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Feature BIM +


Q: What does the industry still need to do before April 2016? Training is a huge issue, and so it’s


having true collaborative frameworks in place and defi ning what is required for that. We need to bring in people from different industries who have the understanding of what


collaboration is and more focus on communication strategies.


Sonia Zahiroddiny


We need more industry leaders – we need the equivalent of Brian Cox in astrophysics – to drive the agenda. Ultimately we need to take that fi rst step into the world of digital – just do it.


David Philp


in their tender documents and invitations to tender. Martin Chambers PPCIOB, framework director at Shaylor Group, had previously written in BIM + that the company had expected to see more projects on its radar by now. “That’s our experience – there is a limited number of clients who are regular users of BIM. Maybe it’s the size of contracts we get involved with – below £7.5m – but we did expect to see more coming through.” For an alternative perspective, there


was Peter Trebilcock, BIM director at Balfour Beatty. His fi rm has 70 live projects – although not everything is plain sailing. “There are still a lot of clients who don’t know how to articulate what they’re looking for. We see huge inconsistencies in tender documents – from one line to 30-page BIM execution strategies for the supply chain. We also have clients who wanted BIM at fi rst but then retracted their level 2 requirements. A lot of clients are basically asking for


help,” he said, introducing a theme picked up several times in the conversation. Sonia Zahiroddiny, of the Information Management and Modelling Capability Programme at Transport for London, was cast into the role of representative for public sector clients. On the whole, she gave a positive, if qualifi ed, assessment of their BIM-readiness. She said: “Compared with two years ago, the message has defi nitely gone through. We have come a long way, but there’s a lot of room for >


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