Top tools to manage a remote BIM team efficiently

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Top tools to
manage a remote BIM team efficiently
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• A myriad of AEC teams, BIM managers, and other
  stakeholders found themselves disconnected during
  the pandemic. As firms continue to evolve with
  better upgrades and agility, it is crucial to
  leverage remote technology and platforms. BIM can
  be challenging whilst teams work through
  compartmentalized workflows. BIM tools and
  technology need to move projects to people,
  rather than the opposite.
• Supporting remote teams requires BIM managers to
  assess parameters that make remote workflows
  challenging and rather demanding. Failing to
  understand these factors leads to a decline in
  project performance and inefficient engagement. A
  change in mindset and operating models is needed
  to achieve effective remote working objectives in
  an integrated and seamless manner.

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Challenges observed with BIM remote support
Transformational changes for new ways of working.

• Teams working from remote locations arent a
  temporary fix, but a new working model.
  Reimagining orthodox workflows to coordinate and
  collaborate through remote technologies and
  managing BIM models can be demanding. As BIM
  draws in on collaboration, teams need the right
  set of tools to thrive and move forward.

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Taking projects to people.

• Moving complex projects to teams rather than
  moving people to projects is the first step in
  meeting present-day construction demands. Being
  able to latch onto digital workflows and manage
  remote working requires a change in the company
  structure.

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Recognizing challenges

• Assembling teams to work in a remote environment
  requires the adoption of new tools and
  technology. When reinforcing teams in a remote
  setup, BIM managers need to consider a myriad of
  factors to work in a challenging environment. The
  absence of accurate digital workflows and tools
  may result in performance decline and team
  engagement.

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• Remote support challenges include
• Absence of communication and collaboration
• Absence of one-to-one supervision
• Lack of team cohesion
• Inability to access relevant information
• Shortage of trust and ownership
• Insufficient accountability

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Modern engagement directives for remote support.

• Communicate better.
• Digital transformation requires the presence of
  Autodesk products like Revit, Navisworks, etc.
  but it also needs communication tools like
  iFMeets from iFieldSmart Technologies to resolve
  communication problems. Leveraging these tools
  leads to enhanced efficiency, improved
  expectations, and enhanced communication
  schedules.

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• Build daily check-ins.
• Creating daily check-in calls with remote teams
  helps teams achieve project goals. A series of 1
  on 1 video calls with various team members drives
  higher collaboration through regular and
  predictive calls.
• Broadcast tasks and responsibilities.
• Lack of communication poses a serious challenge
  for a distributed workforce. Beyond daily
  check-ins, communicating and collaborating daily
  improves responsibilities, duties, tasks, etc.
  BIM managers need to leverage tools like
  iFieldSmart Technologies to build remote support
  opportunities for regular meetings and resolve
  BIM challenges in the preconstruction stage.

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• Communicating project confidence.
• Emotional intelligence supports BIM managers to
  identify clues and resolve challenges. BIM
  managers using new processes and tools can affirm
  confidence in team members leading to improved
  project outcomes.
• Modern processes and rules of remote project
  engagement.
• Deploy video conferencing tools like iFMeets
• Utilize cloud storage platforms to store, access,
  edit, and share BIM project files in real-time
• Create team expectations to handle ad-hoc calls
  and tasks
• Use connected construction tools like iFieldSmart
  to handle 2D drawings, RFIs, reports,
  construction coordination, submittals, task
  management, etc.

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• Preemptive Collaboration.
• Remote teams need preemptive collaboration to
  reduce time and effort and improve access to
  project data. Sharing project documents like 2D
  drawings, 3D models, RFIs, etc. in real-time
  reinforced by markups and annotations improve
  project outcomes and quality of deliverables.
• iFieldSmart Technologies supports disconnected
  teams with design coordination and collaboration
  on a single platform. Model viewing and authoring
  capabilities through connected construction
  workflows improve efficiency and productivity to
  achieve project goals.

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• Connected construction with iFieldSmart
  Technologies.
• Accountability.
• Tools like iFieldSmart Technologies deliver
  greater accountability for teams with higher data
  accuracy, improved task management, reports,
  clash management, etc.
• Ownership.
• Taking ownership of a project, tasks, etc. draws
  higher initiative to improve project
  effectiveness and efficiency. Clear and
  transparent data presence in real-time on a
  single dashboard improves project, data, and task
  ownership.

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• Trust.
• The presence of real-time data improves
  accountability amongst remote team members. The
  ability to connect on a single platform or
  dashboard makes it easier to create higher trust
  value at every stage of the project lifecycle.

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• Summary.
• iFieldSmart Technologies make it easier for BIM
  managers to achieve connected construction
  through technology collaboration, cloud storage,
  BIM tools, and more. Our platform builds greater
  construction authenticity with data-driven
  processes enriched with AI and ML. For more
  information on multiple iFieldSmart products for
  modern construction management, schedule a demo.

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