COURTESY OF DAVID MILLER ARCHITECTS
OPINION DYNAMIC MODELLING
BIM2050 is an up-and-coming new group of young BIM specialists who will help implement the Level 3 agenda, says CIBSE’s group representative Neil Thompson
As the adoption and implementation of building
information modelling (BIM) continues to accelerate globally, it is vital that the UK stays at the forefront of this race for industry reform. This was the message from the new chief construction advisor, Peter Hansford, at the launch of the BIM2050 Group last week. I am excited and honoured to be
a part of the BIM2050 group. We aim to be an infl uential collection of knowledgeable and enthusiastic professionals who will hopefully drive the industry forward. The group’s membership has a wide selection of disciplines and my position in the group is to represent CIBSE. I hope to emphasise the importance of building services and environmental design in the built environment looking ahead to 2050. The group, formed via the
Construction Industry Council, is made up of 18 young professionals representing institutes from across the entire asset life-cycle. According to David Philp, chairman of the group and head of BIM implementation at the Cabinet Offi ce, the group is seeking to develop ‘a culture that enables a digitally integrated approach to positively impact our built environment’. It will help predict trends in BIM maturity as, ultimately, we move on from Level 2. We are looking to plot a route map, which will enable others to shape the opportunity and, indeed, avoid the risks. Philp believes the Group will be extremely infl uential and will help the BIM Task Group shape the Level 3 agenda. There are many contrasting predictions of what may be in store for us in 2050 but, regardless of the outcome, BIM will play an important part in how we solve the environmental problems leading up to 2050. Many people overlook the connections
22 CIBSE Journal February 2013 A BIM view of
Westminster Area Service Centre
Building services engineers, especially young ones, must embrace BIM
between sustainability and BIM. The ultimate aim of BIM is to deliver and operate assets in the most effi cient way. This is not only fi nancial effi ciency, it also includes the effi cient performance of the materials and maintainable components. Young professionals entering the industry today will be in infl uential posts by 2050. They will be in a position to steer the industry through a time of critical population levels. They will be instrumental in fi guring out how we enable our planet to sustain and house the population – not forgetting the impacts of climate change! The BIM2050 group wants to shape
the future of the industry and make a start on producing the stepping stones that the next generation of construction industry leaders need to steer our built environment effectively and successfully through the challenges. We feel that our predecessors have failed to provide a sustainable structure for how we do business and deliver projects. We are not discarding the achievements of the UK construction industry to date. We appreciate that it has delivered world-class projects throughout its history, and industry
is starting to head in a positive direction but, on average, we are still underperforming. The BIM2050 group has invited members of CIBSE to come forward to help improve the reputation of our industry and make it the industry of choice for future talent. We recognise the good work
that the CIBSE Young Engineers Network has done on the awareness of environmental engineering in schools and colleges, and I will continue to work with them. We also aim to widen the network of our discipline to introduce interdisciplinary collaboration and to break down the silo thinking that plagues our industry. Building services engineers, especially young ones, must embrace BIM. It will form a signifi cant part of their future roles and will encourage engineers to make better quality decisions by reducing the amount of time wasted on the administration of project information. This will give more time for creative thought and producing better engineering outcomes.
● NEIL THOMPSON is the principal BIM integrator at Balfour Beatty
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