BIM: Top Tips

Understand your information/data requirements

Define what information you need within the project deliverables to allow use of the data for clash detection, quantity take-off and other purposes over the project lifecycle.

Assess your supply chains capability

Ensure your design team has the necessary knowledge and experience to fulfil the project’s BIM/Digital requirements.
Undertake an impartial assessment of the supply chain per project or at regular intervals.

Upskill the team where required

This will reduce the risk of issues resulting in a much better project including valuable data for re-use.

Facilities Management (FM) Involvement

Bring the FM team into the project as early as possible to help define their information requirements for the operations phase. This can be collated as the project progresses which will greatly improve the transfer from build to operate and reduce costs/waste.

Common Data Environment (CDE) – Golden Thread of Information

All project data should be contained within a CDE to give consistency and reduce risk/error for the project. Using a CDE simplifies the collation of the golden thread of information for an entire project.

This approach also aligns with the upcoming Building Safety Bill for residential dwellings about 18m/7 storeys high.

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