The $1.3 billion Greater Fort Lauderdale Broward County Convention Center, Port Everglades, and Omni Hotel Project is one of the largest and most ambitious projects in the country. The Project has multiple remote stakeholders, including Mathews Southwest, Balfour Beatty, and Stantec. VDCO Tech was selected by the Weitz Company, the Project's Owner's Representative, to provide BIM Construction Administration and VDC Oversight. VDCO Tech was also chosen as the BIM Compliance Agent and Schedule Review Consultant.
"Through our Team's work with Reconstruct, we are a more informed and proactive management team. Project defects cause delays, and delays cost money. Reconstruct's project visualization, digital documentation, progress tracking, and BIM overlays give comprehensive visual coverage of the Project, allowing stakeholders to truly know what is happening on-site and serving as a valuable communication tool."
Derek Bixby
Weitz, Project Superintendent II
The Problem
The project had several challenges due to its magnitude and complexity, all magnified by the ongoing global pandemic:
- Creating reports and conducting P6 owner reviews was time-consuming and cumbersome. It would take as long as three weeks to generate the 1,600-page reports they needed to submit to the owner. Project stakeholders had little time to read and understand these massive reports.
- The majority of the project stakeholders and decision-makers were working on the project remotely, making it difficult for them to see "what was there" vs. "what should be there."
- The project’s enormity and complex sequencing brought about additional communication and coordination challenges.
The Solution
VDCO Tech turned to Reconstruct to solve many of the challenges presented by this scope of work. They used Reconstruct for:
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Remote site monitoring
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Virtual design oversight
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BIM owner compliance
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P6 report owner reviews
The Results
Using Reconstruct to combine reality capture, design, and schedule, VDCO Tech can bring the construction site to the decision-makers. Reconstruct's Visual Command Center empowers VDCO to:
- Remotely walk project stakeholders and decision makers through the site, showing them "what is there" vs. "what should be there."
- Validate what was installed versus what was actually modeled and keep track of project progress and schedule.
- Save two weeks each month in time spent creating and generating reports.
- Conduct productive monthly 1-hour meetings with the owner and bi-monthly meetings with Weitz, where all stakeholders get all their questions answered in one shot, resulting in better communication and collaboration between the teams.
- Efficiently and intuitively access project insights within Reconstruct, even if users are non-tech savvy.
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