Appendix C: Glossary

C. GLOSSARY

As-Built Model: A model representing the as-built conditions of a facility. Often times delivered as a federated model with the level of development required for construction.

BIM (Building Information Modeling) (CIC Research Program): A process focused on the development, use, and transfer of a digital information model of a building project to improve the design, construction and operations of a project or portfolio of facilities.

BIM (Building Information Model) (NBIMS): A digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of a facility. A BIM is a shared knowledge resource for information about a facility forming a reliable basis for decisions during its life-cycle; defined as existing from earliest conception to demolition. A basic premise of BIM is collaboration by different stakeholders at different phases of the life cycle of a facility to insert, extract, update or modify information in the BIM to support and reflect the roles of that stakeholder.

BIM Champion/Manager: A person who is technically skilled and motivated to guide an organization to improve their processes by pushing adoption, managing resistance to change, and ensuring implementation of a new technology or process.

BIM Deliverables: Information (in numerous formats) that may be required by contract or agreement to be submitted or passed to another party.

BIM Goals: Objectives used to define the potential value of BIM for a project and for project team members. BIM Goals help to define how and why BIM will be used on a project or in an organization.

BIM Process: A generic name for the practice of performing BIM. This process can be planned or unplanned. The BIM Process may also be referred to as the BIM Execution Process or the BIM Project Execution Process. The BIM Project Execution Planning Process suggests diagramming the BIM process using process maps.

BIM Process Maps: A diagram of how BIM will be applied on a project. The BIM Project Execution Plan proposes two levels of Process Maps: BIM Overview Map and Detailed BIM Use Process Maps.

BIM Project Execution Plan (BIM PxP or BIM Plan): A planning the results from the BIM Project Execution Planning Process. This document lays out how BIM will be implemented on the project as a result of the decision of the group.

BIM Project Execution Planning Procedure: A process for planning the execution of BIM on a project. It consists of four primary steps: 1) identify BIM Goals and BIM Uses, 2) design BIM Project Execution Process, 3) develop Information Exchanges, 4) define supporting infrastructure for BIM Implementation.

BIM Use: A method or strategy of applying Building Information Modeling during a facility’s lifecycle to achieve one or more specific objectives.

Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie): A specification that denotes how information may be captured during design and construction and provided to facility operators.

Co-Location: A collaboration technique where the entire project team moves into one location to develop a project.

Contractor: Construction Manager (CM) Agent or At-Risk, General Contractor (GC)

Detailed BIM Use Process Maps: A comprehensive BIM Process Map that defines the various sequences to perform a specific application of BIM or BIM Uses. These maps also identify the responsible parties for each process, reference information content, and the information exchanges which will be created and shared with other processes.

Fabrication Model: A BIM model with an adequate level of detail and accuracy for use in prefabrication.

Federated Model: A BIM model that is the combination of BIM models (i.e. Architecture, plumbing, electrical, and HVAC). Often used for 3D coordination.

Facility Data: Any information for a building that has value to an owner

Information Exchange (IE): The information passed from one party to another in the BIM process. The parties involved should agree upon and understand what information will be exchanged. These are often in the form of deliverables from a process that will be required as a resource for future processes.

Level of Development(LoD): The level of completeness to which a model element is developed.

Objective: Specific tasks or steps that when accomplished move the organization toward their goals.

Operating Units: A working group within a larger organization that has a specific mission

Overview Map: A high-level BIM Process Map that illustrates the relationship between BIM Uses which will be employed on the project.

Project Team: Every participant contracted to work on a project. This may include the owner, designer, contractor, and subcontractor.

Professional: The designer. This may include the Architect and Engineer

Record Model: A facility model illustrating as-built conditions in the Level of Development and file format specified by the owner.

Reference Information: Structured information resources (enterprise and external) that assist or are required to accomplish a BIM Use.

Roadmapping: The process of displaying the integration of strategic changes in a business process.

Subcontractor: A contractor contracted by the CM or GC, or a Prime Contractor contracted by the owner

Vision Statement: A picture of what an organization is striving to become.