Design coordination and clash management
Design coordination and clash management are essential aspects of consultant collaboration to resolve design and model issues. The BEP will define the clash detection process and tolerances to optimize the results based on the project design stage. The primary tools used to run the clash detection process are Navisworks from Autodesk and Solibri from Nemetschek.
Autodesk has a cloud platform to run clash detection processes and resolve model issues. It is part of Autodesk Construction Cloud and is currently called BIM 360 Coordinate.
The clash detection process can be divided into two types:
- Clash avoidance
- Clash detection
Let's look at them in detail.
Clash avoidance
Clash avoidance is the process of identifying clashes between spatial zones assigned for the architecture, structure, and MEP disciplines. The following diagram shows a volume created to define the MEP zone and use it in the clash avoidance process...
