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BIM EP Course Content and Duration
AGC’s BIM Education Program creates an unmatched learning experience for participants.
- Every BIM EP course is activity-based, with discussions, case histories, problems, and exercises.
- Participants in BIM EP courses draw upon their field experience and learn by interaction with others from all areas of the construction industry.
- Participants will receive a Participant’s Manual with information on each course and instructor’s use an Instructor’s Guide, with PowerPoint presentations for each unit.
Unit 1: BIM 101 - An Introduction to Building Information Modeling
This course will discuss how BIM provides contractors with the benefit of improved visualization of a construction project through the use of a 3D virtual model, establish a base of knowledge of BIM terminology and look at the benefits of BIM and case studies showing implementation before encouraging participants to study how they could implement BIM.
Following successful completion of Unit 1, participants will have the ability to:
- Recognize the importance of BIM
- Define common BIM terminology
- Discuss how BIM can be used as a communication and collaboration tools
- Explain the benefits of BIM
- Compare examples of successful BIM usage
- Discuss issues associated with starting BIM
- Create a BIM Action Plan
Unit 2: BIM Technology
The major applications and classes of tools across project phases, how BIM processes for QTO, shop drawing and fabrication, and construction scheduling can improve projects, and the significant impact models have for improving estimating, scheduling, and coordinating.Following successful completion of Unit 2, participants will have the ability to:
- Identify at least five benefits of the BIM approach
- Explain what is meant by parametric modeling and why this benefits the BIM process
- Match specific tools with their functions
- Define the federated model process
- Describe two functions of analysis tools
- Explain a generic four-step process for creating and using a shop drawing and fabrication model
- Outline a process for estimating and scheduling
- Explain a four-step process for selecting BIM software
- Identify the major cost drivers, functionality, and characteristics of a good BIM estimating model
- Explain how to identify what project components should be modeled, and determine what level of detail is required
- Explain how 4D models are created
- Explain a five step coordinating process
- Develop the basis for a BIM Execution Plan
Unit 3: BIM Contract Negotiation and Risk Allocation
Examine BIM and contract terminology to determine best practices for integrating BIM use into project contracts, as well as hot-button issues such as standard of care, intellectual property rights, and insurance and surety bonding coverage to help participants become BIM champions within their organizations.Following successful completion of Unit 3, participants will have the ability to:
- Explain contract liability and standards of care related to BIM
- Negotiate BIM Addendum terms for BIM Execution Plan development
- Use BIM contract negotiation to establish proactive collaborative BIM
- Identify intellectual property rights and licensing issues related to Model use
- Recognize BIM coverage limitations in existing insurance and bond products
- Devise fair risk allocation and management responsibility provisions on BIM projects
Unit 4: BIM Process, Adoption, and Integration
Provide a foundation for participants to establish and execute the BIM process, facilitate its adoption, and achieve integration on a single project and at a company level to execute multiple BIM projects simultaneously.Following successful completion of Unit 4, participants will have the ability to:
- Define process, adoption, and integration as related to BIM implementation
- Describe why BIM is a disruptive practice today
- Identify reactive and proactive BIM outcomes
- Evaluate and select process options for a specific BIM project
- Describe the roles and responsibilities of participants in the BIM process
- Identify consistent factors influencing BIM Return on Investment (ROI) at the project and the company levels
- Communicate the BIM process to management, colleagues, and project stakeholders
- Outline a process for BIM adoption and implementation at the project and the company levels
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