Assembling the entire BIM design and construction team in a single location (“Co-location”) enables almost instant and direct communication and coordination among team members. This
A building has successfully gone through the commissioning process when its equipment and systems have been examined and tested to perform as designed, and its
An explicit description by a Customer of all the actual requirements that must be satisfied by the Performer in order for the Customer to feel
A contract type There is a sequential award of two separate contracts; the first contract is for design services; the second contract is for construction;
A contract type used in construction, typical characteristics: There is a single contract for design services and construction services; design and construction of the project
Design Web Format (DWF), created by Autodesk. DWF is a compressed, non-editable, vector file format created by CAD and BIM applications. A DWF file can
DWG (“drawing format”) is a binary file format licensed by Autodesk and used for storing two and limited three-dimensional design data and metadata. It is
Digital Model(s) created from shop drawings to support fabrication and installation. Fabrication models are reviewed and approved by the A/E for conformance to design specifications.1
This refers to the time span stretching from a building’s conception to demolition including the five distinctive phases (Planning, Design, Construction, Operations, and Disposition).1 1
A BIM is said to be geo-referenced when the BIM is located with respect to one of the standard geographic survey coordinate grids established to
