Out-Of-The-Modular-Box Thinking
Geoff is an independent consultant with 25 years invested in the modular construction industry. During this time, he has been both an employee and business owner in construction companies, 10 years in building materials manufacturing, BIM Design, and distributor of over 40 modular building technologies. He has been hired by the USA military, and international construction firms, building and machine fabricators, and panelizers to create their business and operational solutions.
BIM EXPERIENCE:
- Software – Revit (30,000+ hrs.), AutoCAD (4,000+ hrs.), Advanced Steel (2,000+ hrs.), Navisworks, AGACAD All products, BIM360 Cloud Administrator, Procore Administrator
- Roles – Served as Owner’s BIM Consultant, Compliance Consultant, BIM Consultant, Software Manager, BIM Construction Consultant, and Fabrication BIM Manager
- Project Locations – New Zealand, Russia, India, Caribbean, Mexico, Canada, USA, Thailand, Turkey, and Middle East
- Autodesk Service Provider (Current)
- Member Autodesk Revit Inside-The-Factory and Beta Tester (Current)
- Certified Professional in Revit for Structural Design (2016)
- Over 600,000m2 of BIM projects in LOD 350-500
- Created BIM DfMA systems to produce over 2,500 modular structures
PROJECT BACKGROUND:
Commercial
- Professional Office
- Retail
- Mid-Rise & High-Rise
- Hotels & Motels
- Religious Centers
- Educational Facilities
Residential
- Luxury Residential
- Affordable Housing
- Multi-Family
- Condominium
- Workforce Housing
Modular
- Volumetric Structures
- Sub-assembly Pods
- Flat-Pack Assemblies
- Kit Structures
- Sub-Assemblies
- Components
Specialty
- Military Facilities
- Data Centers
- Medical Facilities
- Industrial
- Recreational Structures
REVIT DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURING AND ASSEMBLY (DFMA) EXPERT:
- LOD 400-500 documentation for fabrication of structural steel, cold formed steel, wood framing, stairs, connectors, interior finishes, facades, insulated panels, floor and roof trusses, timber, modular structures, and assemblies.
- BIM to CNC data for robotic assembly, roll forming equipment Howick and FrameCad, 2D planer mill stations, and saw stations in .CSV, .SAT, .STL, .DXF, and .NC file formats.
- Fabrication design for volumetric modular, flat-pack modular assemblies, component kits, and component parts
- Dynamic Bill of Materials (BOM) schedules and reports for assemblies, sub-assemblies, components, consumables, structural framing, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and architectural finishes
- Creation of multi-station shop drawings, assembly travelers with QC tracking, nesting optimization reports with operator cut lists, QR codes, and heat and lot number tracking systems
- Nesting reports by module, floor, tower, or structure with material optimization, waste analysis, order reports, cut lists with graphics, compliant to equipment and plant criteria utilizing BIM exported data.
MANUFACTURING EXPERIENCE:
- Structural Insulated Panels
- Injection Moulding
- Cold Formed Steel (CFS) roll forming
- CFS truss design and fabrication
- Structural detailing and fabrication
- Volumetric Modular Structures
- Panelized Assemblies
- Custom fabricated parts
- Assembly kits
BIM DATA MANAGEMENT:
- Creation of Revit data container models over 50 000 m2 and unlimited building modules
- Creation of methods for the multi-interlinking of modular BIM catalogs with over 200 Revit modular interchangeable configurations of chassis, core, and boundary conditions
- Formation of BOM and data management systems to link Revit components with fabrication data files, weld instructions, lookup table dynamic tagging, and external applications
- Standardized Revit design work with flexible procurement options by utilizing a Generic BOM system that maps design documentation to any purchased product.
- Write Excel VBA and M-Code applications to query pools of BIM data and generate user selected customized ERP import files, fabrication reports, matrix files, pivot tables, production planning, fabrication analysis, shipping logistics, cut lists, and PDF discipline packages.
REVIT KNOWLEDGE:
- Model Linking – data and view management, linked model schedules without linking files
- Material Management – creating materials, material BoM libraries, patterns, custom parameters, and libraries
- Design Configuration – system families, curtain walls, and parts management
- Miscellaneous Steel – Stairs and rails, steel connections,
- Model Interoperability – Navisworks, Robot, Advance Steel, IFC, AutoCad, CadMEP, Solidworks, VR, Twinmotion, and Enscape
- Workflows – clash detection, design options, sheet sets, LOD stages, phasing
- MEP Systems – design, configuration, family creation, spool drawings, data collection
- Shared Parameter – creation, data organization, and modification
- Coordinate Systems – XYZ model linking, massing, and site
- View Management – Filters, view templates, selection sets, revisions, legends
- Design Automation – Dynamo graphs, PropertyWizard, diRoots, Excel, Smart Connections
- Global Parameters – physical model changes and data management
- Template Creation – project files, sheets, views, filters, families, schedulesv
REVIT FAMILIES:
- Family Creation – super families, advanced parametric families with fabrication data, multi-nested families, international families, smart annotations, parametric details
- Family Type Manager – creator of commercial application for Revit Family Data Management
- Lookup Tables – any families, nested relational database lookup tables that reside within families
- Type Catalogs – creation of master catalogs, international catalogs, default type catalogs
- Connector Families – MEP custom families, structural connections
- International Families – parameters, languages, metric and imperial, data conversions
- Family Creation Mastery – reference objects, advanced formulas, multi-nested families, arrays, parameter management, materials, extrusions, adaptive points, smart code compliant families
- Family Types – ability to generate 1000s of family types and lookup table data within minutes
- BoM Data Cubes – creation of dynamic data collectors for all components and consumable products that reside within families without the need to model the additional elements
