A collaboration strategy should be defined, considering the following items:

• Weekly meeting schedule – time;
• Team communication – Google Docs, common file storage;
• Continual interdisciplinary interaction for building systems’ integration;
• Team leaders selected based on project phase;
• Meeting minutes issued and discussed after each meeting to accomplish team objectives by next meeting date.

Meetings

a) Project meetings

Table 17 illustrate how to define the type of meetings held during the project, including coordination meetings, owner updates, progress meetings, etc. It also indicate the required attendees and the scope of the meeting.

Table 17: Project meetings

Meeting Type	Phase		Frequency	Participants	Location

b) BIM Coordination meetings

Table 18 illustrate how to document the type and frequency of meetings related to BIM Coordination. It also indicate the required attendees and scope of the meetings.

Table 18: BIM Coordination meetings

Meeting Type	Phase	Frequency	Participants	Location

Coordination schedules

Examples to how outline the deliverables required and the anticipated date for completion.

Design

Deliverable	Date

Construction

Deliverable	Date

BIM Coordination

a) Model element color code

Before starting the Project, a color scheme could be defined to distinguish systems. Table 19 shows an example of a color code system.

Table 19: Example of a BIM model elements color code

In relation to the Integrated (Federated) Model/ Integration Processing accordance with the Project Schedule the Project BIM Manager usually will be responsible for performing clash detection with the design and/ or trade models. The clashes should be organized for review by the Project Team. Once clashes have been reviewed, a potential resolution will be assigned to a specific team member to be solved in a timely manner.

b) Hierarchy of systems coordination

If any system has interference or clash with a differing system, a discipline hierarchy for resolutions based on the consensus of the project team should be defined.

Quality control

The project owner is responsible for the quality of all models to be presented. The disciplines should check the model quality within themselves. The BIM manager is responsible for controlling the quality of the model, considering the coordination of all disciplines, within the framework of its defined responsibilities. In this section, checklists are created within the scope of the BEP and models are evaluated according to this list.

Table 20 presents an example of the checks that could be performed in the models to assure quality.

Table 20: BIM Checks

Check	Definition	Responsible party	Software program(s)	Frequency
Visual check	Ensure there are no unintended model components and the design intent has been followed	All model author(s)	Navisworks, Revit Other	Each milestone deliverable
Interference check	Detect programs in the model where any building components are clashing including hard and soft	All model author(s)	Navisworks, Revit other program(s) TBD
Standards check	Ensure that the BIM standards have been followed	All model author(s)	Navisworks, Revit Other	Continuous
Model integrity checks	Describe the QC validation process used to ensure that the Project Facility Data set has no undefined, incorrectly defined, or duplicated elements and the reporting process on non-compliant elements and corrective action plans	All model author(s)	Navisworks, Revit Other	Weekly
Model Review / Model Checker	An automated global model review and report feature	All model author(s)	Revit Other	Each milestone deliverable

In the model checking requirements the software to perform an automated model review of the Project should be defined. Additional rules may be added to the configuration files by the project BIM team for project-specific requirements.

In addition, models should include dimensioning as needed for design intent, analysis, and construction. Thus, the Level of Accuracy (LOA) of the model should also be defined.

The BIM team should perform an automated model review of project model using, for example, the Revit Model Review application (an add-in application available through the Autodesk subscription website) or by using Autodesk Model Checker (also an add-in application for Revit).