Bim Managment And Coordination

By Author: Kimberly Smith
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BIM coordination is mutual understanding between the personalities of different engineering domain to make everything work perfectly without collisions and clashes.

BIM Management:

Building Information Modeling management includes,
1. Collection of Data: This includes collecting all the inputs from the client’s side.
2. Development of Ideas: Developing new ideas as how to start and how the project cycle will go on contributes to this stage.
3. Management Process: Formation of BIM project team to work on project can be considered as to be part of management.
4. Coordination: Personalities of different engineering domains put their ideas on a common platform is called BIM coordination
5. Presentation of Data’s: In this stage final output high quality schedules and data are provided to clients.

BIM coordination process:

Primarily with the use of Revit architecture/structural/MEP models are created by the modeler individually. Models of different domains are to be integrated during the construction and installation stage, where the BIM Coordination comes into picture. ...
... Integration of drawings with different domains for instance Electrical, plumbing, HVAC, structural into single complete model with all services can be called as BIM Coordinated model. The software utilized in BIM allows all of the services to coordinate by going through the process of quality checks and reporting until all services are fully coordinated. This process can be simply called as 4D. After satisfactory BIM coordination process installation at various suited location as per the coordinated services takes a start.

Benefits of BIM Coordination:

1. BIM Coordination model with all the domains such as HVAC, Plumbing, Architectural, Electrical, Structural helps to get a broader view of all confusions and clashes.
2. BIM Coordination process helps contractors to save construction cost, save overall project cycle time and results into 99.99% accuracy.
3. In Building Information Modeling one can integrate all coordinated drawings of all services by making use of architectural drawings as backgrounds electronically. This in turn ensures that there is sufficient space for piping, ducting, fire detection, public address and electrical services to be installed without omission, corrections and makes project error free.
4. Proper BIM coordination of all services in a single model provides an open platform of discussion for persons from different domain which provides high quality of services to our clients.

BIM Coordination Software’s:

The 3D models created for clash detection with different disciplines can be coordinated using different BIM application software’s:

1. Revit
2. ArchiCAD
3. Navisworks
4. AutoCAD

For example electrical light fixtures and cables can be easily coordinated with HVAC ducting model and building within Navisworks. In Models even the minor details of an electrical design, such as these light switches can be rendered inside a Revit model. This helps clients to have a realistic view about how the electrical components will actually fit into the space provided in model.

Tesla,is an engineering firm providing CAD Services and have expertise in BIM Services including BIM Coordination, Revit family creation, Clash Detection.