Driving Collaboration in Projects
Duration
- One semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- 32 Hours
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning.
Aims and objectives
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.
Unit Learning Outcomes (ULO)
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Research current and emerging technologies that support collaborative workflows.
2. Identify the areas within the organisation where communication and better access to information is a known issue.
3. Identify the connections between BIM project workflows and the most efficient methods by which model and data is exchanged between a chosen collaborative platform.
4. Create cost versus benefit document based on previous projects delivered by an organisation supporting implementation of a collaborative platform.
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment, general skills outcomes and content.
Teaching methods
| Learning and Teaching Structure | ||
| Learning Activity | Duration/Location | Hours |
| Scheduled hours |
|
|
| Face to Face Contact | 2 x 2-day intensive workshop (8 hours per day) | 32 |
| Workplace based Learning | On site workplace review of students current, and proposed BIM, project documentation | 24 |
| Online learning activities | Webinar and online collaboration tool | 40 |
| Unspecified Learning Activities (includes independent study, assignment preparation, revision) |
| 54 |
| TOTAL |
| 150 hours |
Assessment
| Types | Individual or Group task | Weighting | Assesses attainment of these ULOs |
| Research report | Individual | 40-60% | 1 |
| Workplace problem solving | Individual | 30-40% | 2,3 |
| Presentation | Group | 10-20% | 4 |
General skills outcomes
• Communication skills
• Ability to tackle unfamiliar problems
• Initiative and enterprise skills
• Teamwork skills
• Self-management skills
Content
• Open data exchange
• Trust in exchanged information between project phases
• Better tools for stakeholders most likely to use non-BIM tools for project delivery
• Use of VR and AR to communicate issues to project stakeholders
• On site project information
• Providing information to associated but not directly linked project stakeholders
• Dashboarding information on aspects of projects
• UK government soft landings policy
Study resources
- References.