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Sam's journey · On the job (delivery) · Lesson 5

Made to the rules

Before you start

In the story

The plant room is in a field, and the fence has more detail than the escalators.

Back to the story

The right way

Before production

Every firm gets the shared kit: templates, title blocks, and one agreed set of coordinates.

Production

Everything is named and labelled to the project's standard, not each firm's house style, and made to the level of detail the plan asks for: enough to do its job, and no more.

Coordination

Stevie's survey and the design line up first time. The plant room is where the plant room should be.

House rulesFour grids, own templates, a plant room in a field and a very detailed fence.
Made to the rulesOne shared kit, one standard, and just enough detail.
Think like Sam

Before anyone models anything, can you hand them the shared kit: the templates, the coordinates and the naming rules? And does everyone know how much detail each thing needs?

Continue Sam's journey

Story 6: Checked, actually

Forty drawings go to the shared area at 4.55 on a Friday. Every one says it's been checked.
The right way, explained

The right way, explained

Every firm in town builds to the same street plan, with the same house numbers. Bring your own street plan and your house ends up in somebody's field.

If you're the project manager

If you're the project manager

Ask early whether everyone is working to the same coordinates and templates. It's a five-minute question that saves a re-model.

In the town See it in the town: same kit for everyone, and just enough detail. How much is enough?

Sam's view: every parcel made with the same kit, and only as much detail as the order asked for.

Parcels leaving the Design System The Design System building, cut away to show people working at their desks. Out of its door, along the road, travel parcels of different sizes: a drawing, a model, an RFI, a photo, a register, and a shipment of three parcels tied together. DESIGN SYSTEM People work in here… …parcels go out there → ? DrawingModelRFIPhotoRegisterShipment
Open a parcelOut of the Design System

A drawing

Examples
IM calls it
Watch out for
And nobody makes it alone

Your own room, then the shared table

Each team works in its own room until its parcel is ready for others to build on. Then it goes on the shared table in the CDE, so the drainage team draws round the beams that actually exist, not the ones from three weeks ago. Clashes get spotted on the table, not on site.

Making it together Three work-in-progress rooms for structures, drainage and architecture each send a parcel to a shared table in the CDE. On the table a pipe runs through a beam, and the clash is spotted there rather than on site. StructuresWork in progress DrainageWork in progress ArchitectureWork in progress THE SHARED TABLE (CDE) Ready for others to build on Pipe meets beam! Spotted here: a ten-minute fix On the table Two teams, one clash,one quick chat. On site A digger, a beam, a pipeand a very long week.

These are Shared Resources and the Level of Information Need!

The same kit for every firm, and just enough detail.

For the audit What the auditor will ask
  • Show me the shared resources you gave each team.
  • How do you know a model was made to the project's standard?
For the audit What good evidence looks like
  • Shared templates and coordinates issued, with a record of who got them.
  • Spot checks of naming and labelling.
  • The level of detail for each item, set out in the plan.
From the standard
ISO 19650 Producing to the rules

ISO 19650 expects every team to check it has the shared resources before it starts, then produce information to the project's standard, methods and level of information need, coordinated with the other teams.

ExpectIn plain words
Shared resourcesTemplates, title blocks, coordinates and libraries, issued to everyone
The information standardNaming, labelling and formats, the project's way
Level of information needHow much detail each thing needs, and no more
CoordinationTeams working from each other's current, shared information

Based on the ISO 19650 series: the ideas come from the standard; the plain-English wording, examples and advice are InfoTown's. ISO 19650 is © ISO and BSI. You'll hear the same language across the industry. Read more for free in the Information Management Initiative (IMI) Framework guidance from BSI and nima. For the full requirements, use the standard itself.