Golden thread
providing a client with the tools, standard libraries and processes that allows them to engage with colleagues and reach collective agreement of what they need from this new facility, including what they will actually do in it and the outcomes they hope to achieve (see Figure 5). This coordinated brief should limit the need to
make changes once design work has started and provides the fi rst strands of the golden thread. Each important element – space, system and asset – is given a data ‘key’ that keeps everything connected through design, procurement, construction, commissioning and operations: a golden key for the golden thread (see Figure 6 below). We produced interfaces with common data
environments such as Viewpoint/4 Projects and Oracle and asset management applications, eg Keystone, Concept, Planon and Maximo, to enable the fl ow of data. Work is now underway with other key contributors such as NBS to connect the performance specifi cation, so that product replacements in future can refer back to the original requirements and not simply replace a product that might have failed.
BIM4HA
Major housing associations, such as Peabody, L&Q, Notting Hill Genesis, Origin, MTV, A2D and Clarion, responded with a project that will provide sector wide standardised processes and reusable libraries that will reduce their costs implementing BIM and make it easier for their supply chains. They are working with their designers and project managers (David Miller, Airey Miller, Calford Seadon, Max Fordham, PRP and Hawkins Brown) to develop common libraries of requirements that can simplify and standardise BIM requirements and make specifi cation, procurement, auditing and data management easier.
FOCUS
Figure 5 Contractors (Willmott Dixon, Skanska,
Bouygues, Sodexo, Sisk and Durkan) are also engaged in the drive to use this standardisation, to procure the information clients need from their supply chains and produce a digital O&M that supports the golden thread, including the long term asset management.
BIM4Housing This is part of the UKBIM Alliance. The principals leading all the above initiatives have come together, under my chairmanship of BIM4Housing, to create working groups that will allow our members to engage, use and contribute to the many different initiatives in the context of residential developments.
Design for Manufacture and Assembly We have just started an Innovate UK funded project led by Laing O’Rourke/CHt that will enable clients to confi gure and virtually assemble fully tested products/systems and have classrooms, offices and bedrooms assembled (and later reconfi gured/disassembled), reducing risks by using manufacturing processes to develop quality assured, product based building solutions. Our expectation is that the result will be safer, of
better quality and with reduced programme cost/ C02, together with much better as built records
George Stevenson is managing director of ActivePlan. For more information, view page 3
Figure 6
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