A medical office building for Sutter Health's Camino Medical Group, where trades modelled and coordinated their systems early, combined with lean methods, to shorten the time to build.
The Camino Medical Group building in Mountain View, California, was a three-storey medical office building of about 250,000 square feet with a parking structure, built for an affiliate of Sutter Health in the mid-2000s. It is one of the best-documented early projects in which design-assist trades modelled their own systems and coordinated them in 3D before fabrication, alongside lean construction methods. The owner's main goal was a shorter overall schedule.
Camino is often used to show what changes when the people who build also model: coordination becomes design work done together, and the fabrication model is the coordinated model. It is an early example of the habits later formalised in IPD.
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