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BSRIA delegates are ‘struggling’ with BIM and seeking further clarification
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SRIA recently staged an Information Management in Facilities Management event as part of its Operations & Maintenance Benchmarking Network and the prevailing consensus was that there is uncertainty surrounding the benefits and outcomes of BIM (Building Information Modelling).
Delegates felt that they needed further clarity and said they were struggling to understand the nuances and next steps of BIM. Bill Wright, Head of Energy Solutions at The Electrical Contractors’ Association gave a presentation reviewing the results of the ECA’s recent sector-wide survey, with responses from contractors, consultants, main contractors and manufacturers.
They asked what BIM meant to them and this
description was most popular: ‘The process of working with digital building information, including data-rich objects, which is effectively shared between those who are building and/or maintaining the building and its services’. Only 16 per cent respondents thought they were ‘fully ready’ for BIM Level 2.
60 per cent of respondents said that BIM is ‘the future for project information’; with just less than that at 59 per cent agreeing BIM is a tool that will help achieve useful change in construction but 37 per cent said it should not apply to contracts below £100,000.
The advantages highlighted include the ability to virtually ‘walk through’ drawings reducing cost of change before construction and viewing proposed final product; better communication with clients; improve cost and accuracy of
building; improve quality of drawings ideal for prefabrication; exterior and interior modelling leading to better co-ordination; better cost information; reduced design time; and improved FM information.
Simon Ashworth, Zurich University of Applied Sciences & Liverpool John Moores University spoke about: FM – the EIR (Employers’ Information Requirements) and WLC perspective. Simon explained that the ‘bandwagon’ of digital trends was in ‘full steam’ and that FM needs to get on board with BIM. FM also is facing a challenge of getting up to speed with BIM. He said we need to position ourselves to be able realise its benefits otherwise we run the risk of falling into a ‘death valley of know-how’ in terms of the loss of valuable information and realising BIMs potential added value
Asbestos abatement
expert joins Clarke’s
Environmental Deepest ever shaft surveyed with high‐tech Panoramo SI camera
Lanes Group team has carried out its deepest ever survey of a sewer ventilation shaft using the company's Panoramo SI camera.
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It took less than an hour to complete a full inspection survey of the shaft – which is 21.5m deep and 900mm wide – on Brighton seafront. The IBAK Panoramo SI camera, thought to be the only one of its kind in the UK, generated a 360 degree high resolution image and a pinpoint accurate three-dimensional scan of the inside of the shaft.
It was the deepest shaft that Lanes Group, the independent UK drainage and asset maintenance solutions
provider, has surveyed using the equipment to date.
The brick-lined shaft ventilated a 2.1m diameter combined sewer under the A259 Marine Parade close to the centre of Brighton, in East Sussex.
The Panoramo SI survey was carried out by Lanes Group CCTV drainage survey engineer Phil Wild and his assistant Kevin Hughes. Phil Wild said: "The Panoramo SI handled the task easily. It has 100 metres of cable which allows us to use the equipment on manholes where access is difficult. Therefore, though this is the deepest shaft we have surveyed to date, the Panoramo SI could be used on even deeper ones.”
Ltd, has strengthened its presence in its growing market with the appointment of asbestos abatement expert, Tony Roper, as Regional Manager for Scotland.
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Mr Roper has an excellent reputation in environmental services, having worked in all aspects of asbestos removal over the last 25 years, including
reinstatement works and retaining long-term contracts.
He said: “The new role is both a challenge and an opportunity. Clarke’s Environmental has made a real impact in Scotland, with acquisition,
uDown she goes: The Panoramo SI made quick work of Lanes deepest ever survey of a sewer ventilation shaft.
Bond Bryan Architects win Hertfordshire Building Futures Award B
ond Bryan Architects have won the
Hertfordshire Building Futures Project of the Year Award for their Ware Campus (Phase 2) project.
This scheme is the final phase in the redevelopment of the Ware Campus, creating a sensitively designed facility around a new, landscaped courtyard.
The new three-storey, double-aspect building provides 3,600sq m of teaching space, primarily for the Creative Arts and Industries Department; the creation of a building – which brings together creative disciplines and encourages collaboration and cross-fertilisation of ideas – is at the core of the design approach.
The building is modern but contextually sensitive; at the eastern end of the main wing, the ridgeline steps down to reduce the scale and massing and links with the more domestic scale of the College’s historic Grade II* Listed Building, Amwell House.
A simple palette of brick and render with a standing seam roof complement the
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existing campus buildings, helping them to appear as a cohesive development. At the heart of the building, a double-height gallery space, with glazed curtain walling, fronts onto the courtyard, creating a high- quality flexible space to both showcase students’ work and host internal and external events.
Judges commented: “We
were most impressed by the consistency and continuity of the design of this campus, its new courtyard and Creative Arts building. For young people, it seemed to be a wonderful place to learn, providing institutional comfort, gallery space, with great transparency and verve in the treatment of the teaching spaces. The students love it.”
recruitment and a growing portfolio of impressive clients – and I intend to complement the experienced team and enhance its peerless service delivery even further as it moves to the next stage of its development here.” Last year Clarke’s
Environmental completed the takeover of an established Glasgow licensed asbestos removal company and secured a four-year contract with Scotland Excel – a procurement group that manages contracts for products and services for almost 93 per cent of Scottish councils.
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