Identify What Matters

Lay the foundation for a successful project with a clear BIM strategy that aligns your data requirements with operational goals.

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Start With a BIM Plan That Serves the End User

Our first step is understanding your goals - what your facilities team needs, what your asset management system requires, and how project data will actually be used once the project is complete.

From there, we map those needs into a structured set of data requirements that can be implemented throughout the design and construction process

“BIM is a process that involves people, processes, policy, and technology. It’s the intersection of all four, and if you don’t address each one, you’ll fail your digital transformation."

GERALDINE RAYNER Managing Principal, Summit BIM

What Happens During the Identify Phase

We start by understanding & prioritizing your goals, then translate them into clear, structured data requirements that can be implemented from design through delivery.

Data Requirements

What information needs to be tracked for every system and space.

Owner Requirements

A structured document that formalizes your BIM goals and expectations

Aligning FM Systems

Ensuring data aligns with your operational tools like CMMS or CAFM

Aligning Stakeholders

Bringing architects, engineers, and contractors into alignment on data delivery.

The Risks of Skipping Strategy

Missing or inconsistent data during design leads to unexpected changes during construction driving up time, labor, and material costs.

Costly Rework in the Field

Missing or inconsistent data during design leads to unexpected changes during construction driving up time, labor, and material costs.

Disorganized Handover

Without a clear strategy, models are handed over in formats that don’t match FM needs forcing costly post-project cleanup.

Misaligned Stakeholders

When architects, engineers, and contractors aren’t working from the same data expectations, coordination breaks down and delays multiply.

How One Project Avoided 2,000+ Missed Assets

On a recent healthcare project, our Identify phase uncovered over 2,000 maintainable assets that weren’t being tracked in the initial design model. Because we caught it early, the data was integrated without delays or cost overruns and the FM team received exactly what they needed at handover.

Ready to Start With Clarity?

Let’s define what matters on your next project before it costs you in the field or at handover

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BIM Consulting Case Studies

Read case studies from some of our featured client and discover how BIM Consulting helped transform their business.

Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA)

New BC Children's Hospital centre for Health Complexity

Industry: Healthcare
Services: BIMFMi, Collect, Identify, Manage

New BC Children’s Hospital centre for health complexity – BIM Requirements Development; Management of BIM process, model audits + Data and Document collection with a digital handover to Facilities.

CMHC

A Building Information Management toolkit for housing projects

Industry: Housing
Services: Identify

Under the National Housing Strategy Research and Planning Fund, we are developing tools to assess the benefits and costs of using Building Information Management. Working collaboratively with buildingSMART Canada, Scius Advisory and BIM DnA Group.

City of Nanaimo

BIM Specification Requirements

Industry: Municipal Government
Services: Identify

Worked with the City of Nanaimo to clarify the high‑value outcomes sought through adoption of a data‑driven digital process, known as BIM, for capital projects.

Fraser Health Authority

Royal Columbian Hospital Redevelopment Project

Industry: Healthcare
Services: BIMFMi, Collect, Identify, Manage

Comprehensive BIM Requirements update aligned to ISO 19650 framework, delivering end-to-end management across all three phases of the Royal Columbian Hospital redevelopment project, from model reviews and structured data/document capture, utilizing our BIMFMi® interface, to a fully coordinated digital handover supporting the needs of diverse stakeholder groups.

British Columbia Institute of Technology

BIM Specification Requirements

Industry: Education
Services: Identify

Ran workshops with stakeholder groups to identify goals and uses, for strategic guidance and reference during the subsequent development of an outline set of BIM Requirements.