VDC management
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Appointed party
A provider of information — a consultant, subcontractor or supplier — appointed by a lead appointed party, usually organised into a task team.
Clash detection
The automated checking of a federated model to find places where elements conflict physically, violate required clearances or conflict in time.
Common data environment (CDE)
The agreed single source of information for a project or asset, used to collect, manage and share each information container through a controlled workflow of states, statuses and revisions.
Critical path method (CPM)
A scheduling technique that models a project as a network of dependent activities and identifies the longest path through it — the critical path — which sets the shortest possible project duration.
Federated model
A combined model assembled from separate discipline or package models, each of which remains owned and maintained by its author.
Lead appointed party
The party appointed directly by the appointing party that coordinates information management for its whole delivery team.
Virtual design and construction (VDC)
A project management method that uses integrated, multidisciplinary models of the product (the facility), the organization and the process to plan and control a project against explicit, measurable objectives.
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BIM Collaboration Format (BCF)
An open buildingSMART standard for exchanging model-based issues — comments, viewpoints and the affected elements — between BIM tools without exchanging the models themselves.
BIM execution plan (BEP)
The delivery team's plan explaining how it will carry out the information-management aspects of an appointment, in response to the exchange information requirements.
Constructability review
A structured review of design documents by people with construction experience to find problems with buildability, sequencing, access, cost or safety before the design is issued for construction.
Integrated project delivery (IPD)
A collaborative delivery approach in which the owner, designers and builder work as one team, usually under a single multi-party agreement, sharing risk and reward according to project outcomes.
Last Planner System (LPS)
A lean, collaborative production-planning system in which the people who directly supervise the work plan it together, commit to what can be done, and measure how reliably they keep those commitments.
Level of development (LOD)
A numbered scale (LOD 100–400, plus 500 in some frameworks) describing how far a model element's geometry and information have been developed — and therefore how much other team members can rely on it.
Master information delivery plan (MIDP)
The delivery team's combined schedule of all information to be delivered for an appointment, compiled by the lead appointed party from the task information delivery plans.
Responsibility matrix
A table that allocates information-management tasks and information deliverables to the parties and task teams responsible for them.
Task information delivery plan (TIDP)
A task team's schedule of the information containers it will produce, with responsibilities and delivery dates, for one appointment.