BIM Quality Assurance Processes: Error Control - Curtin University

This report outlines the Quality Assurance (QA) processes within Building Information Modelling (BIM), emphasizing four distinct stages crucial for controlling errors and information redundancy. These stages include: Scope Verification Meeting, which involves gathering project scope and background information; Plan Review Meeting, which ensures the project design aligns with the defined scope, considering factors like location, costs, scheduling, and soil structure; Error Check and Omission Meetings, a primary step for reviewing the final package to ensure completeness and error removal; and Submittal of Final Package, where the Project Manager performs a final review before submission to ensure all items are included. The report highlights the importance of the Project Manager in leading the BIM Management and setting up IT systems and protocols within the BIM systems. The document concludes with a list of references used in the report. Desklib provides access to similar solved assignments and study resources for students.

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1. Part C...........................................................................................................................................2
2. References....................................................................................................................................4

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1. Part C
The Quality Assurance (QA) process would primarily consist of four kinds of distinct
stages. These stages are mainly responsible for the controlling of errors and information
redundancy within the Business Information Modelling (BIM) Process.
 Scope Verification Meeting – After the assigning of the project, the Project Manager
should request the scope of the project and a particular copy of the scoped documents.
These documents might also include the statement of project concept, estimation of cost,
information of pavement coring and many others. The project manager would then be
able to gather the background information, review the scoping documents and thus gain
estimates of the scope1. After gathering of sufficient information, the manager would be
able to schedule the scope of the project based on a meeting with the entire team.
 The Plan Review Meeting – This form of meeting would be able to help in ensuring the
design of the project. This would be needed for the purpose of proceeding with the scope
of the work according to the previous defined scope during the Scope Verification
Meeting. The Plan Review Meeting would include the location of work and their
limitations, costs of project, scheduling of the completion of project, soil structure,
drainage systems and inclusion of surveys. A minimum time of some weeks should be
allocated from the request time and desirable meeting date2. This would allow ample time
for scheduling of meetings, distributing of plans and review of plans prior to meetings.
1 Kasprzak, Colleen, Ashwin Ramesh, and Craig Dubler. "Developing standards to assess the quality of BIM criteria
for facilities management." In AEI 2013: Building Solutions for Architectural Engineering, pp. 680-690. 2013.
2 Zhang, Sijie, Jochen Teizer, Jin-Kook Lee, Charles M. Eastman, and Manu Venugopal. "Building information
modeling (BIM) and safety: Automatic safety checking of construction models and schedules." Automation in
Construction 29 (2013): 183-195.

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 Error Check and Omission Meetings – This is one of the most primary step based on
the review of the final package. This would be helpful for ensuring that package would be
complete. There should be a minimum level of participants within the meeting. The
participants would mainly be responsible for focusing on omissions and removing of
errors within the package3. The Project Manager would also help in minimizing the
participants and thus would keep only them who would be helpful in dealing with the
proper kinds of solutions.
 Submittal of Final Package – After the various processes have been dealt with, the final
proposal package would be ready for being submitted to the Estimates and Specifications
Unit. After the entire package is made ready, the Project Manager should be able to
perform a complete review of the entire package. They should perform a check of the
entire package and thus would check if there would be some kinds of errors. The package
should be able to include the entire list of items that would be listed on the submission of
Final Proposal Package4. The Project Manager who would lead the BIM Management
should ensure that they would be responsible for leading in the setting up of systems of
IT and their protocols within the BIM systems.
3 Kwon, Oh-Seong, Chan-Sik Park, and Chung-Rok Lim. "A defect management system for reinforced concrete
work utilizing BIM, image-matching and augmented reality." Automation in construction 46 (2014): 74-81.
4 Desai, Vijaya. "Functional suitability of BIM tools in pre-construction, construction and post-construction phases
of a building project." International Journal of 3-D Information Modeling (IJ3DIM) 2, no. 2 (2013): 30-44.

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2. References
Kasprzak, Colleen, Ashwin Ramesh, and Craig Dubler. "Developing standards to assess the
quality of BIM criteria for facilities management." In AEI 2013: Building Solutions for
Architectural Engineering, pp. 680-690. 2013.
Zhang, Sijie, Jochen Teizer, Jin-Kook Lee, Charles M. Eastman, and Manu Venugopal.
"Building information modeling (BIM) and safety: Automatic safety checking of construction
models and schedules." Automation in Construction 29 (2013): 183-195.
Kwon, Oh-Seong, Chan-Sik Park, and Chung-Rok Lim. "A defect management system for
reinforced concrete work utilizing BIM, image-matching and augmented reality." Automation in
construction 46 (2014): 74-81.
Desai, Vijaya. "Functional suitability of BIM tools in pre-construction, construction and post-
construction phases of a building project." International Journal of 3-D Information Modeling
(IJ3DIM) 2, no. 2 (2013): 30-44.