GARLAND Present at Digital Construction Show

Oct 22, 2015

Brian Lahiff, GARLAND Director, presented a "MISA - A Structural Case Study" at Digital Construction Show in London on 22nd October 2015. The show, hosted in the Business Design Centre in Islington, showcased the leading experts and pioneers on the Impact of BIM on the construction industry.

"MISA" is the €40m Mercer Institute for Successful Ageing, located on the St James's Hospital Campus in Dublin. GARLAND are providing Civil & Structural services to the Design and Build contractor, BAM Group Ireland.  We are delighted to be delivering this project using BIM (Building Information Modelling) processes and tools.

The seven storey, state-of-the art facility is intended to provide a centralised facility for the institute’s clinical, education and training, research and creative life work with older people.  The build will be completed by late 2015 and will create 250 construction jobs at its peak. The 15,000m² facility will include innovative early diagnostic and rapid access ambulatory care clinics, in-patient acute assessment, rehabilitation and a continuing care unit with 76 en-suite bedrooms and further ward spaces to accommodate a total of 100 beds.  The building will also include research facilities, consultation spaces, meeting spaces, catering facilities, day areas, roof terrace spaces, a courtyard and naturally lit foyer and conference rooms.

The detailed design of the project has been delivered using BIM processes.   The BIM process has been led by the design and build contractor   in accordance with PAS 1192 to Level 2.  

Brian is the convenor of the BIM committee of the Association of Consulting Engineers (ACEI).   He is an active member of the CITA BIM Group and has lectured extensively on the subject.