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“BIM standards are an integral part of the Construction Playbook, created by the UK government to fundamentally change the approach to designing, building and operating built assets”


Leading standards development: case study Building Information Modelling (BIM)


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SI is continuing its track record of leading standards development in an area critical to the health of economies and people worldwide, this time with Building Information Modelling (BIM). BIM is the management of information


through the whole life cycle of a built asset, from initial design through to construction,


maintenance and fi nally de-commissioning, through the use of digital modelling. Using digital tools, BIM allows design and construction teams to communicate about design and coordinate information across different levels in a way that hasn’t been possible before. BSI has created a six-part suite of standards


as a guide for owners and operators of assets of all sizes and levels of complexity. These could be individual buildings and portfolios of buildings or infrastructure networks (rail, road etc), and other infrastructure such as bridges and fl ood defences. The suite of British Standards has now progressed to international level as ISO 19650.


At the time of its launch in 2019, Jøns Sjøgren, Chair of the ISO technical subcommittee that developed the standards, said they will enable more widespread use of BIM and more effi cient building and infrastructure projects. “ISO 19650 was developed on the basis of the tried-and-tested British standard BS 1192 and publicly available specifi cation PAS 1192-2, which have already been shown to help users save up to 22 % in construction costs,” he said. “Taking this to an international level not only means more effective collaboration on global projects, but allows designers and contractors working on all kinds of building works to have clearer and more effi cient information management.” BIM standards are an integral part of the Construction Playbook, created by the UK government to fundamentally change the approach to designing, building and operating built assets. As such, they are set to play a key role in helping to ‘build back better’ as the UK recovers from the Covid-19 emergency.


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