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MAKING THE NEWS Atkins has produced a masterplan including landscape design, urban planning and tourism consultancy for the redevelopment of 11 km2 of


waterfront in Nanjing, China. The ancient Chinese city on the banks of the Yangtze River is preparing to host the 2014 Youth Olympic Games. Atkins won the Collaborative Working Award at the CIBSE Building Performance Awards for its work on the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games


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DATA CENTRE MOT The Data Centre Alliance (DCA) has launched the world’s fi rst independent multi-disciplinary data centre ‘MOT’. DCA executive director Simon Campbell-Whyte said people buying data centre services had ‘no sure-fi re or simple way to judge the true quality and resilience of a data centre – unless they themselves were highly technical’ before the scheme was launched.


AWARD LIGHTS UP BRUNEL Brunel University has been awarded a runners-up prize in the Employability Initiative category at the Guardian University Awards 2013 for its collaboration with the Lighting Education Trust (LET) to develop a bachelor degree in lighting – less than a year after the course was launched. The Guardian University Awards recognise best practice, achievement and innovation across a range of categories.


6 CIBSE Journal April 2013 39% ‘now using BIM’


 Survey reveals growing level of BIM adoption


Nearly three quarters of the industry believes that Building Information Modelling (BIM) is ‘the future of project information’, and 39% are now working with BIM, according to a major survey.


The NBS National BIM Survey, conducted between December 2012 and February 2013, received responses from 1,350 architecture, engineering and surveying professionals covering a range of company sizes. However, almost two years after the publication of the UK Construction Strategy – in which BIM plays a central role – fewer than half of respondents were aware of the different levels of BIM, said NBS. Level 2 will be mandatory on all government


projects by the end of 2016. A lack of clarity around the subject was seen as an obstacle to more rapid adoption, with 74% agreeing that the industry is ‘not clear enough on what BIM is yet’. Only around one third of those questioned claimed to be ‘very’ or ‘quite’ confi dent in their BIM knowledge and skills. However, 73% said clients will increasingly insist on the use of BIM and over half of respondents said the government was ‘on the right track with BIM’.


Of those who have adopted BIM, more than half believe it led to greater cost effi ciencies, while three quarters reported increased coordination of construction documents. Improved productivity due to easy retrieval of information and better quality visualisations were other benefi ts, the survey indicated. Only 6% said they


regretted adopting BIM. ‘Digital construction is here to


stay,’ said Stephen Hamil, director of design and innovation at RIBA Enterprises. ‘However, the true benefi ts of BIM will not be realised until the industry focuses on clear requirements around structured information.’ The Construction Industry


Council (CIC) has also published its BIM Protocol that provides the legal framework to underpin wider adoption of BIM. It has also produced two other documents: Best Practice Guide for Professional Indemnity Insurance when using BIM and Outline Scope of Services for the role of Information Management.


All three documents are available to download free at www.cic.org.uk. The full NBS National BIM Survey results are available at www.thenbs.com.


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