HARDWARE & SECURITY
ASSA ABLOY
‘shreds’ time
and costs
for Herts
development
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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information may become out of date and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
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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.
“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.
JUL/AUG 2019
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