Prefabriction and custom manufacturing are driving a surge in productivity.  The new value created by custom components and assemblies will flow to AEC teams with innovative off-site solutions.

 

 

When prefabrication and custom manufacturing solutions are introduced during early design, the building cost is reduced and the construction is accelerated.  How?

  • early buyouts
  • overlapping tasks — detailed design / production planning; production / construction
  • optimizing skilled labor — more productive use of labor and less congestion on site
  • improved logistics
  • earlier occupancy

 

 

 

 

 

 

The most valuable customized solutions target core and shell systems.  We call this targeted customization Prefabrication at Scale (PaS).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With PaS you leverage custom manufacturing alternatives that align with your design concept and capture maximum value.

 

 

 

Accomplishing the cost reduction and early occupancy that PaS promises requires virtualization software capable of rapid whole-building modeling.

 

 

 

 

Using our software, 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.

We can operate with high precision on the data for a small city without breaking the software.  We save building data at the level of detail required for manufacturing.  We display the data in BIM at a lower level of detail to accommodate the operational limitations of BIM platforms, insuring exact correspondence with the 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The PaS design model shifts AEC roles from interpretation to quality control (QC).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 core and shell design and you end up with a round of quality control and a set of early buyouts to get there.

Leverage generates a single truth source that de-risks and accelerates early decisions.  These decisions travel through building delivery to accelerate beneficial occupancy.

 

 

 

Contact Leverage:  future@leverage.build