“Best BIM” INOVA Schar Cancer Center

S&D Wins Washington Contractor Award for "Best BIM" on the INOVA Proton Therapy Center Project.
BIM Expertise, A Significant Asset
The Inova Mather Proton Therapy project consisted of a highly complex set of tasks that demanded creativity, expertise, and a strong project management infrastructure from the outset. BIM expertise and fabrication tools were essential to developing the strategy and approach necessary to address these challenges. Additionally, BIM was particularly valuable in this instance to ensure safe and accurate housing for the new proton treatment machine to operate at top functionality. As there was no margin for error once the concrete walls were poured, pre-fab and BIM made all the difference in creating the precise plans needed to be sure this was done right, the first time.
Key challenges of the Inova Mather Proton Therapy project included:
 Varying levels of complexity - from start to finish.  Design elements dictated by equipment. The size and nature of the 250-ton cyclotron proton machine itself required a new 2-story facility built as an addition to the existing hospital structure. The safe operation of the machine required the construction of a 16foot thick reinforced concrete wall surrounding it with our piping and other utilities to be embedded inside.  No option for re-work. The rebar within the 16-foot thick concrete walls had to be laid with the piping embedded precisely and attention to detail and our Quality Control
process by our VDC team ensured this was done right, the first time because with this there are no second chances.  Tight time constraints and a steep learning curve. The team was largely learning together throughout, as this proton technology is so new and innovative that very few contractors have previous projects from which to draw experience.
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Cool fly through of the Cancer Center BIM model but the title of the video is about the Proton Center...which only has two screen shots at the beginning and one screen shot at the end of the video.