{"id":8335,"date":"2022-09-26T13:00:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buildext.com\/?p=8335"},"modified":"2022-12-07T11:39:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T11:39:39","slug":"digital-engineer-everton-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buildext.com\/en\/digital-engineer-everton-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital engineer in a brave new world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The 4D coordination of the UK&#8217;s largest stadium, the \u00a31.3 billion Everton Stadium, is shared with us by a digital engineer.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>A digital engineer who was modeling and tracking the construction of the stadium&#8217;s BIM model in a construction management software called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bentley.com\/software\/synchro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Synchro<\/a>, day by day.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"BUILDING THE VIRTUAL EVERTON STADIUM | Behind the BIM process with Laing O&#039;Rourke\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nm8mc30k5Bs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n<p>It would be so lovely to live in an ideal world where the client understands that there is such a thing as a digital engineer. That there is such a thing as a coordinated BIM model and that it is not just 3D.<\/p>\n\n<p>Where the contractor does not automatically put his signature on the letter saying that the design is flawed, and further correspondence is not about where to find what you don&#8217;t understand.<\/p>\n\n<p>Where the stakeholders understand that such a simulation is feasible and that although it is a lot of work &#8211; and therefore costly &#8211; it is still 100x more worthwhile to try to build the house virtually than to find out in reality, after weeks of financing a tower crane or a penalty period, the mistake and how we should have done it instead.<\/p>\n\n<p>And then we would finally see that it is becoming more widespread in the West or Asia not just because the video looks good.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull is-light\" style=\"min-height:834px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-0 has-background-dim\"><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"982\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-8327\" alt=\"Az Everton Stadionr\u00f3l nem csak l\u00e9legzetel\u00e1ll\u00edt\u00f3 l\u00e1tv\u00e1nyk\u00e9pek sz\u00fcletnek, hanem a kivitelez\u00e9st egy digit\u00e1lis m\u00e9rn\u00f6k is seg\u00edti 4D BIM-mel.\" src=\"https:\/\/buildext.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Everton-Stadion-Day.jpg\" style=\"object-position:67% 54%\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"67% 54%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/buildext.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Everton-Stadion-Day.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/buildext.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Everton-Stadion-Day-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/buildext.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Everton-Stadion-Day-768x503.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left cover-mobile-p has-white-color has-black-background-color has-text-color has-background has-large-font-size\"><strong>It is because they will save about 20% of the cost  <\/strong><br\/><strong>by eliminating errors and <\/strong><br\/><strong>extra works.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Deadline slips are also eliminated, 70% of conflicts disappear, and there is no shouting, no testosterone, instead, there is constructive dialogue and a common purpose.<\/p>\n\n<p>We already offer <a href=\"https:\/\/buildext.com\/en\/bim-services\/#4DBIM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">4D BIM coordination<\/a> among our BIM services and also use it regularly in our projects. In the video below, for example, you can follow the refurbishment of the iconic <a href=\"https:\/\/tuskecsarnok.hu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tuskecsarnok<\/a> (Spike Hall) service walkway and light sources.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls=\"\" poster=\"https:\/\/buildext.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/bexel_video_cover_02.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/buildext.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/tuske_edit_07_small.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n<p>And now let&#8217;s have a little introspection.<\/p>\n\n<p>If you&#8217;ve read this and like it, two things are possible. Either you&#8217;re a senior manager and confident of a better future, or you work in construction and are an incorrigible optimist like me.<\/p>\n\n<p>If, on the other hand, you&#8217;ve got &#8220;the problem is that&#8221;, you either don&#8217;t know enough about this way of thinking, or you&#8217;ve fallen victim to a project gone wrong. There are many of these in real life.<\/p>\n\n<p>Either way, I ask you to try to improve. Look outside your box and see the world. Look at how they did it where it worked.<\/p>\n\n<p>And if you&#8217;re not in the right environment, don&#8217;t give up. Find a new one and switch. That&#8217;s what we are working on and if many of us do it, sooner or later we will have a breakthrough.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">(Photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/meisstudio.com\/everton-fc-bramleymoore-dock-stadium\/yasqqvgyzel6mefm24c7z0fdlmh92r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MEIS<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Everton Stadium 4D BIM coordination video is not only spectacular but also thought-provoking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[241,242,222,254,333,74,334],"class_list":["post-8335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-4d-bim-en","tag-5d-bim-en","tag-construction-support","tag-coordination","tag-digital-engineer","tag-scan-to-bim-en","tag-tuskecsarnok-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildext.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildext.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildext.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildext.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildext.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8335"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/buildext.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9559,"href":"https:\/\/buildext.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8335\/revisions\/9559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildext.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildext.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildext.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildext.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}