Ensuring the new structures aligned with the old building systems would be essential for the hospital to function optimally.ДЄ few of the McCarthy Southwest team members had experience using Revit and BIM 360 from a previous project, and immediately recognized the benefit these tools could have on a project like Banner Boswell. To ensure all these new areas operated successfully once built, the central plant powering the hospital needed to be updated. Second, the client wanted a new, five-story patient tower. First, the existing emergency department (ED) was getting expanded and updated-which included the addition of a new lobby. Originally built in the 1950s, the Banner Boswell Medical Center project was ready for a few upgrades. By successfully collaborating on AutodeskВ® BIM 360В® and AutodeskВ® RevitВ® from the outset, the project teams easily saved over 5,000 working hours and more than a quarter of a million dollars over the course of the project while gaining skills that will carry the collaborative group known as вЂњTeam FusionвЂќ along with McCarthy successfully into the future. When the team was tasked with working on a renovation and expansion of the Banner Boswell Medical Center, they decided now was the time to embrace the IVB mindset and rethink the way a hospital construction project was planned. Though the company as a whole is a long-time user of Autodesk products, the Southwest region wasnвЂ™t as quick to adopt a design-build approach as some of the other regions. To achieve optimal communication in the digital space, itвЂ™s essential that all parties involved in a project feel prepared for and empowered by the new solutions.

The project aims to fully define building information modeling (BIM) and virtual design and construction (VDC) while integrating these capabilities in a sustainable way.

To achieve a unified approach to design-build, a new Integrated Virtual Builder (IVB) initiative is being put in place. Embracing a design-build approach to projects requires strategic shifts in mindset-not only across McCarthy, but with its trade and business partners as well. McCarthy Building Companies' commitment to digital innovation in its industry is quickly expanding across all regions of the company.

Fusion 360 team