The Information Cycles employs the three Project Lifecycle Phases – Design, Construction, and Operation (Succar, 2009) – to identify Information Actors and their high-level Information Actions connecting several Information Milestones within the Lifecycle Information Transformation and Exchange (LITE) framework (Succar and Poirier, 2020).
This conceptual model (Figure 1) identifies nine BIM player groups (industry stakeholders) distributed across three BIM Fields (technology, process and policy) as defined within the BIM Framework. The nine player groups are: policy makers, educational institutions, construction organisations, individual practitioners, technology developers, technology service providers, industry associations, communities of practice, and technology advocates.
The BIM Framework Conceptual Reactor explains how existing conceptual constructs – terms, classifications, taxonomies, models and frameworks – are used to identify, explain and test new constructs.
The conceptual hierarchy provided clarify how Model Uses are derived through three different conceptual routes: the Tri-Axial Framework, Competency Framework, and BIM Ontology.
The BIM ontology is an informal, semi-structured, conceptual ‘domain ontology’ used for knowledge acquisition and communication between people. It is intended to represent knowledge interactions (push/pull) between BIM players, their deliverables and requirements, and facilitate the validation of conceptual models.
The Point of Adoption Model highlights how capability stages and maturity levels are used to assess/facilitate BIM implementation within organization and – in combination with other Framework parts – BIM diffusion across markets.
This Diffusion Areas model/matrix/chart clarify how BIM Field types interact with BIM Capability Stages to generate nine areas for targeted BIM diffusion analysis and BIM diffusion planning.
Lenses and Filters are investigative tools of enquiry and domain analysis allowing the discovery of concepts and relations. The difference between (BIM) Lenses and Filters can be summarised as such: Lenses are additive and are deployed from the ‘investigator’s side’ of BIM Field observation while Filters are subtractive and are deployed from the ‘data side’. Lenses highlight observables that meet …
NBP Relevance Index – Sample Chart v0.2 (Full Size Image – 102Kb) The Relevance Metric is primarily used to compare the relevance (impact, currency and authority) of one entity relative to another, or relative to a specific stakeholder group. For example the Noteworthy BIM Publication Relevance Index (NBP-RI) compares the relevance of an NBP relative to other NBPs within and …
The Asset Hierarchy model organises Physical Deliverables/Assets by relative scale
The Research Path (Succar, 2013) identifies the major milestones along four research sub-paths: literature review, research methodology, conceptual development and data collection.
The Research Timeline graph identifies literature reviews, data collection efforts and published papers (including citations and downloads) between June 2005 and December 2013.
The BIM framework is a collection of interrelated conceptual constructs – models, taxonomies, classifications, and dictionaries – glued together by a common conceptual ontology.
The Macro Maturity Components model identifies eight complementary components for measuring and establishing the BIM maturity of whole markets.
Noteworthy BIM publications (NBP)s are publically-available documents developed by various industry and academic entities; aimed at a wide audience; and intended to promote BIM understanding, regulate BIM implementation or mandate BIM requirements.
The Competency-based workflow uses BIM competency items from across several Competency Sets to clarify a specific process – how to initiate a collaborative BIM project.
The Triple A Competency Model is a knowledge engine which uses structured BIM competency items to perform three complementary actions: competency Acquisition, competency Application and competency Assessment.
This Competency Units of Analysis is a conceptual model identifies several units for the purposes of competency analysis.
The BIM Maturity Index (BIMMI) is a conceptual model depicting five distinct Maturity Levels: (a) Initial/ Ad-hoc, (b) Defined, (c) Managed, (d) Integrated and (e) Optimized.
Construction projects pass through three major lifecycle phases: Design [D], Construction [C] and Operations [O]. These phases are also subdivided into sub-phases which are in turn further subdivided into activities, sub-activities and tasks
The BIM Stages Model identifies pre-BIM, three BIM Capability Stages and the ultimate vision from implementing BIM.
Click of a larger version | older versions: v2.0 – 2010, v1.2 – 2008 and v1.1 – 2007 Also available in Spanish, German, Italian and French This conceptual model represents BIM Fields, the first dimension of the Tri-axial Model. BIM Fields refer to all topics, activities, and actors across the BIM domain. The Venn diagram (three overlapping circles) identifies Field Types (Technology, Process and Policy), Field Components (Players, Deliverables …
This conceptual model explains the multi-dimensional relationship between the three main components of the BIM framework: BIM fields of activity identifying domain players, their requirements and deliverables; BIM stages delineating minimum capability benchmarks; and BIM lenses providing the depth and breadth of enquiry necessary to identify, assess and qualify BIM fields and BIM stages.