Partnership with BIM team delivers hotels project

Key project challenges

Specifying over 1,000 doorsets can be an extremely time-intensive task. Using traditional methods, information would be provided in countless separate schedules and documents, which would require a Revit operator to manually create and update, with someone else to then check for errors.

As the project develops, information may become out of date and therefore require individual doors to be flagged up and re-sent for advice. The time and manpower that goes into this process is not only inefficient, but also ineffective, with the prospect of human error still a prominent possibility.

Solution

Kay Elliott Architects began to work closely with ASSA ABLOY Project Specification Group to integrate Openings Studio with their own Revit model, allowing them to find all the relevant information and ironmongery schedules in a single place, delivered in one document.

As Openings Studio flags up any queries and automatically updates in live time, it is easy to see any discrepancies and changes within the schedules. By re-sharing the model information, it then also allows ASSA ABLOY to view the changes and feedback to the architects, so there is close collaboration at every stage of a project. David Shields, National Specification Manager explained: “We are delighted to work with Kay Elliott Architects to provide superior security solutions for this project, and we hope to use this success to build on our relationship with Kay Elliott Architects and the Fragrance Group in the future.”