Delivering Custom Solutions

 

The 4d BIM Consultant is part of the consultant team responsible for helping project owner solve people, process, and technological issues and deliver custom solutions and technology integrations for the AEC community. 

This includes establishing employee information requirements and BIM requirements for requests for proposals. Another help would be the establishment of contract documents to develop requirements for consults and contractors as well as contract compliance tracking and approving deliverables. 

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4d BIM consultant need to establish a BIM project execution plan, a multi-disciplinary coordination workflows and standards. They have to provide too the training for contractors and employers, and advising on the evaluation and selection of the proper common data environment. 

Another assignment would be to provide training for BIM coordinators. Included are the creations of coordination models, integrating models, participating in coordination meetings and to assist the stakeholders to organize and operate BIM team for the project. 

Role 

With BIM (building information modeling) being mandate for use in all centrally procured public sector projects. 

The industry has known about this requirement for the last four years, and the majority of large firms have begun to embrace BIM and understand the benefits of this collaborative working and data management process. 

Demand for consultants 

Although the requirement to incorporate BIM into construction projects is currently only for public sector buildings, the private sector is increasingly hot on using BIM, and as a result, BIM Consultants are in high demand to work on projects of all sizes. 

The private sector is creating a demand for BIM support services which was perhaps not entirely anticipated by the industry. As a result, existing and established BIM Consultants and BIM companies are much sought after BIM Consultant. 

Consultant work 

A BIM Consultant is there to coordinate and manage the BIM process, to inform and guide project designers, the developer and the construction firm in the implementation of BIM and to facilitate collaborative working between all parties. 

Typically, there are three different stages of work on a project for a BIM Consultant; their work is generally guided by the BIM process which ensures that everyone involved in the project is following the same work route. 

Project team 

A 4d BIM consultant rarely works alone. They should have a project team to work with, consisting of designers, engineers, developers and BIM support staff that can assist in managing and implementing the process. 

On a large project, BIM constitutes a seriously large piece of work and is integral to the success of the project. 

Ensuring your project success 

Employing a BIM Consultant is not only the fashionable thing to do but if you want to ensure the long-term success of your project, alongside a more informed management of the building during its lifecycle, then implementing BIM with the help of a BIM Consultant is the right thing to do. 

Regardless of whether your project is public sector or private, the benefits of BIM speak for themselves. 

Getting a BIM Consultant involved right from the very start of the project can help to guarantee the success of your project as well as offering greater value for money for the project as a whole.

Project Accomplishments

 

There are many tools and techniques Project Management presents in the management of a successful project. Earned Value Analysis is one of the most highly-regarded. Unfortunately, earned value management is less than fully embraced. 

Here are some basic information about earned value that will present the reader to embrace the positive values of EVMS (earned value management system) without the 

Earned value analysis 

This is the method that allows the project manager to measure the amount of work actually performed on a project. This is done beyond the basic review of costs and schedule reports.

 

The EVS (earned value analysis) provides the methods that permit the project to be measured by the progress achieved. In turn, this is used to forecast a project’s total cost and date of completion based on trend analysis. This relies on the key measure known as the project’s earned value. 

Earned value 

The term “earned value” is frequently defined as the “budgeted cost of worked performed” or BCWP. This budgeted cost of work performed measure. 

Performance 

In turn, this enables the project manager to compute performance indices or burn rates for cost and schedule performance. The result provides the information on how well the project is doing or performing in relation to its original plans. 

When applied to future work, these indices allow for the project manager to forecast how the project will do in the future. This is assuming that the burn rates will not fluctuate. Oftentimes, this is a large assumption. 

EVA requirements 

A good and solid project plan has to be created in order for the earned value analysis to be accurate. The old saying “Without a plan, any route will do” will not simply do. 

In a sense, that temperament or environment is not conducive to project management and reporting project status to stakeholders. The project plan, especially the scope statement is the foundation to solid earned value practice. 

Project planning is a necessity for project success and the incorporation of earned value analysis on your project. Now that the basis for EVA has been established, the focus is on the primary areas of information needed to compute EVA. 

EVMS (earned value management system) 

Ultimately, EVMS allow the project manager to answer the following three questions, as they relate to the project. 1) Where have we been, 2) Where are we now, and 3) Where are we going. 

In EVMS, unlike in traditional management, there are three data sources: 1) the budget or planned value of work scheduled, 2) the actual value of the work completed and, 3) the earned value of the physical work completed.  

Earned Value takes these three data sources. It is able to compare the budgeted value of work scheduled with the “earned value of physical work completed” and the actual value of work completed. 

In reporting the accomplishments of the project, you need to apply Earned Value (EV) to the figures and calculations in the project. EV is the quantification of the “worth” of the work done to date. 

In a sentence, EV tells you, in physical terms, what the project has accomplished.

Essential Information about Earned Value Management

 

Earned value management is a tactic for measuring project success and development achieved by value management. Project management It may incorporate project management triangle measurements: time, scale and expense. The framework will provide reliable projections of project performance issues in one streamlined system, which is vital to project management. No wonder EVM or value management has been a critical influence in developing applications for reliable project management. Here are several fields in which project management software interlinks with EVM, highlighting the relevance of the worth for a project's performance. 

Early EVM studies showed that its application has a substantial effect on planning and control; similarly, using the technique improves the concept of reach and the measurement of the project's cumulative success. Recent research has shown that EVM principles are optimistic predictors of the performance of the task. In recent years after government procurement, EVM has increased in popularity and continues to grow in importance. 

All in one system. Project managers balance many aspects to help a project succeed—the most remarkable: the project's scale, the budget and the plan. A trifecta is usually monitored individually in earned value management as a triple restriction or a project triangle. A significant drawback is the absence of the overarching awareness of projects needed to make real-time modifications in the timetable and budget. However, the benefit analysis gathered consolidates the budget and the calculation plan for the project, giving you an overview of the project's expense and schedule and the project consequences. 

Budget and schedule variances. Timetables and expense deviations are caused in several ways like creeping scope, shifting customer priorities or expectations, project scope adjustments, uncertain weather, new regulatory provisions, unavailability of necessary supplies, and the lack of a contingency or risk management strategy. By earning value management, you can calculate the expense and time volatility and apply the necessary steps to reduce the project's effect. 

Cost analysis. It takes time for earned value management to measure and interpret all data accurately. EVM project management software uses EVM systems' details to translate the project's current costs into the project so that EVM can complete them in a nutshell. As an essential resource for the project, project managers should use EVM measurements. In most cases, the performance tracking program keeps track of deceptive cost variance or reservation lags. 

Data maintenance. Earned value management also contributes to the preplan, reprogramming and review of projects. If programs stall due to unsuitable basis guidelines, EVM can also save the day. By adapting the performance base to determine planning conditions empirically, EVM works to protect a fair project. EVM also contributes to periodic revisions and accompanying projects' estimates, making them a resource store for project management applications. 

Reports. EVM does everything about the project management program, from tracking source, effect and corrective action to cost and scheduling changes and more. Modern project management software has an EVM to thank for its reserve of extensive data on this project, which draws up reports and represents data in a way that everybody can appreciate. The project management program will sum up data through an existing WBS and OBS via EVM control account calculations.