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NTI COMANAGE: Keep BIM Data Under Control Before Things Go Wrong

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BIM has long ceased to be about beautiful models. The real value and risk lie in the data. Properties, classifications, parameters, cost estimation, planning, and management. That's what's being managed today, and is often where errors go unnoticed in many organisations.

 

The silent pressure on the BIM coordinator

In practice, responsibility for data quality often falls to the BIM coordinator. Not because this is formally stipulated, but because someone *must* maintain an overview. When data becomes corrupted, when agreements fade, and when a 'quick fix' becomes structural.

The problem is not that BIM teams are not doing their job well. The problem is that data management is rarely truly organised. Due to financial and time pressure on projects, structured data management often falls by the wayside. It then relies on experience, goodwill, and a few people who know how things should be done. That works, until it doesn't.

 

More tools do not solve the problem

What we often see in practice: yet another check, yet another tool, yet another Excel list. But that doesn't get to the heart of the matter. The real issue is not a software problem, but an organizational question: who manages the data, who monitors the quality, and how do you ensure that this doesn't disappear as soon as someone can no longer take responsibility?

What is NTI COMANAGE?

NTI COMANAGE is a co-management service that enables organisations to structure the management of their BIM data. It allows teams to centralise, cluster, and enrich data from various data sources in a controlled manner. This information is subsequently written back to Autodesk Revit, among others.

A defining characteristic of NTI COMANAGE is the collaboration with your internal team. Responsibility for data quality, continuity, and control over change remains jointly vested and is structurally organised.

 
Key features of NTI COMANAGE
  • Centralise project and BIM data on one platform, always with the current version
  • Cluster data from Autodesk Revit, IFC, Excel, and other data sources
  • Enrich objects (Families) with their own, project-specific data
  • Automatically populate and update data from multiple data sources
  • Share clear data visualisations with internal and external stakeholders
  • Easily start projects from predefined project templates

From data stress to data control

In practice, this means less ad hoc intervention and more predictability. Data agreements remain intact, even during growth, new projects, or team changes. Problems are identified and addressed substantively earlier, rather than only becoming visible upon delivery.

For BIM coordinators, this provides breathing room: less retrospective control, more proactive steering. Less explaining why something went wrong, more control over why things continue to go well.

 

Reliable BIM data as the basis for sustainability

Sustainability within BIM goes beyond ambitions or isolated calculations. It requires reliable, consistent data. NTI COMANAGE supports this by centralising data from various data sources and disciplines and providing insight into them.

Multiple models can be viewed in one place, so that stakeholders have easy access to the information needed for CO₂ calculations and life cycle analyses (LCAs).

 

Control over BIM data, today and in the long term

NTI COMANAGE helps organizations centralise, structure, and manage BIM data from various sources. By clustering and enriching data and writing it back in a controlled manner to applications such as Autodesk Revit, control is gained over data quality, continuity, and reuse without losing overall direction.

Take the next step in BIM data management

Want to know how NTI COMANAGE can help make BIM data structurally manageable within your organization? Contact us for an exploratory conversation.

Jim Barrett

Sales Director

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