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APPENDIX A – INTERVIEW AGENDA

Technology questions

General What BIM Tool are you using? Why are you using a BIM Tool? Are you sharing the Model? How do you exchange your model-based information? What network solution do you use for collaboration? Do you use model viewers? Do you have access to BIM software developers? Do you have access to hardware support and is it on-location?

Process

Documentation Do you document your collaboration process? Have any guidelines or recommended practices been produced? Do you use a ‘Wiki’ or a shared documentation space with your collaboration

partner?

Sharing experiences Do you share 'collaboration experiences' with your current collaboration partner?

Collaboration Relationship Have you shared BIM models with other companies? Is this the first collaboration project with the current collaboration partner? Are there other collaboration projects with the same organisation? Are there other collaboration projects with the other organisations? How did you form these collaborative relationships? Did your organisation instigate model-based collaboration on the current project?

Collaboration Workflow What is your current collaboration workflow? How many distinctive collaboration workflows have you used? Have you been 'forced' to change your workflow midway within your collaboration

project? Have you found yourself in a position where you had to abandon the model-based

collaboration effort before finishing?

Collaboration Experiences What is the organisation's experience level with respect to model-based

collaboration with other disciplines?

How many multi-disciplinary projects has the organisation been part of? What is the Project Team's experience? Are there other Project Teams within your organisation that have previously or

are currently undertaking model-based collaboration?



Object Libraries Do you have adequate semantically-rich objects suitable for collaboration? How do you populate your Object Library? Create specifically for each project then reuse in similar projects? Generate objects independent of projects?

Human resources

Training Do you have an internal BIM training Programme? Do you utilise external trainers? Do you provide collaboration-specific training topics? Did training cover sharing databases?

Tutoring Do you have a BIM tutoring program? How do you assist staff beyond their initial BIM training?

Human Resource Management What was the scenario or what is the typical scenario for forming a BIM

Collaboration project team at your organisation? Does your organisation use a (competency-based) selection model for forming

collaborative teams? Do you have a formal skill/knowledge assessment programme?

Human Resources Planning Has BIM Collaboration affected how you attract and select talent?

Change What are the changes caused by BIM collaboration? With respect to Project Team structure? Investment in technology? Marketing strategy? Do you have a formal change management policy? Who is the de facto change manager?

Marketing and Public Relations Have you generated new relationships because of BIM Collaboration?

Team Structure How is your Project Team structured? What are the Team Members' roles? What are the technology support mechanisms within the project team? In case you're using a Extranet, Model Server or any 'external' networking

service, do you have access to the network administrator?

Risk vs. Benefit Have you measured the Risk vs. Benefit of collaborating with other disciplines

using Object-based models? Is your current collaboration effort a Pilot Study to establish risks and benefits?



Do you expect financial benefits - overall cost reduction - out of BIM Collaboration?

Are you measuring financial benefits expected from model-based collaboration? Do you keep track of BIM training costs/investments?

Leadership Do you consider your organisation's BIM implementations to be mostly Top-Down

initiatives or Bottom-Up proliferation What was the input from organisation's leadership when moving from an

established CAD-based workflow to a model-based one? How do you characterise your organisation's leadership style with respect to BIM

collaboration efforts?

Championship Who instigated the collaborative effort on the current project within your

organisation?

Policy

Contractual Has deploying a BIM solution affected your Contractual Responsibilities, Rewards

and Risk Allocation within the project? Were new contractual arrangements put in place to allow for model-based

collaboration? Were there any redistribution of rewards/fees caused by BIM collaboration? Were new insurance arrangements needed to allow for model-based

collaboration?

Regulatory How has the use of BIM affected your compliance with regulations, standards and

other guidelines?

Codes & Standards Does BIM affect the way to check applicable codes? Do you use an automated model-based Code Checker?

Performance Do you use your BIM tool to check for or enhance Building Performance

Best practices Have you generated any BIM Collaboration best practices?

Bench marks Do you follow any industry-set benchmarks to assess your BIM Collaboration

efforts

Classification Systems What is the Product/Tasks Classification System utilised at your organisation?

Preparatory What is BIM's impact on Educational Programmes and Vocational Training?



Research Do you think that more research need to be conducted covering BIM

collaboration? Where do you think more BIM research is needed?

Educational programmes Do you think that BIM collaboration will impact vocational training and

educational programmes outside your organisation? Do you think educational and training programmes should be modified to prepare

for BIM collaboration? Do you think that Collaboration Training should be conducted through higher

education or on-the-job?

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