PRV Vault Engineering – From Rough Sketch To BIM
With the project already underway, an undesigned PRV Vault threatens major setbacks. Our experts kick it into high gear, providing streamlined BIM and VDC services.
Project Overview
While supporting new construction in a residential development area just outside Denver metro, our customer identified a Pressure Relief Valve (PRV) Vault in the plans. However, the PRV vault designs did not exist. Furthermore, the project engineer and city staff associated with the construction had never worked with a PRV Vault of this size. As a result, the action plan was unclear.
Challenge
An undesigned Pressure Relief Valve Vault was identified after project kickoff. Consequently, the customer required quick planning and streamlined turnarounds.
Our Solution
Ferguson Waterworks supported this customer with a quickly rendered Building Information Model. Not only was time a constraint, but so was the available information for creating the BIM.
What advantages did our Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) services provide?
Understanding the capital and time costs at stake, we immediately engaged our Virtual Design and Construction team to provide a solution. Our VDC services offer:
- A seamless flow of information from the product/supply team to the VDC and back
- Not to mention, cutting-edge Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology
- Plus, an automatically generated Bill of Materials (BOM) for simplified procurement
Our Approach
The engineer and contractor provided a rough, hand-drawn line sketch of the requested vault with no specifications. Because of our team’s experience on similar projects and deep product and technological understanding, we quickly generated the Building Information Model.
Once they approved the model, the products were ordered based on the BOM automatically generated by the BIM software. Then, the contractor used the information provided by our VDC team to install the vault with little to no rework.
How did the Ferguson Waterworks team support the pressure relief valve vault project?
Due to our vast experience and industry knowledge, our VDC associates created a fully constructible model with virtually no information to go on. Furthermore, keeping the design with Ferguson Waterworks established a free flow of information across all involved parties. Given the level of provided detail, onboarding a third party to design the PRV vault would have delayed development and increased cost as site visits, redesigns, and rework mounted.
The cutting-edge BIM technology employed by the VDC team also allowed us to condense the design-to-installation timeline via shop drawings, a hyper-accurate model, and a comprehensive, automatically generated BOM.
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