Overview

This Unit looks at how technology combined with BIM models can play a significant role in communication, information transparency, collaboration and improving issue comprehension, depth of engagement within an organisation, and decision making. Students will undertake a review of different solutions that can take model and data from a working BIM model and drive the potential for improving project processes and outcomes. They will set up and demonstrate a researched innovation example based on the parameters of a workplace project and rate its effectiveness, the benefits versus investment and what could be improved.

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:

  • Research current and emerging technologies that support collaborative workflows.
  • Identify the areas within the organisation where communication and better access to information is a known issue.
  • Identify the connections between BIM project workflows and the most efficient methods by which model and data is exchanged between a chosen collaborative platform.
  • Create cost versus benefit document based on previous projects delivered by an organisation supporting implementation of a collaborative platform.

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
PortfolioIndividual 30 - 40% 2,3 
PresentationGroup 10 - 20% 
ReportIndividual 40 - 60% 

Content

ï‚· Open data exchange
ï‚· Trust in exchanged information between project phases
ï‚· Better tools for stakeholders most likely to use non-BIM tools for project delivery
ï‚· Use of VR and AR to communicate issues to project stakeholders
ï‚· On site project information
ï‚· Providing information to associated but not directly linked project stakeholders
ï‚· Dashboarding information on aspects of projects
ï‚· UK government soft landings policy

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.