Improve your design review process with RIB Project
Do you also find that the review process often fails to achieve its intended purpose? And are you looking for a more efficient way to conduct your digital design review? Then we have the solution for you.
Correcting failures, defects and shortcomings in construction costs owners and other stakeholders billions each year. However, in many instances, these costs could be easily avoided if projects were reviewed more effectively. Using RIB Project, we have made the difficult and administratively heavy process much quicker and much more accurate to complete.
Discover how RIB Project can add value to the design review process:
Insert annotations and make markups directly in files
The review tool in RIB Project allows all users to register, comment and annotate directly in the same documents and 2D drawings – without the need for additional tools. Avoid long e-mail exchanges with follow-up questions, and only be notified when someone comments on one of your files - even if they have not specifically tagged you - so you can jump straight into the conversation.
Complete overview without time-consuming review meetings
It is often felt that the design review process can be an extremely time-consuming and bureaucratic exercise, with piles of documentation being produced. But, with RIB Project, input is gathered in one place, making it easy for you and other review participants to keep track of all changes. Any reviewer can quickly access the project without first having to collect and check large amounts of data from the different reviewers' own file sets. This saves significant time on the project - and costly resources on review meetings.
Create "open" or "private" design review process
Choose whether you want your review process to be open or private. With RIB Project, you get to decide which type of review suits your project, making it easy to collaborate optimally with other review participants. A private review allows you to start a message thread between selected users and keep the review private, as opposed to an open, where the review is open to all participants in the version set.
Set the framework for a good and effective design review process
As a design review takes place across disciplines and phases, ensuring coordination and interaction is crucial. With RIB Project, as your tool, the review manager can add relevant users to participate in the review process, where comments on modifications can be clearly shared and logged, and issues can be clarified and addressed. Knowledge is therefore no longer person-dependent but anchored and freely accessible in RIB Project.
Give comments a status and create structure in your project
You also have the option to give annotations (comments) a status; accepted, cancelled, completed, created, modified or rejected. The whole idea of this is to make it easier for you and other reviewers to create traceability, identify relevant and irrelevant comments and track how the project is progressing.
It is easy to keep track of who is responsible for which tasks and whether they are acted upon. This will be creating more confidence while freeing up time for more productive work by removing a lot of manual work from the shoulders of the responsible review manager.
Export and share annotation extracts in Excel with relevant stakeholders
With the review tool you can generate and extract all annotations easily and quickly with information such as who made a change, when the change was made, what the change contains, what status was given etc. The function helps you to summarize the result of the review in a review report to the developer or other relevant stakeholders.
Online review tool
The advantage of moving the design review work online is that there is always the possibility to recreate the history of the review process, as data is synchronized across reviewers. This way, everyone is always able to access and present the desired data for future use.