This Book is a complete reference and integration guide that features practical advice, tested methods and workflows and detailed tutorials. Featuring such popular, familiar tools and software as Revit, SketchUp, Innovaya, Timberline and more, this in-depth book shows readers the best way to accomplish crucial tasks. This book offers a grounded and results focused approach to enhance workflows in construction with BIM and Technology. Written by two industry leading experts, this book addresses the need to appropriately leverage an array of tools and technologies to provide significant and real value during the lifecycle of a project.

Contents
Introduction



Chapter 1 Why is Technology So Important to Construction Management?

The Promise of BIM
Processes
Technologies
Behaviors
The Value of BIM in Construction
Where Does BIM Play a Role in Construction Management?
Team Engagement
Project Pursuit and Business Development
Planning for BIM Success
Using Contracts in Planning
Scheduling
Logistics
Estimating Cost
Constructability
Analyzing Data in BIM
Designing for Prefabrication
Coordinating Construction
Using Mobile Devices
Controlling Schedules
Controlling Cost
Managing Change
Material Management
Tracking Equipment
Closeout
Managing Facilities
Knowledge Platform Population
Where the Industry Is Headed
Leadership Buy-In
The Evolving Role of the BIM Manager
What Have Been the Results?


Chapter 2 Project Planning

Delivery Methods
Design-Bid-Build
Construction Manager at Risk
Design-Build
Integrated Project Delivery
BIM Addenda (Contracts)
AIA: Document E202
AGC: ConsensusDocs 301
DBIA: Document E-BIMWD
AIA: Document E203
Contracts Summary
The Fundamental Uses of BIM
Level of Development
Model-Based Coordination
Model-Based Scheduling
Model-Based Estimating
Model-Based Facilities Management
Model-Based Analysis
BIM Execution Plan
History of the BIM Execution Plan
Communication
Expectation
Organization


Chapter 3 How to Market BIM and Win the Project

BIM Marketing Background
Building Your Team
Marketing Your Brand of BIM
Does What You Are Proposing Show Clear and Demonstrable Value?
Is This a Proven Tool or Process, a Developing One, or an Innovative One?
Can You Show Real Results from the Impact of Implementation?
Is This What the Owner Wants?
Is This Something You Can Deliver?
Using BIM to Enhance the Proposal
Addressing BIM in the RFP
Project Pursuit Images
Project Simulations
Project Pursuit Virtual /Augmented Reality Simulations
Other Marketing Tools
Tailor-Fit Your Offerings
Client Alignment
Pushing the Envelope
Seeking Value and Focusing on Results


Chapter 4 BIM and Preconstruction

Leaning on the Past
The Empire State Building
Adopting New Technology
The Journey to BIM
The Kickoff
Getting the Right People in the Room
Creating the Vision
Opening the Lines of Communication
Accounting for the Expectation Bias
Scheduling Design
Design Structure Matrix
Scheduling the LOD
Constructability Review
Leverage the Plans
Leverage the Details
Leverage the People
Estimating
Revit Schedules for Estimating
Cost Trending with Assemble
Analysis
The 2030 Challenge
Overview of Sustainability and BIM
Sustainability Analysis with Sefaira
Logistics and Planning


Chapter 5 BIM and Construction

Overview of BIM in Construction
Model Coordination
BIM and Site Coordination
Clash Detection
Navisworks Conflict Exercise
Fabrication
BIM Scheduling
Scheduling Software
Completing the Feedback Loop
Systems Installation
Installation Management
Installation Verifi cation
Construction Activity Tracking
Field Issue Management
BIM and Safety
Producing Better Field Information
Beginning with the End in Mind
What Information Do You Need to Build?
Model Redlining Exercise
Video Embedding Exercise
The Virtual Job Trailer
The Conference Room
The Plans and Specifications Hub
The Jobsite Office as a Server
The Jobsite Office as a Communication Hub
Setting Up the Job Trailer


Chapter 6 BIM and Construction Administration

The Battle for BIM
Training Field Personnel
Training Goals for Basic Skills
Advanced Training Goals for Model Creation
Training Courses for Additional Uses
Document Control
Creating a Digital Plan Room with Bluebeam Revu eXtreme
The Real Value of 4D
Developing BIM Intuition
Starting with a Door
Assemble Systems: Beyond the Basics
Importing Search Sets into Navisworks
Mapping Equipment to BIM 360 Field
Information Loading and QR Coding
Using 360 Field to Status Material
Visualizing Equipment Status in the Model
Endless Possibilities
Small Wins to Big Change


Chapter 7 BIM and Close Out

True Costs of Facility Operations
Artifact Deliverables
Constant Deliverables
Taking a Hybrid Approach
Owners and BIM
Owner Options
Integration of a Record BIM
BIM and Information Handover
Maintaining the Model
Ongoing Investment and Logistics for Facility Management BIM
Training
Model Maintenance
One BIM = One Source of Information


Chapter 8 The Future of BIM

What Will BIM Be?
Industry Trends
BIM and Prefabrication
New Processes and Roles
Interoperability
BIM and Education
BIM and the New Construction Manager
BIM and the New Team
BIM and the New Process
Future Opportunities
Future Relationships
Virtual Builder Certification


Summary

Index