Glodon (Xi'an) R&D Center Wins Construction Project of the Year at RICS China Awards 2023

The Glodon (Xi'an) R&D Center has been conferred the Construction Project of the Year at the RICS China Awards 2023 during the RICS China Summit 2023.

Recognized worldwide as one of the highest honors in the built and natural environments, the RICS China Awards have rapidly grown in influence since its launch in 2016. The Awards, backed by global standards, professional development, and industry impact, offer a unique platform for showcasing professional teams and top projects in China's built environment sector. A total of 16 projects were recognized by the Awards this year.

Founded in 1868, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is a globally recognized professional organization. Presently, it boasts a membership and affiliate network exceeding 180,000 professionals, spanning 148 countries, and maintaining over 40 offices across major global financial markets.

A Green and Comfortable Building That Sets Digital Building Benchmark

Glodon is a leading Digital Building Platform Service Provider with products and solutions for the digitalization of the whole building life cycle. The Glodon (Xi'an) R&D Center is the first self-owned building built with the Digital Building paradigm throughout the entire life cycle and is the best benchmark for Digital Building practice.

The total construction area of the winning project is about 66,000 square meters, with 3 floors underground and 12 floors above the ground. The Glodon (Xi'an) R&D Center has green spaces on the roof and an indoor ecological atrium full of plants. An irrigation system that harvests and utilizes rainwater controls humidity and temperature for the plants.

The building achieves energy self-sufficiency with a solar photovoltaic panel system that performs energy generation, noise reduction, and sun shading at the same time. The system can also automatically adjust lighting according to sunlight, which saves energy.

Inside, the building is equipped with intelligent office equipment to meet the employees' needs for work and leisure. It has an indoor track, fitness zone, and shared relaxing space. In addition, the building is equipped with a healthcare room where people can check their health condition with essential equipment.

The working conditions and environment have been greatly improved. This is not only a microcosm of Glodon's development and growth but also an important step to fulfilling its mission to create a better working and living environment with technology.

Based on BIM, the IPD breaks through silos in the industry and achieves good communication and collaboration among all project stakeholders. The innovative IPD enabled integration to unite the project into one project team, one project plan, one set of business processes, one set of work standards, one set of data, and one platform. It significantly improves project management efficiency and effectively reduces project costs while guaranteeing schedule, quality, and safety.

During the construction, the project practised digital lean construction, completed 21,000 project scheduling and delivery processes, and established 680 process standards. The lean construction is also complemented by the digital twin, achieving the integration of virtual and physical construction. In addition, intelligent monitoring of tower cranes, intelligent security helmets, and other software and smart equipment were applied during the process.

The integration of digital twins and lean construction is the key to the project's success. The digital production line ensured the intelligent scheduling of production, logistics, and construction, while the physical production line enabled perception, analysis, and decision-making on personnel, machinery, and material, and smart construction operations. This maximize value and minimize waste. For example, with the integrated management of rebar, the processing efficiency of stirrups is increased by 4 times, the processing efficiency of hooks is increased by 20 times, the number of rebar processing personnel is reduced by half, and the accuracy of material consumption is improved.