FEATURE LIGHTBULB MOMENTS
In our September 2019 issue, Barry Tuckwood, Chartered Engineer and Management Consultant, wrote a feature discussing the options for expanding the current capabilities of BIM. Here, he explores how virtual reality might support this.
Many years ago, I had a realisation that there was a better way of harnessing IT to improve what we do in construction. My paper for the international conference CivilComp 89 was met with the barriers then that still exist today: trust, sharing, and real collaboration, at the heart of which was a need to change the industry’s culture.
By now we are all aware of BIM; digital engineering and virtual models of infrastructure, even if they have not yet taken root in all of our offices and those of our clients. We should ask ourselves why. What can we do to encourage uptake?
The real benefits are for clients and owners, often uncertain of the benefits and unwilling to invest to achieve them. Many organisations large and small are embracing the concepts of shared data enabling enhancements in efficiency and effectiveness for all aspects of asset management in the built environment. Shared data enables design for manufacture and assembly, easier use of modular construction and prefabrication, reductions in clashes, less rework, and greater safety.
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We now need to continue to promote BIM and digital models, and consider the next steps. What might technology enable? What will we need to do to maximise the benefits?
We now have the facility for the real-time monitoring of the assets, for heat, light, and movement for example. Monitoring enables action to reduce cost of energy for example, to improve safety, to reduce environmental impact. More monitoring means more data, more sharing, and these lead to a virtuous circle of improvement.
I was very encouraged to see at the Institution of Civil Engineers event, ‘Temporary works - past, present & future’, in London, on 21st October that BIM and Virtual Reality are now being used by many organisations, including those engaged in temporary works, a vital part of the industry’s supply chain for new work, maintenance, and updates. Exhibitors provided me with case studies and links that I will refer to here and are acknowledged in the references at the end.
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