SeaWorld Abu Dhabi
- Entered by: Miral Asset Management
- Client: Miral Asset Management
- Design consultant: PGAV, AECOM
- Project management: EllisDon
- Main contractor: ALEC Engineering and Contracting
- Cost consultant: Currey & Brown
- Operator: Farah Experiences
The SeaWorld Abu Dhabi (SWAD) theme park development is located on Yas Island on the east coast of Abu Dhabi Island. Natural places will be rendered using water, sculpture, sound, media, and lighting – creating immersive, compelling, and transformable environments.
The park at SeaWorld will have multiple levels of attractions which will be augmented by extensive food and beverage venues. BIM had been identified as a step change to support Miral digital strategy and to facilitate this project management throughout the following:
- Execute a reinforced BIM strategy to manage 100+ packaged and fast track procurement tasks.
- Coordinate the complex design interfaces for more than 500 design models.
- Fast-track the project by applying the IPD approach.
- BIM data analytics to support a “design to budget” approach.
- Extensive thematic and artistic scope modelling.
- Support the employer’s digital transformation vision which mandated a paperless approach on the project, especially for inspections and snagging activities.
- Support QA/QC at the design stage and project planning and control at the construction stage.
- Ensure the as-built BIM captures exact asset information required for operation stage.
- Live simulations and coordination of materials and artistic effects using Virtual Reality technology.
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