Building your BIM standards: essential elements for revit workflows

Abstract

Authoring and implementing BIM (Building Information Modeling) standards can be tedious and difficult. Where do you even start? This article will present data collected from standards and guidelines of various entities, such as corporations, academia, local and federal government, and national and international groups. We’ll identify commonalities from each of the standards and compile them to produce data that you can use to develop and implement BIM standards that work for you. We’ll delve even deeper to identify Revit-specific content needed for BIM standards and help make clear distinctions between standards and guidelines, as well as identify topics that don’t need to be standardized. We'll focus on standards development for a holistic BIM workflow within Revit and provide essentials for integrating workflows with AutoCAD and Navisworks.