Successful projects start with successful strategic planning and intelligent decision making. BEXEL Consulting offers a wide range of services in earliest stages of project lifecycle, such as:
- Early conceptual planning and program management
- Cost and time-driven parametric design
- Conceptual cost estimating, conceptual scheduling and 4D/5D simulations
- Envisioning potential threats and obstacles, while identifying strengths and weaknesses
- Establishing project feasibility, reducing risk and ensure completion within desired financial targets and goals.
COST AND TIME-DRIVEN PARAMETRIC DESIGN
- Analyse dozens of what if scenarios by automatically estimating project design indicators, delivery time, budget, cash flow and resource requirements in order to select best option
- Easy setup of automated model metadata verification procedures and smart data enrichment in line with project information requirements
- Timely identification of any design issue according to construction schedule or potential budget impacts using Bexel Manager clash detection engine
CONCEPTUAL COST ESTIMATING
One of the key elements of the conceptual design phase is getting cost estimates for the entire project lifecycle.
- Define accurate budget and reduce financial risks
- Facilitate decision-making and budget development
- Generate multiple virtual construction simulations where each one gives a separate project cost review with as many different options
- Timely information as important factor for determining the viability of the project
CONCEPTUAL SCHEDULING
While conceptual cost estimates can be created, estimated project budget can be tremendously affected by many parameters depending on actual phasing and sequencing.
- Integration of different project requirements and various time-related factors to create different schedule option
- Identifying risks areas through 4D/5D simulations before actual construction works in order to make project changes timely
- Choose between various project options in order to stay within timeframe and budget
- Creation of conceptual schedule using standardized local work rate norms or company legacy data
- Prediction of resources allocation to reach optimal project solution
WHAT-IF ANALYSIS
What-If scenario is a process of creating many different variations of original project design and then analyzing the effects those changes have on total project cost and construction time. If potential issues with a chosen design variant remain unidentified during conceptual stage, they can surface much later having grown exponentially to a much bigger problem.
- Easily reflect project changes on quantity takeoffs, cost estimates and construction schedules
- Envision of different possibilities
- Rapidly propagate changes in design to analyses that are important for construction management such QTOs, cost estimates and schedules
- Effectively choose final design, resource allocation and construction technologies that fit best into estimated budget and construction timeframe, remaining on top of deadlines and financial constraints
CASH FLOW ANALYSIS
Cash Flow Analysis, as an important tool in construction management, are used to describe a balance between basic financial inputs and outputs in and out of proposed project, supporting further advanced analyses such as NPV (Net Present Value), IRR (Internal Rate of Return) and ROI (Return on Investment). All of these are used in conjunction with various other tools to reach an optimal and therefore profitable project solution.
Cash Flow Analyses through detailed 5D BIM models allow the integration of various financial information which is prone to change and easily simulate various concepts, immediately seeing how it influences final decisions on project solution.
- Stay up-to-date with newest information that can influence design and management decisions, follow global financial market trends and climate
- Create various resource consumption and scheduling strategies
- Choose an option which fits best financing dynamics and state of the global markets
FEASIBILITY STUDIES
Principal aspect of a construction project is certainly its viability – its final success as measured by many financial benchmarks and depending upon various factors. The most important element to take into account when considering project’s viability is risk – whether the risk is financial, design-based, constructive or based in some other area.
- Decision making process of investors and owners by providing crucial information at all stages of project lifecycle
- Improve feasibility of the project and achieve savings as a result of well-defined BIM based procedures and analyses, such as constructability analyses and analyses of various other internal and external risks
PRESENTATION MATERIALS
Once a decision has been reached regarding the conceptual level of project design, it is of great importance to create attractive and compelling presentation materials which will adequately represent the project. Their uses are numerous:
- Clear and engaging delivery of project concept and materialization
- Sharing the project vision to prospective partners
- Improving the cooperation between involved stakeholders
- Marketing and promotional activities
BEXEL Consulting has years of experience in creating high quality imagery and video materials that will make sure that materials our clients use to present their visions to potential partners are clear and straightforward and yet attractive and persuasive.
BIM workflow allows many opportunities unavailable with standard industry practices. Well-established pipeline is established between BIM model and its representations with multitude of options along the way. In addition to that, BEXEL Manager allows easy creation of specialized materials such as walkthroughs, flyovers, 5D construction animations and many more.