The Interdisciplinary Science Building is an eight-story, 160,690-square-foot design-build project for San Jose State University. Located in Silicon Valley, the project has tight site constraints and many interior lab components. Led by the McCarthy VDC Team, the complexed pre-planning and coordination of a laboratory space with all building systems required the precision of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and participation of all project stakeholders, McCarthy VDC lead the virtual coordination process from design through handover to create a model-based approach to coordination, review and quality control that kept communication flowing, significantly reduced model review time and solved 42 constructability issues before building began.
42 significant constructability issues solved before the completion of bidding documents using a federated coordination model approach with the design team and client
