Digital Fabrication Journey: From Rhino, to Revit, to cadwork and Back!

This session will cover a case study from The Red Sea Development to share lessons learned from the design, manufacture, and assembly of a large, complex, mass timber structure. In this session, we’ll demonstrate the best practices from the owner's perspective for defining the building information modeling (BIM) requirements and processes to ensure the success of our OSM projects. Imagine four timber-framed, double-curved, 100-foot-span roofs—designed in London, manufactured in Switzerland, shipped to Jeddah, and assembled at a remote site. We'll share our experience of evaluating BIM formats, determining preferred solutions for the interoperability between Revit software, Rhino, and cadwork to support the designers, timber manufacturing, and contractors to deliver the luxury building. Our teams used BIM 360 software for the model collaboration for review of design and coordination issues. And we learned how to maximize the tools and platform to solve complex challenges, improve our quality-control processes, and ultimately deliver the project on site.