BIM-based collaboration - a phase-oriented process concept for virtual design reviews

BIM-based collaboration - a phase-oriented process concept for virtual design reviews Object-based, digital 3-D building models are used as a central source of information for all project participants when Building Information Modeling is applied and are thus increasingly becoming the focus of meetings in construction projects. However, there are hardly any orientations or standards for the implementation of virtual design reviews, which concern clear process structures, role distributions as well as basic IT requirements for the rooms of digital meetings. The potentials of model-based collaboration through the introduction of BIM therefore often remain unused. The present article takes up the process conditions of the BIM methodology and influencing variables of meeting processes, describes the implementation of virtual design reviews in three real projects and, as a result of the analysis of these three scenarios, shows a phase-oriented innovative process concept for the integral preparation, realisation and post-processing of a virtual design review, including a clear distribution of roles as well as recommendations on requirements for data management, room equipment and IT.