ORLANDO — Webcor Builders reported last week that deployment of an integrated Building Information Modeling workflow on the $340 million expansion of the Orange County Convention Center has reduced construction rework by 30 percent and cut trade coordination conflicts by more than half compared to the firm’s baseline metrics.
The project, adding 200,000 square feet of meeting space and a new hotel connector, has used a federated BIM model maintained on Autodesk Construction Cloud to coordinate work among 18 subcontractors. Webcor BIM Manager Selena Park said the model has resolved more than 4,200 clash detections before they reached the field.
“When you’re coordinating mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and structural systems in a 60-foot ceiling space, the traditional paper-based RFI process simply can’t keep pace,” Park said. “BIM lets us resolve conflicts in the model room on Monday so crews aren’t standing around on Thursday waiting for answers.”
The project uses 360-degree field scanning technology from Trimble to update the as-built model weekly, allowing project managers to verify installed work against the design model with millimeter accuracy.
Orange County Convention Center Executive Director Mark Tester said the technology-forward approach has kept the project within three weeks of its baseline schedule despite supply chain disruptions that affected steel delivery by 11 weeks.
The BIM workflow has also supported prefabrication of mechanical ductwork and plumbing assemblies off-site at a Webcor-managed fabrication shop in Sanford, reducing on-site labor hours by an estimated 18,000 over the life of the project.
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