VIR GROUP
VIR S.p.A. was established in Italy in 1971 by Savino Rizzio and is now an international company with offices in 4 continents: in Europe, with its historical headquarters in the town of Valduggia, Northern Italy; in North-America with Red-White Valve Corp.; in Asia with its plant in Taizhou and its sales office in Shanghai; and in the Middle East with its new offices in Dubai.
More than 50 years of presence in the market together with the creation of a new logistic centre in the town of Valduggia in 2001 have made the VIR Group an extremely competitive company close to its customers' needs and able to handle short time deliveries and shipping, even of small quantities.
VIR DNA
Started as a family business and now a successful international group, VIR has shaped its growth on the fundamental principles that have made it a dynamic business aware of the market needs.
Its great experience on control valves has its roots in a highly advanced technical department of fluid dynamics and in the location of the VIR headquarters in the heart of the Cusio-Valsesia district, known for its expertise in metalworking due to traditional local production of bronze bells first and then of valves and taps.
The high quality of the Made in Italy products is available in ad hoc solutions which are realized to meet specific customer needs or designed by the technical department in order to anticipate market demands.
The key to innovation is reflected in the choice of materials: for over thirty years VIR has been dealing with drinking water contamination prevention, first with the introduction of DZR brass (dezincification resistant), then with the production of certified low lead alloy valves and the possibility for its customers to also have traditional valves in the same alloy.
There is no innovation without attention to health.
BIM/Revit
BIM (Building Information Modeling) is the process which allows one to generate a digital model of a building, including several data such as structure, systems, foreseen furniture elements and so on.
The advantages of making a digitalized model are many. The digitalized model can become the keystone of cooperation between all the stakeholders of the building (system builders, architects, owners, and so on). This allows for example:
- to verify how the various systems (electrics, heating, plumping, etc.) interact with one another, highlighting any problems and collisions that might arise between them;
- to make a “what if” analysis in support of decisions, evaluating at an early stage (when the cost of a change is lower) different technical solutions and/or layout alternatives;
- to make simulations on the landscape impact or on future management costs.
Each actor involved provides his piece of information to a centralized digital model, thus making it available to any other partecipant in the project who may need it.
While BIM is a concept, it has to be supported by actual informatic tools allowing for the modeling of the buildings in the terms described. These tools have to be supported by a common file format, which allows to import into the building model all the parts coming from other different sources. The most common format used for this task is Revit.
VIR is BIM ready and offers a selection of Revit models of its items that are most commonly used in large projects involving BIM. The models can be downloaded at: vir.magicloud.com.
