Architecture & design BIM4Health
Moving to discuss BIM4Health before he went on to talk in more detail about BIM, its functions, and benefits, Gary Allen explained that it was ‘a group of professional bodies formed to work together to spread the word about BIM’. He said: “We are all volunteers and do the work unpaid. Most of the professional bodies, including RIBA, the Department of Health, the RICS, the Chartered Institute of Building, NHS Property Services, ProCure 21, CIBSE, IHEEM, and HefmA are represented.” Looking at the Group’s ‘Strategy’, the speaker explained that in the short term, i.e. to date, this had entailed using the ‘platform’ to promote the use of BIM in the healthcare sector, particularly to acute NHS Trusts. He said: “That has been our strategy up until now, and of course the Government’s Level 2 BIM mandate is now a reality.” He explained that the Group’s medium- term strategy – over the next two years – would see it look to develop ‘technically- focused assistance’. He elaborated: “We are thus seeking to develop documents such as the EIR, and will be working to enable the BIM models to produce more outputs for the benefit of Trusts, i.e. in terms of PAM data and ERIC returns. If these can be incorporated into the BIM model, it will aid everybody’s workload.”
Longer-term plans Moving forward, he explained that the Group’s longer-term strategy would be ‘to move to BIM Level 3 and beyond – whatever that may be’. He told delegates: “The BIM4Health Core Group is led by IHEEM and HefmA, with affiliation from other representatives from organisations in the healthcare sector with a background in healthcare estates, design, manufacturing, contracting, FM, or consultancy within the UK. The Group’s goals are to raise awareness of health BIM within the healthcare marketplace, identify and articulate the value proposition and business benefits to the sector, produce metrics to measure performance, provide a clear understanding of the requirements of Level 2 BIM, understand the risks and dangers of doing nothing, provide guidance to individuals, Trusts, and other organisations on how to get to Level 2, produce and give access to simple guidance around BIM, and to provide a voice for the healthcare sector to reflect concerns and interests.” But what, the speaker asked at this point, was BIM? Citing a Wikipedia definition, he said: “BIM (Building Information Modelling) is ‘the process of generating and managing building data during its lifecycle’, while another definition, from the Global Magazine for Geomatics, describes BIM as ‘a digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of a building’.” Autodesk, which supplies
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The IDC-Consult speaker explained what the various levels of BIM entailed.
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