Design Charrettes in Wood Construction: The New Pre-construction Meeting:
Class Audience
- Primary Speaker: Steve Bumbalough
- Co-Speaker: Loren Linnell
- Co-Speaker: Will Ikerd
Primary designers, structural detailers, builders, and fabricators who typically specify or design wood structural framing models
Class Description
For years, wood component fabricators have been participating in pre-construction meetings to engage trades at the design and construction phase. Building information modeling (BIM) technologies now enable these highly collaborative design charrettes to work with detailed framing models that were not available just a few years ago. This class will cover how you can use Autodesk Navisworks and other Autodesk applications to combine framed models that have been previously perfected in proprietary modeling tools, thus creating a charrette-ready model.
Dramatic increase in shop and site fabrication is a direct result of Navisworks coordination software. When contractors are ensured of all possible issues being taken care of and that the design would fit into the site, fabrication increases. Wood fabricators have started using the 3D BIM tool in a big way. Once the design is finalized and coordination is complete, the wood framing model is used to create detailed shop drawings.
Key Learning
- Define wood-framed level of detail that brings value to the trades during charrettes
- Describe best practices for combining wood models from Autodesk Revit, AutoCAD Architecture, and proprietary solutions with Navisworks
- Define practical workflows that enable collaboration when it counts
- List best practices for coordinating teams who engage in wood-framed projects
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