Technics Group attend the #RICSBIM Annual Conference 2013

Posted by Graham Mills

Martin Penney – Technics Group Survey Director recently attended the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS for their annual BIM Conference.

The annual RICS BIM conference was very well attended in London last week by a wide cross-section of the industry including Government, academia, architectural practices, QS, facilities management and legal; Geomatics was the only under-represented sector as usual:

  • David Philip (Head of BIM Implementation, Cabinet Office)
  • Steve Race (BIM Ambassador, CIC)
  • Deborah Rowland (Head of Facilities Management, Cabinet Office)
  • Dirk Krolikowski (Associate/Architect at Rogers Stirk, Harbour + Partners)
  • Nick Nisbet (Director, AEC3 UK Ltd)
  • Dale Sinclair (Director, Dyer & Chairmain of RIBA Plan of Work Review Group)
  • Paul Fletcher (Co-founder Director, Through Architecture)
  • Professor David Greenwood (BIM Academy and Northumbria University)
  • Adrian Malone (Director, Faithful+Gould)
  • Michael Conroy Harris (Principal Legal Manager, Eversheds)

The main theme of the conference was moving away from “Why BIM?” to “How BIM” across the whole Facility lifespan, with a focus upon Change Leadership in the wider industry and looking specifically at the nuts and bolts of interoperability, collaboration, support and training and education. Interestingly the point was made about the industry BIM hype and myth and the fact that BIM was 20% Technology and 80% People and Processes- which is usually where we all get it wrong!

 

The conference presentations are available through the RICS, but one of the most notable points to take away was David Philip’s announcement that 28th February 2013 would see the launch of the Digital Plan of Work (DPOW) and associated work elements via the Cabinet Office’s Task Group website (http://www.bimtaskgroup.org/). This will allow professionals to use a vast array of on-line material and templates and also to store data.

Additionally this date will also see the launch of the PAS 1192:2. This User Guide is a tailored code of practice or specification for information management when using Building Information Modelling (BIM) Technologies within a project. The framework of standards, processes and collaborative working practices are designed to specifically meeting the Government’s desired outcome of reducing capital expenditure (CAPEX) out-turn costs by ensuring Level 2 BIM Maturity by 2016.

 

Also present at the conference were a number of BIM methodology software suppliers who ran demonstrations of their various wares. If you missed out on the conference, you can see some of the discussions on Twitter by searching for the #RICSBIM hashtag

Technics Group specialise in capturing information about the existing Built Environment. For BIM of existing structures, it is critical that the information is correct before any further modelling work is undertaken. We use all forms of techniques to capture information including Laser Scanning. For further information please do get in touch with us.