The BIM Management Handbook

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BIM Collaboration and Working within the Common Data Environment

Introduction

While the focus of the Government BIM Strategy has been on formal ‘data drops’ for gateway reviews and asset information, there is an ongoing need for project team members to improve their collaboration by regularly sharing informal ‘work in progress’ information with each other. This chapter highlights the importance to team collaboration of using BIM effectively in the Common Data Environment.

The key coverage in this chapter is as follows:

• The risks of information model sharing in the CDE
• Open BIM workflows
• Value and design fixity in BIM
• Capturing design ...