Manage your civil works project successfully

Due to its popularity, the use of BIM was regulated by the ISO 19650 standard, where each stage of the life cycle of any asset is defined and the methods and processes to transfer information between all the stakeholders participating in a project are indicated. Following an ISO standard allows you to work better, with a higher quality standard, and with information and methods unanimously adopted by all leading companies, contractors, and clients. For this reason, it is important to choose a CDE that complies with this standard, in addition to offering document management functions that are adapted to your projects.

Cloud solutions are ideal as they allow all stakeholders involved in the project to access verified information in real time from anywhere. This helps avoid two of the most harmful habits in any job: doing a task that was already finished or redoing it because a mistake was made due to not having the latest information. If you are starting to work with BIM and want to have a deeper understanding of how you can get the most out of it, download our BIM Collaboration guide.

Our TP CONTROL solution allows you to reduce manual administration tasks and carry out transparent management of project budgets, contingencies, and financial controls in order to apply the BIM 5D methodology.

There are numerous success stories that you can find on our website. For example, in New Brunswick, a drinking water plant was built and drinking water transmission systems were installed to serve its more than 70,000 residents using our CDE solution. A project of this size is prone to delays, errors, and complications due to its complexity, scale, and contractual requirements. It is vital that all information is collected, classified, modified, and distributed without errors.

Not only is good CDE software needed, but it must follow the recommendations of the ISO 19650 standard. To do this, all the documents generated must follow a defined structure based on unanimous criteria and always specify those responsible and in charge, who can access it, how it will be distributed, and its status. In addition, the history of the documents must be known in order to analyse their evolution or make modifications, something for which our CDE will be of immense help.

To guarantee success in the management of a civil works project, you need to understand that every process must be predefined from the start. The CDE will be structured according to these requirements, and all the stakeholders with access to this digital repository will be able to coordinate and cooperate following the same method. In this way, engineers, architects, contractors, and clients can collaborate in real time at all stages of the project, while being aware of the work from the other teams.

The correct management of a project depends on the trust placed in the methodology used, the fulfilment of each stage, and the creation of a single source of information. If all stakeholders are confident that their tasks are well defined, and that updated and verified information will be acted upon, they will be more likely to carry out their tasks successfully and on time.