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The Shard, London’s highest building, has come in for criticism from a surprising source – the Lord Mayor of London. David Wootton told the Times newspaper he believes the £425m building, due to be completed in the spring, is a sign that the property industry had ‘gone slightly too far’ and is out of keeping with the spirit of the times. This image shows a crane that was recently intalled to help provide the fi nishing touches to the main structure.
BIM adoption may boost prefabrication
● Conference raises concerns over cost and ownership of design tool
The adoption of building information modelling (BIM) will increase the use of off-site fabrication of building services, according to a range of industry experts. The project director responsible for delivering
the Leadenhall Building, or ‘Cheesegrater’ – currently under construction in the City of London – said BIM was the critical integration tool needed to produce the effi ciencies demanded of the industry. Andy Butler, development director for Laing O’Rourke, said that 85% of the 224 metre, 47-storey giant will be built off site to ensure ‘surety of delivery’ using BIM as the integrator. He added that the BIM model was used as
part of the briefi ng at every health and safety meeting on site. He was speaking at a Buildoffsite conference
hosted by the Royal Institution of British Architects (RIBA,) whose president, Angela Brady, said BIM would play an increasingly important part in new methods of procurement. ‘Current procurement is incredibly wasteful
and is the bane of all our lives,’ she told the conference. ‘We are behind other parts of the world
in harnessing BIM, but we now have a huge opportunity to use it to integrate our teams and deliver better value to clients.’ Richard Ogden, chairman of Buildoffsite, said
the government was now demanding ‘more and more for less’, and the only way to achieve this was to use integrated models and more offsite fabrication to cut waste and speed up delivery.
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‘ We are behind other parts of the world in harnessing building information modelling, but we now have a huge opportunity’
‘People laughed when [Education Secretary]
Michael Gove said new schools needed to be 30% cheaper, but still look good,’ said Ogden. ‘Now there are people out there doing it and nobody’s laughing.’ However, delegates refl ected a wider industry
concern about how much BIM costs and who pays the bill; and also who would have ownership of the BIM model during and after construction. Ogden agreed that these issues needed to be resolved before it could be adopted more widely. See BIM feature, page 34
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