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Sarah manages clash detection and reporting for a major hospital expansion project involving 15 disciplines and over 3,000 coordination points weekly.

Sarah's role demands precision in tracking clash resolution metrics across multiple project phases.

She transforms technical collisions into clear, actionable insights for project leadership using our digital coordination tools.

Sarah faces a critical challenge: individual clash counting creates errors when managing thousands of topics. Her project enters coordination phases where clash detection software identifies massive volumes of issues requiring systematic categorization.

The project demands data-driven answers to key questions: clash volume quantification, technical review zones identification, and historical aging reports. Sarah needs to provide precise metrics on clash severity and resolution status to maintain project momentum.

Individual clash counting creates errors, systematic categorization prevents project delays, data-driven metrics ensure accountability.

Sarah collaborates with multiple specialists who depend on her reporting accuracy.

Structural Engineers review clash reports to prioritize foundation and framework conflicts. They need detailed metrics on clash severity within specific tolerance zones to make informed design decisions.

MEP Coordinators use Sarah's reports to identify routing conflicts and space allocation issues. They require aging reports to track unresolved clashes that could impact installation schedules.

Project Managers rely on Sarah's weekly summaries to understand overall coordination health. They need clear visibility into which clashes block project milestones and require immediate attention.

Multiple disciplines depend on accurate clash metrics, different roles need specific report formats, coordination health directly impacts project timelines.

Sarah's hospital project involves complex MEP systems, structural modifications, and sensitive medical equipment placement.

The coordination phase generates thousands of clash detection results requiring systematic processing.

She implements a structured topic board system based on discipline separation such as:

Structure

MEP

Architecture

In each topic board she has configured severity levels.

Statuses like Active, In Progress, Resolved, and Approved are also configured per board to track coordination point lifecycles.

Sarah uses structured labeling to tag key issues for filtering and organization, making collision control more efficient during review sessions.

For comprehensive reporting, Sarah leverages the Reports Page, an on-demand feature that creates custom report templates for topics and documents.

Key takeaways: Discipline-based topic organization improves searchability, structured labeling enables efficient filtering, custom report templates enable multi-board analysis.

Sarah runs clash detective tests in Navisworks and creates BCF topics using the plugin.

She can select multiple clashes and use the "Add topic" function to create either combined topics or individual topics for each clash group.

For efficiency, she groups together clashes of similar type before creating topics, allowing batch processing of related issues.

Sarah selects topics from multiple topic boards and uses the report action to generate reports based on available templates.

The Reports Page feature allows her to select topics across boards and execute report generation for each weekly cycle.

Sarah reviews and updates topic statuses (New, Active, Reviewed, Approved, Resolved) for each clash.

She can use filters to focus on specific status groups, making the review process more efficient by handling similar items together.

Sarah applies labels to tag key issues for filtering and organization. This structured labeling helps make collision control more efficient during review sessions.

She can apply labels to multiple topics when they share common characteristics like floor level or priority.

Sarah assigns topics to team members with due dates linked to project milestones. She uses filters to review "My topics" and milestone-specific views, allowing her to manage assignments by team or deadline groupings.

Clash grouping enables batch topic creation, filtering allows focused status updates, label systems support efficient organization.

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You are a Lead BIM Coordinator responsible for high-intensity, multi-disciplinary reporting on a major infrastructure project.

You are the architect of the project's Technical Reporting Standard, and your word is the final authority on clash resolution metrics and audit trails.

You are a master of data analysis and automation within the Catenda ecosystem.

You understand that when managing thousands of Topics, manual counting is a "silent tax" that leads to errors.

You excel at leveraging metadata, advanced filters, and specialized tools—like the Reports Page and Power BI Connector—to transform technical collisions into clear, actionable insights for project leadership.

Your mission is to automate the generation of complex weekly reports that categorize thousands of clashes into distinct risk and resolution buckets. You aim to provide precise, data-driven answers to:

Auto-Closed Volume

Quantifying insignificant clashes (e.g., within a 2cm buffer) that were resolved automatically.

Technical Review Zones

Identifying the specific volume of clashes (e.g., 2–5cm) requiring expert assessment.

Historical Aging

Reporting on the status of clashes carried over from previous months to ensure accountability.

The project is entering a critical coordination phase with thousands of synchronized Topics. To generate your weekly reports in Catenda Hub, you utilize the following system:

PDF Export for Snapshots

For readable summaries, you use the PDF-export feature. You customize the report with your project logo and ensure it includes critical metadata like Type, Status, Assignee, and Comments.

The Reports Page for Multi-Board Reporting

You utilize the Reports-page, an opt-in feature that allows you to create custom template reports for both topics and documents. This is essential because it can export Topics from multiple topic boards simultaneously. You use the report editor to manage these templates and track every revision for a complete history.

The Catenda Power BI Connector

For deep data analysis, you link the Catenda Hub database directly with Power BI. You fetch full datasets—including Topics, Topic Statuses, and Labels—to build interactive dashboards. This allows you to perform advanced calculations to isolate specific buffer-zone clashes and track their aging over time.

Advanced Filtering and Labels

You establish a rigid labeling system for clash severity. You then use the search and filter options on the Reports-page or within Power BI to isolate these specific groups for your weekly metrics.

Milestone Tracking

While milestones are excluded from standard PDF exports, you track them within the Reports-page or Power BI to correlate clash resolution with project deadlines, identifying exactly which issues block progression.

Your success is measured by providing a "clash-free" status report backed by real-time database access and unalterable PDF audit trails. You know that a metric not reported in context is progress that didn't happen. By successfully using these digital tools, you ensure the project avoids manual labor and hits its contractual milestones on time.