SCM schedule durations average 47% shorter than LOB

21. VDC Certificate Program
Big ideas:
The VDC certificate program is the single most effective CIFE initiative in helping member organizations to get high value from adoption of VDC methods.
It provides professional education to enable participants to:
Understand basic theory and practice of VDC;
Develop awareness of trends, potential results and issues in using VDC;
Develop specific skills in collaborative use of VDC methods.
Photo courtesy DPR

22. Good practice uses multiple VDC methods: DPR
Process Metrics
Target Costing
Stuart
Project Setup
Need to go further than just the conceptual definition of an “integrated process”
Need tangible references of a completely redefined process
Prequalification process
Define project organization
Define deliverables by discipline
Process to create a virtual organization
Commitment from all parties to virtual organization
Recognition that SD, DD, CD and CA are redefined
Owner’s commitment from the very top
Design Assist
Process
Virtual Building Tools
Design the “Big Room”
Virtual Company
Big Room
Collaborative Planning

23. Total Economic Impact Model - GC
Assume:
Constant revenues
Lower contract costs
Higher internal costs: 1 FTE
Predicted (Higher) profit
<< 2-year payback
(c) 2013

24. << 2-year payback
Owner investment
Better than GC, Sub
<< 2-year payback
(c) 2013

25. The CIFE mission
to be the world's premier academic research center for Virtual Design and Construction of Architecture - Engineering - Construction (AEC) industry projects.
Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) is the use of multi-disciplinary performance models of design-construction projects, including the Product (i.e., facilities), Organization of the design - construction - operation team and Work Processes in order to support business objectives …
… to support exceptionally reliable engineering and management processes to plan, design, construct and operate sustainable facilities

26. The CIFE mission
to be the world's premier academic research center for Virtual Design and Construction of Architecture - Engineering - Construction (AEC) industry projects.
Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) is the use of multi-disciplinary performance models of design-construction projects, including the Product (i.e., facilities), Organization of the design - construction - operation team and Work Processes in order to support business objectives …
… to support exceptionally reliable engineering and management processes to plan, design, construct and operate sustainable facilities
…is there something better to do to meet these goals?