BIM information requirements, model and handover pack following ISO 19650

Calder Vale Health Partnership is commissioning a three-storey community health hub of about 2,400 m², with 18 consulting rooms, a minor-procedures suite and a pharmacy. It is publicly funded, so the partnership has been told to run information management in line with ISO 19650.

The last building they commissioned was handed over with 4,000 PDFs on a USB stick and a model nobody could open. Two years later the facilities team still cannot answer simple questions such as how many air-handling units they own, when the fire dampers were last tested, or which rooms have medical gas.

They have appointed a design team and want you, as a graduate information manager working for the lead appointed party, to set things up so that does not happen again. In ten weeks you will: - turn the partnership's needs into organisational, asset and exchange information requirements; - write a BIM execution plan with a responsibility matrix and a naming convention; - plan the information deliveries in a master information delivery plan; - build a federated architectural and structural model of one wing to the agreed level of information need; - check the model, run clash detection and validate the IFC export; - produce a handover pack of asset data the facilities team can load into their maintenance system.

Done means the facilities manager can open a spreadsheet and find every maintainable asset in the wing with its location, type, warranty and maintenance interval, and every file in the common data environment has a name that follows the convention and a status that shows whether it can be relied on.