CASE STUDY Bentley Advancing Infrastructure Project Summary Organization Morphosis Architects Solution Buildings and Campuses Location New York, New York, United States Project Objectives • To design and construct a truly innovative building for Cornell Tech's academic headquarters. • Create a building at the forefront of environmental and sustainability expectations through a high-performance, net-zero building design. Products Used MicroStation®, Navigator, OpenBuildings™ Designer, ProjectWise® Morphosis Architects Embraces BIM to Design Cornell Tech's New Academic Headquarters Revolutionary, Zero-energy Building Collaboratively Designed with Bentley Applications Fast Facts • The project team used Bentley software to support an integrated BIM design process, allowing the design team to create a holistic view of the building and maintain a single, up-to-date source of information for the project for all stakeholders. • Morphosis identified and resolved building system clashes prior to fabrication and installation by using Bentley's BIM platform. The integrated model increased the design team's productivity and reduced the staff required to design, document, and coordinate deliverables. Reviewing the design in 3D mitigated issues early, reducing the number of requests for information and eliminating the need for the engineering, documentation, and review process for subcontractor shop drawings. Transforming Higher Education with Innovative Vision The four-story, 160,000-square-foot Bloomberg Center is Cornell Techs academic headquarters - and the first building to be constructed for the university's new applied science campus on New York City's Roosevelt Island. A joint effort of Cornell University and Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Cornell Tech is a new type of institution that strengthens connections between academia and industry by co-locating graduate students with major tech companies and professional mentors. Most academic classes and graduate research will occur in The Bloomberg Center, which the university envisioned as a variety of open-ended spaces organized around an open social galleria that extends the length of the building. Enclaves for impromptu meetings line the main galleria, with conference rooms and multipurpose meeting areas capping the ends. To support the core principles of flexibility and collaboration, a large part of the building's area was designed as open work spaces with no dedicated offices for students or faculty. Cornell Tech also wanted the academic building to set a new standard for sustainability in New York by achieving net-zero energy and a Platinum LEED rating. To meet all of these innovative design requirements, Cornell Tech retained Morphosis Architects to design and construct The Bloomberg Center. The success of this highly innovative, pioneering project was directly supported by Bentleys building information modeling (BIM) platform. Bentley provided a 3D collaborative environment for developing the optimal building design and sharing accurate, highly interoperable information with all stakeholders. Supporting Unified BIM and Information Mobility Morphosis implemented an extensible authoring platform that supports a unified BIM methodology with ProjectWise, MicroStation, and OpenBuildings Designer. Equipped with a BIM solution, the design team created a holistic view of the building and provided stakeholders with a single source of information for the project - from early concepts through construction administration. This single source of truth was stored in ProjectWise, which allowed designers from all professions to easily access the latest design files, work simultaneously on them, and regularly exchange working models. As a result, the architects and consultants were assured that they were working with the most current data, could centrally coordinate building systems as part of the development process, and could verify that all stakeholders fully comprehended the building's scope. A federated BIM approach enhanced communication, improved data sharing among consultants and contractors, built trust among stakeholders, and helped the team keep construction on schedule. Morphosis required all major engineers and designers provide a BIM model of their contributions prior to the start of fabrication and construction. Bentley's information mobility support facilitated the integration of these models, even with models that were created with third-party platforms, to create a comprehensive model. This BIM model enabled an open dialogue among all stakeholders that eliminated miscommunication in preconstruction. Delivering an Innovative Design Efficiently and Affordably The successes achieved in the design and construction of The Bloomberg Center have been directly attributed to the project team's collective investment in a comprehensive BIM process. It allowed the team to have a single source of truth for all project information, allowing them to easily share relevant design information with project consultants and contractors in real time. These capabilities increased the team's productivity and reduced the staff needed to design, document, and coordinate deliverables. Because the design team could accurately review the design in 3D and mitigate issues early, it reduced the number of requests for information (RFI) during construction, as well as reduced - and in some cases even eliminated - the need for the engineering, documentation, and review process typically associated with the development of subcontractor shop drawings.

“For over two decades, Bentley’s modeling platforms have been central to Morphosis’ development and delivery of highly innovative, awardwinning architectural projects.” – Cory Brugger, Director of Design Technology, Morphosis Architects Find out about Bentley at: www.bentley.com Contact Bentley 1-800-BENTLEY (1-800-236-8539) Outside the US +1 610-458-5000 Moreover, by using BIM to help coordinate the entire construction process, Morphosis identified and resolved many building system clashes prior to construction. The resulting unified BIM model minimized the number of field conflicts and drastically...