Fundamentally, UK Level 2 BIM is about doing the right thing for the project, and anyone who has worked with ISO standards will recognize the concept.
The challenge that many Project Teams have is that they start at Point 4 with Generating the Information and then hope that a Collaboration or Project Management Solution can help them meet the UK Level 2 requirements. To be successful, Project Teams need to start at Point 1 and finish at Point 6.
So what is Level 2?
We have the concept of the ‘8’ pillars of BIM, which are now extended to include other guidance
A main guidance document for using BIM on Capital Projects
A complimentary guide for Asset Information Management during Operational Phases
A BIM Protocol that covers legal and contractual aspects
Government Soft Landings (GSL), prepare client stakeholders for their asset
COBie UK Implementation
Common Classification
A project specification tool known as the Digital Plan of Works
Specification for security-minded BIM and smart asset management
So what is Level 2?
We have the concept of the ‘8’ pillars of BIM, which are now extended to include other guidance
A main guidance document for using BIM on Capital Projects
A complimentary guide for Asset Information Management during Operational Phases
A BIM Protocol that covers legal and contractual aspects
Government Soft Landings (GSL), prepare client stakeholders for their asset
COBie UK Implementation
Common Classification
A project specification tool known as the Digital Plan of Works
Specification for security-minded BIM and smart asset management
The 6 key points can be broadly broken into those that need a product or solution and those that are more process-driven; naturally, both groups need to comply with the rules.
Does this still happen today? What would the cost be per clash? How does that multiply up if one clash per site per week or month?
Uncoordinated data
Dimensional inaccuracy
Revision cycles
Back in paper, printers weren’t perfect, images stretched, how thick was a line if scaled 1-100, what tolerance is there, do not scale was a standard
Two images of a stairwell, overlaid the architectural and mechanical drawings, redrawn, waste of time, effort, and potentially wrong, service risers in one, not in another. Which is right and wrong?
Dimension instability from users changing dimensions manually but not the drawing, which one should you believe? This is a check between written dimensions and those in the drawing. In AutoCAD world you have to update each one, in parametric Revit world you update once, it moves everything.
This showing a cable tray at waist height in two ‘approved for construction’ drawings showing the door swinging different directions.
Every time a main contractor accepts poor quality design data, they actually buy risk
Land of the free, wild west of BIM
Build huge projects, no forced standards
What do they get value from