PROJECT WEB SITE

Maintain project web site as a repository of all relevant information. Dominant formats: PDF & JPEG. Nearly instant behavior change across team. Information integration through the Internet.

While not directly a “green” feature, integration is critical across both the model and the team. DNM creates and maintains a project web site for every project from small remodels to large school projects.

The web site is a repository for all of the information needed by the entire project team, and all of the information is typically provided in Jpeg and PDF formats, the lowest common denominator formats viewable by anyone with a computer.

DNM does not share its BIM model with consultants, primarily because no one has ever expressed interest. DNM and its consultants regularly share DWG and PDF files, however, which serve as underlays for each others files.

The obstacles to sharing BIM files are not primarily technical, but cultural and practical. Like DNM, all of its consultants want to completely master all of the information for which they are responsible, and this mastery comes primarily through authoring one's own files.