From the course: The BIM Execution Plan for Architects
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The facility lifecycle - Revit Tutorial
From the course: The BIM Execution Plan for Architects
The facility lifecycle
- [Instructor] Before we dig deep into the issues of an individual project, let's take a brief step back and look at how industry perceives how this technological growth will affect how we engage with the documentation of the built environment. From the computer industry standpoint, BIM is easily understood as data information management of a building, just as HIM, H-I-M, is health information management of a person. When you are working with Revit, you are developing a database that could be accessed by multiple people with multiple computer applications doing multiple things. From this vantage point, when an architect initiates a model to start a design, they are establishing a database that might be in use over decades, depending on how BIM-savvy future project stakeholders are. If you look at this diagram from the BIM Handbook by Chuck Eastman, the project lifecycle is shown as a line diagram. An individual project starts at feasibility, goes to design, then to construction. Once…
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