I have been leading Excitech’s BIM and Digital Management education sessions since 2013.It is one of the most enjoyable engagements and experiences in my working life, which also extends to my support at various Universities as a lecturer or speaker. It is rewarding work sharing knowledge and experience, encouraging debate and discussion, and hopefully providing a firm platform for business improvement and change across organisations from a position of informed knowledge, or indeed assisting personal career development and advancement for all who attend.
A lot of preparation and thought goes into
every course we provide, and the feedback from customers who attend our
technical BIM training and management courses is consistently outstanding and
complimentary, which is always welcome and gratefully received. Every course
delivered is analysed, improved, and new learning approaches introduced on a regular
basis to support continuous improvement.
As a business we constantly investigate
industry trends, customer organisation and project workflows to provide the
services that enable customers to work smarter.This also extends to our BIM
training and education support.For the management courses, it has been a
revelation splitting full day in person courses into a number of virtual
sessions, resulting in increased knowledge retention, convenience and allowing
delegates more time during the day for important fee earning project work. But
there is more we can do to support our customers.
Excitech are increasingly providing BIM and
ISO19650 Management training globally, and in order to be successful these have
to be regionally appropriate for the local market.This takes a lot of research
and understanding,but it also ensures the courses provided are not too UK
centric despite the UK’s obvious global influence on many BIM standards and
workflows. As a result, our BIM and ISO19650 courses are becoming more modular
in nature, depending on the customers’ requirements. For some organisations across
the UK, a Fundamentals course may not be appropriate, but there may be some
aspects where a refresh is required.A course focused on ISO19650 workflows may
be needed but enhanced by including how to set up the CDE to be aligned to the
guidance, or explanation of typical project roles. What we are increasingly
offering today is education where the customer selects their own course content,
the focus areas, and what is important to their organisation or project. If you
do not feel your teams need to know how to manage LOD and LOI on projects due
to existing processes and understanding, then this approach allows a course to
be configured and focused in different and new areas of learning.Of course,
there is a caveat here that some modules must be mandatory.
Applying a modular approach also allows for
alignment to customers training budgets.We are moving increasingly to 6 x 2hr virtual
management training modules which is the equivalent to two days of traditional
classroom based training, but by applying a modular approach if only one day of
training is required this can be provided within this framework.
So, what does this all look like? The current coursesare split into sessions and those already in delivery are depicted below with the mandatory items highlighted in purple, recommended in blue, and optional depending on customer type in grey. You the customer select twelve sessions for an equivalent 1-day course or 24 sessions for an equivalent 2-day course, including the mandatory sessions.
Course Content
The course modules are being expanded on a
regular basis to align with several initiatives including the UK BIM Frameworks
Learning Objectives and CPD Certification requirements.
So, what are the next steps? You can talk to us about the different options we offer and together we can select the most appropriate for your organisation. Visit our website to arrange a BIM training course or ISO workshop
https://www.symetri.co.uk/training/training-courses
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