BIM is the latest acronym to hit the construction industry.
What is it, and how might it affect your estates teams?
Its building information modelling, and put simply, it's a
computer programme which allows a construction team to share
information. It creates a three dimensional model of the project,
incorporates all design changes and includes programming data. BIM
has been used extensively in the USA and has been proven to improve
collaboration and project delivery.
BIM has hit the construction press because the Government's
Construction Client Group's BIM Working Party March 2011
Strategy Paper ("the Strategy Paper") recommended that
BIM be used in Government projects of a certain size by 2016.
Westminster has announced that, "fully collaborative BIM level
2 would be required as a minimum by 2016". We await to learn
the Welsh Government's strategy for BIM however it's fair
to assume that the use of BIM is likely to inform policy.
