We hope that this tool has helped you identify those benefits that will deliver the value of BIM and to develop a strategy to monitor your progress.

This is however only the beginning of the journey. There are a number of considerations that you will have to address before implementing BIM. Decisions such as standards, protocols, BIM management roles, risk apportioning, skill development plans, and system requirements will need to be made. The book Delivering Value with BIM: A Whole-of-life Approach provides implementation tips that can help you further develop your implementation strategy.

There are also a number of BIM implementation guidelines that cover these and other more technical topics at length and are freely available such as: NATSPEC's Getting Started with BIM (2014) and National BIM Guide (2011) from Australia; the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) BIM Guide Series (2007; 2011), American Institute of Architects' IPD Guide (2007) and U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs BIM Guide (2010), Singapore's BIM Guide (BCA, 2013), the British Standard series (2013; 2014a; 2014b) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) series (2010; 2012; 2014).

You can find most of these guidelines and more at NATSPEC BIM Guides.