The use of Building Information Modelling for the design of new hospital facilities in Bristol shows how this approach could benefit the NHS more widely. Ben Roberts explains
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new £50m ward block is currently under construction at the Bristol Royal Infirmary (BRI). The team has designed
the project using a fully collaborative Building Information Modelling (BIM) approach, and this is now being continued through the construction phase, with the aim of integrating the designers’ models with the building operators’ processes. BIM was a requirement from the contractor from early stage D in 2009. The architect, structural engineer and MEP consultant were all new to BIM and adopted new software to learn on the job. The University Hospitals Bristol NHS Trust supported the decision and is looking at how it can benefit after handover. The contractor, Laing O’Rourke, made protocols available from the start, setting a standard for how the project was to be delivered. The project protocol focused not only on model set-up good-practice, but also on requirements for exporting the model to software for off-site manufacture. Design team members have used
their BIM models from stage D for production of drawings and schedules, creating visualisations for lighting design
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