← VDC TEXAS INDEXMETHOD & HOW IT MOVES

The Method

This index measures how much of a firm's VDC/BIM practice is observable in the public record. It does not measure how good the firm is.

THE INSTRUMENT · 11 DIVISIONS · 100 POINTS

PLANNING

ObjectivesPublished VDC goals, BEP templates, owner-facing standards.

StandardsNamed standards (ISO 19650, LOD, CDE) in public material.

PreparationPreconstruction & model-based estimating, published.

ADOPTION

OrganizationA named VDC leader and team, published on the firm's own site.

w11

ProcessCoordination cadence, clash workflow, field verification, documented.

w11

ToolchainNamed authoring/coordination/reality-capture tools in public material.

w10

Owned CapabilityIn-house reality capture, software, or R&D (not vendor marketing).

EVIDENCE

Case StudiesProject-specific VDC outcomes with named projects.

w10

Speaking & TeachingConference sessions, papers, courses taught by named staff.

CredentialsStanford CIFE VDC, registry-verified certifications.

Publication CadenceRecency & rhythm of dated VDC content the firm publishes.

EVIDENCE CLASSES · THE NO-PROMOTION RULE

Aprimary / authoritativeSCORES

Bstrong industry mediaSCORES

Cprofessional corroborationSCORES

Daggregator — never scoresNEVER SCORES

Einference — never scoresNEVER SCORES

Aggregators (D) and inference (E) can orient a search but can never raise a position. A firm’s absence from an aggregator proves nothing either.

THE BANDS · OVI 0–100

0 – 20 · NOT OBSERVABLE20 – 40 · DECLARED40 – 60 · DOCUMENTED60 – 80 · CORROBORATED80 – 100 · QUANTIFIED

HOW IT MOVES · DAILY RECOMPUTE

Each morning at 06:00 CT a scheduled job re-reads the public sources, records any change to the data file, recomputes every OVI and CONF, and republishes. Every rank change is written to the public corrections record with its date and the document that caused it. OVI and CONF are computed on separate tracks and are never combined.

ATTRIBUTION

The measure framework is adapted from Stanford CIFE's Virtual Design & Construction scorecard. Stanford CIFE is credited as the source of the method; it does not endorse this index or these scores.