The worst BIM coordination meeting is not the one with hard questions. It is the one where the right questions arrive too late. A team gathers around a federated model. The schedule is tight. The owner expects decisions. Trade partners are ready to move. Then the meeting turns into a slow discovery session. The latest models are missing. Clash reports do not match the current design. A mechanical subcontractor is asked to solve an issue caused by a structural change they neve

A BIM model can look impressive and still slow a project down. That is the core problem behind the LOD trap: teams add more detail because they assume it will create more certainty, but the model becomes harder to build, harder to check, and harder to use. In Building Information Modeling, detail has value only when it supports a real decision, task, or handoff. Beyond that point, extra geometry, data fields, and modeled components can turn into digital clutter. They increase

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