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. Professional VDC Certificate
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 Engineering
Provides fixed physical assets and wealth
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)
US Department of Commerce, compiled by P. Teicholz
Persson, Sustainable City of Tomorrow: B01—Experiences of a Swedish Housing exposition
Guilllermo Gomez, PUChile

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. 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

8. 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

9. 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

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

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

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

13. Big data example: data can be readily available; making sense can be hard
Multi-Purpose Room Supply Air Temp.,
Cooling Coil Valve Position vs. OAT
Multi-Purpose Room Supply Air Temp.,
Cooling Coil Valve Position vs. Time
Constant value agrees
with Building EQ pattern…
but no data in warm weather
Cooling coil and supply air temperature work together as expected
(11/ from 7:15 PM to 8:15 PM)
Cooling coil valve position open
during cold weather
Cooling coil valve position
positively correlates with OAT
Basbagill, Russell-Smith, Wise

14. 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

15. 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