The document discusses the advancement of Building Information Modelling (BIM) towards establishing a digitally built Britain, highlighting the need for new digital tools and innovative methods in the construction sector. It emphasizes the importance of collaboration and high-quality information, advocating for mandatory milestones to track progress in BIM adoption. The author expresses concern about a growing divide in the industry between those who embrace digital transformation and those who do not.

1. Building Information Modelling
Towards a digitally built Britain
David Philp
BIM Task Group
Head of BIM
ThinkBIM
Leeds

2. New Digital Tools
New Methods of
Working
Standard assembly
Interfaces
New Results
Meaningful Change
Construction Sector: a time of change
"Tempori Parendum"- Be prepared for your time
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3. BIM, Procurement through
computer readable data

4. Construction 2025…
HM Government 2013
Industrial Strategy: government and industry in partnership
Towards a Digitally Built Britain.
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5. Ivan Sutherland (1963)
• Constraint based drawing
• Hierarchical modelling
Built Environment enters a
Digital Revolution (at last!)
Scalable and
A “Good crisis”

6. Did we waste a good crisis?
“Since we published Never Waste a Good Crisis in 2009, the
Olympic Development Authority has delivered world class
outputs and now Crossrail has taken up the baton to move the
industry forward. With the UK Government fully engaged about
the key role that infrastructure plays in the economy, there are
signs of real momentum in our industry.
It is clear to me that the new generation entering our profession
understands why we need to look at how value is created over
the whole life cycle of an asset, as current work by Constructing
Excellence with Turner and Townsend and others has
highlighted.
We are also seeing an increasing take up of game-changing
technology such as BIM. My concern though is that our
industry will become increasingly polarised between those
who ‘get it’ and those who do not.”
Andrew Wolstenholme OBE
20th Nov 2013

7. New aspects of working and interacting in a
digital world? Got it? Get it!
Those
That
Don’t’ Get
It!
Those That Get It!
(Digital natives)
Confused
Those who believe
That there is nothing
To Change
Added value, Reduced Risk
Competitive Advantage

8. Behavioural change within the industry
£ OPEX

10. Its Good for Industry
Culture: doing things different:
build twice (productivity)
Disruptive Innovative Processes
A better way of working

11. Sustaining our Industry’s GVA
Good for economy
(Innovation) in a digital climate

12. Rebranding and Investment
Good for Industry

13. Government strategy
Collaborative 3D BIM with all
project and asset information,
documentation and data being
electronic
By 2016 a staged plan will be
published with mandated
milestones showing measurable
progress at the end of each
year.

14. What is BIM?
B
uilding a consistent, collaborative industry, with
clear and open communication
I
nformation of high-quality is procured to support
business outcomes
M
odelling the design increases efficiency,
enabling simulation & analysis = Better Outcomes

15. Level 2: process and deliverables

16. Hierarchy of Information and the Work Stages
Consolidated BIM Process Model
PAS 1192:2
Work Stage
Strategic
Requirements
Project Decision
Business Justification
Investment Decision
Discretionary Gate
Typical Decision Gates
Plain Language
Questions
To be Completed by
Client/Industry
Deliverables described
in plain language
To be Identified by
Client/Industry
COBie
Exchange Data
To be Completed by
Industry
2D Drawings – Level
of Detail & Definition
To be Identified by
Industry
Discretionary Gate
Compulsory Gate
Compulsory Gate
Practical Completion
Discretionary Gate
Project Review
Financial Close
Post Occupancy
Periodic Review
Compulsory Gate
Discretionary Gate
A
A
client
Earliest – Fully Integrated
Information purpose
Commit to Construct
Contract Signature
A
B
GC
Commit to Scheme
Budget Approval
Compulsory Gate
A
What a
Procurement Strategy
Tender v Framework
needs
to
B
B
B
Typical – D&C
or Traditional
make
decisions
WISDOM
Latest - Traditional
The purposes that the information might be used for.
The information (reports etc) to inform decisions and purposes
The data
The drawing content that conveys information
KNOWLEDGE
INFORMATION
DATA

17. PAS 1192/2
Plain Language Questions
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19. All project information,
whether in BIM
environments or in
conventional data
formats should be shared
using a single
collaborative
data environment (CDE).

20. Moore’s Law, Why You Should Care
“Sophie will witness”
A sixty four fold increase in
computing power whilst she is in
secondary education
I have seen a technological
landscape
half a million times as powerful
as the day I started in
construction

21. Education
& training
will drive
evolution
in the
industry
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22. Thank You
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www.bimtaskgroup.org
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