Feature
OPR vs the drawings
The brief checked against the set, clause by clause.
The Owner's Project Requirements describe the building the contract expects: hundreds of clauses on acoustics, thermal performance, services capacity, finishes, warranties and FFE. On design-build you deliver every one of them whether or not the consultants drew it. CIM checks each clause against the drawings and the specification and cites the sheet behind every finding.
The brief
The set
Checked/Both directions, clause by clause
Not picked up
Past what was asked
The audit re-runs on every design issue, so a clause satisfied at tender is checked again at IFC to the same standard.
The brief and the set, run against each other in both directions, on every issue.
The old way
Hundreds of clauses, checked wherever the brief happens to be open
The brief gets read where trouble is expected
Hundreds of clauses and days to check them all, so the team reads the sections it already suspects and trusts the rest.
A missed clause is rework you fund
On design-build a requirement the drawings never picked up gets built wrong, and the correction comes out of your margin.
Over-delivery is built for free
Design that runs past what the brief asks for goes in, and nobody priced the difference.
With CIM
Every clause checked in both directions, on every issue
The whole brief audited against the set
Each clause runs against the drawings and the specification. Requirements the design missed come back as findings, and so does design that exceeds the brief.
Every finding is defensible
Each one names the clause number and the sheet it was checked against, ready for an RFI or a fee conversation.
The obligation stays visible to handover
The audit re-runs on the bid pack and on every design issue after it, so a clause satisfied at bid is checked again at IFC.
What it does for your team
Builders
The design obligation you carry, visible
On design-and-construct you are bound to every clause. Each one is checked against the set at pricing and at every issue after it.
Developers
Hold the design to what you briefed
Requirements the consultants have not picked up come back as findings while the drawings can still change.
Certifiers and surveyors
DA against the construction set
Discrepancies between what was approved and what is being built, caught before they are built into the job.