The Glickman Tower is a 325,000 square-foot outpatient building on the main campus of the Cleveland Clinic near downtown Cleveland, Ohio. The project consists of 10 above-grade habitable floors, a habitable basement, and a two-story mechanical penthouse topped by a helipad. The largest challenge was the extremely fast track of the project, which needed to be completed simultaneously with a building that entered design more than four years earlier.

Because of the need for speed and efficiency, the decision was made to use BIM—specifically, the TriForma extension of MicroStation, Bentley Structural, and Bentley’s RAM product line. Bentley’s integrated BIM solutions were chosen because they provided the ability to extract 2D drawings from a 3D model as well as a robust rendering engine, and support a collaborative team environment.