The BIM Manager's Handbook, Part 5

The BIM Manager's Handbook: Guidance for Professionals in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a design and construction software that manages not just graphics, but also information-information that enables the automatic generation of drawings and reports, design analysis, schedule simulation, facilities management, and cost analysis-ultimately enabling any building team to make better-informed decisions. This allows a range of professionals-architects, engineers, construction managers, surveyors, cost estimators, project managers, and facility managers-to share information throughout a building's lifecycle. BIM is now recognized worldwide for the efficiencies it delivers in terms of working collaboratively, communication, processes, cost savings, and a property's lifecycle management.

With the widespread adoption of BIM, BIM Managers have become a much-needed new breed of professionals in architectural, engineering, and construction practice. Their role is often misunderstood and ill-defined, and such are the day-to-day deliverables that they are likely to face. The BIM Manager's Handbook provides an in-depth account of the breadth of activities that any BIM Manager or staff member, who is actively engaged in the delivery of project, is required to undertake.

Providing prereleases of the final work, The BIM Manager's Handbook ePart series isolates significant topics around BIM management. The fifth ePart explains how you go about mastering hands-on support BIM for your team, while introducing the operational tasks a BIM Manager is expected to accomplish. Depending on an organization's size, BIM Managers either supervise the rollout of BIM on various projects, or they actively get involved in mentoring those authoring or coordinating information in BIM. By providing a strong project focus, this ePart, firstly, addresses requirements for in-house BIM project support; and secondly, it explains how to support the integration and coordination of BIM data across a multi-disciplinary project team. Leading BIM experts from the United States, UK, and Australia divulge their recipes for successful operational management.

Dominik Holzer is a leading BIM expert consulting with design and construction firms in Australia. He is the previous chair of the BIM and IPD Steering Group of the Australian Institute of Architecture and Consult Australia. He is Senior Lecturer in Digital Architecture at the University of Melbourne. Holzer frequently publishes on Design Technology, particularly BIM, and he is a regular speaker/host at high level industry conferences.