BIM Demonstration

Childrens Memorial Hospital is building a new hospital, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, and is using an innovative technology to hold costs down and ensure that the project is ready for a Summer 2012 move. The hospitals construction managers, architects and engineers are using Building Information Modeling (BIM), which creates a virtual 3D model of the hospital to identify and address potential design and construction issues well before they impact the schedule and budget. For example, BIM helps the hospital ensure that they are routing piping, ductwork and conduit properly before any of this work actually happens inside the building. This technology is also enhancing the energy efficiency of the building in several ways, including the enabling of thermal modeling, which provides a virtual comparison of potential heat loss based on which materials are selected for the buildings enclosure.

This 30-second demonstration shows how 3D animation is used to plan for constructino of an operating room. The animation begins with a view of the infratstructure above the ceiling and ends with the medical equiptment installation.

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