Present · the method
How I run coordination
Eight steps · Brief to Site Verification
The cycle I work to. Steps 03–07 repeat per milestone; nothing is issued out of an uncoordinated model. Clash coordination is carried out visually and in-model.
The cycle
- 01
Brief & Scope
Assigned scope, milestone and LOD target agreed with the lead before authoring begins.
- 02
Authoring to LOD
Model built to the milestone LOD target — geometry and data, not geometry alone.
- 03
Link Disciplines
Structural and MEP models linked in so the architecture is read against them, not alone.
- 04
Clash Coordination
Visual and in-model interrogation by discipline pair, filtered down to conflicts worth acting on.
- 05
Report Back
Conflicts written up and sent to the coordinator or consultant who owns the fix.
- 06
Review
Walk the model with the team. Fixes land in the model, never in the drawing alone.
- 07
Re-check & Issue
Re-check that reported conflicts are closed, then sheets issued from the cleared model.
- 08
Site Verification
Snagging and QA/QC inspection against the model; deviations captured and fed back as-built.
On my current UAE role I author architectural scope under the project BIM coordinator and support architectural–structural clash checking. The full sequence is the one I ran as BIM coordinator on KenMas residential projects.
What I bring
Catch it in the model.Conflicts found and reported before issue cost a fraction of what they cost on site.
Site literacy.Ten years of snagging and QA/QC means I know which clashes matter on site and which are noise in the report.
Documentation from the model.Sheets are an output of coordination, not a parallel workstream that drifts from it.
Drawings that match the building.Measured survey and as-built capture when the record is wrong or missing.
On site
Where it shows in the record
- 715 Oak Avenue, FerndaleSteps 03–08
Architectural Technologist and BIM Coordinator: coordination and QA/QC across the full package with the structural and MEP teams; weekly snagging against the model.
- Elisaph ApartmentsSteps 03–07
Architectural Technologist and BIM Coordinator: stepped platforms on a sloping rock-bed site, coordination and QA/QC.
- Swartkop LaerskoolSteps 08
Hand-measured survey converted to an as-built BIM package as the base for renovation work.
- Flamingo HeightsSteps 08
Condition assessment of existing social housing, with the drawing record reproduced from scratch.
Ernest T. Mandisodza · Processernix.io