Integrating precise, large-scale prefabrication and custom manufacturing solutions into early design shifts AEC roles from interpretation and revision to quality control (QC), ending the cycle of errors and change orders. We call this big innovation Prafabrication at Scale (PaS).
How does introducing PaS during early design reduce cost and accelerate construction to win earlier occupancy?
Sometimes what you end up with depends on what you start out with. Building delivery is like that. Start out with a set of documents drawn from a conventional volumetric model and you end up with a long revisionary process to get to construction.
Start out with a precise virtual building, a single truth source, and you end up with a round of quality control and a set of early buyouts to get there.
You accelerate the process.
The most valuable customized solutions target core and shell systems.
PaS targets the sweet spot — less team coordination required for the biggest value capture.
Our PaS software supports solutions that align with your design concept so that you capture economic value while you guard design quality.
Accomplishing the cost reduction and early occupancy that PaS promises requires virtualization software capable of rapid whole-building modeling.
Using our software, Fulcrum, we need just three weeks to generate an initial PaS materials study. Automated arraying replicates parts instantly and automated part tracking means we know the quantities of identical parts and their location in our model.
Fulcrum can operate with high precision on the data for a small city without breaking the software, so it's easy to save your building data at the high level of detail required for manufacturing. To accommodate the operational limitations of BIM platforms, we can display the data at a lower level of detail, insuring exact correspondence with your AEC design model.
We curate our parts data to represent, in virtual form, manufacturable parts. The only time spent on vendor verification is to confirm unique design requirements. Automated BOM and draft shop drawing documents complete our deliverables, equipping AEC teams for secure early buyouts.
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