Learn some of the key concepts and terminology used in BIM 360.

Accounts

Within BIM 360, an account represents the highest organizational level. Typically, there is only one account for your company.

Projects

Within a given account, your organization can have one or more design and construction projects.

In the example below, the top-level United Construction account contains a number of different projects:

Modules

In BIM 360, a module or service refers to the top-level container of the user interface (UI). Each module contains a unique set of capabilities, and can be activated depending on your organization's subscription plan and your individual BIM 360 permissions. The Next Generation products include the following modules, apps, and tools:

• Account Administration: Manage account level details, projects, companies involved, and member permissions.
• Project Administration: Manage project-specific details including services, companies, and members.
• Document Management: Store and collaborate on all necessary project files.
• Insight: View account and project analytics to assess risk, quality, and safety metrics.
• Project Home: View important, relevant, and actionable information from across BIM 360 services.
• Design Collaboration: Use project timelines, packages, and changes to keep up to date with other teams and companies.
• Field Management: Manage onsite communication of checklists, issues, and daily logs.
• Model Coordination: Publish, review, and run clash detection on your latest set of project models.
• Project Management: Collaborate with your project team using RFIs and submittals.
• Mobile Apps: Access the Document Management, Field Management, and Project Management modules on the go.
• Desktop Connector: Automatically sync documents locally to your computer.

User Access Levels

At a high level, there are three user access levels: account administrator, project administrator, and project member:

• Account administrator: Responsible for managing the account, including setting up the company profile, creating projects, and managing members and companies.
• Project administrator: Responsible for managing individual projects within an account, including managing the project profile, activating and managing services or modules, and managing members.
• Project member: Has access to modules and services as determined by administrators.

For more information about the capabilities of each access level, refer to the BIM 360 User Access Levels topic.

Tip: In addition, project members can be assigned a job role associated with a specific set of permissions that determine the services available to them.