Clearview National August 2019 - Issue 213 | Page 40

PROUD SPONSOR OF DOORS & WINDOWS
DOORS&WINDOWS
PROJECT SPECIFICATION GROUP ‘SHREDS’ TIME
AND COSTS FOR HERTS DEVELOPMENT
» » ASSA ABLOY PROJECT
Specification Group, a unit of ASSA ABLOY
Opening Solutions UK & Ireland, has
partnered with ColladoCollins Architects to
leverage the benefits of its Openings Studio™
BIM software to make significant time and cost
savings on the former Shredded Wheat factory
project.
The project, a thriving new commercial
and residential development based in Welwyn
Garden City in Hertfordshire, will consist of
over 643 units and more than 7,100 doorsets.
Encompassing a sensitive refurbishment of
former Shredded Wheat factory buildings,
the project is part of a huge development that
includes over 1,200 units in total.
Using ASSA ABLOY’s Openings Studio™
software, ColladoCollins has been able to save
weeks of time and manpower when specifying
and managing ironmongery schedules for the
project.
Openings Studio is a BIM software tool that
was developed to significantly improve the
process of door scheduling, visualisation and
more. Users are able to focus on the design,
installation and management of door openings
– all within an information-rich environment.
Specifying as many as 7,100 doorsets can
be an extremely time-intensive task. Using
traditional methods, information would be
provided in countless separate schedules and
documents, which would require a Revit
operator to manually create and update, with
someone else to then check for errors.
Then, as the project develops, information
may become out of date and therefore require
individual doors to be flagged up and re-sent
for advice. The time and manpower that goes
into this process is not only inefficient, but also
ineffective, with the prospect of human error
still a prominent possibility.
For these reasons, ColladoCollins began
to work closely with ASSA ABLOY Project
Specification Group to integrate Openings
Studio with their own Revit model, allowing
the firm to be able find all the relevant
information and ironmongery schedules in a
single place, delivered in one document.
Martin Russell, Project Leader at
ColladoCollins, comments: “Moving to BIM
was a natural progression for us, and as market
leaders, ASSA ABLOY was the obvious choice
to assist us.
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“Utilising the advice from Eric Spooner,
BIM Manager at ASSA ABLOY, as well as
the Openings Studio software itself, we have
managed to free up our team from tirelessly
working through door hardware schedules.
This means we can focus on architecture and
aesthetics, knowing the specification and
integration of the ironmongery is in hand
and will seamlessly feedback into the project
within the allotted timescales.
“The information and advice provided
by ASSA ABLOY has vastly improved the
integration of door hardware within the
former Shredded Wheat Factory project. With
a project of this size, sharing information
can be quite a task – from large file sizes to
sourcing relevant information. The prompts
from Openings Studio make transforming
information clear, concise and generally easy
to follow.
“At ColladoCollins, we pride ourselves on
designing and delivering high quality buildings
with a sensitive, sustainable approach,
utilising a strong design ethos with a strong
technical background whilst understanding
the commercial challenges facing our clients.
Openings Studio enhances our ability to
provide this service and we would seize the
opportunity to work with ASSA ABLOY on
similar projects in the future.”
Eric Spooner, BIM Manager at ASSA
ABLOY, adds: “As Openings Studio flags up
any queries and automatically updates in live
time, it is easy to see any discrepancies and
changes within the schedules. By re-sharing
the model information, it then also allows
us at ASSA ABLOY to view the changes and
feedback to architects – allowing us to work in
close collaboration at every stage of a project.”
The Project Specification Group, a unit
of ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions UK
& Ireland, supports architects, property
developers and design-led contractors at every
stage of a building project. Working across all
major vertical sectors, we have a tailored range
of solutions, combined with design capability
and market knowledge to support clients from
conception to completion.