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system is the responsibility of the respectively assigned team member, but someone else will be
responsible for reviewing each series of sheets to ensure that they are appropriately maintained
for presentation or distribution. On smaller projects, the project architect would likely be the
person supervising the entire sheet set.
This dual responsibility is an important aspect of team management that will keep your BIM
projects on track. Spending the majority of time working in the model and thus neglecting the
preparation of properly annotated sheet views becomes very alluring.
Adding Team Members to Fight Fires
In many projects, there might come a time when the schedule gets tight and project management
wants to add more staff to meet a specific deadline. When in a 2D CAD environment, new team
members would be added to help meet a deadline and would have the burden of trying to learn
the architecture of the building, the thoughts behind its design, and how its various systems
interact. In a Revit project, they have that same obligation, but they have the additional task
of learning how the model has been configured. The model will have constraints set against
various elements (such as locking a corridor width) and various digital construction issues (such
as how floors and walls might be tied together, what the various family names are, or workset
organization). New team members require additional time to “ramp up.”
Regardless of planning, deadlines still escape the best of architects and project managers.
It's a good idea to know when and how you can “staff up” to be sure to meet those deadlines.
Keeping in mind that your team members new to the project have to learn about both the design
and the model, here are some task ideas to both help production and make sure they don't
accidentally break anything:
Content Creation
You will find that you will be making model families or detail components
until the end of the project. This will help get the new team members engaged in a specific part
of the project and also isolate them enough until they learn a bit more about how the model has
been configured.
The Drafting Role
Even if this isn't their ultimate role, having new team members help cre-
ate views and lay out sheets will get them familiar with the architecture while still allowing
the team to keep progressing on the document set.
Working on Detailing
Every project can always use someone who knows how to put a
building together. If you have someone new to the project and possibly even new to Revit
software, let them embellish some of the views already created and laid out on sheets with 2D
components, linework, and annotations.
The Bottom Line
Understand a BIM workflow.
Understand how projects are completed in BIM and how the
use of Revit software on a project can change how information within a project is created.
Master It
Explain one of the primary differences between a more traditional 2D CAD-
based workflow and producing documents using Revit.
Leverage BIM processes.
Understanding the level of risk your firm is willing to take in new
technologies will help you establish goals for your future use of BIM.
