Geometrid is coming to your classroom!
As part of Geometrid’s goal of helping practitioners and professionals learn about the best available practices and technologies in construction supply chain management, Geometrid CEO and Founder Milos Jovanovic visited the School of Design and Environment (SDE) of the National University of Singapore (NUS) to talk to young and budding project and facilities managers about structuring asset BIM data for the lifetime value of building projects.
Across three tutorial sessions spanning September 10 and 17 2021, Milos contributed guest tutorials to classes taught by Senior Lecturer Dr. Alexander Lin. The tutorials emphasised concepts in BIM data structuring from a practitioner’s perspective to classrooms of tomorrow’s building professionals.
The sessions involved three segments: the real-world context of how BIM data is captured and communicated and the delay and overrun issues associated with this; ISO-standard definitions of key ideas in project and facilities management; and finally, tying the ideas of the session together with practical applications and an interactive exercise.
NUS SDE students learned about how unstructured and segregated information contributed to poor outcomes in building projects before understanding how stakeholders could come together and succeed with all data on the same table.
But it’s important to know what this data is in the first place: both quantitative and non-quantitative properties across a built asset’s lifespan. The tutorial sessions covered these important concepts–from Project, Asset, and Building Information Models to different stages of the building life cycle.
Students–both in-person and over video conferencing–finally fortified their understanding by participating in an interactive session involving a virtual built asset on Geometrid. Split into teams spanning the factory, warehouse, construction, and management, students logged into Geometrid and used their phones to easily scan QR codes generated by Geometrid for elements in the building. This simulated the real experience of building professionals operating and communicating in disparate data silos with remote teams. It also demonstrated how Geometrid is able to cut across and build bridges between those silos.
They were able to monitor in real-time as their updates translated into meaningful and structured data that could be tapped on throughout the entire lifespan of the building. Students saw this all unfold on-screen with the virtual built asset.
Students managed to move elements through multiple stages of building and realised the value of collaboration across diverse parties and data streams for a construction project’s success. At the conclusion of the exercise, students were involved in a wide-ranging discussion with the Geometrid team on the future of supply chain analytics, how Geometrid’s technology worked, and what this meant for their professional futures.