BIM a focus on reality
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BIM is building information modeling that collects data about a project to enable collaborative working and interoperable software. BIM aims to prevent waste and help projects be completed on time and under budget. For companies to succeed with BIM, they need to get involved by learning about it, planning a strategy, reviewing their processes, defining what a successful BIM project looks like, and starting on a small trial project. BIM can improve business by opening new client streams, improving company image and competitiveness, driving down waste, and improving deliverables and repeat business rates.
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BIM a focus on reality
- 1. BIM A focus on reality By: Arch. Saad Al Jabri, PMP, MSc BIMM
- 2. What is BIM Building Information Modeling (BIM) is simply a collection of data about a project. Originally a term coined for buildings, BIM applies to many forms of project, from infrastructure to petro-chemical and everything in between.
- 3. To BIM or not to BIM BIM requires two key components: • collaborative working, and • interoperable software. “BIM is aimed at efficient program delivery and preventing the huge unnecessary waste that occurs on most construction projects.”
- 4. Interoperability Interoperability brings many sets of data together that can be shared amongst the design and construction teams.
- 5. Hand over
- 6. Jump on the wagon “If you jump on the wagon now you will get ahead of many of your competitors.”
- 7. Some tips • Take the time to learn about BIM and what it means for your discipline. • Look at how you currently work and how this may have to evolve to accommodate this new world of BIM. • Plan to embrace it one step at a time. • Try to cut through the BIM wash and understand how first defining and then implementing your BIM strategy, will produce a significant advantage for your career.
- 8. Five steps to BIM success Getinvolved Get a better understanding of BIM and how it will benefit your work and help you: • Win business • Reduce waste, therefore save costs • Help complete projects on time • Improve your income PlanyourBIMstrategy Define a company strategy Cultural change – starts with simple high level education What are the barriers to change? Expand the education and define the first ‘BIM Goals’ Evaluate the competence of existing BIM products Ask your software vendors what their interoperable BIM strategy is Reviewyourexisting processes Are they currently fit for purpose? Will they achieve your BIM goals? Re-align to technology / BIM plan as necessary Definewhatasuccessful BIMprojectis Set benchmarks against previous projects Define what success is Agree your business objectives for the first project Define what a successful BIM project is Identifyasuitabletrial projectandgetstarted Start on a small project Choose one that is relatively straightforward Remember this is a learning curve Agree limited, well defined measures of success Review successes and apply to your next project
- 9. Understanding the BIM consequence • BIM can change your business for the better • BIM can open up new client streams • BIM can improve your company image • BIM avoidance will leave you behind the competition • BIM ignorance will cost you money • BIM wash will not be a cover forever • BIM is a journey • BIM has a learning curve attached to it • BIM is not yet a finished article • BIM can improve your company deliverables • BIM can improve your repeat business rates • BIM can drive down waste and improve profit • BIM will give you a competitive advantage
- 10. BIM data flow Current BIM model data flow. Information is frequently lost because of poor interoperability and data standards. At each stage, varying degrees of re- work are required to provide the information required for the next stage. Currently there is very little operational or lifecycle data available to building operators. Data is developed and enhanced at each stage of the building’s life. It can be made available at the appropriate level for each stage, thus avoiding ‘information overload’. It builds toward handover and changes from construction information to operational asset data. Now FMs have the information they need to maintain and operate the building.
- 11. Education and training Start by using: • Lynda site • Autodesk university • YouTube • Share with your colleagues what you learned • Teach others
- 12. Thank you.
Editor's Notes
- Reference: T, M. (2013) BIM A focus on reality A practical introduction to BIM and how you can get involved A LICENCE TO SAVE MONEY. Available at: http://www.amtech.co.uk/files/bim_brochure_apr13.pdf (Accessed: 9 February 2016).
- Using BIM is for many a cultural change as much as a technological change.
- Instead of each discipline working alone in a common contractual environment, the advantage of BIM is to bring everyone together, clients, architects, engineers and contractors and have them work together collaboratively to provide efficient design through effective communication, at all levels. This is common sense but it will require significant cultural and technological change, which is coming.
- The data starts off in a very simple, generic form and is then developed and enhanced as a project progresses towards completion.
- Finally, it can be handed over to the owner as a comprehensive and accurate ‘living’ operating and maintenance reference set, only now it is fully interactive and digital – which is extremely useful.
- The truth about BIM right now is that it’s not the finished article but if you can find a way of bringing BIM into your working practice, in any way that is better than those in your peer group, you’re already halfway to success. It’s definitely not too late.
- The ‘I’ in BIM stands for information. Getting the right level of information into the model at the right time is one challenge. The next is to make it available without loss of integrity or quality throughout the project lifecycle, so that it is available to everyone who needs it, when they need it.
- Education and training are often overlooked or considered as optional extras. But this is a false economy and a lack of knowledge or, worse, mis-information will prove expensive. Training is essential to make the most of the BIM opportunity.