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BIM Best Practices: five webinars on simpler BIM workflows

Learn simple steps to improve your BIM management workflows, in five recorded webinars of 19 to 28 minutes: the BIM execution plan, collaborative scoping, templates, managing BIM projects and checking BIM models. Watch them in order, or start with the one you need.

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Free to watch, no sign-up. Recorded in 2020: the screens have moved on, the methods haven't.

What you'll learn in the BIM Best Practices series

Each webinar takes one part of BIM management, looks at where it goes wrong on projects today and shares the best practices that fix it, often with a Plannerly demo and a few tough questions along the way. In order, they follow a project from planning to checking what's delivered:

  • BIM planning: a BIM execution plan your team will use.
  • BIM scoping: one scope, agreed together, with LOD or Level of Information Need.
  • Templates: your OIR, EIR, BEP, AIR, TIDP and MIDP templates, standardised.
  • BIM management: the most important ISO 19650 steps, simplified.
  • BIM compliance: BIM deliverables verified, and better models as a result.

Webinar 1 - BIM planning

Creating the perfect BEP (BIM execution plan)

What you'll learn

A BEP your team will actually use

The biggest BIM challenges on projects, the best practices that answer them and some tough questions. Then a demo: build the BEP from templates, and comment on and approve each section through ISO 19650's Work in progress, Shared and Published statuses.

Webinar 2 - BIM scoping

BIM best practices for collaborative scoping

What you'll learn

One BIM scope the whole team agrees

How to create the best possible BIM scope for your project, built together with the teams who deliver it, using either approach: the AIA's LOD or ISO 19650's Level of Information Need.

Webinar 3 - Templates

Managing your project templates

What you'll learn

Templates your teams can find, use and improve

The trouble with templates, the best practices to manage them and some tough questions. See how to standardise your OIR, EIR, BEP, AIR, TIDP, MIDP, responsibility matrix and Level of Information Need templates, and collect your teams' feedback.

Webinar 4 - BIM management

Managing your BIM projects: how to simplify the BIM management process

What you'll learn

The important ISO 19650 steps, simplified

Where BIM management stands today, the key challenges teams run into, and the best practices, with a Plannerly demo: bring the most important ISO 19650 steps together and get the best from your OIR, EIR, BEP, AIR, TIDP, MIDP and responsibility matrix.

Webinar 5 - BIM compliance

How to verify BIM deliverables

What you'll learn

Better models, checked before they're used

How BIM verification works on projects today, what goes wrong, and five best practices: know what to check, define a checking workflow, choose the tools, record each model's status properly and keep improving.

Do it on your project

Each webinar's job, step by step in Plannerly

Write the BEP

Webinar 1's job: a BEP your teams actually read, agree and work to.

Webinar 1

Scope LOD and LOIN at scale

Webinar 2's job: who models what, to what level, by when - for every element.

Webinar 2

Make your company standard the start of every project

Webinar 3's job: your best BEP, requirements and scope kept as templates every project starts from.

Webinar 3

Set the information requirements

Webinar 4's job: OIR, AIR and EIR your supply chain can check its own work against.

Webinar 4

Check every model with IDS

Webinar 5's job today: check every model against your requirements before you accept it.

Webinar 5

Free ISO 19650 templates

The BEP, MIDP, TIDP, responsibility matrix, EIR, OIR, PIR and AIR, each with free PDFs and a lesson.

Templates

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More BIM webinars and free training

The BIM Best Practices playlist on YouTube

All five webinars in order, then two newer videos: ISO 19650 in five minutes and BIM quantities made simple.

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Our live series, every other Thursday: one BIM manager job fixed live in Plannerly in 45 minutes, with the replays.

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ISO 19650 webinar series

Six episodes on the ISO 19650 workflow, from the templates and the tender to project close-out.

6 episodes

Free BIM training with certificates

Six free, self-paced courses with short video lessons and a certificate for each.

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Every BIM webinar series

All our recorded BIM webinars, grouped by series, and the live one.

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Questions

Questions about the BIM Best Practices webinars

Who are the BIM Best Practices webinars for?
BIM managers, BIM coordinators and anyone who plans, scopes or checks BIM on a project - owners, contractors, designers and consultants alike. You don't need a Plannerly account to watch.
Do I need to watch them in order?
No. Each webinar stands on its own. In order they follow a project: plan it with the BEP, scope it, keep your templates in shape, manage it and check what's delivered.
Are they still up to date?
They were recorded in 2020, so Plannerly's screens look different today. The best practices use the ISO 19650 terms you work with now - OIR, EIR, BEP, AIR, TIDP, MIDP and Level of Information Need. For today's step-by-step, take the free training; for the standard itself, read What is ISO 19650?
Is there a live BIM webinar I can join?
Yes. How to survive as a BIM Manager is free on Zoom every other Thursday: 45 minutes on one job, fixed live in Plannerly, with time for questions. Upcoming events lists the next dates.

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