CWIC - Hands-0n Project Team

Project Team

The CWIC project team may have representatives from architectural, structural and building services disciplines. The design team may partner with builders and suppliers facilitating supply chain design teamworking. It is intended that the project team will also include active participation from project managers, and client organisations.

The actual team size and number of disciplines involved may vary, depending on the early project scoping stage of the CWIC project and the complexity of tasks.
Four groups will be establish to investigate and report the key issues of changes in the implementation of the CWIC roadmap in the project of choice:

Group

Goals and Actions

Output

Process Group

To capture, codify and communicate ‘the experience’ of the life cycle development of the collaboration project in hand and articulate the implications for the current systems, methods and skills. The aim is help other industry players (including sceptics) that have not participated can benefit and begin to consider changing the way they work.

Include:

•	Analyse candidates of new processes.
•	Review traditional work stages and identify any new improvements.
•	Identify the needs of the systems and software for the involved life cycle stages.
•	Report on processes and systems required for collaborative working.

Prototype Group

To step through the collaborative work during the live week to demonstrate how members of a design/construction team will be able to use IT tools to simulate, analyse and evaluate the performance of a building or parts of a building during all the design stages, using a single building model. Innovation, collaboration and technology focus are key considerations of this group.

Outputs of this group, depending on the project tasks in hand, include for examples:

•	Visual - Create detailed visual representations of the project to clearly convey design intent at an early stage.
•	Sustainability - demonstrate the sustainability impact of broad design decisions at an early stage.
•	Structural Analysis - Link the structural elements of the model with structural design analysis packages.
•	Lighting Analysis - Use the model to evaluate natural and artificial lighting schemes internally and externally.
•	Thermal Performance - Use the data held in the object definitions to determine thermal performance across a variety of conditions.
•	Cost - Provide project and lifecycle costing information derived from the model.
•	Construction Management - Investigate the construction process critical paths, clash detection, programming etc from the model.
•	Facilities Management - Demonstrate how the building model and encompassing data can be used throughout the life of the building for facilities management purposes.

Interoperability Group

To identify the ‘value-stream’ of information as required for collaborative and integrated working by the collaborative team at different stages of the project. This group will work in collaboration with software vendors and the IAI to leverage current interoperability capability and establish future interoperability requirements.

Include:

•	Seamless movement of information through the value stream.
•	Functionality requirements for software vendors.
•	XML and IFC indicators, if any, for adoption by the IAI.

Performance Group

To identify values and provide measures of the progress achieved by Collaborative Work towards the objective of “Enabling delivery of built facilities which meet client needs through effective collaborative working across all design, construction and operational activities using virtual product prototyping.”

Include:

•	Report the actual and potential value of the virtual modelling process pertaining to the project in hand, the barriers to success, and the cultural and procedural changes that are necessary to generate value.
•	Provide performance measures of the trying processes.
•	Develop a new contractual framework to underpin and facilitate collaborative working.