Once the design phase is complete, the team should go through and pick out families that they think might be useful to include in the firm-wide library. Gather Custom Content for Company LibraryĮvery project has custom families that were created just for this project.

Review the custom content created for this project and review with the BIM Manager items that could be beneficial to be added to the firm library.

The model manager will compile the list and create a “lessons learned” document to share with the team afterward.Have each team member come to the meeting with a list of things that went well/didn’t go well and how they think it could be better next time.Schedule a project post-mortem with the design team and invite the BIM Manager.At this point, the whole design project team should have a project debrief, to review what went well, what could have been done differently, and to pull out lessons learned.

If it is not possible to transition a design team member, then the person who will be doing the major CA on the project should be included in this meeting, to get a debrief on the project itself to help them moving forward. It’s best to try and keep at least one design team member on the CA phase of the project and it is critical that this person be involved in the following steps. When the documents are completed for a project, a transition from Design to CA occurs.

After every submission to the client (SD, DD, CD)Īlong with archiving at these major milestones, you should also make an archive before you do something major to the model:.

Models should be archived using eTransmit at each of the following: Archive at Major MilestonesĪ project should be archived manually at major milestones, to provide a snapshot in time.

Below are some suggestions of when to archive. Your firm should have a set procedure on how to properly archive materials at key points in the life of a project.

It is very important to keep a record of deliverables and elements created at milestones. In this final installment of the Model Manager Series, we will talk about the tasks associated with project milestones.

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