Maximizing Your BIM - Transforming Your Design Into a Reality

JASON MONTOYA: Let me start by introducing myself. I am Jason Montoya, and I come from Albuquerque, New Mexico. I've been in the BIM industry for about three years now, and I've been on the construction side for about 15 years.

So that experience from construction and going back into design, and seeing how it translates and how collaboration affects the project and how it benefits it really I get to really see all of that and see the give and takes of it and the benefits that you can add to it and take away. So it's like a lessons learned thing. And so all of that has brought me to the BIM and construction specialist I am today. So I'm able to present this workflow as per se to you all so right.

RYAN SALVATORE: Thank you. My name is Ryan Salvatore. I am the BIM IT manager for Van H. Gilbert Architect. We're an architectural firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico. We're a small firm but we have a big name.

We do zoos and aquariums, educational facilities in New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, zoos and aquariums, Honolulu, or Texas, you know El Paso area. So you know that's kind of my work background. But I've been in the industry for oh let's see architectural industry a little over going on 13 years with the firm.

Prior to that, I taught at the community college in Albuquerque in which I taught the architectural engineering drafting program. Started with AutoCAD, you know got to start somewhere, [INAUDIBLE] dark circles, and then we've progressed into Revit. So after working at the community college for a couple of years then now, here I am 13 years with Van H. Gilbert Architect. So again, that's a little bit of my background.

JASON MONTOYA: Thank you Ryan. So what's happening in the industry today is that there are high complex designs coming out. There are innovative designs coming out. A lot of this technology and collaboration is happening in designing. What we need to do is figure out a way to get that information passed on to a building team, how to keep that innovation going, that integration going.

We have all this thought and all this process that has been worked out in the design phase. So why are we going to drop the baton and leave it there and go back to A and B in the construction side? So we need to find a way to get from point A to point B through efficiency of technology.

So we are able to take advantage of this efficiency through technology by being able to immerse ourselves in virtual reality, replicate those challenges that we see in the field but in virtual reality, and able to conquer those challenges in virtual time rather than wasting our time in the real world and feeling the effects of the costs and the times that were wasted on that. So we are here today to share with you this advancement because knowledge, if we don't share it, is useless.

So that's why we're here today. Each and every one of you have your own story of how you got here and how you are a piece of this future of making things here at Autodesk. So we are here to present to you today not only the workflow but it's the way we found to work better between a design firm and a builder.

As I said, I've been in the construction industry on the construction side for 15 years so I know these effects. I feel these effects. I see it. I grew up with it. So what we're going to talk about today is that interoperability of BIM and how to get from virtual construction to actual construction. So next slide.

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Why are we here today? We're here to talk about how to capitalize on BIM, what to do with it, how to innovate it, and then how to get from virtual construction to actual construction, how to get the power of BIM in the hands of the field and then finally push it into facilities maintenance. And that is going to be the interoperability of BIM.

RYAN SALVATORE: OK so what I'm going to talk about here on the design side, reason first is because the architectural firm is usually the first point of contact with your clients. We go through the design process, learn about the schematic design and actually engage with the client one on one. So when we're dealing with our client on 101, we are using the BIM 360 collaboration tools.

So with the BIM 360 Collaboration tools, we also use the Autodesk rendering. The Autodesk rendering you know online helps us to put renderings, store them up to the cloud, and then from there we actually share them with our clients. We always remain in contact with our clients, sharing the models, making a change a layout of a room. We change the ceiling, we change the floor materials, so we want the client to always be part of the designing process from start all the way to finish.

And even in through construction that is not possible with the collaboration tools. Also part of the 360 Collaboration is we have The Hub. So on The Hub here you see kind of our files are stored up there for the project team. So what the project team having access to all the files you know we can keep that collaboration between all the design teams, design firms.

In the upper right corner there you see The Hub, and that Hub is set up so that I have separated the project team, my mechanical, electrical, plumbing consultants, my structural consultants, civil, everyone that are part again the design team. On the second little group there I have my client. My client is, in this case, the University of New Mexico.

And we've actually allowed them and have them actually create their own Autodesk account so that they can access The Hub. And they always have it from start to finish. There we store the PDFs. We store all the 3D model because who in their spare time you know can go to the know their device you know and you know download the BIM 360 Team app.

So when they download this app, they can always be in contact with the project. So we give them access to that. So now this is you know they have the model there, they can see the model in their spare time because again when we meet with them you know for design issues, design coordination, learn about the users, meet with the users, we want them to always have access to like I said the model. Its a virtual world.

And it's easier nowadays to keep engaging with our clients. So again those are some of the tools we have. Communication is also the key factor in making us a success. Here we see our project team. Everybody on our project team we can communicate with them. If I move a ceiling you know down three feet or maybe the roof another 6 inches, my structural firm needs to know.

And then, of course, you know you can send an email but in our case we have a communicator tool. So that instant message, it's an IM. Type in there you know hey Brian, I moved the roof down 6 inches, you know follow through a structure.

There is a workflow that I would suggest that every firm establish because sometimes you can actually move this roof down 6 inches. But if you don't have or you don't construct your collaboration tool to check that periodically, and I wish there was a way to have it pop up immediately like when you type something in, it doesn't alert you, it doesn't alert me on the app either.

So if there's a workflow and there you know your good execution plan should include that. Check it when you open the project, check it you know when you save a central. There are certain ways that you can use this to your advantage. We use that to our advantage in our office.

We always keep in contact with everybody even though we are you know seven feet or you know the next door over from my staff, you know instant message, type it. We also use Skype. Skype for Business has same feature, instant message. Always keep in contact with your team. So those are tools that we use.

Also the next tool that we use for maximizing our BIM investment is reality. And what we do is for reality capture is the Enscape. Enscape has a lot of uses for us in our design firm. Again we're very small, 15 staff. 15 staff so our time is very valuable. So here what you see you're looking on the right side is a coordination model.

I like to turn my structural models you know like a magenta color so it pops out immediately. I know those issues. I have my 3D view right on the right side there in which I can actually see my fins are-- you know I move my fins but structure hasn't caught up yet. So those are some things that I can show structure and tell them you know snip it, snip it, send an email, because Communicator you can't also attach JPEGs. I wish you could. So at least look at it, that's coordination with my structural firm send them that. But also with Enscape.

So we have architects that you know they refuse to learn Revit. Really easy, but they refuse to learn Revit. They're the guys that give me the sketch paper, remember the flimsy paper. That's what usually what's on my desk and I imagine I'm going to see tons of it when I get home. So with Enscape, my architects I can export a video and alert them to these instances of what I'm seeing on the production side.

So here, I would send a video to my architect and say, hey, we need you know the submittal's due next week. Structural needs to catch up. So if I send an email to Brian, Brian maybe is out for the week and my architect can then instruct somebody else on a higher level saying you know we need to really move all this stuff so we can coordinate right. Not just for coordination purposes, but also you know in if he's in the conference room and I'm sitting on my desk, he can actually IM me, again through Skype, or text message. You know communication. Keep communication open with everybody.

He can actually tell me, hey Ryan, what if we change that [INAUDIBLE] facade to a metal panel? So I'm in Revit, I change it and then I apply it here. He's like, OK, I like that. So when we're also coordinating I'll also do you know look at the structure. So if he's over here looking at the facade and he says Ryan, why is all that going there? I see the column on the bottom.

But what's going to happen? You know so then I'll go over here, I'll make the wall transparent in Revit, Enscape, real time, real time rendering. So at least now he can go in there and see what's happening with the structure. So the structure you see that the columns' going up and down.

JASON MONTOYA: So Ryan if I could interrupt that you're telling me that in real time I can sit with my client and get the OK to remove or change a facade.

RYAN SALVATORE: Yes.

JASON MONTOYA: And save time. Time is valuable time is valuable. Time is money.

RYAN SALVATORE: Yes. For us, again time is really precious to us because again we're a small firm. So you can zoom in. It's really easy to use. I think the easiest product to use. So we use Revit live.

JASON MONTOYA: We do see it here on the screen, Ryan, but is there a way to get the client to immerse themselves in this virtual reality?

RYAN SALVATORE: Yes I mean I'm glad you're asking that question because you know although we use this for coordination purposes in our office, we can also have the client sit with us and look at a space and verify that the space is what it needs to be, what it needs to look like. The architect is looking around right now, he's looking at the light, but he's also looking at the lights with MEP for electrical and they're on the same spot.

Those halo lights is what the architect wants to see. So those issues is what we want to notice, we want to make sure that the architect is fine, is great with how it looks from the balcony. I mean we're standing in the balcony right now at this point he has on the goggles and I'm driving, because if my architect can't use Revit, obviously he probably won't be able to drive the goggles.

And then also what we do, so this is a-- It's for University of New Mexico. It's a physics astronomy interplanetary science building, so laboratories all over the place. Neutron lab in the basement, concrete walls. But the users of this lab, of these spaces is very critical so that they can tell us exactly what they need.

And we are downloading products from BIM object, real products. Because when we're designing these laboratories, like hospitals, they need to make sure that equipment fits. If my walls are short or the corridor that I'm pushing this huge table through for all my experiments can't fit, then we failed as a design team. So here you know like I said I would give my client the goggles, I would drive them through the corridors because again I just want to make sure that they are utilizing our time and their time effectively.

So again, take them to laboratories, make sure all the equipment they need is there, then driving down further. They wanted glass walls, OK glass walls. They want to see what's happening in the laboratories at all times. Making sure all the equipment is in the right order, drive down further.

Again, this is real time rendering. And we're only six minutes. I left that little timer on there you can see how fast it works. We were we're a small firm. We don't have the extravagant products, you know a super high speed computer or I7's with like 32 gigs RAM. But you can see it renders really, really good. Not a high end video card either.

But again like I said every user needs to make sure that we are successful in designing the building for them. It's not a building that we're going to use. So it's their building. So again, that's what we use.

JASON MONTOYA: That's great Ryan.

RYAN SALVATORE: And I'm going to hand it back over to Jason. He's going to finish it up with the contractor.

JASON MONTOYA: That's a lot of thought and process going through building this system. A building is a system. It's a system that works with from ground all the way up through the roof. It all talks to each other. Everything is connected to each other.

So we're going to talk about the next step on bringing it into the builder's side, how to capitalize on your BIM. And as you see there I'm going to start with reality capture. I'm going to start with reality capture, figure out how to get through this cycle of virtual coordination, and through to building BIM to the field, and then using them BIM to QA, QC my process, and at the same time push it into building operations. And I tie that back in with reality capture.

Are we going to start a brand new project with reality capture? Are we going to start a brand new project in the field taking this point cloud information and putting it into our new brand new Revit project? The answer is yes. What's underneath the ground? Do we know what's underneath the ground?

Do we know what's going to happen underneath there? No that's unknown to us. So we can actually get down to the over excavation, tie into our existing utilities, and what we're going to do is we're going to cover that back up.

But before we cover it up we're going to take a reality capture and take the real time rendering of what's going on there, where we tied in that, so that way our next building team or subcontractors coming in can see what is going to be underground. OK we need to know where that gas line is. That gas line will shut your job down if you hit that gas line. We need to know where that's at.

We need the data. We need the data going in. If they come in and damaged that, well that's another high price for your business again. So that's what I want to reiterate here is that reality capture is not only for a retrofit for when you want to tie into a 1900s old facade that the client wants to keep. But yet you want to revamp your MEP and get it up to code, but you can't do that if you do not implement reality capture.

You're going to be putting so much money, wasting so much time in and tying into this existing structure or this existing facility when you don't start right, you're not going to end right. All this time and fabrication, prefabrication, pre-thought. Is going to be useless it's not going to be pretty no more. It's going to be erased and deleted because it's useless.

So that takes me to my next point of integrate. How are we going to integrate? What are we going to integrate? And why should we integrate? I just told you why you should integrate reality capture from beginning. We don't know what's underneath the ground. But once we do uncover it we'll take that reality capture, tie in, and move on with the project.

Next is communicate. How are we going to communicate through the cycle? How am I going to get from here and then to here and have my build team know what is going on. And then from there into QA, QC, and building operations, how am I going to do that? Is there is there a way that I can put all our minds together, put everything together so that everybody knows where everything is at and keep up to date it and with the current information? That is very important.

We could be working off of something of yesterday's information if Ryan over here has his own list, you have your own list, and you have your own checklist of punch listing this project out, and I have my own. So there is going to be miscommunication, there's going to be a lot of steps missed, there's going to be a lot of information missed. So that's where we need to find a way to centralize it on a hub, the cloud, in your office, outside of your office. We need access to all of that.

Next is educate. How are we going to be able to get the user or the end user of this product to use it? We need to be able to train them, we need to train our client, we need to train our build team, we need to train the people who are actually putting in the drywall. Is this is this going to be the type x or what type of wall assembly is this going to be? what type of facade is this going to be? Stuff like that needs to be taught to the user so that way they can pull it up on their application or their mobility and use that information appropriately, rather than not having that information.

And once they don't have it and they don't know what to do with it, they're going to put it away. If they're not taught what to do with that information, they're going to put that iPad down. They're going to put their mobile device down and go back to their drawings and pick up their drawings and start lugging those things around again. So we need to educate them. And not only them but the owner. The owner needs to know how to run their building and maintain their building or their end product.

Next. That brings us to virtual construction to actual construction. And I spoke about the unknowns and the anomalies. The anomalies are what give us those headaches and what we don't know kills us.

So we want to capture that reality, bring it back into the office, and be able to work with that information, share it. And for that purpose we turn to Autodesk. Autodesk provides a reality capture called ReCap. ReCap is a standalone software product that is able to read point cloud information from an instrument that is set up in the field to go ahead and take that reality, bring it into a software program that is readable.

And these are millions and billions of points of an object in the field that is shot with LADAR laser as my laser pointer is doing now. It's brought back to that instrument and able to create this rendering of what you see here. And also in that software we're able to see these mirror bubbles.

These mirror bubbles allow us to click on it, take us into that actual reality, and see the imaging of not just only just the points. It's a little fuzzy as you can tell. But once you click on a reality bubble here you can go in and actually see the imaging of 360 imaging so you won't just be stuck here as if the instrument was stuck on this wall. Now you can be able to turn all the way around 360 and see all the information.

Next, we're going to be able to keep up with their asbuilts for this. Our asbuilts, our asbuilts are-- that's right. Our asbuilts are part of this information that's coming from reality, from the ReCap in reality capture. We're able to get that information, plug it into our Revit software through a link.

And Revit has an option at the point, at the top of this ribbon to insert the point cloud data. So we're able to put all that information in our Revit project and be able to get the information, start, right and be able to tie-in correctly where we need to tie in. So we're able to take that point cloud, put it in our Revit, and keep up with our asbuilts.

OK so that takes us into our next phase of coordination. We have all this thought and process worked out in the design phase. We need to keep coordinating, keep coordinating to what is really going to be in the field. They say up to a certain point a design team will be able to coordinate. And after that it's like they say it's up to the field. They'll fix it in the field. They'll figure it out. Now they'll figure it out in the field.

Well today, a builder's field is the virtual field. Let's figure it out in the virtual field before we go and start fabricating and start running all our numbers into the ground and we're all out of budget. So as you see here, I've created a-- it's a little fuzzy but I've created a project of an art school.

And I set up a view inside my 3D project browser here you can see a 3D view. And I started to glue it. Went through a plugin up here in an add in, an add in app. And I glued my project, got the confirmation, and ran a couple clashes.

Here's a nasty clash as you can see here is the wall and I want to get all my MEP out of there. But here, it allows me to see all my clash data. What's clashing, why is it clashing, and when did I run this? When did I run this clash? My boss is going to ask me are you keeping up to date with this project? When did you run your last clash?

I can't lie no more. I can't say oh I did that just five minutes ago. Well no it's going to allow me to track that data, track my clashing, track my clash detection and be able to coordinate further through like I would say up to an LOD of 500. Because we want to not only just stop right here but push it to an optimal deliverable for your end user to be able to take advantage of and use that on a mobile device.

AUDIENCE: So real quick question. So for Revit [INAUDIBLE] if I'm working on a building and I'm also working with [INAUDIBLE], so with the plugin, all I got to do is move off 5 feet and then click the link, glue, send it back up, and that's it?

JASON MONTOYA: That is correct. If you are invited to the project and you want to Glue your part of the model to the project, you're able to do that. And not only that, but I can't change that. He's made that change. I can't take that change away and be able to manipulate and coordinate his side just to fit my MEP. And that is that's the beauty of Glue here is that you're not able to manipulate anybody else's materials but your own.

Continuing on, we're going to plugin. We're going to plug into this Revit model. We're going to plugin through to our virtual coordination in our virtual world into the field. We're going to plug it from Revit as you see here I have my project is still there, it's a little dark there but I was able to create some plugins through an app or a plugin from Autodesk called Autodesk Point Lay Out. Autodesk Point Lay Out is a plugin that allows you to put a point on any object on any virtual object and allow you to pull that data into a new application called BIM 360 Layout.

So you're able to pull from it directly in through BIM 360 Lay Out. And you just set up your views here, set up your 3D view and select what you want to put inside of that model, Glue it. And this actually talks to Glue.

So you're able to Glue all your information through the Glue hub where it centralized everybody can get that information and is able to access it. So we Glue it and we are going on to the confirmation. We are then populated in the models hub of the point data. As you can see it's a small data. What I did here is I put points on the control. I wanted to have control of my model and control of my layout.

So what I started is I was able to put my control points in an integration with my civil design. I was able to put my civil design, overlay it in Revit, and have my control set up there. And you can have your control. You mimic those control points, put it into Revit APL, and then push it into BIM 360. So I created a grid, a control grid that you are able to set up your instrument on to pull this data from.

Continuing on, that's where I talked about the BIM 360 Lay Out. BIM 360 Lay Out is an application on your iPad, your iPhone that is able to receive this data, receive the data from Autodesk Point Lay Out. And like I said you're able to set up your instrument on top of a point. Here's the point and here's your confirming point. And you need a third point to set up your back check and to confirm that this instrument is in virtual space where it needs to be on a control point.

And then from there you can begin to lay out your columns and let's say you want to put some penetrations up here, you want to plumb levels in the right location, that's where you can use this instrument here. And there it is. It's on your mobile app there. It's part of the BIM 360 hub there and it allows you to put this iPad, attach it to the top of the pole and with the prism on it, and it tracks you. As you're going through, you are able to link through a way Wi-Fi data, Wi-Fi line onto the instrument. And once you have that connection, you're able to pull that information to your laptop, to your iPad and start moving around with your stick and confirming points and laying out new points.

Let's say I wanted to check if this chair was in the right location. I can put it there, collect it, send it back, and imported into Revit, pull that point in and that 3D model will be populated with that point from the field tagged appropriately so that you know what the differentiation is if it's off by a foot, if it's off by an 1/8 of an inch. So that's the precision there and the way you can get all this design and all that information of the design intent put in the right location.

Let's take a few minutes here, not five minutes. Let's take a couple of minutes. I don't to push this too long. I have a couple of things to show you. But let's take a couple of minutes to stretch. Let me set up some things here and just hang with us.

RYAN SALVATORE: Yeah. So what we're going to use next is the iPad. We're going to hook all this up and go through a demo on exactly how this all operates.

JASON MONTOYA: No I got it.

RYAN SALVATORE: Want me to create a ticket? This one? OK, all right. Not yet. Good to run?

JASON MONTOYA: Yeah.

RYAN SALVATORE: Speaking of keeping in contact with you know your design team, I just got a text message just now with the screenshot. Obviously, my architect has moved my structural model and does not know how to push that back. So again, communication, open communication with your team, your coworkers.

I mean that's how, again, we're a small firm but we're like family. We treat each other like family. So again you know I keep getting those messages every day no matter where I'm at. Time of the day, I'm there for my team.

JASON MONTOYA: Looks like I'm good to go here. All right. So let me continue here with putting the power of BIM in the hands of the field. Putting the power of BIM in the hands of the field. We want to start here with the mobility.

Mobility of information, mobility of the information to take what has been designed, what has been in the office for so long, and be able to come over to my workplace in my work area in the field and use this information on how to install it, and where it needs to go, and exactly where it needs to be to confirm this design intent. We don't want to step away from the design intent of an architect and start putting things wherever we want to put it and we don't want to lose any information.

So we put it on a mobile app. With that, we are able to have the transparency. We don't have the walls that are keeping all this information in our office. We're able to put it on the data that is in the hands of the field here, as you can see, and have that transparency.

Next, we have the accessibility. Invites your field team members, invite everybody part of the project to this hub, to this centralized information database that they can then pull it to their applications and share it with their teams, share it with their foremen, with their actual installers, with their laborers so that they can all be educated as well like I said.

Finally the accountability. The accountability becomes more real as if I was to invite you, or you, or you to this project and then assign you a task, assign you what you need to do inside this mobile app. And it's able to track it and you're not able to lie about, you're not able to fib about. You know there's a lot of times in the industry where I did that but we didn't see it. We didn't see it on our activity.

You know I look at my activity hub, I didn't see you guys move that. Ryan here just had a text about having issues with his model. Well now we are able to see that. Did that really happen? Well we're going to check that here after this and go on the hub and see if they did have that activity happen.

So with all that, we are able to put and get everybody on the same digital page, same digital page of your drawing, of your project, all that information is stored on in the cloud. And we're able to get everybody on the same page versus your half of the team having your own page of the design. This is the way it's supposed to be.

And us over here, the builders, well, you know this is what happened, this is the way you know this how it turned out. I didn't have the information I didn't get the invite. I didn't get that text. I didn't get that, that information passed me. Well, we're able to get everybody on the same digital page on your mobile apps, on your phone, on your computer, on your desktop, on your laptop.

So we've been talking about getting everything in through to a coordination phase. And let's say we are beginning to build and actually put everything in the field now. So we get to this point where applications are just there up to coordination. While we're able to use another product that Autodesk put out is called BIM 360 Field.

BIM 360 Field is a cloud hub as well that store holds all the information of all your field issues, any tickets that you want to write up or type up, and send out to your team. You're able to facilitate, close out better. You're able to facilitate the construction better.

We have a hole in the wall, we had some movers bring in some furniture. They popped the hole in the wall. Well, I can go ahead and take my tablet with me, get to that issue, that place where we're having an issue, take a picture, and actually be located in that model of where this actually happened at.

Put it in BIM 360 Field and then that information is all centralized. Assign it to somebody. And how important is it? How urgent is this task that needs to happen? So we're able to get into 360 Field here and we are coming from Glue because Field talks directly from Glue. And so we're going to go into Glue.

As you see here, I set up my project in Glue. I showed you that before. But on this slide here I was able to select my equipment and right click and create an equipment set. Creating my equipment set allows me to form list of equipment or data that needs to be transferred from this application to multiple applications here, you'll see in a minute. But we're going to create our equipment set and then finally hit the Models tab, the dropdown of Share With Field. Actually tells you to share with the Field.

And that's what we're going to do. We're going to share to BIM 360 Field. As you can see up here it's going to tell me where it's going. And I'm going to confirm that and I'm going to move into moving it from BIM 360 Field, of BIM 360 Glue into Field. So I'm going to go into Field create my project. And once I do create my project, I'm going to go to my hub, create a model, pull it from Glue.

As you can see there, it says add model from BIM 360 Glue. I confirmed my art school model up there at the top and they pulled it in. It pulled it in and was able to get data related back to my equipment where then I can apply my attributes, my properties to it, my names, the description, the location, the status, the type of equipment this is going to be. And then once I get that all populated and fixed up all my equipment, I can go ahead then and get into my assets management tab and I see all my equipment highlighted there, and go ahead and hit my drop down and export to BIM 360.

So all that information that Ryan was populating in his model to a certain point, I then took that, revamped it up to an LOD 500 and put all my information into Field into Glue, pushed it back into ops, and there all my equipment is then populated with so many attributes to the nine. I can change my filters, out my valves out, all my connections, my electrical connections or you know what is it going to be?

Before I even go there, before I even go to down let;s say down here at the Venetian of the basement or the mechanical room. I don't want to go down there. You know it's going to take time, I'm going to have to go down there, record all this data. Well why don't I just pull it up on my BIM 360OPS?

And go down there, click on it, figure out what type of filter needs to get changed, figure out what type of fitting needs to get changed, what type of electrical panel that is existing down there that I need changed out. So I can be able to get that, order it, assign somebody to it, assign a technician to it, and give a certain date that meet to come in, and then I can tell my let's say my building team or my facilities maintenance team to have this area cleared for a certain amount of time at exactly 3:30.

Deliveries come in about 2:00, 3:00 o'clock, and I want this place cleared about 3:30, have that facilitated in there, have them change it out, get that thing done, close it back up, and all smooth sailing from there. So we are able to then export it through Building Ops, and you can see there. And I get my virtual confirmation.

And this I've been talking about iPads and iPhones. This is actually off my Android. This is off my Android phone. I was able to get on the internet and get the data that is streamlined on the hub and pull it on my Android phone and get the virtual confirmation here that my BIM 360OPS has been populated from Field.

So we're going to go ahead and push. I showed you how to push it from Field. But let's say we don't have that application. Let's say we want a workaround. We're going to work around that by Gluing it or getting all the data straight from Revit. We're going to populate our family with all the attributes and properties that it needs and get it a smart object now so that way we can put it into Ops without having to manipulate it there.

We then go to Building Ops, get it situated there, get a project going, get it set up, and then we're able to see a code that we're able to use that will talk to Revit. So right here it tells you specifically in BIM 360OPS Revit and BIM 360 export code. It gives you an export code that expires on that day so we're not losing-- we're not using old information.

It allows you to regenerate updated information, because, let's say, we have an after hours maintenance that comes in in the evening. Well then we need that new data that came in. We're not going to be coordinating or facilitating off of old data. So then we put that into our dialogue there, hit submit, and then we get a successful confirmation from BIM 360 Glue on our email or through a text that this has been confirmed.

So mobile facilities becomes more accessible in not only the field team but to the user, to the end user, to the client. We're going to invite him and his facility maintenance team into the project and way before this is going on so that way they can see that the work is getting done. And if they have any input, who doesn't have any input as they're getting built, I want to change that out. Let's change those doors.

Let's change that front. They're going to see these things as it's going and might even be able to put more input in the project as it's going along. So we're able to set it up.

Here you see it on my Android. This is on my Android phone. This is off the hub here of BIM 360OPS. I've created a couple of tickets. Here's my ticket. I went and actually went in for the model and created a ticket here on this date. Looks like that was very recent.

So I assigned it to a couple of people here, set up a checklist. You're able to set up a checklist in the facilities maintenance app to put down some filters, electrical panel, some connections. And you can edit that of course. But not only that you're able to add photos as I said or any video that you need to put with this or any operations manuals or any type of documents. You're able to do all these things and you're able to see it not only on the iPhone or the iPad but on the Android. This is from my Android phone.

Set your notifications. I told you're going to get notifications. Yes, notification. When? Well you get to set it up real time like right now or on a daily basis. Here I've created a ticket and I was able to create a ticket and communicate with my partner here. And he said, well, we're going to have to raise this roof.

So we did that and I was able to-- we were able to get confirmed here and not only are we going to raise the roof but we're going to get a ticket from the windows to the walls. As it says there. Next please. Hold on. So--

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So I've been talking to you guys about how to get from virtual construction into reality construction. It's one thing to talk about it and show you on the screen, but I want to show you right now on the iPad. I have a few apps here. If you can switch that over for me. I have a few apps here. Here is my Glue app. Let's go see what we got in Glue.

RYAN SALVATORE: We got it.

JASON MONTOYA: See that? See that reflex?

RYAN SALVATORE: That's why when you're out in the field you need some protection.

JASON MONTOYA: Sorry about that. All right so here's my art school project. And I told you're able to immerse yourself, correct? Let's go into the building. This is Glue. This is BIM 360 Glue.

AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE] for the iPad, it's still on the screen, isn't it? [INAUDIBLE] screen you're using? Only screen after [INAUDIBLE] PC, is that what you're using?

JASON MONTOYA: No it's just you download it from the iStore and then it populates and it doesn't use-- you don't have any special software to do it, it just comes right on. No viewer, you don't need a viewer. Oh, Apple TV. So let me go ahead and take you into view. I said you can take this to the actual construction site and immerse yourself. So let's immerse ourselves.