BIM Coordinator Course

About this course

This BIM Coordinator course is RDSIC's six-session classroom programme on model coordination and clash detection.

On a BIM project team, the BIM Coordinator is the link between the BIM Manager and the people actually building the models. The coordinator checks each discipline model, chairs regular coordination meetings, and logs and follows issues until they are properly closed. Without this role, conflicts between architecture, structure and MEP tend to surface only once construction has started.

This six-session course, taught in the classroom by the RDSIC training centre of the Institute of Information Technology in Civil Engineering — Hanoi University of Civil Engineering (HUCE), is built around practice: managing data on Autodesk Forma, assembling a coordination model, running clash checks and reporting to stakeholders. You finish with a skill set ready for a coordination role on a live project.

What you will learn

• Understand the overall BIM workflow and where the coordinator sits in it
• Contribute to the BIM Execution Plan and keep modelling work aligned with it
• Manage project data on Autodesk Forma: members, submissions, approvals
• Track RFIs and site progress and export reports for coordination meetings
• Assemble a coordination model, manage Search Sets and run clash checks
• Produce clash reports, assign fixes and follow issues through to closure

Who should enrol

• Modelling engineers and architects moving up to a coordination role
• BIM team members at contractors and consultancies who check cross-discipline models
• Technical staff preparing to chair regular BIM coordination meetings
• Project managers who need to understand coordination and clash workflows

Detailed syllabus

1. BIM essentials and implementation planning

• An overall view of BIM technology
• Terminology tied to coordination work
• The main applications of BIM on a project
• Parties involved in applying BIM
• Value delivered and obstacles for an organisation
• BIM working environments, platforms and tools
• Legal framework, standards and implementation guidance in Vietnam
• Preparing the BIM Execution Plan (BEP) for a project

2. The common data environment (CDE)

• Using Autodesk Forma (Data Management, Build) to govern project data
• Document storage and member management
• Submitting and approving 3D models and 2D drawings
• Managing RFIs and monitoring site progress
• Exporting reports from the platform
• Storing and navigating models with Autodesk Viewer and Autodesk Drive

3. Hands-on coordination and clash resolution

• Setting up the inter-discipline clash matrix
• The 3D model coordination process
• Merging discipline models into a coordination model
• Creating and managing Search Sets
• Running checks, detecting and resolving clashes
• Producing clash reports for stakeholders

Learning format

The course is taught face to face in Hanoi, with occasional Ho Chi Minh City intakes on schedule, across six evening sessions of about two hours each. Every learner works at a computer throughout; coordination and clash checking are practised on the multi-discipline model set of a real building.

Course lecturers

The lecturers in charge of this course. Open a profile to see each lecturer's full CV.

Dr. Nguyen Manh TuanBIM Manager & Revit Architecture leadBIM manager at the Institute since 2014, having trained more than 30 companies. PhD from Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea.View profile →Tran Ngoc VietBIM Manager course leadHead of BIM management at Thai Binh Investment JSC with a Class I project management certificate; seventeen years in MEP, BIM and project management.View profile →MSc. Tran Mai PhuongBIM Manager instructorHead of BIM at Vicons Construction with Class 1 supervision and design certificates; teaches BIM from the contractor side.View profile →MSc. Pham Thanh HiepBIM Manager & Revit Structure lecturerDirector of HPC JSC; five years as BIM Manager at the Northern Electric Consultant Company, specialising in substations and transmission lines.View profile →

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Certificate of completion

At the end of the course, the Institute of Information Technology in Civil Engineering — Hanoi University of Civil Engineering certifies each student who meets the standard. Included in a firm's capability statement when bidding, the BIM Coordinator certificate shows project owners that the firm has model-coordination staff.

Promotions and discounts

Group tuition discount — applied to every group member and the group leader:

Note: this discount cannot be combined with any other promotion.

Discounts for taking multiple courses at RDSIC

• Take two courses in parallel and get 10% off the tuition of each course.
• Your second course at RDSIC is 10% off.

Deferral policy

• In-person courses: deferral of up to one year from the date the centre confirms it.
• Online courses: no deferral; as an exception, students who have attended less than 50% of the course may be granted a deferral of up to one year.

Related courses

• BIM Manager Course for Infrastructure
• Civil 3D Course – Infrastructure & Road BIM
• Revit Architecture Course (BIM for Architects)
• Revit Structure Course (BIM for Structural Engineers)

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