We are transitioning a project into Revit now that we have completed concept design and starting schematic. It is a hospital and there are 3 architecture firms collaborating: us, our partner who is a hospital expert, and the local architect since this is an international project. We are responsible for the shell, vertical transportation, and "public interior areas". Our partner firm is responsible for 85% of the interior planning and design and the local architect is doing the other 15%, mostly service program like the loading dock, kitchens, materials management, etc.
Through concept design, we produced background plans, sent them to our partner who did program diagrams, drawings with hatched areas with labels. They'd send their file back to us and we'd XREF it into the plan and make any last-minute adjustments (stairs being shifted around, for example).
Now that we are getting into the layout of each room and we're in Revit, I'm unfamiliar with doing colored plans with linked models. For example, we still need the program plans, which I assume will be area plans. Is it possible for our partner firm to create those area plans and we link them in to the main model? Similarly, if we have to do color room plans, how does that with an interior model linked into a shell model?
Any information would be helpful, thanks.