Collaborative BIM

Collaborative BIM elaborates on the concepts of Introduction to BIM with a focus on the language of collaboration. Introduction to BIM introduced the concepts; Collaborative BIM frames those concepts within the realm of communication and collaboration. The goal of focusing on collaboration is to help prepare the learner to implement BIM in their organization or assess and improve their previous implementation.

By the end of this course, you will be able to describe how BIM enhances communication and adds more value to a project than with traditional processes, define the Levels of Development and describe how these terms support communication and collaboration, assess your own organization’s template needs and develop their standards according to the National BIM Standard, and discuss the concept of Collaborative BIM and successfully integrate the concepts into projects.

Duration: 4h

What You'll Learn

  • Welcome to Collaborative BIM
  • Review of the Basics
  • The Modeling and Collaborative Process
  • Terminology
  • What is the Level of Development
  • LOD Further Explained
  • Managing the LOD
  • National BIM Standards
  • Establishing Modeling Standards
  • COBie and Open Data
  • Standards Assessing your Organization
  • Defining Collaborative BIM
  • Integrating BIM in Projects
  • Avoiding Rabbit Holes and the inevitable Punt

About the Author

Rebecca De Cicco

Rebecca De Cicco is a global digital expert, thought leader and innovator who acts as a role model across the globe in digital advisory, strategy and standards across the built environment. She now acts as the Principal of Digital Enablement for advisory firm Aurecon, acting to drive and support growth in digital enablement opportunities across the group, helping clients to strategize, create and manage assets in a more intelligent and digitally focused way. In March 2021, Rebecca’s own consultancy Digital Node was acquired by Aurecon, where she provided leading digital transformation and BIM capability to its people, clients and projects. Her work across the group focuses on advisory as well as upskilling and educating industry in the adoption of digitally focused processes, requirements and technologies, all of which are a great passion to her.

Rebecca’s success is also supported by her keen interest in developing a strong profile for herself across the world, volunteering and supporting a variety of groups and initiatives. She is the sole founder of Women in BIM (WIB) which she co-created in the UK in 2012 to support the lack of diversity across our sector and in particular digital. Her vision was to create an opportunity to gather and grow women in the digital space by providing an outlet to network, share and work together. The group began as a UK focused initiative and it has now become a global support network with WIB regional leaders appointed in over 45 countries across the globe driving and supporting their main themes and incentives.

 As an industry thought leader, Rebecca has been awarded numerous awards and recognitions for her work across the Construction industry and continues to strive to make a difference to ultimately help drive change and innovation in her sector.

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