Simulador I building

Lisbon, march 2022 –The relevance of BIM in all our projects development, and its acceptance by the market in general, has been increasing year by year. In 2021, the “Simulador I” building at Taguspark was concluded, representing for Openbook a showcase of collaboration between the main entities involved in the project, namely Taguspark, DST Construction Group and ourselves. In this project, as in many others, BIM was fundamental in adjusting deadlines, reducing costs and ensuring a better and more fluid communication between all the project teams.

In this “Simulador I” building project, designed to serve as the head-office for PHC Software, Openbook teamed up under the BIM umbrella with the other main participants: federated models facilitated and improved coordination, anticipating any collisions between the various specialties and engineering participants, as well as allowing for regular measurement updates throughout the construction stages in order to minimize and avoid time and budget slippages.

With this project, Openbook and its partners reached a new peak in BIM implementation, which had begun in 2007 when Openbook was founded. In 2018, LIMSEN CONSULTING began the process of standardising the overall production process at Openbook Architecture with the aim of certifying the entire team by 2023.

Currently, Openbook’s entire production is done in Revit, which represents a significant investment in software (currently 30 AEC Collection) and hardware (high performance Workstations) capabilities. The company also invested, during the recent pandemic, in a data backup system with 3 redundancies (in Portugal and remotely), guaranteeing the integrity of all project data with a 48 hour deadline for data restoration in the event of a catastrophe, ensuring the best possible service to its clients.

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