Design management of today

Ambitions are high for the upcoming transformation of Fisketorvet. The renovation and expansion of the shopping centre will create space for a larger restaurant area, while a new office building and new hotel along Kalvebod Brygge will be constructed at the same time.

Like the existing centre, the entire development will be sustainability certified in accordance with BREEAM, which is just one of our many tasks for the project. The various disciplines require that the design management team focuses on strong interdisciplinary coordination:

Many external considerations
Fisketorvet has an extremely central location, which increases the number of stakeholders. Radius has a main line into Copenhagen on the building site, just as HOFOR has district heating lines in an area now expropriated in connection with the metro construction. Together with the 15 other owners of cables and pipes on the site, they must be coordinated in the project and planning of the execution. In addition, part of the expansion is located on top of the future Havneholmen metro station, which also places very specific demands on the design management team. Simon Dencker points out:

A unified digital platform
It is no coincidence that the design manager is often portrayed as the conductor, and at Fisketorvet we can rightly talk about an entire symphony orchestra. However, there is one crucial difference: the musical score is never fixed and continuous variations and improvisation must be taken into account.

This is where a detailed BIM model comes into the picture. This is a model we have created by convert-ing old 2D drawings of Fisketorvet to 3D. The aggregated model was prepared in Revizto, which can extract information directly from Revit and Tekla, with minor adjustments. It can also integrate the 2D drawings used by certain disciplines.

All the disciplines are represented in a unified model that can handle issues, which are comments and questions that may arise in connection with the individual details. Having a single communication platform allows us to reduce the countless number of e-mails, where information is easily lost, and the client can therefore make decisions quicker and more efficiently, says Simon.

Key aspects such as time and finances are also included in the model:

Earlier on, you had to create a small comic strip to illustrate the demolition rate. Today, we can easily make a short video based on our model. This is faster, smarter and more illustrative. In addition, our cost management team can extract all necessary information from the model, Simon confirms.

Changing design management
In view of the complexity of the project, the design management consists of an entire team: