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
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
PresentationGroup 30 - 40% 
ProjectIndividual 10 - 20% 
ReportIndividual 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.