ROI increase through BIM
Buildings design is usually carried out with a big area reserve for utility systems. That leads to disorganized space design and inefficient building energy supply, over-expenditure of building materials and unjustified financial costs for facility management. As a result property owners face a problem of revenue loss from premises rental.
Space optimisation during project design is a driving efficiency in cost savings and Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a perfect tool for this task. BIM allows to maximise utilisation of available room space and to improve the effective space usage up to 80% for each utility room. As a result, area of technical facilities is less than 8% of the Global Floor Area of the building, which is 30% of the industry usual average space that is needed for MEP systems.
The team of BPS International has an extensive experience in using BIM as a 360° solution through a whole building’s lifecycle and provides interdisciplinary competence for BIM in architecture, engineering, construction as well as facility and property management.
BIM, performed by experienced team of architectures and engineers from BPS International helps property owners increase ROI of the project due to smart utilisation of space.
BPS applies multiple methods like model coordination and clash detection to improve building space design with BIM. Generation of single multi-disciplinary as-built Federated Model and check intersection of different project models included in it, like architectural, structural and MEP models, not only significantly reduces rework in the field but also gives a unique opportunity for property owners to increase ROI, return on investment, from 7 to 12 million depending on the building size and type. And such result can be achieved even after the project has reached 95% of CAD construction documents.
In 2014 BPS International team started to work on a challenging project: the 22-storey Multifunctional Complex with total area of 100 000 sq.m. developed by China-based investors and built under US’ project management. The MEP engineers from BPS International delivered the documentation package of engineering systems based on the existing project model according to 4th (Technical design) and 5th (Construction) Stages of RIBA Plan of Work (with the potential for stages 6th (Handover and Close Out) and 7th (In Use)).
In 12 months the multi-disciplinary as-built Federated Model was created during the planning phase. It included more than 66 000 parameterised elements and contained 11 various engineering systems. One on the building sections – a 12-storey Apart Hotel – originally had more than 10% of area reserved for technical premises. Almost a half of the 11th floor, for example, was originally designed for technical ventilation rooms with a total area of 420m2.
BPS engineers were absolutely sure that the project has a great potential for space optimisation. The team examined the multi-disciplinary Federated Model, which full simulation, clash detection and optimisation analysis abilities helped engineers to develop several desings in order to optimise ventilation ducting. Ventilation equipment was moved to upper 12th floor where fitted with other engineering systems.
Great BIM experience of BPS team gave an opportunity for property owners to release area of 420 sq.m. from technical space to commercial rentable space and enlarge building section of Apart Hotel with 5 spacious apartments from 1 to 3 rooms each.
An estimated revenue of 10 thousand euro per sq.m. the ROI for this project of Multifunctional Complex totalled 4 million euro returned per 1 million invested in the Building Information Model.
An impressive space optimisation and ROI increase with BIM is especially noticeable in development of such big projects. The BPS team kindly welcomes you on our assets to discover and to feel our passion for BIM as well as the performance and quality we achieve with Building information Modelling.