Located adjacent to Farringdon Station and near the historic Smithfield Market, the 18,500sqm scheme has 10 floors and three terraces with views across central London. Works included use of low carbon materials, stone cladding to the lower facade and a lightweight aluminium and full height glazing to the top. Adding to the complexity of the project was the requirement of a basement ramp to provide Crossrail with access during the construction of Farringdon Station, necessitating robust engineering and detailed planning.
Tracking and planning future phases of a project is often actioned solely with project programming and traditional gantt charts to manage several tasks and stages of completion. While this is still a useful tool, it can take time to create, keep versions accurate and share to teams as priorities change in the project programme during the build.
To help visualise the next phases of the project, the team required two 6k Lobster Pots for a duration of 24 months, and the high resolution imagery to be integrated with the project’s BIM model. This enabled the team to benchmark and compare the as-built progress onsite at any moment in time, to the as-planned progress in the BIM model. Being able to do this visually saved the team a lot of time and increased clarity of communications which was vital for Mace to deliver the project successfully.
“We choose to have BIM integration on the Lobster Vision platform as it’s something the client really understands. It enables us to show the construction process with far greater clarity than the standard programme and gantt charts. It’s also a real asset further downstream for our subbies – we can throw the BIM-integrated Lobster Vision up on screen and everyone instantly knows where we are and what we are talking about. It saves us a lot of time and provides instant clarity of where we are and where we will be at any given time.”