BNBuilder Case Study

Client Details

CUSTOMER

BNBuilders

LOCATION

California, U.S.

Project Cost

$54 million

INDUSTRY

Commercial

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Categories: Commercial

Background

Fullerton College is an Instructional Building, part of a University Campus in California. The project is around 76,000 sq. ft. in overall area, which also includes a Central Plant Unit (CPU) building. The Instructional Building is 3 floor structure, divided into various 4 zones (A to D), each housing a set of lecture halls, corridors, meeting rooms and service units. The entire structure surrounded an open-to sky central courtyard.

Challenges

The project faced the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic that brought work to halt for a considerable duration of time. The team had to strategise the planning carefully upon their return, to ensure that the substantial completion date remains unaffected, by covering up the gap of no work on site.
The collaborative planning sessions would take place in a closed room with the suppliers and the superintendents working with the master schedule to derive lookahead plans on a board. This manual approach to pull planning posed a major setback when accommodating the COVID restrictions of physical proximity which had a direct impact on the communications between teams.
In terms of progress monitoring, the team would spend hours updating schedules by taking updates from the site.

Solution

Integrating the production plan with the top-level Primavera P6® plan. The system allowed the teams to break down the top-level plans into detailed manageable tasks, update critical information on them and take them back to the P6 program.
Schedule integration with BIM gave them the power to visualise the project with the actual construction status. Teams could focus on actual site status, just by looking at the BIM models that had the live task updates. Constraints were linked to these tasks, helping the team understand what is to be resolved.
The scheduling could be integrated with BIM models that already existed and give the power to onsite teams to use the App on mobile devices. They’d seamlessly send progress updates to the same platform that would tie back all the way to the BIM model.

Achievement

Staggering Percent Planned Complete (PPC) of 92% through the month of March 2021 (average of 5 weeks).
VisiLean is a Lean-BIM integrated tool that helped the team to not only recover the site-shut period, but also manage to complete and deliver the project 6 weeks ahead of schedule.

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     Good  
     Based on 44 reviews 
    
 
 
   
 
 
        
   Howard G. 
 September 24, 2021.
 
 
  Review
Excellent - as well as the product, the customer support has been fantastic.

☺Ease of use, potential for it to be a single source of data, phone app. 

☹Like to be able to scroll left to right between weeks in scheduler view and the location stays in the same place. Would like to be able to scroll 1 week at a time in phase view. Constraints to be tracked, and identify by associated trade. Unable to "commit" a task for the next week.
  
 
       
   monish g. 
 July 24, 2021.
 
 
  Visilean Review
Good

☺Visilean is a very good software for collaborative efforts with a dedicated team working on a tight schedule

☹Offline facility not available. It should be incorporated.
  
 
       
   Deron M. 
 July 22, 2021.
 
 
  Visilean is the future of construction...

☺Real time updates of the project - Ease of giving updates strait from job site. 
Mobility of apps and Great customer support and system on-boarding.

☹I don't really have much negative to say, every time we come up with something to improve the system it doesn't talk long and its part of a system update. They are working every day to improve the system.
  
 
       
   Aastha B. 
 July 8, 2021.
 
 
  Why should you go with the software
Software has a lot of significance in improving a projects performance. My overall experience was really great and the team is really supportive.

☺BIMLean Integration works out easy with the software. It supports LPS of Lean Process. Model and Schedule can directly be imported and linked in the software itself. 4D simulation can be viewed in the software with a proper colour wheel assigned to it defining the work status. Work commitment, collaborative planning, communication and workflow are improved using the software, which helps improve project performance. Different projects constraints such as:  space planning, resource planning, equipment positioning, etc. are easily identified.
Software summaries the project status with PPC tracking of WWP, reason of variance mapping, constraint summary and generates progress reports with all documents submitted per activity (RFI, Quality Report, Site Photograph, etc.) in one place.
It compares the planned v/s actual work at site with visual view addition. It is a handy software and is easy to use with easily accessible data. Software also has a mobile version, helping the data to be tracked from anywhere possible.

☹Overall the software is really great but some points from a designer's perspective could be added into the same.
  
 
       
   Bhaumik P. 
 July 8, 2021.
 
 
  The Future of Built Environment
Good

☺3D BIM, 4D Simulation, Value Engineering, Waste Reduction

☹Everything is okay in the cloud and app system. But what if the project is in a remote location. Network Connectivity for real-time updates is an issue. They should build an offline version of the app.
  
 
       
   Agastya M. 
 July 7, 2021.
 
 
  A game changer for real estate projects
The experience with VisiLean has been very satisfactory

☺We have been more inclined towards using the mobile app. Using the mobile app is very much convenient on an every day basis. Most importantly the Quality Approval workflow is very seamless. We can convey our work completion by clicking just one button on the mobile app and the Sr. Engineers get notified about the same. When it comes to the Software, it is cloud based and this helps us to access the Software as well. It is just like accessing facebook; you go to the VisiLean website, provide your credentials and boom; you have all your projects with you. The Gantt view in the Software helps us to create our schedules and also import our schedules created on Microsoft excels. 

☹Not much cons that our company can think of, but yes; on some instances, when we work in basements where the network connectivity is an issue; it is not possible to provide the updates from mobile app. We have conveyed this to their support team (which is very friendly btw) and they have already committed to deliver it soon.
  
 
       
   Keith O. 
 July 6, 2021.
 
 
  Graham Construction
Very good as I said. It will need to be in bedded more into peoples working habits.

☺Keeps a track of important contractual issues

☹Needs more time to bed into peoples working live's
  
 
       
   Josh B. 
 July 6, 2021.
 
 
  Great Planning tool

☺The mobile app made it easy to see my tasks only.

☹The web version was a little confusing and hard to navigate for first time users.
  
 
       
   Daniel F. 
 July 2, 2021.
 
 
  Visilean review
- Best custom service i have ever experienced.
- Visilean wants feedback and really listen to it. I am very convinced that Visilean wants to be developed and contiune to improve, and they show it. Ideas and user friendly tips i give in feedback often is implemented in the near future. 

☺- Live update on phones.
- Low time spent on documenting activities that goes according to planned.
- That you make each subcontractor "more" responsible when they need to accept each activities 6-8 weeks before start by making it "ready".

☹- No view to gives you the full overview of the long term plan. (like 12 months ahead).
- Todays use of colors. Ready state is good for the planner only, but during planning meeting with all contractors, look

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