Ways to Choose Right BIM Partner

Ways To Choose the Right BIM Partner

Overview: 

BIM plays a vital role in building design and construction planning for construction firms and contractors. Revit Software is getting widely accepted, and government mandating BIM adoption in construction projects is successfully implementing it.

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And those who are not implementing BIM are facing issues in commencing their construction works, and at the end, they need to outsource it to BIM Service Provider Companies along with it comes to a rise in fraudulent of BIM partners.

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There is enormous demand for BIM Modeling Services Providers, but still, there are shortages of less qualified BIM resources. But by selecting the wrong BIM partner, you end up in huge cost incurred on projects, delay in the project and low accuracy in project detailing.

Ways or Aspects to find the right BIM partner Let’s take a glance at criteria for selecting the right BIM partner:

Experience: 

It is easy to find companies claiming to me leading BIM partners, but it is essential for any construction professionals such as contractors, architectural consultant or MEP contractor to check credentials of the organization.

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Just as we check employee background with past organization, we must also have a background check for the BIM professionals we are approaching for our projects.

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Check the online market presence of the organization to know how reliable the professional can be. By checking experience, you will know whether the company falls in your scope of work.

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Monitoring on methodology or project execution of their work can help in achieving accurate requirements that you are looking for in your project.

Integrity and Honesty of Companies Work:

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Checking on project portfolio of the company you are approaching is a must to know what type of services they have dealt with, how technocrat their project implementation has been and what best they can provide you.

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Anyone can know how accurate and detailing would they provide to you and you will know that the company you are going to hire is the right option for you or not.

Reference Checks: ď ľ

Most authentic way to find out whether the BIM Company, you possess to outsource your work is by conducting reference checks from its past and current clients as this can be real-time feedback.

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From this, you can know how the company functions, executes its work, deliverables, strict on timelines and provides correct quality or not.

Low-Cost Offering is not always the Best option: 

Companies often provide lower prices to fetch more clients but do not adopt for it as you might not know how effective their project can tend to be.

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If they do not provide timely delivery and high quality of the project, it can affect the cost of the project directly.

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So ideally before selecting the right BIM partner, you must look upon delivery time, quality and skills of the BIM partner rather than focusing on cost.

No freelancers: 

Never outsource your project to freelancers as there are a group of people working on multiple projects without any setup.

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Your companies’ data might get leaked to other construction company they might work for in the future.

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Best results would not get achieved from them as things might get critical on-site and they won’t have any knowledge on how to resolve it.

Conclusion ď ľ

Before outsourcing or hiring any BIM outsourcing companies , evaluate all the parameters discussed above. This will help you in making effective decisions.

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An optimal solution for speeding up the construction work must be attained by the BIM Company you choose and must provide effective cost with high quality and accuracy.