Granlund Designer - increase your MEP planning margins
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Granlund Designer is a new solution for standardising the MEP planning process, avoiding errors and improving communication. This webinar gives a quick overview on the capabilities. www.granlunddesigner.com
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Granlund Designer - increase your MEP planning margins
- 1. Welcome to Granlund Webinar. Great to have you here! We’ll begin 14:02 (GMT+2), to have everybody on-board. If you have questions or wish to comment please use the Questions field in the participant panel. Only the organisers see the questions and we’ll have time to answer them at the end. We encourage you to Tweet about the webinar, please use hastag #GranlundWebinar
- 2. Let’s begin... Ville Kyytsönen ville.kyytsonen@granlund.fi Twitter: @Kyytsis Director of Designer Business @ Granlund + 10 years of AEC Software experience
- 3. Agenda - Few words about Granlund as a company - Our Software offering - Designer – new solution for MEP information management - Q&A
- 5. Software Energy Efficiency Service Process Management www.granlundmanager.com Design information management www.granlunddesigner.com
- 6. Granlund Designer - webinar Increase your margins Avoid errors Manage your planning process
- 7. Why Granlund Designer • Need for more organised way for planning • ...in a rapidly growing company • Focus on data, information & knowledge – long customer relationships • Information only has value if it can be found value time Effect of latency to value of information
- 8. Key benefits of Designer • Increase margins & improve quality • Ability to offer new services • Standardise planning throughout organisation
- 9. Designer in the process Conceptual Design Detailed Design Construction Facility managementRequirements Spaces / Systems Supervision ApprovalEquipment Schematics Service areas Simulations Modelling Coordination Adjustment As-built BAS BIM in FM
- 10. 20 years of engineering intelligence
- 11. Common workflows
- 13. Faster design • Quickly use existing concepts in your new project • Company database driving how your company works Existing Projects Your company database / library
- 15. Finding information • Designer gathers data in one place; of all your properties and projects • Uniform regardless who did the design • The information is only valuable if you find it when needed!
- 17. Efficient communication • Design and as-built information efficiently flowing between designers and contractors • Audit trail of decisions • Environment for collaboration
- 19. How much effort does it take to change a light bulb?
- 20. Designer benefits • Increase margins and enable new services • Avoid errors & omissions • Offer information for facility management • Standardise design process throughout company – all MEP trades • Faster planning • Information always available and usable • Change management & better communication
- 21. Pricing • Pricing starting from 60€ / user / month • Special pricing schemes available for Owners and Contractors • Starting with a Pilot project – set-up, training, consulting. • Demo version available from www.granlunddesigner.com
- 22. Time for Q&A. Please type your question to the comment field in the participant panel. Only the presenters see the questions You can find webinar recordings from our Youtube-channel: www.youtube.com/user/GranlundOy Social Media: #GranlundWebinar
- 23. Thank you for your participation. There is a short survey after the webinar closes – we hope you answer it to give us feedback. Have a good day and see you soon.
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- Ok, good afternoon everyone. We seem to have a good international audience on-line which is great to see. In this webinar we’ll focus on Granlund Designer which is a new product by Granlund though we have been using it in-house for about 10 years in different shapes and forms. It all comes down to the fact that we needed a system to manage all the data and information we generate during the MEP design process. Today we’ll outline the system capability and what problems we can solve. Let me quickly introduce myself – I’m Ville Kyytsönen and I have the commercial responsibility for the Designer software at Granlund. I’ve been working in the AEC Software industry since, I guess, 2004 in different companies; such as Graphisoft, Vico Sofware, Tekla and Trimble.
- We have 40 minutes and plenty to cover; I’ll speed through the main points to give you the idea of the system and we’ll have time at the end reserved for questions. There seem to be some who don’t know Granlund as a company so just a few points about us first.
- Our top line expertise is energy efficiency – Less Energy Gives More Granlund is a company that has history going back 55 years. As we have roots in Finland we happen to know something about bad weather and challenging conditions. Thus it has been always important to build well and innovate. Our core capability is energy optimisation that we offer in our Design and Consultation business. We have a strong Innovation and Software departments as well and they previously served our internal needs and during the last years we have sifted focus to serving external customers as well. All together we have more than 600 people in the Group at the moment. We’re the leading MEP company in Finland with more than 15 offices. In addition we have customers abroad and have identified opportunities. The challenges we’re solving are universal and there are very few solutions out there that would actually simplify the ”data overflow”.
- Our 2 software brands are Granlund Manager for Property Management and Designer (our focus today) for design and construction. Both tools are modern cloud based systems that are fast to implement and learn. They are purpose built tools by engineers to engineers and we take pride in the high-level of our domain knowledge that you can see in these tools.
- However our main focus is Designer; a new cloud based system for managing the Mechanical Electrical Plumbing design process. With the system we can increase the margins of your design work as there will be less errors, engineers have easier time as the system will take care of change management and revisions. Overall it is a system that gives you better control of the planning process and ensures information is available when it’s needed. Only information you can find is valuable.
- Bit of history – @Granlund we saw the need for more organised way to planning, this was about 15 years ago; Thanks to CAD, BIM and other three letter acronyms the amout of data that can be created and shared has exploded. We see that there is value in the INFORMATION and to add to that the creation of the information needs to be structured The value of the information is added when it is used or completely lost if it is not found when needed. àThis is why Granlund Designer is crated.
- What we aim for is to improve level of quality throughout the organisation by offering tools that guide the planners/engineers to fulfil all required details to the equipment -> when everyone is working the same way the customer benefits from this.
- This is how Designer fits in the planning process – It’s between the early stage requirements setting (simulations, energy analysis, space program, system selection...) and detailed design. You (as a planner) already know what type your heating, cooling or electrical systems are and now you need to specify them on a more detailed levels; what are the components your AHU’s consists of; what capacity you need from your pumps and what spaces your equipment is serving. In essence Designer is a planner/designer tool where designer communicates the detailed requirements for MEP of the project. Based on this information you can then effectively model the duct and pipe routings, locate the optimal places for diffusers etc. 3D modelling offers great benefits when you need to coordinate the “transfer”parts with other trades, like sprinkler or structures – but it doesn’t replace the need for a big picture and planning of the systems early on. Also, we recognize the design is iterative – you need to change your planned values; this is simple in Designer compared to schematic drawings or modelling environments. Designer offers API’s so that information is usable without those tools. Later when Contractor is involved Designer offers benefits as you can easily exchange information with them so that the requirements are effectively translated in to real products that fulfil the requirements. This information is the basis for the as-built information that can be shared with the building owner/operator.
- Just to highlight what is special with Designer – it is a software that has already been used by the largest MEP company in Finland for more than 15 years; It’s part of the core design processes. This is a strength in the solution; it’s purpose built, easy to learn and still affordable. We want to highlight as well that the data information management is also opening new opportunities. You can share access to the data to your customers;
- In traditional process you have designers working with their own & customised tools; each output is slightly different Several projects increase the amount of data that has to be re-created and usually copied. Easily leading to errors multiplying and being reproduced over and over Each project has several iterations, revisions and many changes – all which the designer has to track manually In the modern way of working everyone works in the same cloud environment which guides everyone to work the same way, unifies the output and keeps track of changes so that the designer doesn’t need to do it. Data is available for future projects and always up to date. No matter how many people and from how many company are involved. Data is also better kept safe as access is governed by usage rights and it’s not sent to everyone in emails etc.
- Ok, let’s look at Designer. As mentioned Designer is cloud based and doesn’t require any installation, any browser works. We’ll first log-in through the Portal which is part of the product. This is your project library. The highest level is the property/address/building and all the projects are shown under it. We’ll open this project and select Mechanical application. There is separate applications for Electric and for other trades as well. Once in, you see that I’m identified with my username and my actions are tracked. Also, it shows that that I’m an designer and the project is in planning phase. All good information we can use later. Several people can access the project simultaneously and work together. This is our basic view, the tree on the left shows the systems of our building(s) and this is what we’ll be building. You can select what is the accuracy level you need and fill information accordingly. You don’t need to type all this; it can be imported from the company library or from existing projects or buildings. This brings us to an important point – the company library is your template that is used to drive the designs; it standardises how design is done. You can later use project designs to update the company template so there is mechanism for this development. In the early phase the designer will create the systems here on the level that is needed to drive more detailed design. It can be linked with the schematics in for example Autocad or in Magicad. The information is stored in Designer and can be changed in either in schematics or directly in Designer – it’s always up to date.
- Designer benefit... The company benefits... Your customers benefit...
- DEMO2 Ok, let’s take a look on the few ways we can create Systems and Equipment in Granlund Designer. First – we could add a new AHU or other system here, but instead let’s add a cooling coil into the Supply AHU. I’ll righ-click on the AHU and a list opens with equipment that can be used to build AHU’s – we’ll select the Cooling Coil and give it a number, 08 seems to make sense. Now, it’s added and we can see it in the tree; with all these attributes we can use to define it. Just to recap; these values are something I, as a designer, decide. In this case I’ve calculations elsewhere that tell me what airflow and other parameters I need; here I use the engineering intelligence to decide what is the designed value we actually need. Calculation gives me max or min values to guide in this decision making. The other way to create equipment is by importing it from an existing building/project or use the company library. When using the company library I can open the template here on the right and then import whole systems to my project on the left. In this case let’s import AHU Supply system to Atrium area. The importing saves me from a lot of tedious typing and I know I’m using systems that are OK. I can edit them and create new ones if that is needed. They can also be “upgraded” into the company template by the Company Admin if they are needed by others.
- Standardising the way work is done – easier to find relevant information Information keeps building up – your company learns and gets better.
- DEMO3 In this section we’ll take a look at change management, reporting and revisions. First, when I change any of the attributes for any of the equipment I can see the whole change history - who did the change, when... and even restore old values if needed. As this is a database nothing really gets removed. Ever. Even when deleting something it still stays in the database; I can easily restore anything to the project. All changes are also tracked in revisions; let’s look at that. Revisions are tracked through reporting. Here are the company defined report templates; I can create my own if needed. Using the reports you can create “snapshots” of the design and get them into Excel for output. There are 2 types of reports; “workprint” and “published”. Work prints are something I can take at any time. Publishing always creates a revision in the system, annotating changes with a revision number. Let’s create a new revision – I’ll change the letter to highlight changes and then save. I can also define the time from where the changes are checked. Report is then created and downloaded and I can open it in Excel; here you can see how the changed parameters are annotated by the letter we gave. We can do reports for this project or look at the entire lifespan of the building over all projects
- First – not sending files back and forth and having wrong versions... Second – being able to communicate between trades
- DEMO04 Equipment approval – once the designer has defined the equipment they can be shared with the Contractor to find the best products to suit the needs. In our small example we can collect all the Filters and send them to the contractor; Once the package is ready I can send it. Now, I’ll quickly change personality so instead of being a designer I’m a contractor. – I’ll change my Role in the system. I now see that I’ve been sent a package; I can see the filters and the attributes the designer has given to them. I can now check which filter would be good for which use and if the values are different I can put them here. Different values get sent back to designer for review and matching values we can close. The approval process leaves “as-build” information into the system. We know the original designed values and also have a trail of what was agreed with the contractor.
- In most cases the Facility Manager doesn’t know what is the exact type of light installed. Someone needs to visit the site and investigate, what is installed, where, how...; get the new bulb, usually by trial and error and finally install the new light. With Designer the FM can see the type of a light, the manufacturer, status of warranty etc. You find the exact data and manage the situation effectively. Your Facility Manager can then quickly manage the situation and install the correct type of lighting.
- Q; can several users use Designer at the same time? A; yes Q; how do you take Designer into use? A; We grant you access to Designer and your admin user can create usernames according to your need. You can share them in your organisation or with external people. It comes with basic libraries suchs as seen today and we can help you to set-up your own templates so that you have a smooth start. Doing a Pilot project is recommended Q: Can this be used if Facility Management A; Yes – an engineering office could for example offer a service where the information is kept up-to-date and FM can access the data themselves as well Q; Does this work with special hospital gas systems? A; Sure, you just need to define the system and the components & attributes you need. Q; can use use this with mobile devices? A; Yes, as long as you can contact internet.