Presentation at Building Information Modelling - redefining the role of the project manager. Conference from the APM Knowledge SIG, 27th March 2014, University of Salford

1. BIM – Academic Research
Challenges & and
Professional Bodies
Professor Charles Egbu PhD FRICS FCIOB FAPM FHEA FRSA
The University of Salford, UK

2.  Academic and research needs and
challenges
 BIM, KM and PM
 Challenges and opportunities – individual
and organisational
 What BIM means for PM’s – professional
bodies (APM) - and ethical issues
Presentation Coverage

3.  Attitudes, behaviours, cultures and
implementation - different strategies for
communication.
 BIM Education: BIM in the academic
design studio; student visualization; teaching
sustainable building; learning cycle of
students/graduates and the industry
expectations (BIM Academic Forum – BAF) -
BIM aware; BIM focused; and BIM enabled
education; and having BIM -ready graduates

4. BIM - Its economic implications
 Political and social implications:
How technologies change and
mediate interactions across the
networks of workers that become
involved as multiple parties collaborate

5.  Strategic Use of BIM and Clients’
Perspectives: The provision of a practical
guide and an understanding of the client role in
different models of practice (Heightened
consideration in BIM Level 3 Definition)
 BIM and Whole Life Thinking: The
synthesis of data from data capture, modelling
and GIS, and that examine data over the life-
cycle of buildings and infrastructure assets.

6.  BIM to develop new techniques for
safety compliance checking as well as
consideration of safety in design.
 Project, Programme, and Portfolio
Control and Management.
 Integration of knowledge and the
interoperability of systems connections
- between geographic information
systems (GIS) and BIM.

7.  Lessons learned in BIM.
Reducing the loss of knowledge that
will have negative impacts on BIM
design and collaborations

8. “Processing data (and some
aspects of information) can be
performed by machine, but only
the human mind can process
knowledge.”
Jesse Shera in Machlup and Mansfield’s
The Study of Information: Interdisciplinary
Messages. NY: Wiley, 1983.
BIM, KM and PM

9.  The key to knowledge
creation lies in the way
knowledge is being
mobilized and converted
through technology

10.  BIM has some tools to store and
manage explicit knowledge. But
there is real challenge with regards
to tacit knowledge

11. TACIT TO TACIT
(SOCIALIZATION)
e.g., Individual and/or Team
Discussions
TACIT TO EXPLICIT
(EXTERNALIZATION)
e.g., Documenting a Team
Meeting
EXPLICIT TO TACIT
(INTERNALIZATION)
e.g., Learn from a report
and Deduce new ideas
EXPLICIT TO EXPLICIT
(COMBINATION)
e.g. Create a Website from
some form of explicit
knowledge; Email a Report

12.  Building information modeling and model
generation is an evolutionary process, and it
is critical to capture knowledge in this
process from one stage to another.
 knowledge management is currently a
stand-alone process - separated from BIM
implementation. What if knowledge, the
refined information, is integrated into BIM?

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14.  BIM that takes a particular disciplinary
or professional perspective
 BIM - Professional interactions -
understanding the changes in roles that
accompany BIM.

15.  Architecture (use BIM in architectural
practice)
 Quantity Surveying and Cost Estimating
 Civil Engineering ( BIM in transport, bridge
construction and subways)
 Facilities Management (Asset Management
and Whole life cycle management)
 Project Management
 Etc.....

16.  “A world in which all
projects succeed” (APM)
 Working to the PAS 1192-2 Process and the
Digital Plan of Work ( BSI, 2013)
 BIM Level 2: planning, coordination,
communication and auditing:
 BIM Level 3: “The Integrator Role” and the
Project Manager

17. BIM in Body of Knowledge (BoK) and in Competence
Frameworks (CF) ??

18. A balanced Approach is Needed!
Project Management – Hard and Soft
Tools/Techniques
Hard PM Soft

19.  RICS BIM Manager Certification:
“To assure contractors, consultants and
investors that the professionals and firms
delivering construction and infrastructure
projects have the relevant knowledge,
experience and skills to implement BIM at an
industry tested and approved level”.

20.  How will BIM be used post 2016?
- To add value to the value chain or as a
marketing tool?
- How will organisations and
professional bodies manage ethical
issues of the “BIM Practitioner”?
- How will the “industry” manage the
proliferation of certification and training
programmes?