LOD explains how detailed, accurate, and build-ready your BIM model is at every stage. As the LOD increases, uncertainty drops—giving you clearer coordination, fewer RFIs, faster approvals, reduced rework, and a smoother, more predictable construction process.
Structural Services – LOD 100 → Concept (Early Vision)
Meaning: High-level structural intent without material commitment.
Includes: Conceptual structural massing, preliminary column grids, core locations, and indicative load paths aligned with building form and orientation.
Outcome: Rapid feasibility studies, early span and height validation, zoning compliance checks, and informed go/no-go decisions before detailed engineering.
Critical Insight: Early structural clarity avoids fundamental redesign later.
Structural Services – LOD 200 → Early Design (Schematic Design)
Meaning: Organized but approximate structural systems.
Includes: Preliminary framing layouts, approximate beam and column sizing, slab systems, core definition, and early assumptions for load transfer and constructability.
Outcome: Clear structural intent, realistic early costing models, and strong alignment with architectural and MEP systems.
Critical Insight: Most structural coordination risks are resolved here.
Structural Services – LOD 300 → Detailed Design (Accurate & Coordinated)
Meaning: Fully engineered, measurable structural model.
Includes: Accurate member sizes, exact placement of beams, columns, slabs, walls, foundations, coordinated penetrations, and reliable quantity take-offs.
Outcome: Reduced RFIs, smooth consultant approvals, clash-free coordination, and predictable construction documentation.
Critical Insight: This stage eliminates the majority of structural site issues.
Structural Services – LOD 350/400 → Build-Ready (Fabrication Precision)
Meaning: Fabrication- and construction-ready structural detailing.
Includes: Connection details, reinforcement layouts, embeds, anchors, openings, tolerances, sequencing logic, and shop drawing–level clarity.
Outcome: Faster fabrication approvals, minimal site rework, accurate prefabrication, controlled erection, and confident field execution.
Critical Insight: Converts structural design intent into build-ready certainty.
Structural Services – LOD 500 → As-Built (Verified Digital Twin)
Meaning: Final verified structural representation of the built condition.
Includes: Confirmed as-built geometry, actual member sizes, connection updates, field modifications, and validated load paths.
Outcome: Reliable asset records, safe renovations, accurate assessments, and long-term structural lifecycle documentation.
Critical Insight: Becomes the owner’s definitive structural reference for decades.
This structural LOD framework delivers certainty across design, fabrication, and construction—ensuring engineers, fabricators, and contractors always work from accurate, coordinated, and build-ready information.
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