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What are Best Practices?

Where do Best Practices Come From?

The Spread of Best Practices

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Some Things Cannot be Explained

BIM - Show me the Model

BIM Users - Are you using CAD as a Crutch?

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What are Best Practices?

According to Wikipedia, “A best practice is a technique, method, process, activity, incentive, or reward which conventional wisdom regards as more effective at delivering a particular outcome than any other technique, method, process, etc. when applied to a particular condition or circumstance.”

In CAD or BIM it means just that…  it is a method that everyone agrees is better and they all adopt it.

Sounds simple doesn’t it?  But it is hard to move a cadre of CAD users or mountain of BIM modelers in a different direction if they feel they have the best way of doing a specific function.

 

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Where do Best Practices come from?

Best practices in CAD or BIM come from many differing places and people.  They may be pulled in from another firm when someone joins your team.  They may be developed by some creative chap in your office.  They may come from internet searches or even just dumb luck.

They can appear randomly or in a more structured process.  Any way that you gather them is fine, but is there a way that might improve the odds of finding and embracing best practices?

What are the best practices for developing best practices?

Here are a few tips from my experience that might help you…

 

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The Spread of Best Practices

When does something become a best practice?  How does it become standard procedure?

Here is what TechTarget states about the spread of a best practice.

A best practice tends to spread throughout a field or industry after a success has been demonstrated. However, it is often noted that demonstrated best practices can be slow to spread, even within an organization.

They go on to say…

 

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Some Things Cannot be Explained

I have been working in technology with hardware and software for a long time. I have seen to good, the bad and the unexplainable.

Here are some of the unexplainable things…

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BIM - Show me the Model

BIM is a process – not a tool.  Revit, Bentley Architecture, ArchiCAD and others are BIM tools.  This is fairly common knowledge now.  Most of those that embrace BIM realize that the change is not just the adoption of a new software platform.  It is a change to the fabric of a practice.  The promise of BIM is that the models become more and more intelligent as they move through the design process.

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BIM Users - Are you using CAD as a Crutch?

All of us think we are embracing BIM wholeheartedly.  We think that we are moving forward and making progress by expanding our talents in BIM.  We see more and more projects delivered using BIM tools and processes.  But are we free from legacy tools yet? There are so many that still use CAD tools for some portions of the projects that it still may be the crutch that not easily discarded.

Why can’t we all just jump into the future and use all  BIM tools now?

Here are a few statements that I hear people giving for not using BIM even though their firm may have started the march toward full implementation:

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September - 2010

Best Practices...  You have some.  Are they shared with everyone?  Do you develop them in a managed way?  How do you get others to use them?

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