Engineering
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Federated BIM: catching clashes before they cost money
How one shared model of structure and services removes most on-site rework.
Mei Lin Torres
Director of Engineering
A single clash between a duct and a beam can cost days on site. A federated model finds it before anything is fabricated.
Every trade uploads its model weekly, and our coordinators run clash detection before each package is released.
On Halcyon Commons this approach cut MEP rework by an estimated 70%.
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