Rutherford & Chekene was an early adopter of building information modeling (BIM) using Autodesk Revit Structure. R&C projects using Revit, which include university, research and healthcare facilities, have construction costs totaling $4 billion. The following selected projects used BIM to coordinate the design process:

• UC San Francisco Mission Bay Hospital
• Chico State Wildcat Activity Center
• UC Davis Maurice J. Gallagher Jr. Hall
• UC Santa Cruz Biomedical Sciences Facility
• UC Berkeley Helios Energy Research Facility
• Anderson Lucchetti Women’s & Children’s Hospital at Sutter Sacramento
• Mills-Peninsula Medical Center
• Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Redwood City

R&C has successfully used BIM not only in producing design documents in collaboration with consultants, but also in clash detection efforts to avoid potential construction issues. R&C’s leadership in BIM includes conference presentations about advances in BIM project delivery, hosting BIM education (Autodesk University), and presentation series to local universities, engineers, architects, and the American Institute of Architects (AIA) San Francisco Chapter. In 2008, R&C won the BIM Experience Award from Autodesk for the firm’s BIM leadership role in the building and design community.

UC Davis Maurice J. Gallagher Jr. Hall

R&C used BIM to improve collaboration with architects and other design professionals and to enable all team members and stakeholders to easily visualize the design. The UC Davis Graduate School of Management project was a design/build competition project with all the team members committed to using BIM.

Chico State Wildcat Activity Center

R&C, in collaboration with other members of the project team, used Revit to enhance and improve the design and documentation phases. Revit allowed the client and stakeholders to easily visualize each stage. This improved communication allowed everyone involved to be in step throughout the design process.