BIMSens has been used on the relocation of a military base in New South Wales. Organised into 5 distinct areas, the project team used BIMSens in 2 different ways:
- to illustrate weekly look aheads of the program, running weekly sessions showing the progress, connecting to Primavera P6, and
- to visualize the 10 phases fit out sequence of the hundreds of rooms in the barracks, using an Excel spread sheet updated manually outside of BIMSens by the site engineers
At that time BIMSens connection to Excel was relatively slow and read only, constituting a significant blocker for the adoption of the solution. The system none the less managed to spit out revealing visuals of the complex handover sequence for all the rooms, allowing the team to adjust durations and tasks sequence to ensure feasibility and adequate resource plan.
It is around this project team needs that the requirement for a faster and read write version of the Excel connection was sketched out. This requirement would be later achieved using the NPOI library, now supporting most of BIMSens advanced features and one of its primary use, but SQL server still remains the gold standard.