A week as a coordinator
Seven short stories from the job. Three decisions each, with what happens after every choice. No wrong way to learn: play them again.
The steel for the clinic’s first floor arrives three weeks late. As site manager, I need you to show the team what it does to the rest of the job, before Friday’s progress meeting.
It’s Monday, 9 am. The weekly coordination meeting is on Thursday. The MEP subcontractor’s new model has just landed in the CDE.
You’re the information manager on a new office. In the kick-off, the client’s project director says: “We want everything in IFC, at LOD 400.”
Coordination meeting in an hour. The report shows 400 open clashes. Six people are coming, for one hour.
Practical completion is in ten days. The client’s FM team tries to import your COBie file into their CAFM. It fails.
Every week, the façade subcontractor uploads files named like “Facade_latest_v7.ifc”. The CDE is filling with them.
The client brings the stage 4 tender forward by three weeks. The design team panics.