Can you create a preset flowline template based on generic building types or by volume? Or do you find that projects vary too greatly to benchmark?
You can actually create those templates, yes. First of all, you can capture inside the Vico 5D environment and standardize all the tasks and their production rates or an assumption on crew sizes. And that will help you generate a schedule automatically based on just inserting the design or linking it to the design BIM model. Second, you can also create Control templates and in these you can preassemble logic for different trades that you can bring in and apply in your schedule. So by using these two in combination you can first of all calculate the durations based on standardized task and production rate list, and then apply a logic that you preassembled and standardized in a Control template. One relevant point: For those of you wanting to start out in 5D, we have developed a dataset that allows you to immediately use a BIM model and connect it to the quantity takeoff and tasks that allow you to do the 4D-5D cycles. So for any of you that may not have a dataset to start with and would
