BIM Challenges - The Top 10 "Evil BIM"​ List

BIM is essential for improving our industry's efficiency however when BIM is not implemented correctly teams can experience some severe BIM challenges.

 We call these challenges "Evil BIM" 😊

Evil BIM is:

1. Owners Just Requesting "BIM"

When an Owner requests "BIM" without understanding what they're asking for - solely because a technology vendor has promoted never ending BIM benefits.

2. Not Enough BIM

When not enough BIM is authored and BIM Uses can not be completed thoroughly - for example: proactive coordination, accurate quantity takeoff or the perfect 4D schedule.

3. Too Much BIM

When teams produce more BIM than can be used by the customer/end users - doing anything that's not needed is wasteful (and evil 😉).

4. Unclear Model Element Authors

When project teams are unclear about what BIM they should be modeling and sometimes incorrectly model each other's scope (who's supposed to model the lights - Architect? Interiors? Electrical Engineer? Contractor?).

5. Unnecessary Clashes

When all BIM'ing of MEP starts at the same time - one, two three, "BIM!" (nooooo!) - then teams unknowingly model clashes rather than model using a prioritized clash avoidance workflow.

6. Evil Scope Agreements

When a team intentionally agrees on a precise but incorrect BIM scope knowing that they will issue Change Orders later (this is doing the wrong thing, but really really well!).

7. Poor Quality Modeling

When teams create and share poor quality models that will ultimately increase rework and drive costs up!

8. BIM Spreadsheet Contracts

When teams use a spreadsheet with numbers to contract to confusing and poorly defined levels of BIM risk. 😉

9. "LOD 500 + COBie" Requests

When a design team feels under pressured to say "ok" - accepting an owner's request for "LOD 500 + COBie" deliverables for the entire project instead of the right people accepting whats actually important.

10. Contracting To 2D

Pretending to have clear 3D and BIM objectives on a project but only contracting to 2D deliverables.

 Does your BIM team agree with the "Top 10 Evil BIM List"?

 Instead of Evil BIM, we prefer Smart Lean BIM™

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

What is BIM?

Image
Building Information Modeling   (BIM) is a set of technologies, processes and policies enabling multiple stakeholders to collaboratively design, construct and operate a Facility in virtual space. As a term, BIM has grown tremendously over the years and is now the ‘current expression of digital innovation’ across the construction industry. It is an intelligent 3D model-based process that usually requires a  BIM execution plan for owners, architects, engineers, and contractors   or construction professionals to more efficiently plan, design, construct, and manage buildings and infrastructure. When I was at school…   my technology teacher Mr Ormrod taught me all about the benefits of building prototypes. I learnt that building something quickly at low cost before actually building it at full scale would save time and money. In most other industries, such as manufacturing cars or phones, they make many prototypes all built and rebuilt to perfection before pr...
Read more