Governments and clients increasingly require BIM; maturity models say how far a firm has come. Use both to set the next step, not to win a label.
Many governments and large clients now require BIM on their projects, and many firms want to know how far along they are. Mandates and maturity models both help, as long as you treat them as tools for planning, not as labels to claim.
A mandate is a requirement by a government or client to use BIM on its projects. It is put into practice through the client's own information requirements on each project. A maturity model is a structured self-assessment of how well a firm (or project) does BIM, across areas such as people, process, technology and information, usually on a scale of levels.
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