Chapter 2 recap
People and standards
The key takeaways from this chapter’s 2 lessons.
BIM roles and staffing
- Describe roles by tasks and responsibilities, not titles; titles vary between firms.
- Most firms need a small central team (standards, support, training) and BIM skills inside every project team.
- Size the roles from the work: number of projects, their size, what clients require.
- Avoid the single BIM expert everyone depends on: spread the skills and write things down.
Standards, templates and libraries
- A company standard says how the firm works; templates and libraries make it easy to follow.
- Keep the standard short and point to national and international standards rather than copying them.
- Every template and library object has an owner, a version and a check.
- Update on a schedule, with a change log, and say which version a project uses.