Federated BIM model, mixed-use development

Systematized BIM services in Chicago.

Production, coordination and governance to ISO 19650, delivered as a full BIM team for consultants, contractors and developers. No internal hire, no management overhead.

Chicago practices lose design hours to documentation. JES carries the production load.

The documentation load on a design-led practice consumes the hours design fees were meant to buy. JES produces the sets; your office keeps design authority. Markups issued at close of business come back resolved before the morning review.

Prestige One
Al-Futtaim
AECOM
Dar Al-Handasah
Arup
WA International
SCDA
Dezigntechnic
H2R Design
Innovo
M4
MNG
Günal
ALEC
ALEMCO
Voltas
ALEC Fitout
DEPA
Al Tayer Stocks
Abaad Wood
Prestige One
Al-Futtaim
AECOM
Dar Al-Handasah
Arup
WA International
SCDA
Dezigntechnic
H2R Design
Innovo
M4
MNG
Günal
ALEC
ALEMCO
Voltas
ALEC Fitout
DEPA
Al Tayer Stocks
Abaad Wood

The full scope, your office standards intact

Eight capabilities from one floor, matched to your templates so the output is indistinguishable from in-house work.

  • 3D BIM modelling

    Revit production across architecture, structure and MEP, held to your office graphic standard sheet after sheet.

  • Revit family creation

    Custom Revit families to your library conventions, from millwork profiles to mechanical plant.

  • 4D, 5D and 6D simulation

    4D sequencing, 5D cost loading and 6D performance data where the project brief calls for it.

  • Shop drawings & detailing

    Shop drawings coordinated against the federated model before issue, protecting the design intent through fabrication.

  • Scan to BIM

    Point clouds converted into accurate existing-condition models for renovation and adaptive-reuse work across older Chicago stock.

  • CAD to BIM conversion

    Archive 2D sets rebuilt as coordinated 3D models, giving landmark buildings a reliable digital base.

  • BIM for facility management

    Operational data structured to COBie at handover, so the model keeps working after practical completion.

  • Quantity take-off & BOQ

    Model-based take-offs aligned to your cost plan, keeping design changes and budget consequences in one view.

Three sets of eyes before it leaves.

Every JES deliverable moves through a fixed Author-Checker-Approver gate, tracked in the CDE. The same standard whether it's engineer 3 or engineer 250.

Author
Model and documentation produced to the MIDP task card. Self-review against the project QA checklist before submission.
Status: WIP
Checker
Independent review against the BEP and federated model. Defects logged, deviation report returned to Author.
Output: Deviation report
Approver
Signed off against EIR and LOIN. Promoted from WIP to Shared or Published in the CDE.
Status: Published

Lose that gate and sets ship with uncoordinated details, consultants redline each other's work for weeks, and the record drawings never match the building. Those failures cost design practices margin and programme. They don't pass JES review, because every sheet carries a named Author, Checker and Approver.

Delivered on design-led projects

Museum structures, resort towers and metro packages across the Gulf, including work on the Zayed National Museum, delivered to ISO 19650. The same production standard applies to a Chicago set.

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What changes when delivery runs to a system

  • Construction-ready output

    Drawing sets issued from a federated, clash-resolved model to your programme, with seniors reviewing rather than producing.

  • Your team stops chasing deliverables

    Named Author-Checker-Approver sign-off on every file and ERP dashboards that show status at a glance. No chasing, no surprises at deadline.

  • Runs to standard

    ISO 19650 in place from project setup, so EIR, BEP and CDE discipline is the baseline and not a retrofit.

Common questions about BIM in Chicago

Both. We produce the sets and coordination, and we govern the BEP, CDE and the Author-Checker-Approver gate on one programme. A single delivery lead owns both, so you are not paying a consultancy to advise and a separate shop to draw. Your office keeps design authority while one ISO 19650 standard holds across every package.

Yes. A named lead runs your work as an outsourced BIM team that produces the sets overnight, with 260+ engineers taking your close-of-business markups. Work comes back resolved before the morning review, so the documentation load stops consuming the design hours your fees were meant to buy. Capacity scales with the project.

Yes. Our BIM consultants embed in your delivery, author the BEP and hold every sheet to ISO 19650 and your graphic standard. One named lead stays accountable across the programme, returning markups resolved before the morning review. Your office keeps the design decisions while governance and production move to our floor.

Yes. We run laser scan to registered point cloud to a coordinated record model across the older and historic stock that fills Chicago's renovation work. Every discipline coordinates against that verified base, so adaptive-reuse and refurbishment start from what actually stands rather than from a set of assumed existing conditions.

Architectural, structural and MEP, authored in Revit and federated in Navisworks with regular clash cycles. We coordinate new build and the renovation work older stock generates, checked and approved against the BEP before issue. Uncoordinated details settle in the model, not in weeks of consultants redlining each other on site.

Cost follows scope, disciplines, the LOD you set and programme length, so we scope each engagement to the work rather than a flat day rate. A renovation of older stock carries far more than a new-build shell. A zero-cost pilot on one package is the risk-free way to see the output and QA first.