One lean-construction expert says Autodesk's BIM 360 suite, when complete, will bring about an egalitarian construction workflow in which the foreman can know as much as the BIM manager about the project schedule and flag trade-specific conflicts before they happen. The next piece in that puzzle is BIM 360 Plan, a mobile, cloud-based lean-construction management system.
The tech allows foreman and others—those closest to construction activities—with all the data they need to direct a work crew, says Hal Macomber, principal of Lean Project Consulting, Louisville, Colo. BIM 360 Plan is meant to replace a typical workflow–in which a foreman is beholden to the su- per for schedule updates and changes—by auto-syncing work progress from all trades and putting that data in workers' hands through BIM 360 Glue. At day's end, trades can see one another's progress and plan tomorrow's crew count accordingly.