UNIT.City BIM and VDC Programme: From Design Models to Construction Use
A multi-project BIM and Virtual Design and Construction programme connecting coordinated models, common data environment workflows, construction planning, and client-team capability.
- Programme area
- 100,000+ m²
- Coordinated BIM models
- 40+
- Client and contractor staff trained
- 65
UNIT.City required Building Information Modeling and Virtual Design and Construction to support more than design production. The programme aimed to make coordinated information usable by the client, designers, contractors, and site teams across several capital projects in Kyiv.
TEBIN supported the programme through BIM and VDC implementation, multidisciplinary coordination, common data environment workflows, model review, construction planning, and training. The archived project records cover four projects with a combined area above 100,000 m² and more than 40 models produced by 15 subcontractors.
Establishing one delivery framework
The first task was to establish how information would be created, reviewed, exchanged, and used. TEBIN helped define model requirements, document workflows, responsibilities, coordination routines, and the relationship between design models and construction activities.
A common data environment based on Autodesk BIM 360 supported document management, model exchange, review status, issues, and access to current information. Models remained discipline-owned, while federation gave participants a shared context for coordination and decision-making.
Building capability inside the client team
Technology adoption depends on people understanding both the tools and the delivery process. TEBIN trained 65 client and contractor employees in BIM and VDC principles and supported the formation of a five-person coordination team on the client side.
This enabled the programme to retain capability beyond individual coordination meetings. Client-side coordinators could participate in model review, manage information workflows, and support consistent requirements across the portfolio rather than relying entirely on external specialists.
Connecting models to construction
The coordinated models supported more than clash detection. They were prepared for construction review, four-dimensional sequence planning, procurement and tendering, and access through BIM kiosks on site. Virtual reality reviews and visual coordination sessions helped project participants examine interfaces in context.
For an approximately 19,845 m² office building within the programme, the process connected basic and detailed design with early contractor review, regular clash checks, geolocation information for site setting-out, and a developing roadmap for four-dimensional and five-dimensional use.
The programme also used 360-degree site records and digital progress information where those methods supported a defined review or reporting purpose. The tools were treated as parts of the delivery process, not as isolated demonstrations.
Project outcome
TEBIN helped establish a repeatable BIM and VDC framework across a multi-project development programme. More than 40 models could be reviewed within common requirements, client and contractor teams gained practical coordination capability, and model information was connected with procurement, planning, and construction use.
The value of the programme was not one software platform. It was the transfer of coordinated digital delivery from a specialist activity into the working methods of the wider project team.
