The Importance of BIM Project Management Training
One of the major differences between 2D Cad and BIM is the fact that more information is being exchanged at an earlier stage in the project development process, and this has a wide–ranging impact on project workflow. Everything needs to be rethought, from the billing structure for design services to the depth of consultant involvement at the early stages of a project.
As the design team adapts to a BIM workflow, the adoption of a company strategy for model management will become important. Effective project model management is required to ensure that the model data remains coordinated, well-structured, and efficient.
Secondary benefits of good project model management include reduced errors, improved consistency between team members, and gains in production efficiency.
Good project model management can best be accomplished through the formation of BIM Project Teams for each BIM project. The project team members must understand the project development cycle and how it impacts workflow.
ColdStream Software has a lot of experience working with Revit MEP in an actual production environment having provided approximately 1000 hours (about 1/2 year) of mentoring to numerous engineering firms on several large projects over the past two years. Through this experience, we have developed a training curriculum for firms that are in need of Revit MEP project management training.
TRAINING SITE LOCATION
We recommend that the initial training be provided at the customer site. This provides the student(s) with a one-on-one relationship with the instructor. We also offer follow-up web-based training and will provide you with scheduling options to cover your needs.
TRAINING DURATION
Duration of each course depends on the number of disciplines covered and the overall number of students to be trained as that number may be applied to the number of students that can be acommodated in the training facility. Duration may also be affected by any customization of the training schedule made by the customer.
TRAINING PROVISIONS
ColdStream Software provides the instructor, the instructor's workstation and datasets for training.
A Revit Project Management Training Manual complete with the class exercises and illustrations is provided for each student that is in attendance for the class. The manual was developed by ColdStream Software specifically for Revit Project Management training. The cost for the manual will be included in our initial proposal on a per-student basis. We prefer for each student who attends the class to have a manual. Students will be given the opportunity to purchased additional manuals. The current Project Management Training Manual is 8-1/2" x 11", double-side printed, coil spring bound, 106 pages, with front and back cover.
You (the customer) may supplement our handout materials with Autodesk Official Training Courseware (AOTC) by purchasing as many copies as you deem necessary from the Autodesk Store.
You (the customer) must provide a suitable classroom, a workstation for each student that is required to have a hands-on experience with the software, and a projector that is capable of a minimum resolution of 1280 x 800. (NOTE: 1280 x 800 is the minimum resolution that can be used to work with Revit MEP).
The instructor's laptop can also output to DVI and/or HDMI based projectors or flat panel screens. A number of my clients are transitioning from the older projectors to the new large size 1080P flat panel screens in their classrooms and conference rooms. This provides an excellent video interface for training.
You (the customer) must have installed Revit MEP on all workstations to be used in the class using your authorization codes provided to you by Autodesk.
Should you decide to add some additional workstations to the class by going to the Autodesk website and downloading and installing Revit MEP on additional workstations, Revit will have to be run on those workstations in trial (evaluation) mode during the class (this mode "times out" after one month). Note that class cannot be conducted with Revit running in Demo mode.
We always use the latest version of Revit MEP for training including any and all web updates and subscription add-ons. You (the customer) will be expected to have all the latest web updates loaded and working on each student workstation at the beginning of training. We require that you also have the Room Naming Utility loaded and working on each workstation. The Room Naming Utility is a subscription add-on that you can download and install from the subscription website.
The following outline covers the topics that are included in our BIM Project Management Training Manual. As with our other training outlines, we have prefixed each topic in the hands-on section with a checkbox so that you can check-off the topics that are most important to you and we can custom tailor the training to meet your specific needs.
The BIM Project Management Training is designed to be an 8-hour (one day) course for the BIM Manager and Project Team Leaders. The morning session is reserved for the general topics and the afternoon session includes a hands-on exercise creating a new workshare enabled project.