O’connell
Skanska Usa Building Co. It has an eight -step process that he uses to evaluate all his new technologies, which he deployed in the construction of the redevelopment of Terminal B of Laguardia Airport in New York City. Skanska selected CMBUILDER, a platform that offers interactive places simulations and published it throughout its team to put it ready.
Danielle O’Connell, Principal Director of Emerging Technology at Skanska, says that a problem for a contractor as great as Skanska is that several teams will want to use different technological platforms.
“Are we still using this tool? Who uses it? Where are they? What projects are they? Things like that,” he says. “This has helped us to have a better idea of who will pilot what and where. [The eight-step plan] It allows us to connect equipment from all over the country that may have similar challenges and then they can talk. “”
Skanska piloted the 3D logistics platform in the Laguardia Airport project and obtained positive comments from the pilot, allowing the company to achieve internal approval to expand the wider use of CMBUILDER in several projects.
The eight steps of the Skanska method are quite simple: define a problem; Check if there are sanctions or locks of roads to use new technologies; Pilot financing and approval; Sellers’ qualifications; Hiring, kickoff pilot; Pilot evaluation and a recommendation to the whole organization.
“Then we are thinking of climbing, another reason this process is underway is to look at what makes sense and only makes sense for a specific type of project in a certain geography,” says O’Connell. “Is it something we want to climb in the company?”
Skanska claims that CMBUILDER was local successful because many of the functions used by the teams working on the project were previously PDF that could be united on a platform based on the web more accessible to the stakeholders.
“The whole idea was to democratize this 4D logistics planning; we are using 3D models, and we were possibly using animations to show the phase and logistics and communicate what happens in the workplace,” he says.
After feedback and communication with the seller and teams, CMBUILDER was adopted and published in other projects. There was an immediate purchase because logistics was a point of pain through the table.
“Megaprojects that are multi -developed offer the opportunity to do R&D in technology,” says Michael Zeppieri, Skanska Cto. “This is a low marginal business … Technology is still perceived as an additive cost, and it can be very difficult to justify … unless one of these projects are already in this test space to try something.”
