Virtual PES: Hybrid April Chapter Meeting

Professional Education Seminar (PES)

The Power of 360 Digital Workflow: Supercharging Design and Construction Coordination

Traditional design and construction coordination results in lost time during every handoff, increasing potential for errors and rework and affecting safety, cost, quality, and schedule. The 360 Digital Workflow enhances design-build coordination through a six-step process that includes an integrated Building Information Model, pull/takt planning, clash coordination, overlaying digital models onto the job site, verifying field installation, and conducting extremely precise QA/QC inspection. This process coordinates the design into smaller batches/constructible steps to optimize project flow and eliminate design and site discrepancies.

The 360 Digital Workflow uses Lean best practices to optimize the project schedule, resulting in better prefabrication opportunities, increased quality, and minimal rework. This process helped the team achieve accuracy above 99.5% on 23,000 concrete-embedded mechanical, electrical, and plumbing hangers and sleeves, correlating to $400,000 in savings compared to a typical design and construction process.

Initially, stakeholders needed convincing; however, by reinforcing a culture of respect and Lean education, including Last Planner System® and Scrum, the team adopted the 360 Digital Workflow and a Plan-Do-Check-Act mindset to improve processes.

The process creates value by optimizing the project schedule from design, coordination, placement, and QA/QC. The scalable solution makes assessing and implementing even in small projects easy.