tasks are possible with a BIM model before you draw your first wall, you will want to create
a BIM execution plan. “Working with Consultants,” but essentially a BIM plan helps to drive the direction of the modeling effort and modeling outcomes. Will your project need to add parameters for energy modeling? Daylighting? Does the owner have expectations for a model deliverable? How much does everyone model without being too much? All of those possibilities and more are explored and documented in a BIM execution plan. It gives the project team a definitive outcome to model towards.
Establishing a BIM Execution Plan
The BIM plan will also help address which team members you’ll need at which phases ofthe design. For instance, at the inception of a project design, a modeling role will be of the
best use. This person can help create building form, add conceptual content, and get the massing for the building established. If you’re using the conceptual modeling tools, the modeler can even do some early sustainable design calculations.
Once the project begins to take a more established form and you complete conceptual design, you’ll need an architect role to step into the project. As in a typical project, you’ll have to mold the form into a building by applying materials, applying wall types, and validating spatial requirements and the owner’s program.
Adding Team Members to Fight Fires
In many projects, there might come a time when the schedule gets tight and project management wants to add more staff to meet a specific deadline. When in a 2D CAD environment, new team members would be added to help meet a deadline and would have the burden of trying to learn the architecture of the building, the thoughts behind its design, and how its various systems interact. In a Revit project, they have that same obligation, but they have the additional task of learning how the model has been configured.
Content Creation You will find that you will be making model families or detail components
until the end of the project. This will help get the new team members engaged in a specific part of the project and also isolate them enough until they learn a bit more about how the model has been configured.
The Drafting Role Even if this isn’t their ultimate role, having new team members help create views and lay out sheets will get them familiar with the architecture while still allowing
the team to keep progressing on the document set.
Working on Detailing Every project can always use someone who knows how to put a
building together. If you have someone new to the project and possibly even new to Revit
software, let them embellish some of the views already created and laid out on sheets with 2D components, linework, and annotations.
until the end of the project. This will help get the new team members engaged in a specific part of the project and also isolate them enough until they learn a bit more about how the model has been configured.
The Drafting Role Even if this isn’t their ultimate role, having new team members help create views and lay out sheets will get them familiar with the architecture while still allowing
the team to keep progressing on the document set.
Working on Detailing Every project can always use someone who knows how to put a
building together. If you have someone new to the project and possibly even new to Revit
software, let them embellish some of the views already created and laid out on sheets with 2D components, linework, and annotations.
The Bottom Line
Understand a BIM workflow. Understand how projects are completed in BIM and how the
use of Revit software on a project can change how information within a project is created.
Master It Explain one of the primary differences between a more traditional 2D CADbased
workflow and producing documents using Revit.
Leverage BIM processes. Understanding the level of risk your firm is willing to take in new
technologies will help you establish goals for your future use of BIM.
use of Revit software on a project can change how information within a project is created.
Master It Explain one of the primary differences between a more traditional 2D CADbased
workflow and producing documents using Revit.
Leverage BIM processes. Understanding the level of risk your firm is willing to take in new
technologies will help you establish goals for your future use of BIM.
Focus your investment in BIM. Since using Revit software is a change in workflow, it is also important to understand the change in staffing and who is needed to perform what roles on a project.
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