1. ERP = Enterprise Resource Planning

2. Great Buildings!

3. The Construction Process
First: let’s take a look at a typical construction process as it exists today: separated responsibilities for facets of the construction process.
Disciplines are involved in a sequential order; data is transferred once a part – or a version – is completed.
Data transfer: not optimal  results in information fall backs or even broken information links, where data is not transferred but just reproduced!
Result: coordination problems and rework costs  decreased efficiency

4. The Building Model: 5D Concept
Time
Cost
Why do we at Graphisoft think we can offer a solution for construction process issues as described?
Important questions during the preconstruction process:
How will a changed design affect the project’s cost price?
How will a selected solution affect the project’s duration?
Two important questions that have to be answered multiple times during the preconstruction process, but take a lot of time to answer because of the information fallbacks. Linking cost and time information solves this issue. These two aspects cannot be linked to 2D project information, nor can they be linked to specification documents – the only logical connection point is a connection to the “Virtual Building Model” - where generated information is linked to the virtual components of which a building exists.
The difficult task that we are facing is to provide a connection that doesn’t change the jobs of currently existing team members  we need TOUCHPOINTS
Estimators, schedulers and other team members manipulate information in very different ways. Graphisoft has solved this problem by offering separated yet integrated applications that use publish and import mechanism to release information to other team members.
Linked Schedules
Linked Estimating Recipes

5. Virtual Construction™ Process
change design: change quantities
total duration
procurement status
building completion
productivity
budget driven design
materials, equipment
delivery date
site logistics
Our goal: to support projects without loss of data when transferring information from the one role to the other is achieved by integrating tools for the specific roles in the process.
This allows for direct feedback between the team members and – maybe even more important – more frequent feedback, which offers support for the iterative design approach.
Going through multiple loops is made easier, less time consuming and results in better optimized design solutions.
Terms in the bubbles are opportunities for taking the next step: ERP for construction.
saving the decisions and experiences in recipes and related data, data mining, resulting in a company knowledge base
with all the right data in place (in the correct format), a connection to resource planning and cost control can be made
Virtual Building design model
knowledge base, trends, classifications
availability of “crews and cranes”
preferred suppliers and sub contractors, payments
estimated versus actual costs and man hours

7. 2005 Technology Innovation Awards The Wall Street Journal
Customers
2005 Technology Innovation Awards
The Wall Street Journal
Trinidad
Partnership
Byggnadsekonomi AB
Team Ltd
Graphisoft’s 5D Construction Management solution cited in the Software Category of The Wall Street Journal’s Technology Innovation Awards 2005

8. Strategic Planning and Control Systems
ERP for Construction
Strategic Planning Meets Business
Strategic Planning and Control Systems
ERP for Construction
Strategic Business
Systems

9. What materials and sub contractors?
Design, Plan and Build
Enterprise Analysis
Sequence?
Progress
Control
Save Information
When are
materials needed?
Scheduling
Labor hours?
Procurement
Control
What can we learn?
Design
Actions?
Accounting
Which resources?
Productivity?
By connecting;
no re-entry of data
no mistakes
timeliness
accurate actual information (today, companies enter the actuals which are
Save – multiproject information –
Enterprise analysis
First part: design process – in multiple loops / iterations, the most optimal solution is defined.
Results in a construction planning, materials to be bought, and purchasing processes.
By using the results of calculated cost items as input for an accounting system, they can immediately be compared with the actual cost of those specific cost items.
Cost may be higher or lower than calculated – by saving this information (the “what can be learned” question), more accurate calculations can be created for the next project.
Start of a learning curve.
Purchasing
What did it cost?
What are the plans?
What materials and sub contractors?
Estimating
Design Plan Build

10. Benefits Company Knowledge Enterprise Analysis Impact Analysis
Enterprise Resources

11. Summary
Virtual BuildingTM 5D
Construction ERP