Project management in office: BIM implementation
Alcı́nia Zita Sampaio
Abstract
Building Information Modelling (BIM) methodology is increasingly finding acceptance in all sectors of the construction industry including, as a first step, the architectural design, and after a set of multi activities concerning civil engineering (structures, building, budgeting, maintenance or operation). The elaboration of a complete project requires a BIM multi step workflow, including modelling, analysis, and the optimization of the final product that must be coordinated by a BIM manager. This new function within an enterprise, office or in single project is essential in a BIM context, as the main concept of the methodology is the centralization of all the information obtained throughout the elaboration of a complete project. The main competencies of a BIM manager: to deliver responsibility between all professional involved in a project; to authorize each expert to develop, change or transfer its project component; to indicate and control the level of information that a BIM model must include according to the Level of Development or Detail (LOD) established for each step of the project. The level of maturity of an enterprise or office is, in part, evaluated in a base of the integration of processes, using adequately the available BIM platforms, and in the level of collaboration established between the team regarding all the project process. The maturity achieved around the world is supported on governmental policies adopted by each country, in a mandatory or progressive way. The aspects related to the maturity achieved in an enterprise and the efficiency of the BIM manager work are the main objectives focused in the text. Several remarks were workout and presented, as a positive contribution to the dissemination of the BIM implementation in the sector.