BIM Manager
The role accountable for the BIM and information-management strategy on a project or across an organisation.
A BIM Manager is accountable for the strategy and standards behind how information is produced and managed — at project level, organisation level, or both. Where the BIM Coordinator runs the day-to-day coordination, the BIM Manager sets the framework that coordination happens within: the standards, templates, processes and expectations.
On a project this typically means owning the BIM execution plan, defining how the common data environment is structured, agreeing modelling and classification conventions, and making sure the team's outputs actually meet the client's information requirements. At organisation level it extends to tooling, training, templates and continuous improvement of the BIM capability.
The distinction from the Coordinator is one of altitude: the Manager decides how the organisation does BIM; the Coordinator makes it happen on a given model day to day. On smaller teams one person often wears both hats.
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