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Level of Definition Progression in BIM

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Introduction

Collaboration is only successful when the scope of each participant’s contribution is clearly defined. Before BIM, level of detail was the main gauge of responsibility for developing more specific design intentions in the project drawings and associated data.

For BIM Level 2, the Level of Definition (LOD) extends level of detail to include the quality of information that is either embedded in or linked to different categories of elements in the federated model.

For agreed purposes at each work stage, the LOD should:

  • Establish the extent to which, for specified purposes, each project ...

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