I apologize for the lack of post over the last few months. In our defense, we have been mad busy and the BIM push has been crazy as well. But, now that we have settled down into the initial shock and change introduced by Revit.
Where have we been?
Last year Ross & Baruzzini created the official “R&B BIM Committee” a group of Revit users from each department who meet monthly to discuss procedures and ongoing questions to keep the Revit push on track. We took all of our current issues, as well as our user group feedback, and created an “outline of needs.” We then contacted our trainers and gave them our list to create a three-day training session that would cover all of our needs.
This allowed us to tie up all of our loose ends, such as standard templates, sheet sets, automated scheduling and Revit 2011 nuances.
This was a great next step in our commitment to Revit. I cannot stress enough the importance of having your standards and templates in place before project kickoff. Trying to fudge things at the last minute to make the sheets print correctly, knowing that the model integrity has suffered, is not acceptable. Proper templates, standards, family view sets and a BIM execution plan are necessary if you want to consider your organization a BIM shop. If not you are only producing 3D AutoCAD documents. Why bother with BIM if your organization is clearly not getting the point?
Where are we going?
What is the next step? Once the initial training is complete and everyone is up to speed with the new product’s systems and tutorials we will take the next step, bringing your BIM to the next level? Once all of your templates and tools are in place you can focus on the process. A BIM Execution plan will help you with this process.
Stay tuned…