Check standards compliance on building projects using Revit

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In this first step, let's take a look at Check Standards Compliance on Building Projects using Revit.

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In this section, we're going to look at what BEP is. BEP means BIM Execution Plan?

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We're gonna talk about reviewing the model against that BEP and then some helpful tools in Revit that will help you.

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The intent of the BIM Execution Plan is to define a foundational framework to ensure successful deployment

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of advanced design techniques on your BIM enabled projects.

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The BEP is about optimizing work and model flow across the project

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as contrasted with optimizing siloed interest,

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we'll talk a little bit more about that.

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Many of our BIM Execution Plans, the BEPs are full of software requirements,

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file type requirements and upload requirements.

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We'll talk a little bit more about that coming up soon.

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A few things to keep in mind when reviewing your model against the BEP.

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This is not something that you do want at the beginning, maybe a second time at the end.

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This is something that you should do often.

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So some of our suggestions here would be to do daily meetings.

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Those can be short meetings, keep them under 15 minutes, maybe 30 minutes max,

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do a weekly coordination meeting and then a sign-off meeting

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During the daily meeting.

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Again, maybe a 10-15 minute phone call can be done via web share.

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At minimum, try to get all the modelers on that call.

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During this meeting,

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All of those modelers would be a good idea for them to have at least one priority that they have for that day.

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This also gives them the opportunity to hear other's priorities

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and if two or more people need to have a more in-depth discussion,

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they can continue that meeting elsewhere.

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Weekly coordination meetings should have everyone in attendance. Meeting prep is good.

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You don't want to go in there and then start the agenda or not have an agenda.

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And that agenda should be based on priorities from our daily meetings or previous weekly meetings.

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So we can go over that.

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For instance, running a clash batch like, you know, "Duct Vs. All other MEP"

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is a good way to find out if there are areas that everyone is struggling getting around duct.

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Also if you see the entire corridors struggling,

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this means that you need to have a discussion about re-sizing duct or something.

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Your weekly coordination meeting needs to have some structure,

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but don't let that agenda dictate the entire meeting.

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A few things that I keep in mind for every meeting:

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Attendance- since you're making those important decisions during this meeting,

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you'll want to know who was part of that conversation when those decisions were discussed.

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Review the schedule and then Review any open items.

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Pretty straightforward meeting.

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Now, the sign-off meeting.

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At some point, you're gonna reach a point that each level or area will need to be signed off on.

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Sign-off can be driven by either clash results (meaning all of those clashes are resolved) or by construction schedule.

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This meeting is really just your time to make sure everyone is aware that you're moving to a new area of the building or the site

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and do a quick review of any open items that are still remaining,

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which should really just be unresolved clashes but could also be other items as well.

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So let's talk a little bit more about what's in that BIM Execution Plan things to make note of

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when you're starting a project that's going to be enabled and being able to follow this plan.

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Typically Languages are set,

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you have things like Units & Coordinate Systems, depending on the software or the products.

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You may have different units, you may have different coordinate systems,

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those all need to be noted and they typically are in that BIM Execution Plan.

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Origins, Orientations, where's your model gonna be?

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Is oriented due north, True North, how are you setting that up?

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Naming Conventions are key.

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You want to make sure that's covered in your BEP and everyone's aware of that. Codifications.

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Things such as Text Styles, very simple thing, but something that needs to be identified with in that BEP,

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that way everybody follows it throughout the project. Dimension Styles as well.

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And Line Styles as well.

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There's a lot more that goes into a well executed BIM Execution Plan

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and that's something that you want to go over with the team early on in the project and maybe even periodically,

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quarterly, however long that project is be a good idea to kind of refer back to that BEP pretty often.

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And then some of those helpful tools within the Revit models,

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we're gonna take a look at coming up some of these BIM Interoperability Tools

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in the form of the Model Checker and the Configurator.

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So those are just a couple of the tools are going to help you make sure that you're complying with the BEP.

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And those are things that can be set up directly in your Revit model.