BIM Hat Trick! - BIM Task Group

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WEEKLY NE WS LE TTE R
June 4th, 2014
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Newsletter, 41st edition | June 4th 2014
DEPARTMENTAL ENGAGEMENT AND SUPPORT OFFICER ACTIVITIES (1)
Ministry of Justice (MoJ)
Richard Lane
{ Philip Isgar }
{ Adam Matthews }
{ We welcome Fiona Moore }
• Richard facilitated a discussion on standard
rooms between MOJ and ProCure 21+
{ Richard Lane }
{ Anne Kemp }
Departmental Engagement
and Support Officers
Department of Health
ProCure 21+ (P21+)
Richard Lane & Howard Jeffrey
Howard has been:
• Finalising eap reports for PC21+ projects
• Collecting ‘measurable’ FM benefits realised from BIM
adoption
• BIM Article for PC21+ newsletter to help trusts understand the what why and how
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Richard presented at events targeted at
Healthcare clients on 8 May & 21 May
{ John Lorimer }
{ Phil Jackson}
{ Graeme Tappenden }
Defence Infrastructure
Organisation (DIO)
{ Howard Jeffrey }
Richard Lane & Fiona Moore
Fiona Moore has joined Richard Lane to support DIO, with
Graeme Tappenden now supporting EA with Phil Jackson.
Recent DIO activities during May have seen:
• A very positive meeting held with DIO Executive Officers
• Productive Workshops that are helping shape DIO’s
BIM Delivery Strategy
• A programme giving deliverables between now and the
end of 2014, in line with the 2016 BIM projects target
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Education Funding
Agency (EFA) and Training
Richard Lane & Fiona Moore
• Richard and Fiona participated in
a process workshop with EFA on 1
May. Subsequently EFA have been
reviewing standard EIR content
against existing tender documents.
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DEPARTMENTAL ENGAGEMENT AND SUPPORT OFFICER ACTIVITIES (2)
Training
Richard Lane
• Richard attended the BIM Academic Forum event on
7 May.
{ Philip Isgar }
{ Adam Matthews }
{ We welcome Fiona Moore }
• Richard has initiated discussions around an update
to the BIM Learning Outcomes Framework and
development of supporting documents
{ Richard Lane }
{ Anne Kemp }
Departmental Engagement
and Support Officers
Nuclear
Philip Isgar
Local Government
John Lorimer
John Lorimer Chaired the Forum for the Built Environment
annual conference in Birmingham which chose BIM as the
theme for the day. Rob Manning and John presented and
led a lively discussion on how the construction industry is
progressing with GSL and BIM implementation.’
‘The North East Procurement Organisation (NEPO) invited
North East Local Authorities to a morning session, led by
John, which explored how BIM can be used in their new
framework contracts.
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{ John Lorimer }
{ Phil Jackson}
{ Graeme Tappenden }
{ Howard Jeffrey }
• BIM Show Live in Manchester generated meetings with Nuclear
Advanced Manufacture Research Centre ( NAMRC ) and Sellafield
Ltd colleagues.
• Introduction of Mike Tynan CEO - NAMRC to Major Projects Association ( MPA ).
• Continued discussions with NNL and Nuclear Innovations Research
Office ( NIRO ).
• NW Nuclear Strategy Forum Meeting, expecting Nu-Gen to present
at Birchwood in July.
• On going meetings with Cost Reduction Group and Construction
Best Practice Forum.
• Meeting with Waldeck Consulting.
• Meeting and telecon with MPA, Lord Hutton and Speakers re MPA
Event - ‘Nuclear new build - opportunities and challenges with UK
capabilities and capacities’
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CORE TEAM MEMBER ACTIVITIES (1)
Mark Bew
Task Group – Chair
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Level 3 Strategy workshops
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COBie Trail presentations
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Level 3 - Smart City Integration Workshops
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Steering Group
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BSi Steering Group
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Nuclear BIM Strategy
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Middlesex University Presentations
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Salford University Summer School
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HA Board Strategy Meeting
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Parliamentary Big Data report
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COBie for All final report
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TSB dPoW workshops
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EU BIM Task Group strategic development
Adam Matthews
EU & International Relations
BIM in e-Procurement
Conference, Lisbon
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Core team meeting with Terry Stocks
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Task Group Steering meeting 7th May
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Dept. for BIS status meeting on Task Group with Barry Blackwell:
plans and progress
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New Zealand Transport Dept. delegation at BIS, presented Task
Group strategy and EU & International programme
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Brussels, presented BIM paper to European Commission
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sentatives on behalf of European public client network
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International relations development activities with Asia-Pacific region,
including buildingSmart Australia discussions
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CORE TEAM MEMBER ACTIVITIES (2)
David Philp
BIM Task Group Head of BIM
Terry Stocks
Delivery Director for Level 2 BIM
Keynote @ GEOBiz
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Update presentation at “Fiatech” Summit
Chaired the BIM4 Steering Group (including TSB update session)
Meeting with RIBA publishing
Key note at GeoBusiness Conference
Update session with British Woodworking Federation
Core team and support officer meeting
BIM Manufacturers Strategic Forum – prep meetings
Update to BIM Technology Vendors Alliance
ThinkFM – BIM / GSL stand
Steering Group Meeting
Presentation to CIOB Aberdeen Branch
Water Conference Presentation, Birmingham
BIM4SME- catch up calls
HS2 Senior team awareness sessions
Newsletter development activities
Various BIM4 meetings
BIM4Charter
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Panellist at the BIM Show Live in Manchester
Met with the Task Group Core Team and Support Officers twice to update
on progress across their various departments.
Part of the team who presented a BIM Awareness seminar to HS2 executives.
Gave an BIM introduction to the new Head of Retail, Rail & Construction
at BIS, Robin Webb.
Met with BIM leads from Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO),
Housing & Communities Agency (HCA), Highways Agency (HA) and Education Funding Agency (EfA) to discuss their BIM Strategies.
Chaired meeting #2 of the BIM Stewardship Group
Chaired the bi-monthly BIM Steering Group
Presented at the RIBA Client Advisor Forum, London
Presented at the RICS QS and Construction Conference, London
Attended a meeting with IPI and Cabinet Office to discuss procurement
Held a meeting to discuss Legacy with Cabinet office and HM Treasury
• Met with LCI-UK
• Met with Peter Hansford, Government Chief Construction Advisor, Re: Construction Strategy
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INTERVIEW
INTERVIEW
BIM: PEOPLE MATTERS
12 QUESTIONS WITH
ANNE KEMP
In this edition we interview
Dr Anne Kemp, Chair of both
the BIM4IUK and AGI working
groups, Director at Atkins - BIM
Strategy and Development.
Anne explores the world of
“geomatic” data and her life
as a smallholder.
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Anne, you tell us your backstory,
especially how your background in
geography helped shape you current
career?
My chosen career path was music – but
the backstop was a geography degree.
A field trip to South East Spain to study
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gully growth had me hooked, and I went
on to do a doctorate in digital modelling of soil erosion. From there, the
first phase of my career was around
environmental consultancy, GIS (Geographic Information Systems), and
environmental modelling (Air Quality
and Hydrological) – so managing digital
data intelligently – and making it accessible for a wide range of stakeholders
to understand and use in making decisions has been a part of my day job
from the start.
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Can you describe in less than
140 characters what you do in your
current day job?
Bringing forward thinking into practice
on projects – making things real for the
people who matter.
Anne chairing
the AGI London meeting,
May 2014
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You Chair two working groups
BIM4IUK and the AGI. Can you tell
us about both these groups and their
aims?
AGI (The Association of Geographic
Information) is the UK’s membership
organisation for GI professionals and
interested parties. We are passionate
about how to use data in the best way
to unlock its intelligence – and location
proves to be a key enabler to this. For
this year we have launched a series of
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5 inter-related events (www.geobig5.
com) focused on the key challenges
for the industry – Geo:Big 5, where it is
important that we engage and integrate
with a much wider audience – Future
Cities, Open (Data, Standards, Open
Source....), BIM and Asset Management, Big Data and Policy. Around
each event we are holding roundtable discussions – and in combination
we are then preparing 5 white papers
which will lead to the Foresight Report
2015 to be released at the end of the
year.
BIM4I has been set up through a collaboration of AGI, ICE, BIM4Rail and
CPIC. It is part of the BIM4 Community
supported by the UK Government BIM
Task Group. It was felt that rather than
having a multitude of BIM4s across the
infrastructure space, it would be useful
to have a Forum where challenges, progress and best practice could be shared
across the different sectors – rail, highways, water, utilities – and reach out
to asset management. A number of
member events have been run - most
recently our “Flooding Event” – and
largely providing the input to AGI’s
up-coming BIM and Asset Management
event on 5th June.
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With your AGI hat on can you
tell us what geomatics, GIS and spatial
analysis are?
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So the common denominator with all
three of these is location. They happen
to identify themselves around geo and
spatial (often combined to form geospatial) even whilst they use other data to
both provide different ways to represent
reality – and to analyse what is happening and the different relationships and
responses that either have happened,
are happening, or could happen. They
provide the basis for collecting (e.g. survey, remote sensing, satellite monitoring), storing, analysing and managing
data – and these don’t have to be just
spatial data, and can involve 3d, 4d etc.
objects versus features) to be integrated.
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How well do the fit with the level
2 BIM processes and data sets?
Within the infrastructure space therefore, you cannot avoid data which
would commonly appear in Geomatics,
GIS and spatial analysis - it is all information – and what technology is used
to drive it becomes academic if you
think of BIM as managing information
across the built environment through
whole life cycle. The challenge is more
that data for buildings and for infrastructure has been dealt with differently, and as such a common reference
framework doesn’t exist, with semantics
and ontologies yet to be developed to
support a continuum across the whole
built environment, and the different
approaches to handling 3d (specifically
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Moving across to infrastructure
do you think the horizontal sector is
equally mature as vertical assets in
terms of BIM adoption?
As above. Both have contributions to
make. My personal stance is that it
would be worth developing a common
framework which operates across the
whole.
As we move forward are we starting to see a demand for news skills or
indeed the emergence of new job roles
around data interrogation and the like?
I believe so. There needs to be more
maturing and integration across the
CAD/BIM/GIS space with an amalgam of skills. Data management, data
modelling, data analysis, 3d modelling,
cartography and visualisation will blend
into roles which to a greater or lesser
degree will become a part of the toolkit
of our up and coming graduates, with a
few specialist roles around data management, data analysis and visualisation.
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Do you think that school and
academia are doing enough to attract
entrants into gro pathways?
I don’t think our thinking around a
successful employee has yet been
clearly communicated – or the opportunities around that. If we can get that
right then schools and academia will
have a better chance, but I’d like to see
more dialogue across the institutions
to inform that vision and support future
education and research.
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Do you think our sector lacks
figureheads to attract young people into
our industry?
I’m not sure that we lack potential
figureheads, but I don’t think they are
visible enough or celebrated enough in
the right way to provide the role models
which catch the eye and motivate that
sort of commitment. We need to get
better at that.
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We heard that out with your
days job(s) that you are also a farmer,
can you tell us about your “good-life”
away from the business world?
A farmer sounds a bit grand!! I’d say
I’m a very small smallholder with a few
goats, and we do have horses kept on
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Do we provide
compelling and consistent
leadership?
I would suggest not.
And that is a shame.
This is entirely
within
the art of the possible.
It just needs
a bit more informed willpower.
Don’t speak the words
and live
a different life.
That isn’t good enough.
Be authentic.
Quite a few of us could afford
to take
a bit more risk
and be a bit more present
as ourselves – be generous
the neighbouring yard (Which has 70
plus horses) and we help our sheep
farmer next door. One of my daughters wanted to be a vet – so I’ve determinedly kept her and her 2 sisters
grounded with the hard grind of looking
after livestock through the winter seasons – as well as enjoying the privilege
of puppies, kidding and lambing.
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How was the lambing
season?
I should so lovely. Unfortunately, farming is tough. Disaster struck this year.
The ewe my daughter had hand-reared
three years ago had two beautiful
lambs. At two days old, two sheep
were stolen from the field. Molly was
one of them. Her lambs died overnight.
In general, however, it’s been a great
year for the flock – with loads of thriving
lambs, and none which have needed to
be hand-reared. For the first time in 4
years, our lives have been a little easier. I wouldn’t say it’s been the happier
for it though.
I Be realistic. Do we really think that
if we told a teenager to change their
behaviour to x, they would do it? Of
course not. We would have to give
them a really compelling reason to
change – which meant something to
them. And we would probably have
to start understanding the world from
THEIR perspective. Do we do that with
our major change programmes? Do
we provide compelling and consistent
leadership? I would suggest not. And
that is a shame. This is entirely within
the art of the possible. It just needs
a bit more informed willpower. Don’t
speak the words and live a different life.
That isn’t good enough. Be authentic.
Quite a few of us could afford to take a
bit more risk and be a bit more present
as ourselves – be generous. Show a
bit of vulnerability. Call me naive but I
believe we would be amazed what a bit
of generosity of spirit could do for our
industry. Collaboration not coercion.
Fairness not exploitation. Sincerity not
bluster.
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Finally, you just finished
your MSC in Coaching and Behavioural Change, what is the best piece of
advice you can offer organisations with
regards the cultural change of BIM?
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A digital tool for building information modellingarticles overview
In this issue we have three articles which discuss the TSB SBRI competition for a digital tool
for building information modelling.
For more information about the competition go to sbri website.
The full functional specification is available under Supporting Documents.
The first article
gives the funding allocation, brief scope
and current status of the competition.
The second article
provides a narrative of the proposals
submitted by the three successful applicants
for Phase 1 of the competition.
The third article
provides a broader introduction
to the objectives and scope of the competition.
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Government invests in construction
industry innovation [LINK]
Technology Strategy Board
Results of competition: A Digital tool for
building information modelling - SBRI [LINK]
Introduction to the TSB SBRI Competition
for a digital tool for building
information modelling [LINK]
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Article 1
Government invests in
construction industry innovation
by: Rob Manning
BIS BIM Task Group
R o b M a n n i n g o f t h e B I S B I M Ta s k G r o u p p r e s e n t s i n f o r m a t i o n a b o u t T S B S B R I f u n d i n g . T h e Te c h n o l o g y S t r a t e g y
Board is investing up to £1.5m to support the development
of a free-to-use digital tool that can exploit the standards
being made publicly available for building information modelling (BIM).
TSB are running an SBRI competition
in partnership with the BIM Task Group
and the Department for Business,
Innovation & Skills (BIS).
The competition is for the development
of a free-to-use digital BIM tool based
upon the publicly available Level 2 BIM
standards.
Scope
Level 2 BIM has seven components,
as defined by the BIM Task Group. Of
these, five have been completed or are
nearing completion. These are mainly
concerned with developing PAS 1192
documentation (publicly available specifications).
As a process, BIM involves the sharing
of three-dimensional data by all those
responsible for the design, construction
and operation of buildings and infrastructure in the built environment.
A free-to-use tool has the potential to
transform the procurement of buildings
and infrastructure, and not just in home
markets. It will place the UK in a global
leadership position and provide overseas growth opportunities.
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The two outstanding components needing to be implemented in an innovative,
digital tool are:
• a digital plan of works. The plan
of works organises the progress of
designing, constructing, maintaining and operating built environment
assets. It also identifies the documents, non-graphical and graphical
data to be delivered at each work
stage. It requires identification of
work flows across multiple sectors
and roles. In addition it will probably
require digital delivery definitions for
up to 3,000 construction elements at
each of the delivery stages throughout the life of a built environment
asset.
• a classification system. A standardised classification system ensures that data is structured and
accessible in a common format. The
classification system needs to be
digitally-enabled, so that it integrates
with the plan of works. The classification system will enable digital
services such as robust data validation, extensive search and it will
also enable analytics and modelling
capabilities using external tools.
The scope is to produce a free-to- use
digital tool that delivers the new digital
plan of works, encompasses the publicly available PAS 1192 standards and
uses a classification system to structure
the data storage.
Ease of use will be critical in driving
take-up in the UK and internationally,
as will the ability to access data from
different locations, including offices,
construction sites and via mobile devices. The tool will need to display a high
degree of accuracy and resilience, as
well as rapid system response times.
Ultimately, the tool needs to add tangible value to all stakeholders.
Applicants are being required to
demonstrate the following:
• an overarching architecture for the
digital tool
• multi-mode methods for data exchange and validation, including
with proprietary tools; this may be in
the form of plug-ins, web services
and manual methods
• integration with PAS 1192 standards
• approaches to providing help and
guidance to users of the tool and
any other stakeholders
• method of ensuring that intellectual
property is protected, while enabling
the sharing of information
• mapping strategies for third party
classification systems, such as the
Civil Engineering Standard Method
of Measurement and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ New
Rules of Assessment
• workflow and data validation strategies.
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In addition to meeting the functional specification, applicants are being
expected to consider approaches to the
broader commercial and exploitation
strategies, including:
• how the tool will sit within existing
and future industry workflows
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Go to
to find out more about this
competition and associated
events and to find other
partners and stakeholders.
• an international strategy to provide
the UK with a first-mover advantage
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Competition opens: 7 July 2014
Registration deadline: 12 March 2014 noon
Deadline for applications:
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Deadline for applications: 19 March 2014 noon
Interviews: 4 September 2014
Contracts awarded: 2 May 2014
Contracts awarded: 26 September 2014
Projects complete: 30 June 2014
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Phase 2
BRE Ltd with AEC3 Ltd, Catenda AS
and BIM Academy.
CIBSE with APM, BIFM, CIOB, ICE,
IStructE, RIBA and RICS.
RIBA Enterprises(NBS) with BIM
Academy, BDP, Laing O’Rourke,
Microsoft and Newcastle University.
The functional specification was made
available when the competition opened
on 10 February 2014. It documents the
scope of work and required outcomes,
P H A S E 1 P H A S E 2 Phase 1
but does not specify how these should
be delivered.
Phase 1 applications were received on
the 19th March and Phase 1 contracts
were awarded to;
A detailed functional specification for
the tool was developed through a series
of workshops and industry consultations during January 2014, which a
large number of applicants and industry stakeholders were encouraged to
attend. TSB and the BIM Task Group
would like to thank all those who contributed their time and intellect to informing this important work on behalf
of the construction industry.
• a clear path to Level 3 BIM.
• a communications strategy to drive
take-up across the construction
supply chain for UK competitive
advantage
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Current status
in export markets
• a sustainable business plan that
allows the tool to be ‘free to use’
while generating income from other
sources, to support a minimum fiveyear improvement, maintenance and
support strategy
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This competition has brought together
the construction, digital and high- powered computing communities.
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The completion date of the Phase 2 contract
will be established following the Phase 2
applications but it is expected that the tool will
be operational by the end of March 2015.
Operational
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Article 2
Technology Strategy Board Results of competition:
A Digital tool for building information modelling - SBRI
This article provides a narrative of the proposals submitted by the three successful
applicants
Phase 1 ofAthe
competition.
Results of for
competition:
digital
tool for building information modelling - SBRI
Total available funding for this competition was £1.5m from the Technology Strategy Board.
Note: These proposals have succeeded in the assessment stage of this competition. All are subject to grant offer and conditions being met.
Participant organisation names
RIBA Enterprises Limited
Project title
A digital tool for building
information modelling
Proposed project costs
Proposed project grant
£50,000
£50,000
Project description - provided by applicants
NBS will lead an exceptional project team to produce a fully costed, scheduled and de-risked proposal to deliver the outcomes described in the
competition‟s functional specification. The project team will include, BIM Academy, BDP, Laing O‟Rourke, Microsoft and Newcastle University.
NBS will build on their 6,000 object definitions that currently exist and are in-use within the UK construction industry through the NBS Create
and NBS National BIM Library initiatives. With BDP and Laing O‟Rourke, the team will prove and test our proposals within both the design and
construction stages of a project, giving invaluable multi-disciplinary knowledge from the design, construction, manufacture and operation points
of view.
BIM Academy have experience working as Information Managers on leading UK and international construction projects and will also bring their
open-source xBIM software toolkit to the bid. The Digital Institute at Newcastle University is a world leader in cloud computing research,
addressing issues including, scalability and reliability of distributed cloud architectures, security and provenance of data and the processing and
analysis of very large datasets. Microsoft will provide consultancy throughout the project and the technology will be built on the Microsoft
Windows Azure platform.
We envisage delivering phase 2 as a fully cloud-based solution, scalable both within the UK and internationally. The Digital Presentation Tool
(DPT) will be delivered both as a set of intuitive end-user tools and via API functionality to support third-party developers. The DPT will allow
end users to search and browse digital object definitions and their associated LOD guidance, generate a project-specific digital Plan of Work
(dPoW) and verify stage deliverable information in COBie format against the project-specific dPoW. Functionality will be built on the
fundamental digital object definitions, their associated LOD guidelines and a unified classification system.
This article provides the proposals from the successful applicants for Phase 1 of the competition for a digital tool for building information modelling
and is a re-print of material published by the Technology Strategy Board SBRI at https://www.innovateuk.org/bim-results
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The phase 1 work will deliver:
- A fully documented report detailing the primary functions and workflow of the application, the software and content development strategies
and an analysis of delivery against the functional specification.
- A working prototype of the Digital Presentation Tool demonstrating the creation of a subset of a digital Plan of Work and the verification of this
against a COBie/IFC dataset.
- A fully costed phase 2 project plan detailing schedule, project management approach and all significant milestones.
This work will be verified by the wider industry through technical investigation and a number of user experience workshops. These workshops
will involve a wide range of contacts within industry, including invited guest organisations.
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Results of competition: A digital tool for building information modelling - SBRI
BRE Global Limited
Project title
planBIM
£50,000
£50,000
“planBIM” Overview
“planBIM” brings together a series of technology innovations under a common solution to support the UK Level 2 BIM strategy. It delivers the
digital plan of works for the UK sector for five years whilst building up its international and UK customisation capability. "planBIM" provides a
freely accessible web-based resource that manages the supply and demand of shared structured asset information. “planBIM” builds on
existing world class implementations and will be delivered by developers with an international track record.
Governance
"planBIM" is administered as part of the BRE charitable trust activities and supervised by "buildingSMART UKI" whose charters binds it to
supporting open, interoperable and inclusive process improvement in the facilities sector. The service is backed by the reputation, neutrality
and care for its position in the sector. The selected sub-contracted organisations have an equity stake managed through the collaboration
agreements to complement the contractual relationship and ensure a sustainable business model.
Standards
BRE‟s long standing involvement with buildingSMART UKI, buildingSMART International, ISO, CEN and BSI ensures that the service is a fully
compliant implementation of standards and best practices. By implementing ISO 16739 (buildingSMART IFC) ISO 12006 part 3
(buildingSMART IFD) and ISO 27645 (buildingSMART IDM/MVD) it supports the process, structure and data of any BIM based process
including those advocated by the UK BIM Strategy.
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Content
"planBIM" holds the relevant UK and international best practice content. The content is in two parts. The dictionary part holds all the relevant
processes, roles, objects and properties including industry classifications. The requirements part then groups these to define what properties
are expected on what objects for which process stages provided from (or to) which roles. The dictionary part ensures that the interface presents
only familiar terms and expressions; the requirements part then captures the formal expectations in these terms.
Implementation
The implementation is based on technology that is already in use to deliver the buildingSMART Data Dictionary (bsDD), the buildingSMART
Data Model (IFC), the buildingSMART Process management (IDM and MVD) and buildingSMART Certification service (IABI). Specifically
“planBIM” exploits AEC3‟s “Requirements Management Database” as implemented in established European projects.
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Results of competition: A digital tool for building information modelling - SBRI
Chartered Institution of Building
Services Engineers
Project title
id3 by C8
£50,000
£50,000
id3 (eye-dee-cubed) will provide a web-based tool to deliver the digital Plan of Work and classification system to enable widespread adoption of
Level 2 BIM across all infrastructure sectors and the built environment.
This initiative will be delivered through C8 - a collaboration of eight leading professional bodies involved in the construction and operation of the
built environment and infrastructure in the UK and overseas. The eight bodies are the: Association for Project Management (APM), British
Institute of Facilities Management, (BIFM) Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE - the lead applicant), Chartered Institute
of Building (CIOB), Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE), Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
and Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).
C8 brings engagement with the widest range of senior industry specialists actively engaged in the development of the digital plan of work,
classification and the other elements of the Level 2 BIM delivery framework. The C8 approach involves wide contacts and connections with all
aspects of the infrastructure, built environment and operational industries, with groups, organisations and individuals across the whole supply
chain, as well as the members of the C8 institutions as key stakeholders and as customers for the data cube and associated products and
services.
id3 aims to deliver a clear, holistic definition of the “digital data cube”, defining „what needs doing‟, to what level of detail, by whom and when for
all stages of projects and operation, providing a coherent integrated approach for the whole built environment, covering the whole life of the
infrastructure asset or building.
This will enable application to organisations with single assets or portfolios, to asset management programmes and individual projects of all
sizes – while maintaining and respecting the disciplines and directions of Level 2 BIM. C8 specifically aims to enable cross-sectoral, multi-
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professional, industry-wide collaboration to support the transition of construction, infrastructure and built environment sectors in the UK to a
digital, data driven economy and to give their 450,000 members and other stakeholders in the UK and approximately 100 other countries the
knowledge, guidance and professional recognition and development needed to operate in this new business environment.
Phase 1 will deliver a detailed specification for the Digital Plan of Work (dPoW) and classification system (CS) and their integration with the
existing elements of the level 2 framework. It will also provide a clear business plan and specification for the platform required to deliver the
dPoW and the full id3 vision through Phase 2.
Phase 2 will coordinate and consolidate the seven elements making up BIM Level 2, including the BS 1192 series, contract protocols and
Government Soft Landings (GSL), as well as the newly developed definitive digital Plan of Work and Classification System. This will be
delivered through the web, available free of charge and maintained and developed over a 5 year period, on a stable, resilient platform.
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BIM TOOL INTRODUCTION
Article 3
Introduction to the TSB SBRI
Competition for a digital tool for
building information modelling
by: Rob Manning & Mark Bew
BIS BIM Task Group
The UK Construction Industry has combined revenues of around £90bn, employs
just under 3M people and represents 7.5% of GDP. The industry is characterised
by fragmentation, a competitive SME community, challenges in collaboration
and still often adopts adversarial working practices. With the demands of fiscal
restraint, environmental regulation and a keen desire to do better, the UK Government has featured “Smart” technologies in both the Construction and more
recent Industrial Strategies (2025).
For the UK Government, Building
Information Modelling (BIM) is a
game-changer. The UK, along with a
number of foresighted nations, has put
significant energy into the encouragement of techniques and incentives to
standardise ways of working in which
3D geometry and data is stored and
shared between parties throughout the
strategic briefing, design, construction
and operation of buildings and infrastructure in the built environment. BIM
will disrupt current construction procurement and will help the sector become
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more industrialised and efficient. It has
the potential to revolutionise collaboration between supply chain partners,
unlock new business models, reduce
costs, speed up delivery times, increase
efficiency, cut waste, and deliver assets
that are ‘right first time’.
Economists have estimated that the UK
market for BIM-related services will be
an annual £30bn by 2020. In a global
context, UK-based firms already export
£7bn of architectural and engineering
services. Taking a global leadership
position in developing BIM capabilities
will provide strong potential for further
export growth. The UK leads a global
race to develop both open standards
and supporting tools for adopting BIM.
In 2011, the UK Government partnered
with the Construction Industry in setting
up the BIM Task Group. It has adopted
a step by step approach characterised
by the adoption of “Levels”. These Levels and the details of the award winning
strategy can be found at www.bimtaskgroup.org.
The current goal and the one that this
programme refers to is Level 2 and it is
our expectation that all centrally-funded
public procurement is to be delivered
using Level 2 BIM by 2016.
The BIM Task Group is charged with
the responsibility of delivering a “Level
2” BIM strategy. As part of this programme a number of documents and
guides have been produced to explain
clearly how BIM should be applied. So
far five documents have been completed and are, or are about to be released.
The documents cover activities such as
processes for capital project delivery
and operational activities, data definition, contract protocols and Government Soft Landings (GSL).
In the process of testing these documents in The BIM Task Groups “Early
Adopter” programme it has become
clear that there is an essential need to
have better controls and definitions of
both data deliveries and data classification. The task of manually defining data
requirements and checking using traditional techniques was at best laborious
and at worst added little to the overall
task of improving design deliveries.
This is not surprising. The RIBA Plan of
Work celebrated sixty years of service
last year and was updated to include
BIM which has made significant improvements, but this project is designed
to make a jump to the next generation.
The need to be able to define geometry, scope of services and data deliveries across all disciplines at the eight
defined key stages of delivery and
at a level of detail that is significant
enough to work, but not so onerous
that it burdens was always going to be
a challenge; but in order for the industry to progress, these challenges need
to be addressed. Our anticipation is
at its most basic level that new tools
described here will offer the industry
clarity and simplicity that ensures all
team members will be able to deliver
information against clear requirements
that enable better collaboration through
transparency of need and delivery. At
our most ambitious, leading clients and
businesses will be able to use these
tools to procure, deliver and use data in
ways as yet unthought-of in our industry, offering levels of productivity and
insight only available in industries which
have made the switch to digital.
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The key outputs of this programme are
to complete the final two documents to
complete the Level 2 package. These
will be known as the digital Plan of
Work (dPoW) and Classification. The
programme will also include a digital
tool to distribute the dPoW and Classifications to make use of these resources
as open and simple as possible.
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Scope
All deliverables in this programme are
to be designed to operate at BIM Level
2 as a minimum requirement. The Level 2 programme was defined in the BIM
Strategy which is available at
www.bimtaskgroup.org.
The strategy document describes Level
2 as “a managed 3D environment held
in separate discipline “BIM” tools with
attached data. The approach may
utilise 4D programme data and 5D cost
elements as well as feed operational
systems.”
As the BIM Task Group has progressed
with understanding the detail of this
definition they have produced a number of documents and have identified
the need for two further definitions. An
overview of these documents is shown
below. All the documents that have
been released are available free of
charge via the above website.
Document
Description
Status
Document
Description
Status
PAS1192:2:2013
This document describes the production
of co-ordinated design and construction
(CAPEX) information, it is designed
to be independent of any procurement route or form of contract used.
Each task needs to be carried out in a
particular order for the mutual benefit
of all those involved, otherwise known
as “collaborative working”. In a collaborative working environment, teams
are asked to produce information using
standardised processes and agreed
standards and methods, to ensure the
same form and quality, enabling information to be used and reused without
change or interpretation. If an individual, office or team changes the process
without agreement, it will hinder collaboration – a participant insisting on “my
standard” is not acceptable in a collaborative working environment.
Available
PAS1192:2:2013
Wherever possible, the principles of lean
are also described to reduce the expenditure of resources for any goal other than
the creation of value for the employer.
The document references BS 1192:2007
which promotes the avoidance of wasteful activities such as:
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• waiting and searching for information
• over-production of information with
no defined use
• over-processing information, simply
because the technology can
• defects, caused by poor co-ordination across the graphical and
non-graphical data set which require
re-work.
The document clearly describes the data
descriptions and processes to enable
this lean delivery process. The document
also deals with the decommissioning processes at the beginning of the cycle
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Document
Description
Status
Document
Description
Status
PAS1192:3:2014
This document describes the same data
and process delivery and use definitions as described above, but for the
operational phase of the asset. Of key
focus is the
development of PAS 55 compliance
operational strategies and the effective
transfer of data across into operations
to aid soft and effective landings from
construction to
operation
March 2014
Classification
A structured and standardised information classification system
This TSB
Programme
The Digital Plan
of Works (dPoW)
An industry standard method of describing geometric, requirements and data
deliveries at key stages of the project
cycle
This TSB
Programme
BS1192:4:2014
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This document is the final development
of COBie-UK-2012, which is the interim
data definition for information deliveries.
This has been further enhanced and
developed through work carried out in
the infrastructure market to develop
“COBie for all”
Available
Summer 2014
BIM Protocol
A suite of BIM commercial and contractual advice documents and standard
forms
Available
Government Soft
Landings
A suite of documents describing Soft
Landings policy and processes to ensure effective involvement of users and
operators in the development of scope,
design and delivery. Also ensuring
effective training and handover into
operations and finally the structured
gathering of Post Occupation (Operational) Effectiveness data, to enhance
both the current and future assets.
Available
This project is for the delivery of the
final two elements of the Level 2 BIM
programme shown at the foot of the table above and an electronic web based
tool to enable the simple distribution of
the information developed in the dPoW
and Classification system.
• A Classification System. A standardised classification system should
be developed to ensure that data is
able to be indexed and structured
to make it easily accessible in a
common format. The classification
system should be digitally-enabled,
so that it integrates with the Digital
Plan of Works. This should include
digital capabilities including extensive search and analytics to assist
classification and to identify Digital
Plan of Work activities and deliverables as well as more traditional
functions such as taking off, costing
and benchmarking.
• A Digital Plan of Work (dPoW).
The dPoW should define the deliverables required at each stage of the
design, construction, maintenance
and operation of built assets. The
dPoW should be made available
digitally to enable simple access to
all stakeholders to make use of the
system to give clear definition as
to what geometry, data and other
information should be delivered at
each of the eight stages of a project
in the UK Government Digital Plan
of Work.
We expect this competition to bring
together the user, construction, operational, digital and high-powered computing communities in collaboration in
a way that can challenge the norm and
make a significant step in the journey to
creating a world class digital construction economy.
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Ease of use will be critical in driving
take-up in the UK and internationally, as
will the ability to access classification
information, validation tools and the
dPoW from different locations, including offices, construction sites and via
mobile devices. The tools will need to
display a high degree of accuracy and
resilience, as well as rapid system response times. The functional specifications for this programme have been developed through a series of workshops
and industry consultations during January and February 2014, which were
attended by a considerable number of
industry stakeholders (see BIM Task
Group Newsletters No35 and No36 at
www.bimtaskgroup.org).
The functional specification identifies
required outcomes, but does not specify
how these should be delivered. As part
of the competition process applicants
will need to demonstrate the following:
• Overarching design architecture for
the digital tool, showing key data
and process flows
• Multi-mode methods for data distribution, access and validation,
including with proprietary tools; this
may be in the form of documentation, application plug-ins, web services, “apps” and other manual or
common proprietary methods
• Integration with all Level 2 standards
described in the table above
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• Innovative approaches to providing
help and guidance to users of the
tools
• A method of ensuring the protection of intellectual property, while
enabling the sharing of information
hosted by the systems
• Sustainable business plan
that allows the tool to be
‘free to use’ while generating
income from other sources,
to support a minimum fiveyear improvement, maintenance and support strategy.
• Mapping strategies where required
to third party classification systems
The digital Plan of Work
• Workflow and data validation and
integrity strategies
• Identification of future proofing strategies to enable easy migration to
Level 3 BIM as definition emerges
This section describes the background
work that has been done on the digital Plan of Work (dPoW) over the last
twenty months by the BIM Task Group.
The purpose of this section is to provide
an indication of some of the material
that is currently available by way of
supporting information to ensure project
bidders are aware of existing developments. The following is intended to be
informative and in no way should be
considered an exhaustive review. It
was clear when the BIM Task Group
commenced the journey of using BIM
data as part of the commercial tender
process that a clear definition of deliverables was required and that the rather
subjective text and geometry approaches used over the past fifty years were
no longer fit for purpose in a digital
world. This was further reinforced by
the common practice of referring to the
outputs from a work stage as being
either plus or minus some level of definition e.g. RIBA Stage C plus or GRIP
3 minus. This is a common practice in
both the infrastructure and buildings
• Commercial and exploitation strategies, including:
• How the tool will operate
within existing and future
industry workflows and
methods
• Communications strategy
to drive take-up across the
domestic and international
construction supply chain
• Exploitation and competitive
advantage
• International strategy
to provide the UK with a
first-mover advantage in
export markets
market and it exacerbates the use of
undefined levels of detail and delivery.
Clearly if data is gathered for specific
uses (e.g. answering plain language
questions for the client and project
team) then far more certainty is needed that data is delivered in a method
that can be validated. With BIM the
opportunity to electronically validate
deliverables offers significant opportunities for transparency and productivity
improvement as well as offering greater
certainty and value to the client. The
opportunity to improve the behaviours
of suppliers and clients through transparency is a significant game changer
never previously open to the industry.
A Short History
of Plans of Work
The term “Plan of Work” was used fifty
years ago by the Royal Institute of British Architects to describe documents
that defined the process of delivering
drawings and documents during the
design delivery process. The scope
of these documents has in the intervening years grown across the various
disciplines and they are now known
variously as a plan of work (RIBA Plan
of Work 2013), a scope of services
(The CIC Scope of Services First Edition 2007) and a design framework
(BSRIA BG6/2009 A Design Framework
for Building Services Edition 3 2014).
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There are also many other international documents available such as those
produced by the US AIA etc.
Historically these documents have
described the activities of design disciplines at each work stage and not every
sector and discipline has used a plan
of work. Plans of work have tended to
address the design process only. Existing documents do not reflect strongly
enough the strategic decisions made by
the client, the input from suppliers and
contractors, and the data to be provided and used by the asset operator.
The content has tended to address the
work activities of members of the design team only and generally the content does not identify the deliverables
required at each work stage. Where
deliverables are identified they are described using generic descriptive text,
which is hard to validate. A significant
difficulty has remained in place since
the earliest days of the plans of work
whereby the work stages associated
with plans of work do not align across
the sectors and disciplines in some cases resulting in further ambiguity.
Value Proposition for
a digital Plan of Work
The value of the digital Plan of Work
covering all disciplines, roles and sectors includes:
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• A framework for informed, consistent decision making by all parties
including the client, enabling each
member of the team, at each work
stage, to deliver agreed and consistent levels of information, data and
geometry to construction clients.
This data is essential to enable accurate timely decisions to be made
by the client.
• An enabler for collaboration, providing transparent definition of agreed
deliverables from each contributing
party at every single project work
stage. This approach enables each
party to understand their shared
obligations to the project and also
provides clear understanding as
to the materials they can expect to
receive at the start of each workstage, thus enabling them to deliver
appropriate information, data and
geometry themselves.
liverables template for each project
against which to test the validity of
each delivery.
• Provision of clear guidance to component and material providers as to
the types and detail of information
that should be delivered with their
products.
Making it Simple
The Concept of the Data Cube
Every asset creates and uses data
during its lifecycle for strategy, briefing,
design, construction, operation, maintenance and in-use activities. This data is
complex and vast in nature. The industry has in the main published this data
in drawing and document formats for
several hundred years and the familiarity of the manual process has belied its
inherent complexity. The industry has
• Enables the clear allocation of responsibility for deliverables in appointments and contracts, ensuring
clarity regarding “who should deliver
what to whom” to be established at
the start of a project and be appropriately monitored during the project.
• The BIM Strategy defines ten tests
to gauge the success of the programme. One of these was that
BIM delivered information and data
should be verifiable. The dPoW
enables the generation of a data de-
Figure1 – Data Cube Concept
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also tended to fragment its approach
and split into specialist “disciplines”
which has allowed it to focus on “just
my bit” of the project. However whilst
this approach supports the frailty of the
human method, it creates silos and a final design deliverable that often fails to
coordinate or address the needs of the
client or operator as it remains a collection of many design outputs rather than
a collaborative composite delivery.
The digital BIM approach pays no respect to such frailties and the concept
of “big data” has at its heart the concept of bringing lots of data together to
derive new value. So if this approach is
followed with a fully aligned digital Plan
of Works across the entire lifecycle and
all stakeholders and at elemental levels
of detail, how is a simple view to the
use of this data service provided?
The BIM Task Group offered the concept of a data cube to help in this regard and as documented in the material
shown at www.bimtaskgroup.org/
task-group-labs labs the cube was
used to access and display three axes
representing: work stages, stakeholders
and data. The approach is shown in
the Figure 1.
By “Slicing” the cube along any combination of axes it is possible to reveal
information that is relevant to each role,
stage of project or data type, removing
all other irrelevant information, enabling
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the presentation of a simple concise
view of the project in specific user
terms.
The design of the data cube is only provided here for illustration of a concept;
bidders will not feel constrained by this
being the only solution.
Establishing Industry
Standardised Work Stages
industry standard work stages. This
approach ensures discipline alignment
and regardless of stage naming, the
level of data definition is consistent for
all disciplines and roles.
The stages are illustrated in figure 2.
UK Government Digital Plan of Work
(The Work Stage Axis)
To enable the required data to be identified at each work stage it was first
necessary to agree a set of standard
work stages wherein the data/geometry
deliverables are consistent and aligned
for the whole of the asset construction
and asset operation industry.
Through a programme of stakeholder engagement facilitated by the BIM
Task Group and the Construction Industry Council, it was agreed that the
selected industry standard work stages
should use a neutral terminology. The
approach has been derived from the
Association of Project Management
(APM) Body of Knowledge and has
been deliberately aligned to provide
consistency with other industries such
as Information Technology to enable
integrated working as market sectors
converge. Each industry discipline and
role is free to adopt work stage names
that hold meaning to their practitioners
whilst showing alignment with the APM
Figure 2 – APM Delivery Stages
There are eight project stages and they
are now embedded into the new Level
2 documents including PAS1192 Part
2, PAS1192 Part 3 and the RIBA Plan
of Work 2013. The RIBA Plan of Work
2013 was the first privately published
document to reflect the selected work
stages.
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How Much Data Do I Need?
(The Data & Information Axis)
Data costs money to create so there is
a need to be selective in what is asked
for. The concept adopted by the BIM
Task Group has been to go back to
basics and ask “What Questions is the
Client asking?” These questions invariably lead to a series of sub questions
which need to be asked to answer the
main question. This main question we
have termed the Plain Language Question or “PLQ”. Examples of these are
provided through the following link:
http://www.thenbs.com/BIMTaskGroupLabs/questions.html
Other questions relevant to a project
are available through the following link:
http://www.bimtaskgroup.org/gsl/
gsl-champions-questions
These questions can then be analysed
and a data or information source defined from where that data should be
provided. Clearly questions relating to
areas, volumes, costs and quantities
can be readily answered through this
approach, but there are and will remain
so for some time (always at Level 2)
a number of categories of information
that will only ever be provided in textual format. This will include impact
assessments and descriptive context
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The dPoW also identifies the level of all
geometric information to be produced
in support of text and data at each work
stage.
One of the complexities of the delivery
process and its reflection into the data
cube is that the majority of data used by
one party is produced by another. This
is a crucial consideration in determining the linkage of work flow and deciding who will produce what and when
(through the responsibilities allocations
described in PAS 1192:2:2013). The
dPoW will need to show these relationships to ensure clarity and accountability. For the purpose of appointments
and contracts, the responsibility for
who delivers which deliverable is to be
defined through the dPoW and will be
referenced to the contract through the
BIM Protocol.
Figure 3 illustrates this concept and
the red diamonds show the relationship
between the PLQ and the data requirements defined by the green spheres.
These requirements are implemented
in the contract through the Employers
Information Requirements (EIR).
The red curve represents a potential
data maturity profile and there may
be several versions of these curves
to reflect the different uses of the data
or philosophies. (See the MacLeamy
curve as defined by Patrick MacLeamy
Figure 3 – Progressive Data Delivery
of Building Smart International). However:
• There is a curve that identifies the
optimum data required to answer
the questions of the client.
• There is a curve that identifies the
optimum data required to answer
the questions of the members of the
project team including those in-
volved in the operational phase.
• There is the curve that identifies the
optimum data produced by an individual contributor to justify the answers given to the project team and
client, including all work in progress
and design development.
The red curve indicates a single dimension of the data required. Signifi-
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cant discussion has taken place as to
the detail at which the data should be
defined and verified. The BIM Task
Group agreed through inspection that
Elemental (level EE in Uniclass 2) was
an appropriate level of detail. This
assumption is the basis of all the documentation and demonstration material
on the Labs area of the BIM Task Group
Website. Readers are strongly recommended to download the demonstration
tools and manuals to understand the
work already undertaken. It should be
noted that if the Elemental (EE) level of
Uniclass were adopted and extended
to include all building and infrastructure
elements this could easily approach
3000 elements.
Vertical Projects (Buildings)
- Client
- Client Adviser
- Client
- Client Adviser
of irrelevant information. A typical commercial property project will have over
sixty collaborators so clearly some will
be grouped to make the system maintainable and useful.
The purpose of the stakeholder axis
is to enable the user to only see data
presented that is of relevance to him or
her. It is possible to see anyone else’s
to check for coordination but for day to
day focus it helps to minimise the noise
The below list of disciplines/roles is only
for illustrative purposes and will be developed as part of the competition.
Vertical Projects (Buildings)
Horizontal Projects (Rail, Road
and Environment)
- Survey Companies
- Drainage
- Utilities Companies
- Emergency Services
- Project Lead
- Project Lead
- Landscape Architect
- Operators
- Operational Lead
- Operational Lead
- Interior Designer
- Maintainers
- Lead Designer
- Civil Engineer
- Lighting Designer
- Users
- Architect
- Resident Engineer
- Fire Engineer
-
- Building Services Engineer
- Structural Engineer
- Acoustician
-
- Civil and Structural Engineer
- Cost Consultant
- Catering Consultant
-
- Cost Consultant
- Contract Administrator
- Principal Contractor
-
- HSE Advisor
- Specialist Contractor
-
- Health & Safety Adviser
- Planning
- Product supplier/manufacturer
-
- Planning Authority
- Land Surveyor
- Commissioning Contractor
-
- Planning Regulations (Approved Inspector)
- Security
- Contract Administrator
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Horizontal Projects (Rail, Road
and Environment)
What do I need to see?
(The Stakeholder Axis)
- Facility Management Provider
-
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The Digital Plan of Work and
Assemblies
One of the key productivity improvement
opportunities provided through BIM is the
possibility of re-using information from past
projects or that provided by other members of the supply chain, such as manufacturers etc. The management of this type
of data is fundamental to the enabling of
strategies such as “build off site” and modularisation. For information published by
the BIM Task Group on this subject please
refer to a document published in 2013 entitled - “Building Information Modelling. “The
Digital Plan of Work and Assemblies”. 5th
March 2013. DRAFT ONLY. V7.1”. The
document can be accessed and downloaded from the BIM Task Group website using
the following link: http://www.bimtaskgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/
BIM-The-Digital-Plan-of-Work-v7-1.pdf
The document is now a little dated but
gives considerable detail with regard to the
BIM Task Group vision of the digital Plan
of Work and its part in the management
of content, assemblies, components and
materials.
Classification Systems
For the implementation of Level 2 BIM in
the UK a cross sector full lifecycle Classification system is needed. The systems
currently in place such as Uniclass, NRM
and CESSM all cater for specific parts of
the industry or are linked to specific proprietary methods of measure. Any new
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system must support this existing legacy and be compliant with the emerging
ISO standard 12006-2:2014 to enable
us to share data with international markets.
The BIM Task Group has worked with
the CPIc Committee (which has combined support from professional institutions) to help focus the needs of the
approach both now and in the future.
Details of the Uniclass and Uniclass 2
systems are available at the BIM Task
Group website www.bimtaskgroup.
org and www.cpic.org.uk
parts of a building, naming products in
catalogues or providing a framework for
cost analysis.
Over the years there have been attempts at bringing these systems together into a unified coding system
such as Uniclass (2) in the UK and
Omniclass in the USA. However there
has been a reluctance to move away
from the specialist and bespoke classification systems. Despite best attempts
there is currently no unified approach
across the sector domestically or internationally.
The BIM Task Group has spent some
time exploring the possibilities of using
elements of the retail industries system
of Barcoding Standards hosted by an
organisation called GS1. The opportunities of integration would appear to
be attractive especially the embedded
logistics capabilities and the established
use of GS1 in the Builders Merchants
and manufacturing arena. Further
details can be found at http://www.
gs1uk.org/Pages/default.aspx.
Practitioners involved in the international movement for interoperability of
BIM considered what is required in the
form of a coordinated and unified set
of classification codes. The result was
the development of a standard for such
systems, ISO 12006-2. Experience of
working with this standard for classification has resulted in a proposal to review
ISO 12006 during 2014. The revision is
at the public consultation stage at the
time of writing this brief and is expected
to be published in 2014.
Classification
A Short History of Classification
There are new versions of classification systems that are being developed
in parallel with the revision of the ISO
standard and they are anticipating the
changes to the standard. These include
Omniclass in the USA, Uniclass2 in the
UK and the Danish Cuneco project. In
the UK, the Uniclass2 system has been
under development although some pro-
Historically there have been many
classification tools in the UK market. In
general these were created to serve a
particular function such as providing a
consistent basis for identifying different
jects are using and adding to a “beta”
release available at the BIM Task Group
Labs area.
The Value Proposition for a Unified Classification System
The value of a unified classification system covering all disciplines, roles and
sectors should include
• Enabling the digital searching for
like “things” in models
• Enabling the automated combination
of models because all “things” are
consistently classified
• Enabling the aggregation of like
“things” in models for the purposes
of measurement, purchasing, maintenance etc.
• Enabling a common language for all
people constructing and managing
assets
• Enabling the effective “benchmarking” of measured values across
similar assets
For more information about the
competition go to sbri website
The full functional specification
is available under Supporting
Documents.
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BIM - HEALTH & SAFETY
BIM For Construction
Health & Safety
ciated technologies, and applying them
to the construction industry, significant
savings in time and money may be
achieved. The Government Construction Strategy published in 2011 contained almost 50 strategy objectives
aimed at reducing the costs of govern-
by: Stefan Mordue
NBS, Architect/ Technical Author
To o m a n y p e o p l e a r e k i l l e d a n d i n j u r e d i n o u r i n d u s t r y
e a c h y e a r, d e s p i t e t h e b e s t e f f o r t s o f a l l p a r t i e s c o n c e r n e d .
While many are utilizing BIM for efficiency gains and improved profit margins, perhaps fewer are considering health
a n d s a f e t y.
Even in times of economic downturn,
construction is still one of the largest
industry sectors in the UK, unfortunately it still remains one of most dangerous
and hazardous.
Despite the rate of injuries over the last
20 years being significantly reduced,
particularly in light of publications such
as the Eagan report that pushed for
a 20 per cent reduction in reportable
accidents, construction still remains
a high-risk industry in which to work.
Although it is not new, BIM has seen a
huge uptake in interest in recent years.
Partly as a result of Government support, but perhaps mainly due to great
leaps in technology.
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‘Tiny differences in input can result in
overwhelming differences in outcome;
this is especially true of health and
safety’. David Philp
BIM for H&S?
As we stand at the verge of a new digital era we must aspire to make better
and safer decisions through innovative
and collaborative working enabled by
BIM. However, the basic principle is
simple. BIM is about gathering, using,
interpreting and transmitting information.
ment construction projects by 15–20
per cent. Increasingly, the wider construction industry is realising the benefits of BIM, with figures from our NBS
National BIM Survey suggesting that in
2012, 94 percent of respondents were
using some form of BIM compared with
57 per cent in 2010.
94%
percent of respondents
were using some sort
of BIM in 2012
57%
percent of respondents
were using some sort
of BIM in 2010
The UK government believes that by
developing these standards and asso-
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“
Tiny
differences
in input
can result
in
overwhelming
differences
in outcome;
this is
especially true
of health
and safety.
- David Philp
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”
However let us just forget about cost
savings, efficiencies and reduced programmes for a moment. While the commercial advantages are fairly obvious,
the potential benefits in improved health
by reducing accidents and deaths are
so great as to be almost unquantifiable.
Is it such a departure, therefore, to consider how health and safety information
might be included in a BIM? Is this not
a massive opportunity for those of us
working in construction to embrace
this technology and its development,
together with the increased efficiency
and discipline that it brings? The model environment essentially becomes a
backdrop for a zero harm culture.
CDMC and BIM
The health and safety role is evolving
towards collaboration, structured data
and sharing of information as BIM – the
incarnation of these sensibilities – increasingly underpins construction practice. The incorporation of health and
safety into BIM, is neither something
which is the exclusive preserve of the
‘technology’ generation, nor something
which is beyond us as health and safety
professionals. It is, as modern parlance
would have it, a ‘no brainer’
With much of the focus on BIM being
on the public sector and large-scale
projects, it is often a miss conception
that the premise of BIM is only reserved
for cash rich organisations undertaking
large and complex schemes. There is
no practical reason why a simple project should not be modelled, just as
complex ones are. Domestic schemes
can sometimes be referred to as ‘small
scale’. However, they are often just as
complex and demanding as a ‘large
project’, as complexity does not just
relate to the size of the asset. They still
require coordination and management
of information, but perhaps to a different
level of detail.
between complex and simple projects
in terms of the requirements regarding
shared asset data and information, as
well as accessibility for all individuals
who are required to produce, use and
maintain it. It notes that a simple project
may use free web-based software instead of more sophisticated (and potentially expensive) applications.
A sketch may convey sufficient information without the need for extensive
separate construction-detail drawings.
In a similar way, the model may be tailored to the project in hand. Sometimes
health and safety may be overlooked
on small-scale projects. Presently, for
instance, non-commercial (‘domestic’)
work is excluded from some of the
requirements of the CDM Regulations,
whilst some projects are not notifiable
under the regulations. However, that is
not in itself a reason for failing to consider the health and safety implications
of a scheme, as it is fair to say that
some small-scale projects can be very
complex indeed and their clients more
demanding than those on much larger
endeavours.
The BIM Task group who are supporting
and helping deliver the objective of the
UK Government Construction strategy
have set up a microsite website, containing free resources and information.
The task group which brings expertise
from industry, government, public sector, institutes and academia, produce a
monthly newsletter outlining forthcoming events and developments. As well
as providing a good clear set of frequently asked questions the site others
information BIM process, as well as
lessons learnt from the government trail
projects.
The BSI Publicly Available Specification, PAS 1192 which provides a
framework for BIM projects is its self-intended to be scalable. The document
recognises that there will be differences
BIM4Health and Safety Group
Central to the BIM Task group, a number links have been forged for public–
private sector collaborations – including
BIM for retail, rail, developers, FM, and
water concerns. These groups have
been formed of representatives from
the respective sectors, all with a common interest in developing and improving awareness, skill and the use of BIM
technology.
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Experience
in other industries
(for example, ICT, retail
and manufacturing)
suggests
that failure
to understand
and adapt
human behaviour,
rather than technology,
is the biggest impediment
to collaborative
working’
- Sir Michael Latham
Promisingly, there is also a specific
BIM4REGS task group, which is concerned with the Building Regulations
and health and safety information within
the model. The group plans to investigate whether it is possible to incorporate health and safety requirements into
BIM software so that users can immediately see whether their designs are
compliant. The next step is to see how
judgement-based decision-making can
be incorporated. Examples might be the
inclusion of data relating to hazardous
properties of materials, or, with further
development, the ability to visualise
particular construction scenarios that
will inform decisions on subsequent
activities or construction methods.
Change
”
regulations.
While we embrace these changes let us
reflect on a few words of wisdom from
Sir Michael Latham.
‘Experience in other industries (for
example, ICT, retail and manufacturing)
suggests that failure to understand and
adapt human behaviour, rather than
technology, is the biggest impediment
to collaborative working’ Sir Michael
Latham (Constructing the Team 1994)’
Conclusion
The advantages of BIM are many and
varied. Its application to health and
safety may not be so well developed at
present, but it will be a natural extension of its capabilities as the adoption of
the BIM process increases.
For some, the arrival of BIM will fill
them with hope and optimism for
others, fear and pessimism. The real
barrier to BIMs success or failure is of
course change management and how
we as humans adopt to change. And
lets face it, there is plenty of it. Aside
from the move to digital information, the
construction industry is getting to grips
with new classification systems such
an Uniclass2 , the RIBA have recently
undertaken the most comprehensive
update to the RIBA Plan of Work since
its first publication some fifty years ago
and that’s before we even get into a
discussion about the future of the CDM
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Book Description
The health and safety role is evolving towards collaboration, structured data and sharing of information as BIM increasingly underpins construction practice.
As the industry begins to see how these topics can and should interconnect, this guide provides context and practical advice by explaining the basic principles
of BIM, how it will shape the health and safety professional’s role, and what tools and processes will need to be embedded in future.
It also highlights the wealth of opportunities that BIM provides to improve health and safety standards and effective coordination, the means to exploit the
potential of BIM, and will aid understanding for all professionals involved in construction health and safety from CDM coordinators and contractors, to clients and
architects.
Authors
Featured Reviews
Stefan Mordue, BA (Hons) DipArch MSc
RMaPS MAPM RIBA, is a chartered architect,
qualified Construction Project Manager, registered CDM Coordinator and NBS Technical
Author. He has been involved in the development of the National BIM Library and has a
background within small architectural practice.
He is currently the CIC BIM 2050 working group
Communications Manager and a member of the
CIC BIM4Health and Safety group. He is Co Author of BIM for Construction Health and Safety
(RIBA Publications), contributor to ‘BIM for the
Terrified’ The ‘IFC/COBie Report’ and ‘BIM for
the Small Practice’. He is a visiting lecturer at
Heriot-Watt University.
This book is aimed at people working within
the construction industry who need to understand how Building Information Modelling and
health and safety management fit together. The
authors explore how the potential of BIM can be
exploited to reduce health and safety risks. It
is recognised that this guidance contains some
advice that may go further than the minimum
needed to comply with health and safety law.
However, it also contains well-explained, practical examples that will be informative to clients,
contractors, designers and health and safety
professionals alike. I commend BIM for Construction Health and Safety to you.
Roland Finch, BSc FRICS ACIArb, is a chartered quantity surveyor with over 30 years’ construction industry experience in both the public
and private sectors. He is the principal author
for NBS Preliminaries and Project Management
content, has written many articles on a variety
of health & safety topics, and is a contributor to
‘Croner’s Management of Health & Safety’. He is
a member of the RICS UK QS and Construction
Professional Group Board, and a Director of the
RICS Research Trust.
Book Link
http://www.ribabookshops.com/item/bim-for-construction-health-and-safety/81928/
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Heather Bryant, HSE Chief Inspector of Construction
BIM is in the infancy of implementation. Health
and Safety in Construction is an implicate and
statutory requirement. The authors have captured and explained in plain English how the
construction industry can enhance standards
both in design and delivery on site, dramatically
improving the built environment.
Steve Ash, Head of Health and Safety, West
Region, Faithful+Gould
Essential reading. At last a publication that
de-mystifies the latest developments in BIM
in relation to the day to day responsibilities of
a Health and Safety practitioner. This book
highlights both the responsibilities and the
opportunities for integrating the work of a CDM-c
into the collaborative world of BIM. This will be
an invaluable guide for both CDM-c’s ,designers
and other practitioner’s as we undertake the
most radical changes in practice since the implementation of CAD.
Dan Clements MCIAT, Chartered Architectural
Technologist and CDM Co-ordinator, Architects Plus
BIM for Construction
Health and Safety
Stefan Mordue and Roland
Finch
Publisher: NBS
Date Published: Apr 2014
ISBN: 9781859465288
BOOK LINK
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BIM4SME REPORT
BIM4 SME End of Year Report
by: Tim Platts
BIM4SME, Chair
As the BIM4 groups meet again this month to complete and
s i g n u p t o t h e B I M 4 c o m m u n i t y c h a r t e r, B I M 4 S M E a l s o c e l ebrates its first year with a report on its activities and
achievements in the last 12 months along with a statement
of its agenda and workload for the future.
Featuring comments and testimony
from David Philp, Head of BIM- Mace
Group, Head of Implementation – UK
BIM Taskgroup and CIOB – who host
the organisation, the report notes the
progress made since the launch of
the group in April 2013 at CIC in London supported by Peter Hansford and
Chloe Smith from Cabinet Office. Since
then the tireless and relentless effort of
the core group has seen a number of
events being conducted across the UK
(most recently the ‘Has BIM Bombed’
event at Addleshaw Goddard in Leeds –
now on storify), presentations at a host
of various events ranging from various
RICS meetings in Birmingham, Nottingham, Leeds and Surrey plus of course a
prolific contribution at their BIM Conference at the Barbican, to presentations
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to the Concrete Society amongst many
others. A key aim has been to reach
out to the Professional Institutions with
particular success with CIOB, RICS,
IStructE, and CIBSE
The production of the report was driven
by the desire to provide a useful resource and explanation of BIM for those
SME’s within the supply chains across
industry and with this in mind members
of BIM4SME look forward to meeting
UKCG next month. With support from
a growing number of Main Contractors
a printing fund has been established
which will allow both hard and soft
copies to be prepared so that the collateral can be used and shared at future
events as well as on line.
Other features of the report include the
efforts being expended in providing
training, support and guidance to the
SME sector as noted in the original
vision and mission noted on the website. For example the Hints and Tips
cards ‘sold out’ within 2 minutes at the
RICS BIM conference in February.
However the workload is ever growing
and more members to the core group is
both necessary and welcome. Although
we do have national coverage from
the South Coast to Scotland, we do
need more members in the South West
and Midlands (to counter the Northern
bias!), as well as more specialist contractors and suppliers/manufacturers.
NEW WEBSITE:
The Core Group and IT Sub
Group has been working with its
new technology partner with
support from nunelah.
A completely new website
complete with a fresh look and
more dynamic content and navigation is shortly to be available.
A copy of the report can be
downloaded from the website,
any difficulties please contact
[email protected]
An early view of the site for those
interested can be seen at
http://new.bim4sme.org
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British Water BIM Conference in association with MWH calls for Joined up Industry Approaches to Realise BIM Value Delegate Workshops Provide Insight to Cross Industry Views The main themes emerging from the five workshop groups are summarised below; The British Water Building Information Modelling (BIM) conference held at Aston Villa FC on 29th April brought together over 130 delegates from across the water industry to discuss what BIM means for the Water Sector and where we can realise the value. David Philp
presents and joins
the panel session
This paper highlights the key messages from the day followed by the workshop outcomes. Key messages 1. It was recognised that BIM has a lot to offer the Water Sector however this is not always understood as BIM is a term associated with single projects and vertical construction. In the Water Sector we have a portfolio of assets that are managed to deliver a service over a long time scale. Asset Lifecycle Information Management (ALIM) is considered to be a more appropriate reflection of the subject. In summing up the conference co‐chair Richard Coackley looked forward to a vision of the future where the Water Sector is part of the ‘Intelligent Infrastructure’ envisaged by ‘Smart Cities’. 2. In order to realise the benefits of BIM the industry needs to look at Owner/Operators, DesignBuild and the Supply Community working together. A good example of this is the creation of ‘Product Catalogues’. It was found that efficiency exists where:‐ a. There is duplication of effort in creating models b. There are different asset standards for different Owner/Operators creating less opportunity for standardisation 3. There are a number of BIM groups being established across the infrastructure sector. For the Water Sector it was felt that BIM4Water should step up and take on a coordination role incorporating other industry groups such as British Water, The Water Industry Federation, Build Off Site and others. 4. There was a call from the conference for some evidence of the benefits of BIM to help make the business case, it was also requested that some case studies of successes and failures would be helpful. Following this conference BIM4Water have established a Steering Group who have met with British Water. The next BIM4Water conference is planned for 10 June hosted by Severn Trent in Coventry where the group will present some case studies and form task groups to pick up initiatives. The feedback from the British Water Conference was very positive from the delegates, British Water are considering a follow up event for spring 2015. 64
This is a re-print of a British Water BIM Conference
Follow up Report, May 2014
1. How do Clients / Operators intend to use BIM to gain value in long term operation, management and maintenance of their assets?  More confidence in data sets to improve operational performance, assets performing as designed, less reactive and more planned maintenance. Includes developing Real Time Control capability.  Standardisation of assets.  Operations engagement in design through 3D Visualisation.  Better handover of assets from construction to operations, O+M manuals, asset data and as built drawings. 2. What benefits could BIM bring to Clients / Operators and the regulators?  One source of truth and accessibility to information.  Reducing running cost to lower the cost to consumers. 3. How should BIM be best implemented to deliver maximum advantage to the Clients / Operators? What are the risks and barriers?  Make sure we all know the ‘why’. This is a change programme for the industry, are we ready for it?  Establish some top level strategy aligned to BS 1192, PAS 1192‐2 and 3.  More vertical integration linking asset management and operations.  Data security is a concern if access is more open.  BIM is not the correct name for the Water Sector.  Focus on lower CAPEX can stifle innovation. 4. How might the supply chain make best use of, and gain value from, BIM in management of liability, change orders and innovation?  Standardisation across clients, balancing standardisation and innovation.  Product catalogues, framework agreements, reducing tendering and non‐value add procurement activities.  Intellectual Property issues need to be resolved to avoid lack of sharing.  Greater collaboration with suppliers particularly at the early stages of projects and programmes, less change and change earlier, ideally right first time. 5. What actions should now follow and what part should British Water play ‐ if any?  Need collaboration across the industry through BIM4Water and British water working with other groups. Draw in lessons and experience form other sectors.  Establish some industry commonality on Employers Information Requirements and standards. Establish a high level BIM strategy for the Water Sector.  Develop some case studies and best practice guidance. Consider setting up a Water Industry BIIM Academy.  Identify top 10 standard products across all Water Companies and standardise.  Utilise the opportunity to improve Health and Safety standards through use of BIM techniques.  Develop strategies for managing existing data.  Is BIM the correct term? Andrew Cowell MWH Engineering Director British Water BIM Conference Chair 65
Institute Announcement
ONLINE QUESTIONNAIRE
02. ICE BIM Heat Map
ICE BIM Heat Map Questionnaire
ICE BIM Action Group
Where is the ICE Membership with the
Building Information Modelling (BIM)
journey and what should ICE do to help
digitally enable its members to face
the future?
BIM
Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a structured process
of managing information before, during and after the construction of built assets.
While there seems to be an increasing awareness and implementation of BIM in today’s
construction industry, the understanding of this is limited by insufficient work to map and
measure this use among practitioners.
ICE are committed to addressing this problem and following on from ICE BIM Heat Map
2013 explained further in this doc, we are asking you to partake in this valued survey.
Not only to see the awareness of BIM across the sectors today but to be able to see if
things have changed since last year. And if so, where? This work is important in showing strengths and weaknesses of current practice in relation to the government agenda.
Take the survey online today [LINK] The results will be released at the ICE BIM 2014
Conference [LINK] in October.
Completion of the new survey enables individuals the chance of w i n n i n g a f r e e
BIM Conference place or a Kindle HD.
ICE Thought Leadership
ANNOUNCEMENTS
One of the key purposes of any
institution is to keep a weather eye to
the market and ensure the membership
is aware, ready and capable of meeting
demands. ICE has a long history of
ensuring good communications and
sharing takes place amongst the
membership, supported by the formal
training and publication services of
Thomas Telford. In recent years this has
been dramatically improved by the use of
web technologies and this has expanded
our reach globally. But what of BIM?
It is many years since we have seen
such a dramatic change in an industry.
The recession has conspired with
better technologies and a Government
determined to lead the global charge of
better value and international growth,
how best do we respond and ensure ICE
and its members continue to be valued
as the best in the world?
The BIM Action Group was set up in
early 2013 and was faced with the
same question. They decided to ask
the membership and get a picture of
how the market was impacting various
sectors around the move to the digital
economy…..and here are the results.
We received a good response to
the survey. The sample gave us a
representation across the sectors which
have painted an interesting picture,
especially if reflected in the responses
from the first ICE BIM conference
in 2011.
Back then the conversation was “what
is this BIM thing?”,“Where can I buy
one?”; this matured in 2012 to genuine
hunger for examples and help in piecing
together an understanding of “what
shall I do next?”.
The Heat Map we have created takes
that anecdotal evidence the next step
and provides the Institution with an
accurate picture of where you, the
membership are now and where we
should be collaborating in the future to
provide you with help, guidance and
information to ensure you face you
everyday challenges properly equipped.
The Findings
The detailed findings will be further
analysed by the Action Group in the
coming months with detailed discussions
with the sector leaders to ensure we
bring local relevant help. However a
common pattern from across the sectors
was that there appears to be a very good
understanding of what BIM is and some
of the potential benefits available.
This is illustrated by the left hand
section of the heat map which focuses
on awareness of BIM across the key
infrastructure markets and ICE areas
of interest.
The questions we asked were selected
to elicit an understanding of current
awareness and its depth.
It is clear from the responses that we
enjoy a good understanding and with the exception of some of the
Procurement benefits - the participating
individuals are clear of the “what”
around BIM including “what can it do?”.
The right hand side of the Heat Map
however tells a different story. It
shows us awareness falls far short
of the detailed knowledge required
to confidently deliver a BIM Level 2
project. The understanding of data and
classification systems are a particular area
of the process that needs support, but
the fact that some sectors are making
good progress will allow us to enable
“lessons learnt” sessions and focus
detailed support.
All of the documents and standards
to enable BIM Level 2 have been
deliberately made available free of
charge so it was a little disappointing to
see a number of sectors had failed to
even look at PAS1192:2:2013, one of
the key documents released in February
this year. We will ensure that we
redouble our efforts in communicating
to all communities the resources that
are available.
BIM Level 2 forms a key policy and
will be mandatory by 2016. It is a key
enabler to the Level 3 and Smart City
Agenda and the Government is fully
committed to supporting this vision.
For our part ICE is keen to both
support the UK Government and our
membership and supporting businesses
to ensure all ICE members are fully
equipped to face the digital switchover.
Next steps:
Encourage more participation of
the survey
Understand and distribute the
survey report and heat map to all
parties
Discuss action plans with each sector
community leader to ensure suitable
focused support
Ensure an annual conference is
organised to disseminate best
practice in the domestic and
international markets
Training
Support HMG
Make the Civils’ voice heard in the
digital economy
Collaborate with other parties to
ensure the UK and civil engineers
remain relevant and trusted in the
Digital Economy
Best Digital Civil Engineers in
the world
Building Information Modelling and Asset Management
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All
Airports
Buildings
Power
Utilities
Water
Rail
Nuclear
Costal Defence
Ports
Geo / Tunnelling
Road
Flood
Other
04. Acknowledgements
The organisation I work for is Embracing BIM and has started to implement a change process
I understand the relevance of Surveys in the context of BIM
I understand why the organisation/department I work for needs data
ICE BIM Heat Map
I need more guidance on CESMM for BIM
I understand the relationship of the scope of services and BIM deliverables
I can see the benefits in working in a BIM environment
I believe BIM is key to improving asset management
I believe BIM is key to improving operational efficiency
I think that BIM saves time and costs
I understand the relevance of GIS in the context of BIM
I have a good understanding of the impact of BIM on industry and my organisation
I think at present we are not fully realising the benefits of BIM in my sector
BIM
I understand the method by which the organisation I work for procures services
I have worked in a collaborative team before
BIM
Green economy
BIM is Key to sustainable construction
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Mark Bew MBE
EC Strategies, Building Smart UK and
Government Industry BIM Working Group
Dr Ilka May
Arup
Dr Anne Kemp
Atkins
I have heard of COBie
I think that BIM has a huge impact on procurement
I Know what Employer Information Requirements (EIR) are
I have heard of IFC and BuildingSMART
I have a good understanding of the definition of BIM Level 2 and the drivers behind it
I understand the purpose of Plain Language Questions (PLQs)
I understand the term soft landings
I understand what COBie is
I believe BIM is only relevant to design and construction
I know how COBie answers PLQs
I understand the purpose of Uniclass
I understand how Uniclass can index COBie
I have read BS1192
I have read PAS1192
I agree that the BIM process is software agnostic
I know that CESMM allows you to estimate embodied carbon values
The organisation I work for uses BIM to mitigate risks
I understand that deliverables can be checked in COBie
I think more guidance is not required on contractual and liability issues
The organisation I work for uses BIM to check compliance
I know that COBie can be used to check compliance
Strongly agree/Agree
Neither agree or disagree/Disagree
Strongly disagree
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Web Updates
w w w. b i m t a s k g r o u p . o r g
Hub Events
NORTH EAST
North East Hub Events
DATE
29 May
Venue will be at the University of Northumbria in Ellison Building room EBA 102A; 17:30 arrival, 18:00 start and
19:30 finish.
12 June
Our BIM Journey
20 slides at 20 seconds each! Some of the North east BIM leaders will quickly, entertainingly and informatively
pass on their experiences through their development of BIM within their businesses.
Case Study for new advanced laboratories demonstrating the benefit of end
user involvement to improve operational
design and expected performance.
Full document can be downloaded from
BIM Task Group website [LINK]
Changes may be afoot for CDM but BIM offers real opportunities to develop health and safety considerations in
the design, construction and maintenance of the built environment.
The event is free and will be sponsored by NBS (so tea/coffee and biscuits for all!)
Government Soft Landings Case Studies
of the BIM Task Group website [LINK]
BIM for H&S
Speakers – APS and NBS
BIM Task Group Website Updates
National Measurement Office Case Study has been added to Government Soft Landing section
EVENT
Speakers - Summers Inman, Niven, SDS, Kiers, Colour UDL
The event is free and will be sponsored by 4Projects (so tea/coffee and biscuits for all!)
Venue will be at Teesside University room to be confirmed, 17:30 arrival, 18:00 start and 19:30 finish.
26 June
BIM and CIBSE
The area with probably the biggest changes coming due to the implementation of BIM is likely to be building
services. This event will help all those in the design team understand what is expected and required in the
CIBSE scope of works.
Speakers – SDS and others
The event is free and will be sponsored by CIC (so tea/coffee and biscuits for all!)
Venue will be at the University of Northumbria in room CCE1002; 17:30 arrival, 18:00 start and 19:30 finish.
10 July
BIM Surgery
After the series of NE BIM HUB events as well as those from CENE, BIM Academy, BIM Technologies and
others this will be a catch up event where attendees can ask industry leaders the burning questions they have.
Speakers – BIM Academy/BIM Technologies/4Projects
The event is free and will be sponsored by CIC (so tea/coffee and biscuits for all!)
Venue will be at the University of Northumbria in room to be confirmed; 17:30 arrival, 18:00 start and 19:30
finish.
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you. To help us tailor
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for you let us tell your
BIM story, hear your suggestions for articles, your
forthcoming events, pictures or indeed any feedback or questions on the
programme.
Additionally don’t forget our blog section on the task
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contribution.
Contact us [email protected]
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