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Unprecedented Integration of
Design, Construction and Management Process
Award winning Virtual Construction software
The world's FIRST
5D Construction Management solution
Virtual Construction software and services help building owners and general
contractors reduce risk, manage cost and shorten project schedules. Improve
project predictability, provide early identification of constructability
problems and synchronize design, cost and schedule with 5D technology from Vico
Software. With hundreds of customers and projects completed Vico software has a
proven track record.
Key Benefits - Constructor
- A Construction Modeling System - designed to quickly create accurate 3D
construction models. The resulting model reduces errors present in design
documents, resulting in significant savings in construction cost and time.
The software uses ArchiCAD as the base engine for Building Information
Modeling.
- A 4D Sequencer - designed to automatically link the construction model
to the project schedule. Once linked, schedule alternatives can be more
effectively analyzed and communicated.
- Connectivity to CONTROL™ - a
schedule planning and production control system that allows you to compress
project schedules without increasing risk. Also connects to:
- MS Project
- Primavera® Engineering and Construction
- Primavera Contractor
- Estimator Connector - designed to extract, link and publish model
information to Estimator
- Model-based Estimating Functionality - designed to extract accurate
quantity information from the construction model and produce estimates
quickly and accurately.
- Traditional Estimating Functionality - to support the transition from
manual takeoff-based estimating to model-based estimating, a complete set of
traditional estimating features are included.
- Production Planning & Procurement - designed to divide the resources
created by the estimating process into production zones and produce
scheduled procurement requirements.
- 5D Reporting - using the construction model as the link between cost and
time, the system produces cost loaded schedules for financial analysis.
Key Benefits - Construction Services
To both ease the transition to the new technology and to provide additional
customer support during peak loads, VICO Software Construction Services
will utilize this product line under the direction of the Customer’s project
team. Services include:
- Construction Modeling
- Constructability Analysis
- Estimating Support
- 4D Sequencing Support
- Production and Procurement Planning Support
- Site Planning Support
- 5D Construction Simulation Presentation
Key Benefits - CONTROL
Control (formerly known as DYNAProject and Graphisoft Control) is a schedule
planning and production control system that allows you to compress project
schedules without increasing risk. It is a Flowline-based system that has been
specifically designed for construction and is already in production in some of
the largest construction companies in the world. Flowline is also known as
"Line-of-Balance".
The reason this system is so different is that it is based on a
location-based methodology. This methodology is perfect for construction because
it allows you to easily manage how crews move from location to location on a
complete project. All the other scheduling systems are activity-based (good for
building an airplane engine in a factory) forcing the user to manually take into
account locations and make subjective determinations of duration for completing
an activity at any specific location.
The "Flowline" view allows users to better visualize and manage the
relationship between tasks and the flow of crews as they progress from location
to location.
The components of the system include:
- Schedule Planning
- Risk Analysis
- Procurement Planning
- Production Control
Virtual Construction Product Suite
- Constructor - A complete solution to build 5D construction models and
link them with popular scheduling applications such as Vico Software
Control, Primavera® P3 and Microsoft® Project.
- Estimator - An innovative estimating system that supports both
model-based and traditional estimating.
- Control - A schedule planning and production control system that allows
users to compress project schedules without increasing risk. Control is
based on unique location-based scheduling methodology. This methodology
facilitates planning of continuous resource flow which decreases
subcontractor costs and productivity loss related to starting and stopping
work many times.
- Cost Manager - An innovative application to graphically present
budget/estimate information published either from Estimator or Microsoft®
Excel®.
- 5D Presenter - By publishing a viewer model from Constructor, you can
include time and cost information from Estimator and Control to provide
yourself and your team with an interactive, realistic view of the project.
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