In today’s collaborative, multi-party construction process it is imperative that your building information model and your team speak the same language. Assemble provides the Rosetta Stone between the model and traditional construction project roles with Custom Assembly Codes.
Modern construction projects taking advantage of industry best practices now involve large collaborative teams. However, as with any team, speaking a common language to communicate information is paramount. As building information models (and the data they contain) begin to take center-stage in planning and constructing new projects, they should also take center-stage in setting the common language that the project team will communicate with… the coding system.
A common coding system aids in consistency of definitions between the various parties that make up the collaborative building team. Consistently coded projects also aid in referring to historical job costs and other key statistics like duration and/or labor burden. The bottom-line is that a good coding system enables better integration of disparate team members and improves the flow of information.
Assemble recognizes the importance of being able to fully implement a coding system on any given project. That is why we allow you to use your own coding system to condition model data, a feature we call Custom Assembly Codes.
Now, if you’ve used Revit for any decent amount of time, you know it comes with a standard coding system already preloaded. However, when I refer to “your own coding system” I’m not just referring to standard Uniformat or Masterformat. Those coding systems are a great start, but they don’t provide relevant information like the location or responsible party for completing that aspect of the project. Most sophisticated firms have an extended coding scheme that provides information beyond the standard Uniformat or Masterformat. It is these proprietary coding systems that I am referring to being used in Assemble.
Get your entire organization on the same page during BIM-enhanced projects by uploading your own coding system into Assemble and conditioning your model data with those codes. Combine that common vernacular with Assemble’s ease-of-use and you just may find more of your organization buying into the power of BIM.
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