Construction Magazine June 2018 | Page 167

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UCSF has 120 buildings and four hospitals
building a BIM building ,” notes Mace . “ The Level of Development ( LOD ) can be , and typically in construction , is about LOD 300 . We currently use 5 % of the huge volume of data we have that relates directly to fire and life safety , regulatory , patient care and environment of care and we have a LOD of 400 or 500 . The added level of detail for these specific items is more granular and that ’ s critical .” The implementation of this cutting-edge integration has been a true learning experience for the team at UCSF Health , but thanks to its close collaboration with the builders , the tradesmen , the programmers and all those involved , UCSF Health has pioneered a new way of going about construction and facilities management .
Working alongside experts from Stantec , Cupertino , Southland , CRTKL , VueOps , Honeywell and Rudolph & Sletten required the expansion of “ working session ” collaboration and a quantum leap in work process
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