The title speaks for itself.
But it wouldn’t justify without a story.
It’s 2022, and I was working with a Revit office that confidently stated they don’t use Revit schedules because schedules have caused major issues between engineers and project managers. Since the schedules were locked in Revit, the project managers (who didn’t know Revit) had little control over them, they said. Somehow that led to traumatic experiences that led to the banning of schedules and reverted them to establishing an Excel process for many years.
It’s a horror hearing this.
Revit schedules, is part of Revit 101. They are a basic necessity in managing model assets and knowing what’s in your model. They are essential to keeping accountable the total number of elements, and plotting the necessary data for construction drawings. Specifically, they are your sheet lists, door schedules, window schedules, equipment schedules, and more. All are necessary requirements for bids, building permits, bill of materials, means of egress calculations… I could go on.
Without the use of schedules, the model is detached from the schedule data, leaving the data prone to errors just like in AutoCAD. It defeats the purpose of the BIM process, to carry data throughout the life cycle of the project, improving accuracy and accountability of the building assets, reducing errors caused during planning and rework in construction.
In other words, the office was using Revit without the benefits. They may as well be using AutoCAD and Excel spreadsheets at that level.
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