BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING COORDINATOR

Start with the big picture behind modern BIM coordination. Get familiar with the course structure, today’s AEC landscape, and how ISO 19650 is reshaping the future of information management.

• Instructor intro
• Course structure
• Assignments & final project overview
• Overview of BIM today
• The BIM of tomorrow

Learn the rules that keep complex projects from falling apart. Understand how standards, naming conventions, metadata, and revision control create coordinated, clash-resistant digital workflows.

• List of the entire BS EN ISO 19650 suite of documents
• Standardised information delivery
• Conflict avoidance: The "virtual first" rule
• Data integrity & LOD/LOIN
• Status code & revision control

Step into the coordinator’s seat and learn how to align teams, responsibilities, and information flow. Build the strategic backbone of a project through BEPs, RACI mapping, and clear delivery requirements.

• BIM coordinator's central role: Mapping stakeholders
• Importance of a BIM Execution Plan (BEP)
• Mapping out responsibility matrix RACI for information delivery
• Defining Level of Detail and Information requirements
• Case Study: Lack of a clear BIM execution plan

Assignment #1: BIM Execution Plan (BEP)
Create a professional, project-specific digital plan.

Learn how healthy BIM models are built and maintained before coordination even begins. Audit models, inspect data quality, and understand what makes a model collaboration-ready.

• BIM coordinator's role in inspecting and preparing models for coordination
• Workshop: Navigating a complex model in FreeCAD

Understand how information moves across a project ecosystem. Explore how Common Data Environments keep teams aligned, organised, and working from a single source of truth.

• What is a CDE or an EDRMS?
• What is a BIM coordinator's role in a CDE or EDRMS?
• Demo: A typical BIM coordinator workflow in a CDE/EDRMS

Bring architecture, structure, and MEP together into one coordinated environment. Learn how federated models become the central hub for project-wide collaboration and decision-making.

• Creating a federated model from multiple discipline-specific files
• Demo: Aggregating models in BIMcollab

Assignment #2: Federated Model Assembly
Aggregate models from different disciplines.

Detect problems before they become expensive site issues. Learn how to define clash rules, automate testing, and communicate findings clearly to different stakeholders.

• Principles of clash detection: Defining clash rules
• Automated testing
• Demo: Setting up and running a clash test
• Effective reporting for different audiences

Assignment #3: Clash Detection & Reporting
Find and document coordination problems using automated tools.

Move beyond spotting clashes into solving them strategically. Analyse coordination conflicts and develop practical solutions that balance technical requirements with project realities.

• Analysing a clash report
• Strategies for resolving conflicts
• Workshop: Analysing a provided clash report

Learn how to maintain model integrity and project reliability. Audit model health, validate critical data, and ensure every deliverable meets project and compliance standards.

• Auditing model health
• Validating data
• Ensuring compliance with the project requirements
• Demo: Model audit tool

Expand BIM beyond geometry into time and cost intelligence. Connect schedules and budgets to models to visualise project sequencing, planning, and delivery impacts in real time.

• Linking the BIM model to time (4D) & cost (5D) data
• Demo: Linking a construction schedule to a model in Navisworks

Understand why strong standards are the invisible framework behind successful BIM projects. Learn how protocols, governance, and ISO 19650 workflows reduce chaos and improve delivery outcomes.

• Deep dive into industry standards
• Developing project-specific protocols
• Case Study: Failed vs. successful project

Turn coordination challenges into structured action plans. Learn how to organise issue tracking, stakeholder communication, and review cycles to keep projects moving forward.

• Model interrogation, issues identification & detailed digital plan
• Reporting on problems & proposed solutions
• Workshop: Creating a comprehensive issue log & clash report

Assignment #5: Digital Plan & Problem-Solving
Propose and document solutions for identified problems.

Prepare a professional, handover-ready digital asset. Clean, validate, and package coordinated models alongside audit documentation that proves project readiness and compliance.

• Cleaning up a model
• Preparing the final deliverables for stakeholders
• Packaging the clash-free model in BIMcollab
• Delivering audit report for a client

Assignment #6: Final Product & Delivery
Deliver the final, clean model and a professional summary of the entire coordination process.

Present your coordination strategy like a BIM professional. Showcase your federated model, clash workflows, and communication approach while receiving real-world style feedback.

• Final project: Present your work
• Peer & instructor feedback

Explore where BIM careers are heading next. Learn how AI, automation, digital twins, and immersive technologies are reshaping the role of BIM professionals across the industry.

• Career guidance & portfolio guidelines
• Interview prep: Common interview questions
• Next steps
• Advanced applications