BIM 360 Project Management Update

By Nick Harris

Autodesk has just released two much-requested features in BIM 360 Project Management

• Re-Open RFI from Answered
• Item Detail Report

Re-Open RFI from Answered:

Re-open RFI is intended as an administrative override to revert an RFI to the Reviewer’s court if the answer is incomplete in some way.  It is not intended to act as a revision process (they are working on that!).

1. When an RFI Manager receives a response that is incomplete, they will now have the option to return to reviewer.
2. They will be able to select which reviewer to send the RFI to.
3. The reviewer will see the RFI back in their court and will be able to view the previous official response and send a new response to the reviewer.

Known issue:  Autodesk is working on expanding and simplifying the project admin permissions with the goal of allowing project admins to have all permissions of the Manager and Reviewer.  This is a work in progress.

Currently, project admins viewing an answered RFI not assigned to them will see the option to “Return to Reviewer”, but not to “Close and Distribute”.

Current resolution: If the project admin then reassigns the RFI to themselves, they will have both options available.  Autodesk is working to resolve this permissions inconsistency asap!

Item detail PDF export:

The Item detail PDF export is a printable version of a submittal item record including detailed information, workflow roles and status.