And because it's an owner organization, they don't need
to be as technical as the staff that's on the construction team or the design team.
They need to be looking at it from a facilities standpoint.
How will the facility utilize the model.
Search for information that they're needing for
that particular day or particular task of maintenance for example.
Pull up operational maintenance manuals, pull up the equipment.
Maintain the model, receive models from their consultants whether they're
contractors or construction managers or designers.
So they have different skill sets.
And then you've got project controls, which is really looking at the controls
of the project in terms of scheduling, in terms of estimating, in terms of risk.
How does BIM really integrate with that environment?
How does BIM integrate with the use of, if you have a model,
how do you integrate it with a schedule?
So we've got different tasks and different skill sets that are required.
So you have something called a 4D Scheduler.
It's a scheduler that's really well been versed and then is able to produce
sequencing animations and sequencing models that I'll show you shortly.
And then there became that rise of the idea of having a programmer on board and
why does that happen?
Why did that happen in construction?
Because you've got all these software and tools that are great,
that are in the industry.
They are commercially available, you can go buy them, you can buy licenses.
And you've got people who have processed experience.
Who can build processors, who can figure out how that works,
how to implement it and I've got experience in the field.
But then people found that there's a gap.
Where can I fit for example,
if I need to transfer information from one software to the next.
Or I don't want to import into Excel and export into Excel or
have a lot of data transfer.
Or someone like a document control specialist sitting there,
downloading documents from one system putting it into another system.
I don't need to have that, I don't need someone downloading a 3D model then
recreating that 3D model in another environment for different purpose.
I want it to be a seamless experience, so
then became the idea that you have to have a programmer on board.
And then you have to use the application programming interfaces of the different
software applications.
So that you can start creating different custom apps within this software.
That you utilize for your own purpose and not what is only commercially available.
And that develops a competitive edge for a lot of the the companies out there.