Many people I meet share this false belief that a BIM coordinator coordinates projects. Read more about why this isn't so, why it's harmful to the performance of the project and how to do better.
Agree Simon. With BIM" used as defined in ISO 19650.
I believe it is worth emphasising the scope of "BIM Co-ordination" is more than the information viewed in say a 3-D model or what a design "co-ordination" meeting or workflow may consider.
As you have it is as much about education and support, for example becoming information or data centric, workflows, data checks across all disciplines responding to clients information needs.
Yes, hoping we move to that world. Something I have championed for many years.
And not just PM's, lots of people, in both AEC and O.
Not sure BIM Coordinators are best placed or even best person. It is in reality a broad change management topic and appropriate methods to realise the change in organisations and across sectors is needed. We already see some Professional bodies in different countries identifying competencies needed and some standards bodies.
I am of an age that design offices and operations engineers used slide rules and drawing tables with compasses, drawing pens and T-squares. A few used calculators - I had an HP 33E :-).
When "personal" computers came in the early 80's there would be one in the corner of the office and a nominated "computer" person (we had design tools, databases, simulation programmes, functionally similar to today which many still do not use so have is the real progress?). Now pretty much everyone has some degree of computer literacy, who get the idea of folders and versions, though perhaps document centric rather than data . I am reminded though we did have data centric views in the 80's and 90's and older colleagues had that with mainframes and mini's in the 60's and 70's - some how the "industry" (certainly my part, the E in AEC) lost some of that, as computing and some processes became widespread some capability actually lost or at least dilute with lots of people selling new "magic" beans.
You'll have a few years of experience with me. When I started to study architecture professors told us we were not allowed to use computers and the design needed to go through the pen, the arm in the mind.
Of course, I worked with CAD, printed out, and redrew...
It's an interesting theory, that the democratization of computers led to a decline in competence...
Agree Simon. With BIM" used as defined in ISO 19650.
I believe it is worth emphasising the scope of "BIM Co-ordination" is more than the information viewed in say a 3-D model or what a design "co-ordination" meeting or workflow may consider.
As you have it is as much about education and support, for example becoming information or data centric, workflows, data checks across all disciplines responding to clients information needs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGSZaGoIdG8
I agree and I hope we will move from a world where information management means reading documents to a world were we can utilize data.
As most project managers miss the data competency to do so, we will need somebody supporting. Maybe we can call this person BIM coordinator.
Yes, hoping we move to that world. Something I have championed for many years.
And not just PM's, lots of people, in both AEC and O.
Not sure BIM Coordinators are best placed or even best person. It is in reality a broad change management topic and appropriate methods to realise the change in organisations and across sectors is needed. We already see some Professional bodies in different countries identifying competencies needed and some standards bodies.
I am of an age that design offices and operations engineers used slide rules and drawing tables with compasses, drawing pens and T-squares. A few used calculators - I had an HP 33E :-).
When "personal" computers came in the early 80's there would be one in the corner of the office and a nominated "computer" person (we had design tools, databases, simulation programmes, functionally similar to today which many still do not use so have is the real progress?). Now pretty much everyone has some degree of computer literacy, who get the idea of folders and versions, though perhaps document centric rather than data . I am reminded though we did have data centric views in the 80's and 90's and older colleagues had that with mainframes and mini's in the 60's and 70's - some how the "industry" (certainly my part, the E in AEC) lost some of that, as computing and some processes became widespread some capability actually lost or at least dilute with lots of people selling new "magic" beans.
You'll have a few years of experience with me. When I started to study architecture professors told us we were not allowed to use computers and the design needed to go through the pen, the arm in the mind.
Of course, I worked with CAD, printed out, and redrew...
It's an interesting theory, that the democratization of computers led to a decline in competence...