
On Reimagining AEC, his own podcast, Dr Sepehr Abrishami asks how one BIM execution plan can serve both the tender and the appointment. A hypothetical community hub for a district council, whose tender cites a withdrawn standard, carries the argument from the six areas of clause 5.3.2 of ISO 19650-2, through four drafting techniques and the formal raising of a defective requirement, to confirmation under clause 5.4.1, the five completed appointment documents under change control, and the audit of a template that lags the standard.
Chapters
- 0:00 Opening: the Ferrybank tender and the requirement that cannot be answered
- 2:36 One plan, two states: method statement, authorship and the tender response
- 7:42 Reading the tender: the five parts of a requirement and the six areas of clause 5.3.2
- 13:36 Drafting the skeleton: eight sections, four techniques and the defect raised
- 18:57 Confirming the plan: agreement and the six actions of clause 5.4.1
- 24:02 The appointment document set: five documents, change control and sequencing
- 29:11 Completing the template: carried, confirmed, added and the legacy audit
- 33:11 Close
After listening, you should be able to:
- Define the BIM execution plan from ISO 19650-2, distinguish its pre-appointment and confirmed states by author, governing clause and contractual status, and place the plan among the four tender response documents of clause 5.3.7.
- Read an invitation to tender in all five parts of each exchange information requirement and name the six areas that clause 5.3.2 requires a pre-appointment plan to consider.
- Structure a pre-appointment plan from the standard alone, answer every requirement through a response matrix, keep the proposed apart from the assumed, and raise a defective or superseded requirement through an amendment, an issue and a recorded assumption.
- Run a confirmation under clause 5.4.1 as an agreement with each appointed party through its six actions, and audit a plan for proposal language that should not survive confirmation.
- Name the five completed appointment documents of clause 5.4.6 and their mirror at clause 5.4.7, explain change control as the condition that binds them, defend settling the level of information need before the plan is confirmed, and answer the single task team question from the UK guidance.
- Convert a pre-appointment plan into a confirmed plan by sorting each entry as carried, confirmed or added, and correct a template where it lags the current standard.
References
British Standards Institution. (2013). PAS 1192-2:2013 Specification for information management for the capital/delivery phase of construction projects using building information modelling. BSI. (Withdrawn, cited as history.)
British Standards Institution. (2018). PAS 1192-6:2018 Specification for collaborative sharing and use of structured health and safety information using BIM. BSI. (Withdrawn, cited as history.)
British Standards Institution. (2018). BS EN ISO 19650-2:2018 Organization and digitization of information about buildings and civil engineering works, including building information modelling (BIM). Information management using building information modelling. Part 2: Delivery phase of the assets (incorporating corrigendum February 2021, including UK National Annex). BSI.
British Standards Institution. (2020). BS EN 17412-1:2020 Building information modelling. Level of information need. Part 1: Concepts and principles. BSI. (Withdrawn, superseded by BS EN ISO 7817-1:2024, cited as history.)
British Standards Institution. (2020). BS EN ISO 19650-3:2020 Organization and digitization of information about buildings and civil engineering works, including building information modelling (BIM). Information management using building information modelling. Part 3: Operational phase of the assets. BSI.
British Standards Institution. (2020). BS EN ISO 19650-5:2020 Organization and digitization of information about buildings and civil engineering works, including building information modelling (BIM). Information management using building information modelling. Part 5: Security-minded approach to information management. BSI.
British Standards Institution. (2024). BS EN ISO 7817-1:2024 Building information modelling. Level of information need. Part 1: Concepts and principles. BSI.
British Standards Institution. (2025). BS EN ISO 19650-6:2025 Organization and digitization of information about buildings and civil engineering works, including building information modelling (BIM). Information management using building information modelling. Part 6: Health and safety information. BSI.
nima. (2024, November 11). Construction Leadership Council and nima launch Information Management Initiative (IMI). https://wearenima.im/construction-leadership-council-and-nima-launch-information-management-initiative-imi/
nima. (2025, May 30). New IMI Framework to extend UK BIM Framework. https://wearenima.im/new-imi-framework/
nima. (2026, February 25). Proposed changes to ISO 19650 outlined in BSI/nima webinar. https://wearenima.im/proposed-changes-to-iso-19650-outlined-in-bsi-nima-webinar/
nima. (2026, May 18). Consultation on revisions to ISO 19650 Part 3 opens. https://wearenima.im/consultation-on-revisions-to-iso-19650-part-3-opens/
Royal Institute of British Architects. (2020). RIBA plan of work 2020 overview. RIBA.
UK BIM Framework. (2019). Information management according to BS EN ISO 19650: Guidance Part 1: Concepts (Edition 2). UK BIM Framework.
UK BIM Framework. (2021). Information management according to BS EN ISO 19650: Guidance Part 2: Processes for project delivery (Edition 6). UK BIM Framework.
UK BIM Framework. (2021). Information management according to BS EN ISO 19650: Guidance Part A: The information management function and resources (Edition 2). UK BIM Framework.
Reimagining AEC is Dr Sepehr Abrishami's own podcast. For related subjects, hear The Delivery Phase in ISO 19650 Part 2.
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