Building Information Modelling Implementation Plan

BUILDING INFORMATION MODELLING IMPLEMENTATION
PLAN

Introduction
Concerns over sustainability, including energy and material use, planning, costs, and the need to
have a framework for the life-cycle management of structures and buildings, as well as the need to
achieve greater collaboration led to the development of Building Information Modeling (BIM).
BIM refers to a process that is supported by a variety of technologies, tools, and contracts used to
create and manage digital representations of places; the representations entail functional and
physical characteristics of places. Using BIM entails developing suitable digital files that can be
extracted and exchanged among a variety of stakeholders and users; for instance, architects, civil
and structural engineers, mechanical and electrical engineers, building economists, maintenance
engineers, equipment suppliers, and construction managers, as well as with clients. BIM has
become a widely accepted and increasingly adopted tool that has become popular because it can
help overcome the several hurdles faced in the construction, architectural, and engineering
industries (Arayici et al., 2011;Morlhon, Pellerin and Bourgault, 2015). In this report, principles of
information management are assigned while using BIM for the construction project, as well as a
collaboration and project management execution/ implementation strategy are discussed to be used
for the University of Newcastles’ new university campus located at Newcastle CBD, christened
‘NeW Space’. The BIM implementation plan is modeled on the AIA CA BIM Management Plans
(Ioannides, 2018).
Information management Principles
The suggested construction information management system for BIM in the construction project is
through the use of database system based on BIM and the process is depicted in Illustration I below;

If the construction site information for instance, is, site daily work reports, then the data will have
an information structure, and genera information on the project, construction, and space information
and this is captured at A (refer to Illustration I). The information from the site usually overlap with
those in other documents and have diverse information arrays, and this requires their categorization.
Based on the selected documentation format, a system of categorization is used (part B) so the
information is structured properly, in this case using SBS (space breakdown structure), IBS
(information breakdown structures). Any other categorization can be used based on the chosen
document formats and once categorized, are stored in a database (part C) in an electronic document
format. They can also be reordered into new combinations of data to make the data more useful and
these files are then connected to the BIM software model to individual software models with a
uniform file system such as IFC (part D). Once construction information and BIM are linked, every
BIM object can accumulate construction information (part E) and be used by various stakeholders
(Lee, Park and Song, 2018). The proposed digital document file format to be used in the project is
the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC)The selected software platform to use for the implementation
of BIM is Autodesk Revit TM; this is a BIM software developed by Autodesk and has been
developed in such a way that it has become very popular in the industry (Kensek, 2014).
BIM Collaboration and Project management Execution/ Implementation plan
Illustration I: Construction information management for use in BIM (Lee, Park and Song, 2018)