Artist’s illustration
of Fairlane Residences’ lounge pool. Fairlane Residences is the first DMCI
Homes residential condominium project to use Building Information Modeling
(BIM) technology.
Bolstering
its reputation as a game-changer in the Philippine real estate industry, DMCI
Homes is investing in Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology to further
enhance the aesthetics, quality and cost-efficiency of its product offerings.
The leading developer
of resort-inspired residential condominium projects started adopting the BIM
technology last year with the recently-launched Fairlane Residences in Pasig
City as the first project to use the said innovation.
“Our initiative for BIM
adoption is driven by our commitment to uphold the company’s culture of quality
and excellence and in providing best value for our customers,” disclosed DMCI
Homes Vice President for Design and Engineering Adrian Calimbas.
Initially called as
virtual building, BIM was first developed in Hungary in the early ‘80s. BIM is
a process of creating information models containing both graphical and
non-graphical information in a shared digital workspace containing a facility’s
specifications, quantities, and program. It was only in 1992 that the
term building information modeling was coined.
In the traditional
process of design and construction, conflict in the building’s design,
particularly in the mechanical, electrical and plumbing aspects, often gets
detected in the middle of the project’s construction phase. These clashes
consequently affect the construction timeline, quality, costs, and delivery of
the project. But with the use of BIM technology, Calimbas said that they
can lessen, if not eradicate errors in the design and construction, making it
more cost-efficient for the company.
“We aim to develop
project models that would create a seamless coordination of the project design,
with clashes or conflict being detected even prior to the start of the
construction of the project,” said Calimbas.
He added “And with this
kind of precision in details that can be produced with BIM, the adoption of the
technology is beneficial both to the company since it is cost-efficient and to
our customers as we can speed up our construction timeline and delivery without
affecting the quality of our projects.”
Artist’s illustration
of Fairlane Residences’ entrance gate.
To maximize the full
potential of BIM technology, DMCI Homes created a team that would solely focus
in developing design models. To date, the real estate firm has a total of
18 in-house trained BIM modelers for its upcoming projects.
Benneth Cancino, head
of the BIM team of DMCI Homes, revealed that aside from coordination and clash
detection, they are also working on the auto-generation of quantities of
project models that would speed up the traditional process of quantification
works for estimation.
“One of the advantages
of BIM technology is you can create federated models (architectural,
structural, MEPF or mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection) which
can be accessed easily by project team members either in a local servers or
cloud workspace. In the future, we aim that time and costs be embedded as
well in the model so that we can generate the budget in a timely manner and
produce a design with improved constructability in order to deliver the project
in time and with quality,” disclosed Cancino.
With the company’s
adoption of BIM technology, DMCI Homes is all set to further improve the
quality of its current product offerings and stay true to its mission of providing
the best possible housing for the middle-income class, especially young
families.
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