Description
Key Learnings
- Understand how the traditional design-and-coordination process can be blended and made more efficient
- Learn how facility managers and staff can have ownership and management of their BIM facility Learn about data through any project phase
- Discover how workflow steps are reduced to enable faster project delivery
- See how the BIM model and BIM data is transferred and managed in the postconstruction environment
Speaker
- DBDAVE BRANCHDave Branch is the facility documentation management manager for Children’s of Alabama. He has over 23 years of commercial design, construction, and project management experience. Prior to coming to work directly with Children’s of Alabama, he worked in various architectural firms in Georgia and Alabama. He also worked for a large-scale general contractor in Birmingham. It is this experience that enabled him to develop Children’s of Alabama facility documentation management process, and the integration of Building Information Modeling (BIM) with their ongoing facility management process. Branch manages the design and construction process of the various capital projects ongoing at Children’s, manages the integrated facility management software with the BIM process, and trains the maintenance staff on using a fully digital environment. He is a passionate advocate of BIM and facility management, and he has spoken at various healthcare events and written several articles on how other organizations can follow the same process.