Author: eliaglobaladmin

Data & data bases are useless without these 3 things

by eliaglobaladmin
  1. Number 1 being a qualified standard structure that’s important
  1. Number 2 is the data collected in a structured manner In order for you to benchmark data the data has to be in the same way For example a box has to be a box has to be a box.
    It can’t be a box a triangle and a circle Because they don’t fit over each other So in a structured way the data has to be collected And right now in the Construction Industry relating to cost we’re really struggling with that We do not have standard structures for cost data The ICMS (Internatioal Construction Measurement Standards).
    That’s an international construction measurement standard for cost we would use that in our data collection and then map that to local standards like SFB in Denmark.
  1. And number 3 is having a specialist that understands the Quality Level in the data Data is information

And you can give information to anybody. But if they don’t understand what they’re looking at it doesn’t matter if the information is of high quality or low quality.

They won’t be able to recognize the quality levels so the data is at it’s lowest point in terms of it’s usability.

What is your experience with cost databases?

Focus on the Level of Quality not the Level of Design

by eliaglobaladmin

So what we’ve recognized in the Industry is that while the LOD (Level of Design) is a good guide to understand what to expect you should really be focusing on the level of quality within the BIM Models and not the level of detail.

So you can have building parts in the model but if they are named wrong or inconsistent then the level of quality is poor You are delivering to your requirements in LOD but you are not delivering to your requirements in level of quality So we should be focusing on level of quality not level of detail.

Us, as Cost Managers, we use the information. So for us the quality is better than the detail.

If we have the quality we can use it If we have the detail without the quality then we can’t use the detail It doesn’t matter how much information you have if the quality is poor.

If we consider the Level of Detail and the Level of Quality, how do you think we could improve the Level of Quality in our BIM Models?