Exchange Information Requirements (EIR)

The Exchange Information Requirements (EIR) is provided to set out the managerial, commercial, and technical aspects of information delivery. The Managerial commercial aspects should include the information standard, methods, and procedures. The Technical aspect of the EIR should specify the proposed approach and responses undertaken to the Project Information requirements and should be aligned with the project milestones and stages

The EIR’s will cascade from the Appointing Party / Client to the Lead Consultant / Contractor and then from the Lead Consultant / Contractor to each Task Team. Each appointment shall include an EIR and as these cascades the division of the requirements can support specific task delivery. The Lead Consultant / Contractor will augment the Appointing Party / Client EIR with their own requirements to meet their own BIM uses identified for the project. Within a delivery team, it should be recognised that not all information is created for the benefit of the Appointing Party / Client and this should be addressed in the cascading requirements.

The EIRs shall consider the OIRs, AIRs and the PIRs as well as the following as a minimum set of contents:

Management

  • Standards and Classification
  • Information functions (Roles and Responsibilities)
  • Planning of work
  • Security
  • Spatial Coordination and Clash Detection
  • Collaboration Process
  • Systems Performance
  • Compliance Plan (CDE)
  • Delivery Strategy for Asset Information
  • Training requirements
  • Health and Safety

Technical

  • Software Platforms
  • Data Exchange Formats
  • Coordinate Systems, Units and Level,
  • Level of Information Need
  • Model Exclusions and Inclusions

Commercial

  • Acceptance Criteria
  • Milestones and Project Deliverables
  • Client Strategic purposes
  • Responsibilities Matrix
  • BIM Capability Assessment

The BIM Implementation Plan (BIM IP) provided by the delivery team will respond directly to the contents of the BIM Requirements to provide a question/answer approach to the requirements.