Process reliability due to optimal support at all phases of the project
Process reliability also plays a decisive role in ensuring that the construction process is straightforward. Due to the fact that its formwork and scaffold systems can be optimally combined, PERI is able to offer its clients a decisive advantage. Considering the fact that the PERI portfolio, with its various consultancy, engineering and project-related services, offers solutions for all phases of the project, PERI is able to provide a comprehensive support package whenever required.
By using Building Information Modelling (BIM), we can offer you real added value. BIM is a forward-thinking approach that can be used to plan and control all construction processes. All of the trades that are involved in the construction process work on the basis of a digital 3D model that has been developed with the aid of CAD software. In this way, even individual alterations made during the construction project are immediately visible to all parties. On the one hand, this increases the transparency of the project, but also improves the level of efficiency and ultimately leads to a greater degree of planning and cost reliability. Any planning errors and safety risks can be identified at an early stage and rectified in good time.
The BIM method was also used during the Ulm Minster refurbishment project. The PERI engineers’ on-site support during the Ulm Minster project ranged from 3D planning to tests for structural integrity. While the scaffolding for the main chamber could be planned in a conventional manner, the process of surveying the sanctuary proved to be the biggest challenge that the engineers faced during the project: “We only had access tohistorical 2D as-built plans which made it impossible to plan the scaffolding for the complex geometry of the sanctuary,” explains the project manager in charge, Lothar Stärk. Together with the Minster Site Office and the scaffolder, he came up with a concept that met all of the geometric and safety-related requirements pertaining to the high working level required for the restoration work.