Golden thread Important BIM gaps
COBie, or BS 1192-4: 2014: Collaborative Production of information: Fulfi lling employer’s information exchange requirements using CoBie – Code of practice, is both the UK and international standard for handover information. A big gap in the current BIM process is the way this information from trade contractors is captured – or isn’t. Because the perception is that everything comes from the coordinated 3D model, the trades that are buying and installing manufactured products provide their information in analogue not digital form, such as PDFs and documents (see Figure 1 on page 37). This can mean that the fire rating of the
product which was procured and installed is buried in a data sheet and therefore is not computer readable. Designers being asked to approve a change may have to spend hours reading manufacturer’s literature to understand how it varies from what they specifi ed.
BIM in Housing workshops New initiatives
In 2018, several residential developers and their advisors came together to respond to the Hackitt suggestion that BIM could be used to reduce risks. We shared experience of the issues everyone was encountering in estates management and developments and explored how better information management could address them. This move generated a lot of interest, so we
arranged a BIM in Housing workshop in London in November 2018, which 100 people attended. They asked questions of our expert panel and some of them were answered by other audience members, which made for excellent collaboration. Two more BIM in Housing workshops took place in Leeds and London last year and – COVID-19
Following the workshops, several initiatives started which contribute to the golden thread, as follows:
O&M Peabody commissioned Activeplan to work with Createmaster to reverse engineer the O&M/H&S fi le created for a recently completed Peabody scheme, St John’s Hill, to demonstrate the difference between a conventional O&M and a digital asset information model.
Standard data templates The Construction Innovation Hub is funding a project called LEXiCON, supported by
permitting – we plan to hold two more in 2020 in Liverpool and London. Information and communications technology
in general, and BIM in particular, is often too technology led, so this direct engagement with practitioners was invaluable in understanding what information was seen as critical, how it could be more easily collected and then be used – and reused. As we dug into the detail, it became clear there are dozens, perhaps hundreds, of software applications that clients and supply chains are using, many of which are excellent, and there is no need to change them. They just need to support data interoperation. But what does that mean? Many of us use it every day: we add a contact in Outlook and it appears in our Android or Apple phone contacts; we update a number on an Android phone and it automatically updates Outlook. These web services mean we no longer need to worry about the applications we use, as long as the applications we choose can consume and create data in the right format.
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