BIM Legal and Contractual
32 Hours
One Semester or equivalent
Overview
This unit examines the different aspects relating to contracts and legal agreements relating to BIM projects and providing BIM deliverables. Students will learn how this is being addressed internationally between clients and the supply chain. This unit examines issues that arise when sharing models between different project stakeholders and intellectual property, legal ownership, legal use, client deliverables, and what constitutes a professional standard of care.
Requisites
Teaching Periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
- Identify legal and contractual issues and risks that challenge projects to fully adopting BIM within client information requirements.
- Identify the legal and contractual issues and risks that challenge the full and efficient use of BIM on projects by the design and construct stakeholders
- Examine and compare international legal instruments where government bodies have made BIM delivery mandatory.
- Identify areas that are incompatible, incomplete or unidentified in BIM workflows and BIM deliverables in the most common form legal agreements used in an organisation.
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
---|---|---|---|
Specified Learning Activities (Phasing out) Various | 24.00 | 1 week | 24 |
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out) Workshop | 16.00 | Daily (2 times) | 32 |
Unspecified Learning Activities (Phasing out) Individual Study | 54.00 | 1 week | 54 |
Online Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning | 40.00 | 1 week | 40 |
TOTAL | 150 |
Assessment
Type | Task | Weighting | ULO's |
---|---|---|---|
Presentation | Group | 30 - 40% | 2 |
Project | Individual | 10 - 20% | 3 |
Report | Individual | 40 - 60% | 1,2,4 |
Content
- Project delivery models in respect to collaboration and shared risk
- Commonly used contracts for construction in Australia and their relationship to BIM projects
- Examples where contracts and BIM guidelines and agreements are brought together
- Australian copyright law introduction and its relationship to BIM projects
- Professional conduct of project stakeholders
Study resources
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.