CIBSE and other similar organisations are already exploring the possibility of a closer link at an institutional level
meet our obligations to clients and the nation, but also to compete worldwide and so help to deliver Latham and Morrell’s proposals for the construction industry as a whole. However, a fully functioning BEI would also need to incorporate the other engineering aspect of construction – structural engineering – which, in the present fragmented state of the industry, stands separate. Structural engineering design has
long been directly concerned with ‘buildability’, and has close collaboration with manufacturing and offsite pre- construction. Harmonising the structurals with our industry would pose far fewer problems for them, and could help us resolve ours. And there is immense scope for joint innovation on current design issues – such as low carbon, façade
Harmonised practice
Design &
Research for design
development
Design for production
FM BIM
Operational Engineering
Site Logistics & Assembly
Production Engineering & Manufacturing
Building Information Model
@ the heart of the
process Figure 2 Manufacture for assembly
engineering, structurally-incorporated heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, offsite pre-construction and BIM implementation. Meanwhile, many major clients,
no doubt longing to see reform of construction, have already alerted the larger firms in our industry to a preference for a single, more effective ‘one-stop’ engineering engagement, so that even the largest building services engineering (BSE) organisations are under pressure to re-examine the business rationale of remaining solely BSE companies. As a result, we are beginning to see the formulation of strong associations and partnerships between BSE and structural engineering firms and individuals. Circumstances for our industry and its professional institutions have dramatically changed, and there is an urgent need to cut waste and trim overheads for efficiency and effectiveness. The time has arrived to go beyond establishing closer institutional ties; we need to move rapidly from BSE to BEI, encompassing the harmonised practices of both building structures and services engineering. Figure 3 illustrates the process. CIBSE and other similar organisations
are already exploring a wide range of partnership opportunities at an institutional level. The main drivers at present are to increase the ‘value for money’ of member subscriptions and (responding to advice from Michael Latham) to jointly locate. ‘Sharing facilities, improving utilisation, combining back-office functions and achieving economies of scale, could make significant savings very quickly,’ says CIBSE chief executive Stephen Matthews. He adds that a ‘fit-for-purpose London
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