Chapter 4Carrying Out a Successful Design Coordination Session
4.0 Executive Summary
Decisions made and approaches taken in design coordination largely depend on the knowledge and expertise of professionals from multiple disciplines. The BIM manager, or moderator of the design coordination process, usually represents the general contractor or the main mechanical contractor and coordinates the effort of collecting models, identifying clashes between systems, and solving identified clashes. This chapter describes traits of an effective design coordination moderator and describes the design coordination workflow, including 3D modeling, internal coordination, federated model assembly, clash detection, sorting and grouping of clashes, and design coordination meetings.
4.1 Introduction
As discussed in chapter 2, each BIM-related role is stipulated in the BIM project execution plan (PxP), and the general contractor (GC) is typically required to have at least one BIM employee—a BIM manager—whose responsibility for a project is to maintain the design coordination model. The BIM manager is typically the designers’ and subcontractors’ main point of contact for BIM issues. The BIM manager also runs the design coordination meetings during the construction phase. The BIM manager prepares the federated model for design coordination and performs ...
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