Strategic Competency - Efficient Infrastructure Management: Introduction to BIM and Lean Construction

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How did you earn this badge?

To obtain this credential, the recipient must have:

• Passed the course Efficient Infrastructure Management: Introduction to BIM and Lean Construction.
• Obtained the course’s digital credential.
• Describe an action you will carry out within your context using the knowledge and/or skills acquired in the course related to incorporating BIM and Lean Construction approaches into infrastructure projects, considering their benefits and strategic value, as well as the key actions and elements for their effective adoption. The proposed action must fall under one of the following types of actions: applicability exploration; dissemination or training; proposal for use, adoption, or adaptation; tool design or adaptation; contextualized analysis; application or implementation.

Why is it meaningful?

This credential is meaningful because it demonstrates that the recipient values the relevance and usefulness of the learning acquired in the course Efficient Infrastructure Management: Introduction to BIM and Lean Construction to improve his-her performance, generate impact in his-her context, and advance his-her professional development. The commitment to apply what was learned through a concrete action reflects that the individual identifies specific activities to explore applicability or put into practice, in his-her daily work, the concepts, tools, processes, and/or practices covered during the course. The purpose of this application is to strengthen and/or improve.

Objectives

Describe a concrete action to explore the applicability of or put into practice the knowledge and/or skills acquired in the course Efficient Infrastructure Management: Introduction to BIM and Lean Construction, specifically in tasks related to: identifying opportunities, conditions, and barriers for applying BIM and Lean Construction methodologies in infrastructure projects; recognizing the benefits and strategic value of these methodologies; and identifying actions and recommendations to promote their incorporation into projects within your context. This commitment implies that the credential recipient has demonstrated the following objectives:

• Reflect on their own professional practice and identify areas for improvement.
• Identify specific short- and medium-term actions in which they will use or apply, in their professional practice, the knowledge and/or skills acquired on the course.
• Identify specific short- and medium-term actions to disseminate and/or promote, within their context, the use of the concepts, tools, processes, and/or practices learned in the course.

Evidence description

This credential is awarded after verification and approval by a review team of the following evidence:

1. Response to the questions included in the application form.

2. Description of a specific action that will be carried out by incorporating the learnings from the course Efficient Infrastructure Management: Introduction to BIM and Lean Construction. The description specifies:

3. The type of action to be carried out (exploration of applicability; dissemination or training; proposal for the use, adoption, or adaptation of tools; contextualized analysis; application or implementation).

4. Description of the action to be performed.
5. Activities that will be undertaken to achieve the action.
6. Expected execution date.

Estimated effort

The preparation of the evidence for Strategic Competency - Efficient Infrastructure Management: Introduction to BIM and Lean Construction has required an estimated effort of 2 hours.

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