The BIM manager's handbook : guidance for professionals in architecture, engineering and construction / Dominik Holzer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Why BIM Managers Count!; The BIM Manager: Focus on the Person behind the Title -- Hands-On BIM -- Revelations and Surprises -- 1 Best Practice BIM -- BIM Managers: Breaking Ground -- A Role in Transition -- The Rise and Rise of BIM -- Defining Good, or Even "Best Practice," BIM -- The Big Picture -- Reporting from the Trenches -- When BIM Goes Wrong -- Examples of "Bad BIM" -- Pseudo BIM; Going Solo -- Lack of Coordination across Key BIM Stakeholders; BIM Execution Plan -- Lack or Lack of Use -- No Data Integration -- Lack of Well-Defined Objectives (Client) Overmodeling -- Lacking Tool Ecology -- Modeling without Understanding -- Model Inaccuracy -- Über-Hacks -- The Tipping Point -- How Do You Become Successful Using BIM?; BIM -- Getting It Right -- Benchmarking BIM; Broader Policies -- Measuring Day-to-Day Performance -- Key Performance Indicators -- Endnotes -- 2 Change Management -- Technology as a Driver for Innovation and Change -- The Cultural Dimension of Change ... and Its Management -- The Social and Organizational Context to Change -- BIM Managers: Facilitators of Change -- Interfacing with Your Organization's Leadership and ManagementBIM's Push and Pull -- Decision Makers Who Do Not Understand BIM -- Lacking Support from the Top -- Becoming a Manager -- Learning to Lobby -- The Inside Man -- Selling Value Back to the Business -- Overcoming Change Resistance and Managing Expectations -- That BIM Thing Looks Amazing -- Just Not on My Project! -- Bridging the "Us vs. Them" Schism -- Developing a Network -- Tips and Tricks -- The Design Technology and BIM Audit -- Set Up and Run a Design Technology/BIM Audit -- What Should Be Asked during the Audit? -- Change Management Workshops and Seminars -- Endnotes3 Focuson Technology -- Interfacing Design Technology with Information Technology -- BIM and Design Technology -- The IT/DT Dialogue -- Hardware/Software License Selection for BIM -- Sharing BIM via Networks -- BIM in the Cloud -- Processes to Consider -- Private Cloud versus BIM Cloud -- Project and Document Management Software -- Explaining Tool Ecologies -- From Supporting Singular Software Use to Supporting Process -- Establishing Common Data Environments -- Compensating for End-User Behavior -- Thinking in Ecologies -- Interfacing BIM -- Geospatial/Point Clouds to BIM -- Surface Models and BIM -- Interfacing BIM and Engineering AnalysisThe IFC Question; Driving BIM via Data Interfaces -- BIM to 3D Visualization, 4D, and More; BIM to Fabrication -- BIM Anywhere -- BIM to FM -- Future Developments -- Endnotes -- 4 BuildingUp a BIM Support Infrastructure -- Propagating BIM -- Starting with the End in Mind-Employer Information Requirements -- Setting the (BIM) Standards -- How to Start -- Access All Areas -- CAD Standards in BIM -- BIM Execution Plans -- The BIM Placemat -- The BIM Capability Statement -- What Goes in the BIM Capability Statement -- UK PAS 1192-2/3/4/5-Specific Documents -- BIM Library Management.