Construction Management for Good Samaritan Hospital: Usage of BIM to Enhance Project Quality and Delivery

This article discusses the usage of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in the construction project of Good Samaritan Hospital to enhance project quality and delivery. It covers the challenges faced during the process and how they were overcome. The article also highlights the importance of accurate communication and quality control checks among the team members.

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Project background
In the project of Good Samaritan Hospital, the designers had used the first ingredient of
Building Information Modeling (BIM) to accurately pass on the designs to the owner. When the
designs were ready and done, a memo of understanding was arranged upon by all the members
of the design team to use the software of 3-D modeling software (Connelly, 2016).
Usage of BIM to enhance the project quality and delivery
The model was implemented based on the traditional construction documents that
permitted the owner to comprehend the intention of the design better before the facility was built.
The architects and engineers carried out weekly design updates to a central file transfer site to
provide all the team members an admission to the present updated information. Therefore, the
current information was downloaded every week and it was separated by the floor into 2-D and
3-D backgrounds for the subcontractor’s use. Every page of the documents and the contracts
were maintained and recorded and the design team was made alert if the new portion of the
model design was impacting anything. Their own structural model, which incorporated all the
updated structural RFI was put to use for self performance concrete drawings and detailing the
background of the structure for the purpose of plumbing, electrical and mechanical coordination
(Bach & Good, 2016). The Good Samaritan Hospital identified the needs of the modeling for
contractors and designers and concluded that they differed from each other. Hence, the Good
Samaritan Hospital incorporated integrated initiatives to the design. The electrical and
mechanical subcontractors formed their own 3-D modeling efforts that were very early in the
process (Powell & Pacula, 2017). The construction team regularly compared to the present
architectural model along with the current built structural model and the subcontractor models of

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electrical, mechanical and plumbing. However, during the procedure, problems were detected in
the initial stage of the project and often before the actual designs were finished. This helped in
reducing the potential for time-consuming delays and field fixes. Proper and accurate
communication of issues of quality control worked completely among the members of the team
that included subcontractors (Schaefer, 2016). The challenge that was faced during the structural
process of the building was that all the actions were stacked and compressed to meet the
deadline. For helping in providing an efficient communication, the Good Samaritan Hospital
made use of the notebook computers in the construction sites for accessing significant portions of
the information along with the drawings and hard copies.
In the end, it was observed that the work list was completed and they performed quality
control checks by making use of the same present information, which was available in the model.
However, the Good Samaritan Hospital had a site retaining a wall of 33,000 per square feet
permanent soil walls, the parking garage area is a 4 storey with 380 parking stalls, a long
underground steel pipe utilidor is fitted and it has a central utility plant of twice of 1,500t
chillers.

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