Approach

Working alongside Sun Hung Kai Properties and Sanfield Management Ltd., SBI guided the openBIM delivery strategy across one of Hong Kong's most complex and ambitious mixed-use developments — a 6.7 million square foot transformation encompassing residential towers, road infrastructure, a welfare centre, and the community sports and recreation hub Go Park Sai Sha. The project's defining challenge was coordinating a highly diverse project team — architects, engineers, interior designers, and landscape architects — operating across incompatible software versions and varying levels of BIM maturity. By anchoring the workflow in IFC and BCF open standards and an open Common Data Environment, SBI enabled full participation across all teams without requiring costly software upgrades or model re-authoring. A BIM-first construction protocol ensured no concreting proceeded until federated BIM reviews were completed and signed off by all major parties — directly delivering the project's landmark achievement of zero MEP rework. Solibri's IFC-based checking tools facilitated early detection of over 4,600 issues across clash, compliance, and quality dimensions. Geospatial tools including drones and GIS further enriched decision-making on views, terrain, and site constraints — an early integration of openBIM and openGIS principles at scale.