BIM Clash Types: Hard, Soft, and Workflow Conflicts
Each coordination meeting is slowed down by a clash report with thousands of flagged items. Teams spend hours on minor warnings while the issues that stop installation wait their turn. The hard vs soft clash BIM split fixes that by sorting problems by what they break. Workflow conflicts add a third group that only appears once the schedule joins the model. Sorting all three early saves rework later. Why Clash Reports Pile Up Without Sorting Coordination works when every system has a route and room around it. A federated model brings all disciplines into one file, and a default test flags everything that touches. The result is one long list with one label. Coordinators then work in the order items appear, not in the order of risk. Knowing the types of clashes in BIM gives them a ranking system instead. A clear BIM Workflow Process starts with that ranking. Hard Clashes: Two Objects, One Space Hard clashes are the easiest group to picture. Two elements occupy the same coord...