In the traditional workflow, project data becomes fractured once the construction team enters the project. You can be accomplish this in several ways, your team will need to develop strategies that best suit your needs. Although not required, sharing the project dataset is the only path to minimal waste in the development of the required unified deliverable at project completion. Sharing the project dataset is one recommended workflow to achieve a unified model. When a building owner has multiple sets of conflicting data, it is nearly impossible to leverage the data for facility automation and management. In today's BIM-based world, GSA is no longer willing to accept this fractured dataset as a final deliverable. Besides being very costly and inefficient, this process is prone to errors and almost always leaves the owner with two disconnected sets of data at the end of a project. The design team would continually issue addendums, revisions and bulletins, which the fabricators would reference to adjust their drawings. In a simple 2D world this fractured environment, although very inefficient, can be managed. From this moment on, you have a fractured model environment. The fabricators will begin developing fabrication level data from that original dataset. Often a project team will hand over a copy of their 2D and 3D data to the fabricators as soon as the fabricators become involved in the project.

This disconnect occurs as soon as the project fabricators become involved with the project. For years a disconnect has existed between design and construction documents.

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