In-House BIM Training for Adeniyi Coker Consultants Limited
BIM Execution Planning
Why it matters
Dr Zulfikar Adamu
BIM Consultant and Training Advisor at Blaze Academy
Associate Prof of Strategic IT in Construction & Director of IDoBE Research
Group, London South Bank University
Outline of presentation
1. Introduction to BEPs
1. Why BEP
2. Types of BEPs
2. Defining BIM uses and project goals
3. Mapping the BIM process
4. Project Information Exchanges
5. BEP Template Documents
Part 1:
A gentle introduction to BEPs
BIM Execution Planning (BEP)
The benefits of BEP
• The main benefits of BEPs are:
1. The organization or project receives a much better understanding of the roles and
responsibilities of the individual people in the project team.
2. The specific goals for the BIM implementation or organization are clarified, thus
enabling the achievement of such goals.
3. Knowing the ambitions of the project and team capabilities, it’s possible to design
an implementation process tailored to the characteristics of the project and the team’s
workflow.
4. BEP will be a guide for new project participants. By describing the routines, processes,
and strategies, it’s much easier to absorb new employees in the project team.
5. Due to the BEP, from the very beginning of the implementation, we have a good view of
the team’s knowledge and skills. Thus, it provides us with an excellent foundation for
planning training courses to upgrade competences or employing appropriate
specialists.
6. Knowing the project goal, personnel skills, and technological infrastructure, it’s much
easier for us to assess which hardware or software to purchase for the
implementation.
The aspects of BEP
BIM Execution Planning (BEP)
Creating a BEP
BIM Execution Planning (BEP)
Critical to
BIM
Success
BEP
Aligns to
Strategic Updated
Vision of regularly
BIM
Supports
the EIR
Two types of BIM Execution Plans (BEPs)
• There are actually TWO types of BEPs: The pre-contract BEP and the post-
contract BEP. These are:
• The pre-contract BEP is more general, and it provides an outline of the overall
strategy for executing the project.
• The post-contract BEP provides more detailed guidance on how work will be
executed
Two types of BIM Execution Plans (BEPs)
EIR: Pre-contract BEP
PIP
GOALS FOR COLLABORATION
PRE-CONTRACT BEP
PROJECT MILESTONES
PIM DELIVERY STRATEGY
EIR: Post-contract BEP
MANAGEMENT
PLANNING AND
DOCUMENTATION
POST-CONTRACT BEP STANDARD METHODS
IT SOLUTIONS
DELIVERY PLANS (TASK
SPECIFIC)
The Employer / Exchange Information
Requirement (EIR)
• To maximise the benefits of BIM your project should start with an Exchange
Information Requirement (EIR).
• Without an EIR everyone who is designing and using BIM are only doing it in
their individual ways with limited or ad-hoc collaboration.
• An EIR should be produced as early as possible. It establishes the BIM
framework for a project so that everyone involved understands their own and
others information responsibilities.
• It gives clients the opportunity to clearly define what information they require
during a project and more importantly what you require at the end of a project
to enable your asset to be managed effectively.
EIR: The components
The Employer / Exchange Information
Requirement (EIR)
Some benefits of developing an EIR:
[Link] Data: Obtain the structured asset data that you require in the format
that you require to work with your existing or planned CAFM system.
2. Collaboration: Establish the project teams, the lines of communication, the
project meetings and the information required to make the meetings effective.
3. Compliance: For example, national standards, e.g. Level 2 BIM is required on
most UK BIM mandated projects and an EIR is a Level 2 mandatory requirement.
4. Communicate: Detail how information and documents will be named, where
and when they will be stored and shared. Ensure that information is shared in an
organised way.
The Employer / Exchange Information
Requirement (EIR)
Some benefits of developing an EIR:
5. Efficiency: Develop a Model Production & Delivery Table (MPDT), ensuring that
only the information required at each stage is developed to the required detail.
Focus your design team on the critical work.
6. Checks: Check that the design is meeting your brief. Establish what information
is required at each stage to check that the developing design is meeting your brief.
7. Quality: Validate the quality of the design. Obtain model quality reports to
catalogue errors and understand what information is missing.
Client: The EIRs
“The employer's information
requirements (EIR) define the
information that will be required
by the employer from both
their own internal team and
from suppliers for the
development of the project
and for the operation of the
completed built asset”.
EIR and BEP
EIRs and BEPs
Source: [Link]
The pre-design process
Project information Information
to asset information Requirements Defined
Information Delivered
Suppliers Assessed
and shared
Team Appointed
The supplier selection process
• Via selected
questions relating to
Prequalify all project specific
requirements
• Assess BIM
Review Supplier capability and
Assessment knowledge
• Appoint selected
Contract Award team and share BIM
Brief / EIR.
The pre-qualification process
Customised
Proof of Capability Experience in BIM
Questions
Project Implementation Plan (PIP)
& Supply Chain Capability Summary (SCCS)
Supplier IT
Assessment
Supplier Supplier BIM
Resource Resource
Assessment Assessment
SCCS
Supplier Assessment
Supply Chain Capability Summary Form Supplier BIM Assessment Form
This is the summary of all
assessment forms which • General BIM questions
form part of the overall • Area of BIM projects may support
selection process once • BIM project experience
reviewed. • BIM capability questionnaire
Supplier Assessment
Supplier IT Assessment Form Supply Resource Assessment Form
• General production and distribution of
information policies.
• Team Information
• Drawing and CAD management • Resources to deliver
• Document numbering Systems project and experience
• Experience with Web Based Project • Organisation and Team
Tools. information
• PI Policies
• Email & Internet Policies
• Technical Information on Software &
Systems
The Project Implementation Plan (PIP)
• The Project Implementation Plan (PIP) is part of the overall BIM Execution Plan
(BEP).
• It is a ‘statement relating to the suppliers' IT and human resources capability
to deliver the EIR (Employer's Information Requirements) ….. submitted, as
part of the initial BEP (the pre-contract BIM Execution Plan), by each
organisation bidding for a project.’
• The PIP allows the client to assess the competence and capability of the
supplier to deliver the information required by the Employer's Information
Requirements.
• A PIP should be submitted by each organization bidding for a project.
• A PIP includes the Supply Chain Capability Summary (SCCS)
Information Delivery Plans: MIDP and TIDP
Task Information Delivery Plan (Template)
File identifier Model/ Delivery dates
drawing
title
Project Originator Volume Level File Disciplin Number Mileston Milestone Mileston Etc
type e e1 2 e .
3
BASED ON FILE NAMING STRUCTURE DEFINED
DATES FOR DELIVERY
BY THE CLIENT
Task Information Delivery Plan (Populated)
PR1-XYZ-00-ZZ-SH-A-0001
Task Information Delivery Plan (TIDP)
File Role Model/Drawing Title
Project Originator Volume Level Type (Discipline) Number (or Description) Delivery Dates
Milestone 1 Milestone 2 Milestone 3 Milestone 4 Milestone 5
(Description) (Description) (Description) (Description) (Description)
PR1 XYZ 00 00 DR A 0001 00 GROUND FLOOR
GA PLAN 2016-03-04 2016-05-05 2016-06-12 2016-08-08
PR1 XYZ 00 01 DR A 0002 01 FIRST FLOOR GA
PLAN 2016-03-05 2016-05-06 2016-06-13 2016-08-09
PR1 XYZ 00 02 DR A 0003 02 SECOND FLOOR
GA PLAN 2016-03-06 2016-05-07 2016-06-14 2016-08-10
PR1 XYZ 00 03 DR A 0004 03 THIRD FLOOR GA
PLAN 2016-03-07 2016-05-08 2016-06-15 2016-08-11
PR1 XYZ 00 04 DR A 0005 04 FORTH FLOOR GA
PLAN 2016-03-08 2016-05-09 2016-06-16 2016-08-12
PR1 XYZ 00 05 DR A 0006 05 FIFTH FLOOR GA
PLAN 2016-03-09 2016-05-10 2016-06-17 2016-08-13
PR1 XYZ 00 06 DR A 0007 06 SIXTH FLOOR GA
PLAN 2016-03-10 2016-05-11 2016-06-18 2016-08-14
PR1 XYZ 00 07 DR A 0008 07 SEVENTH FLOOR
GA PLAN 2016-03-11 2016-05-12 2016-06-19 2016-08-15
PR1 XYZ 00 08 DR A 0009 08 EIGHTH FLOOR
GA PLAN 2016-03-12 2016-05-13 2016-06-20 2016-08-16
Summary of the key aspects
BIM Execution Planning (BEP)
Producing a BEP: Word & Excel-based Templates
• There are many Word and Excel-based templates for producing BEPs.
• These are often available for free.
• There are some templates (see examples) that can be appreciated and
used as starting points.
Producing a BEP: Online Template by ‘Plannerly’
Part 2:
Defining BIM uses & Project goals
Defining your BIM Uses
BIM Use (The Matrix)
Land Use and EIA (integration with GIS) 4D Construction Sequencing
and Simulation
Model coordination
(clash detection)
Acoustics studies
Wind Analysis Studies
(urban scale airflow ventilation)
Defining your BIM project goals
• Prior to identifying BIM Uses, the project team should outline project goals
along with their potential relationship to BIM implementation.
• These project goals should be specific to the project at hand, measurable,
and aimed at improving overall success in the planning, design,
construction, and operations of the facility.
• One category of goals may relate to general project performance including
reducing the project schedule duration, reducing the project cost, or
increasing the overall quality of the project.
• Examples of quality goals:
• Development of more energy efficient design through rapid iteration of energy modelling,
• Creating higher quality installed designs through detailed 3D coordination of systems
• Etc
Defining your BIM project goals
• Other goals may target the efficiency of specific tasks to allow for
overall time or cost savings by the project participants.
• These goals include:
• The use of modelling applications to create design documentation more
efficiently,
• To develop estimates through automated take-offs,
• To reduce the time to enter data into the maintenance system.
• These are only suggestions of potential goals that the project team
may have when beginning to decide how to implement BIM on a
project.
BIM project goals: The phases
Example of BIM project goals
Part 3:
Project Information Exchanges
BIM: The information “process road map”
BIM: The information “process road map”
A – Design Authoring
B - 3D Coordination,
C – 4D Simulation.
• Information is exchanged
between these processes in the
form of an Architectural,
Structural and HVAC models.
• The authors of the models are
respectively architects, structural
engineers and HVAC engineers,
while the recipients are the
general contractor and BIM
coordinator.
Preamble: BIM Multiple Domain Matrix
Construction
Structural Mechanical Lighting/Electrical Architecture
Management
• Prefabbing MEP systems
• Scheduling • Lead Times for
• Photovoltaics
• Cost Equipment
• Passive Lighting Systems • Constructability Issues
Construction • Crane Positioning & Size • Value Engineering of
• Phasing/Sequencing • Material Selection
Management • Sequencing Systems
• Storage of materials • Functionality
• Plenum Spaces • Operating Costs of the
• Cost of equipment/
Building
installation
• system selection • Column layout and bay
• phasing • Shaft locations spacing • Façade/Appearance of
• cranes and equipment • Roof loads from • Ceiling depth for building
Structural
• cost equipment recessed fixtures • Overhangs
• excavation • Loads in plenum space • Window/Daylighting • Roof systems
• transport requirements area
• Cooling/heating loads
• Intersection of duct work
from equipment/
• Costs of with structural
daylighting • Designated location for
equipment/installation beams/columns
Mechanical • Coordinate plenum MEP room
• Payback period of
geothermal systems
• Thermal Mass
• Placement of air handlers
space • Limited plenum space Row depends on Column
• Location of diffusers w/
• Material selection
fixtures etc.
• Location of fixtures w/
diffusers etc,
• Window/Daylighting area • Wiring for all elec/mech
• Material effects equipment
• Costs of
reflectance • Equipment loads • Window Layout
equipment/installation
Lighting/Electrica • Equipment mounting • Space in MEP room • Materials
• Payback period for
l • Spacing of lighting • AV equipment • Architectural Cove
photovoltaics
• Ceiling heights • Fire alarm layout Spaces
• Cove/detail areas with • Solar harvesting for
specific lighting needs heat/elec
• Coordinate plenum
space
• Façade
• Bay spacing/location of • Window location for
columns • Ceiling types for hidden daylighting/skylights
Architecture • Material Selection • Blending materials to duct/equipment • Outdoor lighting will
environment • Area for equipment influence appearance
• Overall aesthetics • Lighting to accent spaces
• Functionality
Project information exchange
• Information exchange is critical to BIM success.
• Information exchange is the process of exchanging and sharing information
contained in the information model.
• The information included in the information model to be used and therefore
express its value must be able to be exchanged and shared in a
multidisciplinary context and according to the intended use of it.
• The information exchanges are designed and then fixed in guidelines that take
into account the information needs and the software that must operate the
information exchanges (transmission, reception).
Project information exchange
• To properly define the
information exchanges,
the project team
should accurately
identify which
information is needed,
produced and to whom
to transmit it for each
BIM Use,
• This can only be done
by analysing the project From above example: if the information model, needed to
implement a particular BIM Use, is not entered by a team member
in detail. upstream of the process (output), the person responsible for
defining that BIM Use must therefore implement the information
connected to it (input). It is therefore up to the project team to
decide who will be the author of this information and at what stage
of the process this information will have to be provided.
Project information exchange: The worksheet
• The BIM information exchange worksheet is compiled in the early stages of
the design, immediately after having created the BIM Process Map.
• It helps the work team in the valuable phase of selecting the information
to be entered and transmitted for each BIM use.
• It is very important for the author and recipient of each information
exchange, to clearly understand the information content to be
transmitted, precisely for this purpose the BIM Information Exchange
Worksheet is used.
• The procedure for compiling the Information Exchange Worksheet is
divided into five phases:
Project information exchange: The worksheet
(1) Identification of each potential
BIM Information Exchange from
the BIM Process overview map
(2) Choice of a Model Element
Breakdown Structure for the
project
Project information exchange: The worksheet
(3) Identification of the information
requirements for each Information
Exchange (IE) – output and input.
The following should be identified:
✓Model Receiver:
✓Model File Type, e.g. IFC 2x3 .
✓Setting the level of detail/information:
✓Notes (further descriptions)
Project information exchange: The worksheet
(4) Assignment of the parts of
competence to the author responsible for
the information requirement
(5) Comparison between the information
content of Input and Output, to check for
inconsistencies.
Project information exchange: The worksheet
Project information exchange: The Open Formats
• The information exchange can take place with different technologies
and different formats. In general, open technologies and formats should
be preferred.
• The open formats are created in compliance with the declared
international standards and do not present legal restrictions for their
use.
• Open formats provide a number of benefits, including:
• No link with specific software
• No limitation to free competition between operators in the sector
• Access to data and information always guaranteed, without time
limitations
Project information exchange: The Open Formats
• The most widely used open formats in the infrastructure industry are:
• IFC
• LandXML
• gbXML (energy modelling)
• The files (in open format) for information exchange are created starting from
the information models (in proprietary format) managed by the design and
modeling software.
• Obviously, the quality of the information present in the information exchange
files directly depends on the ability of the design/modelling software (and
the skills of the personnel) to manage the information modelling and to
control the output exchange format.
KPIs for exchange formats
• Clearly Defined
• Managed and created according to project
.rvt IFC
specifics
• Used and shared with all parties .xls .dwg
• Common Standard
Issues with aggregated modelling
[Link]
Issues with aggregated modelling: The IFC solution
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