DT9876 MSc ABIMM: BIM Level 2 Implementation, Standards, and Processes

This report provides an in-depth analysis of Building Information Modeling (BIM) Level 2 standards and processes, focusing on their implementation within construction projects. It covers key aspects such as the relationship, sequencing, and flow of information in the BIM process, the Digital Plan of Work, and various public procurement methods. The report also examines the roles of OIR, EIR, PIM, and AIM documents in Level 2 BIM, discusses the legal implications of BIM, and explores the use of Common Data Environments and Design Responsibility Matrices. Through detailed explanations and examples, the report offers a comprehensive understanding of BIM Level 2 and its practical applications in the construction industry; students can find this document and other helpful resources on Desklib.

TITLE: MSc in Applied Building Information and Management
Program Code: DT9876 2017/18
Stage 2
Student Name: Joao Muccini
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Table of Contents
Levels of BIM Adoption..................................................................................................................2
Implementation of BIM Level 2 Standards and Processes..............................................................4
Details of relationship, sequencing and flow of information in Level 2 BIMM Process................4
Plan of Work and Public Procurement Methods.............................................................................5
Project Procurement.....................................................................................................................100
Tendering Process and the Document Verification.......................................................................10
Influences that might affect the BIMM process............................................................................11
NBS Digital Plan of Work.............................................................................................................12
OIR, EIR, PIM and AIM Level 2 Documents Information flow...................................................13
Organizational information requirements OIR........................................................................13
Employer's information requirements EIR....................................................................................13
Project Information Model (PIM)..................................................................................................13
Asset Informational Model (AIM).................................................................................................14
Implications of BIM in a legal context..........................................................................................14
Common Data Environments........................................................................................................15
Design Responsibility Matrix (DRM)...........................................................................................16
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Index of Figures
Figure 1: BIM facilitates structural design. (Image courtesy of AMC Bridge.)..............................2
Figure 2: Levels of BIM skills and adoption..................................................................................3
Figure 3: Design Bid Build (DBB) (Lahdenperä, 2008).................................................................6
Figure 4: Design-Build (DB) (Lahdenperä, 2008)..........................................................................7
Figure 5: CM diagram (Lahdenperä, 2008).....................................................................................8
Figure 6: DBO diagram (Lahdenperä, 2008)...................................................................................9
Figure 7: DBFO diagram (Lahdenperä, 2008)..............................................................................10
Figure 8: Information flow on various models..............................................................................14

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Figure 9: Sample DRM and Project Roles Table..........................................................................16
Introduction
(BIM) is a broad concept that incorporates guidelines and principles that govern the
process of modelling construction projects such as buildings, bridges, tunnels or highways
(Eastman, Teicholz, Sacks & Liston 2011). BIM can also be viewed from its generic nature as an
environment that enables architectural and engineering infrastructural projects to be virtually
designed, viewed and analyzed through 3D model based technologies. This gives engineers and
construction professionals a good insight to monitor, plan and manage infrastructures and
projects in an efficient manner (Volk, Stengel & Schultmann 2014). BIM has really improved the
decision making and general performance of building projects.
Figure 1: BIM facilitates structural design. (Image courtesy of AMC Bridge.)
Levels of BIM Adoption
There are a number of BIM maturity levels- 0, 1, 2 and 3. They are as outlined below
(Howard & Björk 2008):
i. Level 0 – it incorporates the unattended CAD(Computer Aided Design)
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ii. Level 1 - incorporates managed Computer Aided Design
iii. Level 2 – it incorporates the presenting infrastructural projects in
intelligent 3D designs using capable environments.
iv. Level 3 – has not yet been defined in details
Figure 2: Levels of BIM skills and adoption
BIM level 2 has come to be the most popular Building Information Modelling concept
and has come to be generally accepted as a criteria that complies with BIM principles. In the UK,
BIM level 2 is the required criteria for all construction projects, a requirement that is part of the
2016 government requirements (Succar 2009). Level 2 BIM is distinguished from level 1 in the
manner in which it achieves its collaboration. In level 2 BIM, collaboration is realized through
sharing the model in an appropriate format of a file that is commonly called common data
exchange (CDE) (Zhang, Teizer, Lee, Eastman & Venugopal 2013). The most popular file
format is industry foundation classification (IFC). This is what makes it possible for the
architectural professionals to integrate models with their own views so as to create federated
models. These resultant federated models can then be combed in order to comply for proficiency.
The models have to comply with the stages of predefined digital plans that have been specified
by the employer. The project module information assessment then becomes the asset information
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module because of the information that it stores. In the future, asset information modules can be
used for implementing operations and maintaining preventative procedures (Su, Lee & Lin
2011). Since BIM utilization skill level is varied, contractors need to establish whether they
have the required skills in order to use a particular BIM level. The figure below shows the
various levels of BIM utilizations and the skills that would be needed in order to employ them.
Implementation of BIM Level 2 Standards and Processes
Projects that implement level 2 BIM must first come up with decisions to agree to use the
model and must have all the information that will be required at every stage of the construction
process in order to address each of the identified decisions (Smith & Tardif 2009). This requisite
planning will ensure that the relevant information concerning the particular project is properly
relayed and shared in the appropriate format so as to ensure that informed decisions are made
throughout the process of project construction (Motamedi & Hammad 2009).
Details of relationship, sequencing and flow of information in Level 2 BIMM
Process.
PAS 1192-2 mainly focuses on the project delivery, where the majority of graphical data
command and graphical data and the documents which are normally referred to as project
information model are accumulated from design and construction activities.The intended
audience for the standard normally include; organisation and individuals who are responsible for
the procurement, design, construction, delivery, operation and maintenance of a building and
infrastructure assets where possible, generic language has been used but where necessary
specific definitions are included.
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The level 2 Building Information Modelling Management (BIMM) criteria that is
currently on use has specifications, principles and standards that have been interconnected
(Pikas, Sacks, & Hazzan 2013). These sets include Digital Plan of Works (DPoW), government
soft landings and BIM Execution Plans (BEP). The information deliverables that would be
involved in the building process include file models, data files, documents that harbor
information about the building facilities and spaces, components and floors. These deliverables
combined together form the digital replication of the assets that are being built by modelling
their design in order to reflect how they are actually build and installed (Arayici, Onyenobi &
Egbu 2012).
Every stage of the level 2 BIM process involves the decision of the employer, whereby
the employer is in need of the particular information that is required so as to make a decision on
whether the project has been satisfactorily developed or not. It is at this stage that the employer
decides whether the project should go on or not. Let us take an example of a successful building
project of ‘CAD-BIM requirements for concrete blocks masonry design process.’ The research
that was done on this construction project indicated that the modelling capacity that was
provided by CAD, a major modelling environment, was feasible (Pärn, Edwards & Sing 2017).
There was the implementation of parametric objects, which did away with much of
programming. The success of the project was also majorly dedicated to a good demonstration of
proper inter-coordination of the various information deliverables involved in the project (Pärn,
Edwards & Sing 2017).
The current BIM level 2 document set is made up of different interconnected specifications,
standards and agreed protocols. This set includes but is not limited to the BS 1192: 2007 +A2:
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2016, PAS 1192-2, PAS 1192-3, BS 1192-4, PAS 1192-5, CIC BIM Protocol: 2013, UK
Government
Soft Landings (GLS), COBie, Uniclass Classifications, Digital Plan of Works (DPOW), RIBA
Digital
Plan of Works (RDPOW), AEC UK BIM Protocol and CPIx BIM Execution Plans (BEP).
Plan of Work and Public Procurement Methods
This section presents the most popular and widespread public procurement
methodologies and how each one of them might impact the make-up of the design team and the
BIMM process activities including the Plan of Work Stages.
The plan of work incorporates well-structured stages that make sure that all involved
parties deliver information consistently and as required (Melzner, Zhang, Teizer & Bargstädt,
2013). However, these stages may not be identical all through the process because various
procurement methodologies influence the plan of work stages differently. The type of
procurement method also determines the personnel that will be involved in each stage.
Knowledge of the procurement methodologies therefore is key in understanding the most
appropriate BIM level to be adopted in a building project. Procurement methods are classified
widely into ‘traditional’ and ‘innovative’ methods. The following are the most common
procurement methods (Hajian & Becerik-Gerber 2009):
i. Design bid build
ii. Design Build
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iii. Construction Management
iv. Design Build Operate
v. Design Build Finance Operate
Modern approaches that are getting increasingly popular include:
i. Integrated project delivery
ii. Early Building Information Management Partnering
iii. Project Alliancing
iv. Two-stage Open Book
v. Cost-led procurement
1. Design Bid Build (DBB)
This one of the most popular delivery system in BIM. Hence, it is commonly known as a
‘traditional’ methodology. In DBB, the client directly receives the designs of the project while
the contractor only gets involved in the actual construction process (Dore & Murphy 2012).
More than one parties are therefore involved in designing and construction process. By the time
the most appropriate contractor is identified, the drawings of the infrastructure would have
progressed a good deal. After bidders have estimated the cost of the project, the bidder who
presents the lowest bid is normally taken as the contractor of the project and maintenance of the
project is normally performed by the client (Logothetis, Delinasiou, & Stylianidis 2015).
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Figure 3: Design Bid Build (DBB) (Lahdenperä, 2008)
The main steps of this method are as follows (Tang, Huber, Akinci, Lipman & Lytle,
2010):
i. Establishing need for carrying out the work
ii. Definition of the requirements of the client
iii. Developing the deigns and drawings
iv. The client’s approval of the designs
v. Preparation of the tender documents
vi. Selection and invitation of tenders to the tender.
vii. Preparation of proposals by the tenders
viii. Contractor selection (Contract establishment)
ix. Actual construction
x. Building testing
Project Procurement
The employment of object oriented documentation that are data rich in promoting e-
procurement immensely impacts the BIM processes. Implementation of e-procurement, viewed
form the perspective of the designer, seems to limit the dissipation of data and thereby promotes
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automation. In order to understand well the impact that procurement methodologies may have on
the design team, we need first to have a general knowledge of the current situation of the design
phases (Wang, Truijens, Hou, Wang & Zhou 2014). The design phases incorporates the planning
phase, management of the design and procurement. The planning phases involves the preparation
of the main plan and project scheduling as well as the project budget. The procurement stage
involves the proposal of various methods, in which the bidding process begins in accordance
with the project conditions. Note that these conditions are established in the pre-contact stage of
the project, preceding the establishment of the procurement type and the final conditions. Just as
the importance of the procurement process is connected with all the design factors of the project,
so does final contract.
The European Commission, 2017 establishes that for the compliance of quality, time and
budget, public procurement regulations should be established (Zhang, Teizer, Lee, Eastman &
Venugopal 2013).
Tendering Process and the Document Verification
The project information model involves the integration of graphical and non-graphical
data that forms a virtual model of the infrastructure in construction. The aftermath virtual model
of the construction is then transferred to the most competent construction supplier, after which
the supplier gives it to the employer at the end. However, the steps followed may vary depending
on the procurement methodologies that have been employed.
In the year 2013, reacting to an enacted policy that required all construction projects to
adopt the required minimum Level 2 of BIM protocol, the UK government established a BIM
protocol known as CICBP (Construction Industry Council BIM Protocol) which was tasked with
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the responsibility of establishing mechanisms that would run a BIM environment (RIBA, 2013).
The CICBP provides that construction contracts and appointment files should bear the rights of
the CICBP as an addendum in order to provide the necessary obligations and rights of employers
and the party that has been contracted. The CICBP protocol can also act as a legal agreement in
contracts and in so doing is intended to be a document to seal contractual transactions. In the
tendering process, a supplier must provide a number of documents to show that they have the
required skills of working with the level 2 BIM environments.
Influences that might affect the BIMM process
1. Information Availability
In the event that the participants do not have a constant access to information, the plan of
work phases in the BIM can be greatly disrupted. Furthermore, collaboration amongst the
participating parties would be difficult.
2. Quality of Data
Effective BIM adaptation heavily relies on the quality of the available data. Format of the
information, viewed as a major contributor to data quality, is also a major determinant of how
BIM process runs. Research analysis shows that most people in the UK have their own
preference to structure of information documents (Building Information Modelling 2015).
Furthermore, different software in use have different compatibility issues due to varying formats.
These conditions would mean that some phases in the BIM process that rely heavily on data
would be immensely imprecated.
NBS Digital Plan of Work
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