Vanja Krumpacnik , Project Manager
also adeptly using Building Information Modelling ( BIM ) and Virtual Design Construction ( VDC ) which perhaps can be seen most clearly at the New Royal Adelaide Hospital ( NRAH ), completed two years ago . The $ 2bn hospital was the largest hospital project ever undertaken in Australia and the single biggest infrastructure project in South Australia ’ s history . With such complexity and scale , BIM and supporting construction technologies proved to be useful tools to collate and manage the build in a virtual world .
“ Since NRAH , Hansen Yuncken has come a long way in its use of BIM and VDC , We have adopted a range of field technologies on our projects such as drones , point cloud scanning and supporting Autodesk products that are all accessible via iPads ,” adds Krumpacnik . “ We utilise these to monitor safety and quality and we believe it ’ s made our teams more efficient in delivering trade because we have the latest information at our fingertips . Additionally , we ’ ve used 4D programming whereby we ’ re
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Vanja Krumpacnik , Project Manager
Working for Hansen Yuncken for over a decade , Vanja is an experienced construction professional , having completed a range of hospitality , hotels and entertainment , Defence , commercial and industrial projects . He has been responsible for the delivery of numerous technically complex Managing Contractor projects including the HMAS Creswell School of Survivability & Ship ’ s Safety , introducing new capability without precedent in Australia . He was also responsible for delivery of the Sikorsky Maintenance & Operations Facility , constructed to meet Sikorsky and the Department of Defence ’ s requirements .
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