Fabrication-Ready Modeling
We develop complete LOD 400 structural models through early collaboration during the design process between our structural engineers and detailing team. Issues are identified and resolved during design development, a clear advantage for fast-track and design-build projects. Our fabrication-ready modeling offering, integrating design and detailing, can save significant time in construction, as steel fabrication can begin months earlier than in a conventional process.
Our integrated engineering and detailing capabilities are a clear competitive advantage for our clients, saving them considerable time and resources, and reducing errors and coordination during active construction. From the outset, you have real-time coordination across disciplines. You have greater cost certainty and transparency. You have predictability.
For fabricators, this added level of security ensures more accurate and competitive model-based bids with a comprehensive bill of materials. Fabrication can start early, often immediately after contract award. And DeSimone directly manages the RFI process, providing much clearer and immediate answers to critical questions. Furthermore, we will implement any fabrication standards and/or means and methods on the shop and erection drawings as required.
In general, our integrated digital workflows support lean design, early fabrication planning, and the foundation for a full LOD 400 model. One way to think about our Fabrication-Ready Modeling early engagement model is that we are closing the gap that has traditionally existed between the engineers who design structures and the fabricators and erectors who execute their design on site. Bringing both perspectives together into an early Fabrication-Ready Model reduces errors, saves time during active construction, minimizes coordination challenges, and improves overall delivery efficiency.
- Issues identified and resolved during design, rather than during construction
- Allows for early and coordinated steel procurement, preventing schedule delays and optimizing cashflow
- Fabrication can begin early, shaving months off the construction schedule
- Increased early coordination reduces RFIs and questions during construction, and decreases the possibility for errors or significant coordination issues
- Single-source ownership of the Model increases accountability and reliability
- Construction schedule reduction brings the project to market sooner, improving project profitability
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About us
In an industry in which consolidation has become the norm, DeSimone stands apart from large engineering practices. The diversification of our services enables us to support a global clientele experiencing complex challenges. We remain independent so that we are able to provide bespoke and personal solutions, wherever your vision takes you.
Structural engineering is where we began, and it is still the core of our practice. But through the years, we have expanded the services we offer our clients, from façade and building envelope to vertical transportation to steel detailing and fabrication-ready modeling to advisory services.
