Get readyGet ready: Week two…
The folder called CLIENT
The client's order goes into a folder called CLIENT. Designer Alex's firm is appointed with a one-page letter that says "BIM to client requirements".
Stage 3 · Get ready · Stop 4 of 8
Requirements to every firm
The back alley's bill so far: 53 weeks · See the bill
The information · The client's order, and the firms the lead brings in
The client told the lead firm what it needs from me. Now every firm the lead brings in needs to hear it too, before they price, not after they've drawn.
The wrong way
House style
Alex draws in his firm's house style: their naming, their templates, their favourite shade of blue. It looks lovely.
By email
The subcontractors start work with no logins. Their drawings arrive by email, attached, zipped, and named DRAWINGS.
DesignDesign: Month three…
Nobody told us
None of it matches the client's order.
Alex: Nobody told us.
Sam (information manager): It's in the folder called CLIENT.
Four weeks of renaming
Every drawing has to be renamed, re-templated and re-sent. It takes four weeks.
Alex: We don't have that folder.
The variation
Alex's firm charges for the rework. Fair enough: nobody asked them for it before they priced. Kofi, the commercial manager, gets the bill.
The client told us what it needed. We kept it in a folder, and paid Alex to find out.
+4 weeks on the back alley's bill: The order never passed on: every firm drew in its own style, and four weeks of renaming and rework, paid for twice.