TABLE OF CONTENTS This chapter further explores how to utilize BIM in construction, how to use BIM tools to provide updates, and how to use the BIM file to track design changes. Continuing the tutorial examples started in the earlier chapters, this chapter explores how to keep the model current by updating information based on the systems covered thus far.
In this book, you've seen how BIM can be a useful tool in the preconstruction and early construction phases. But how does it stay a valuable tool throughout a project? One of the answers to this question is through updating. Toward the end of preconstruction and at the beginning of the construction phase of a project, the flow of information in a project increases. Specifically, addenda, supplemental drawing information, and submittals, to name a few types of information, start becoming available more rapidly than before. The success of the project starting correctly is usually a direct result of how well this rapid influx of information is managed, tracked, and distributed. Many times this involves the use of a gatekeeper, a single person or team that is responsible for managing the information coming in and then distributing it to the rest of the team. The role of gatekeeper may be a project manager, support staff, model manager, or other personnel. The information distribution's success depends on the ability of the gatekeeper to communicate to all parties, to make sure that the correct data is distributed to the...
