Collaborative Virtual Building
Delivering greater value, Increasing Productivity and Minimizing Waste
Providing measurably more value for customers is DPR’s guiding principle in the use of technology to enhance project delivery.
As a long-established leader in Virtual Design and Construction (VDC), Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Integrated Project Delivery (IPD), we know that technology alone cannot deliver the level of results we have all come to expect. Team members must be able to skillfully use and improve the application of technology to continuously achieve better value and savings. Experience has proven that it is the combination of technology and a collaborative ideology that yields the greatest returns.
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Collaborative Virtual Building proved itself on Camino Medical Group’s new 250,000-sq.-ft. medical office building with staggering results, including increased trade productivity and efficiency due to prefabrication and clash detection early on. See the technology in motion as real world results come from virtual solutions. View video now
Featured Collaborative Virtual Building Projects
Camino Medical Group
Medical Office Building
VMware, Inc.
Corporate Campus
Roche Molecular Systems
New Research Building
Sun Health
Del E. Webb Hospital Expansion
Blue Shield of California
Blue Shield Lodi Office Building
What can you expect from a Collaborative Virtual Building process?
The process begins with the owner, as the primary stakeholder, and travels throughout the team to even the smallest subcontractor. To gain the most value, the investment in VDC, BIM or IPD must be made upfront when it can have the greatest influence over the project. In most cases, the initial cost averages approximately half-a-percent of the total construction cost, and if done ideally at project start, can potentially realize a return of more than two or three times the early outlay.
Additional benefits through the use of VDC tools (3D/4D CAD) for the coordination of Mechanical, Plumbing, Electrical and Fire Protection (MEP/FP) systems, based on completion of a 250,000-sq.-ft. medical office building and adjacent parking garage:
- Zero conflicts between various systems
- Less than 0.2% rework
- Productivity improvement of more than 30% for the mechanical contractor
- Less than two hours per month spent on field coordination issues by the superintendent of the general contractor
- Only two field issues related to Requests for Information (RFI)
- Zero change orders related to field conflict issues
