What is “Evil BIM”? — Here’s The Top 10 BIM Challenges List
Many people in the design and construction industry have heard of BIM and understand that it’s essential for improving our industry’s efficiency….
….however when BIM is not implemented correctly we can experience some severe BIM challenges.
At Plannerly (The BIM Management Platform) we refer to these BIM challenges as “Evil BIM” 😊
Here are the Top 10 BIM Challenges we see:
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 the project’s agreed 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!” — 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!). This is an evil BIM challenge.
7. Poor Quality Modeling
When teams create and share poor quality models that will ultimately increase rework and drive costs up! This usually requires some BIM training courses.
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”
When a design team feels under pressured to say “ok” — accepting an owner’s request for LOD 500 plus COBie deliverables for the entire project instead of the right people accepting what’s important. As described in this blog.
10. Contracting to 2D
Pretending to have clear 3D and BIM objectives on a project but only contracting to 2D deliverables.
Instead of Evil BIM, we prefer Smart Lean BIM®
Does your BIM team agree with the “Top 10 Evil BIM List”?
More BIM Blogs + Videos:
[BLOG WITH VIDEO]: Here are some fantastic BEP insights from a contractor. In these two videos we hear about how they manage their BIM projects and what to include in a BIM Execution Plan (BEP). read more
[BLOG]: What is LOD 500? Here is a great blog explaining Level Of Development (LOD) — particularly LOD 500 — it’s a fun one 😅
[BLOG]: We applied Lean concepts to BIM. Here is what we learned.
[BLOG]: We mapped out the BIM Management workflow and found these “6 BIM Wastes” you should probably target to increase your BIM efficiencies…
[BLOG]: Building Information Modeling (BIM) can sometimes be confusing — right? Have you ever “BIM” TLA’d to death? 😄 Last week a large contractor shared this BIM story…
[BLOG]: Owners sometimes read online about the promise of BIM — but without the right plan and common goals things can quickly go wrong …
[BLOG]: Building Information Modeling (BIM) explained in a way that your Grandma would understand…
Originally published at www.lodplanner.com on November 27, 2018.
