Deadline Dawns BIM Experts Discuss How Far the Industry Has Come – and How Far It Has to Go – As the Mandate Takes Effect
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CONSTRUCTION MANAGER | APRIL 2016 WWW.CONSTRUCTIONMANAGERMAGAZINE.COM MANAGER CONSTRUCTION GETTING SERIOUS ON CYBER SECURITY A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO H&S CPD: A GUIDE TO LEVEL 2 BIM INSIDE: CONTACT NEWSLETTER FOR MEMBERS OF THE CIOB APRIL 2016 WWW.CONSTRUCTIONMANAGERMAGAZINE.COM BIM SPECIAL Deadline dawns BIM experts discuss how far the industry has come – and how far it has to go – as the mandate takes effect 01_CM.Apr16_COVER.indd 1 22/03/2016 12:07 Reduce HVAC Installation Time & Costs Traditional jointing methods such as welding and flanging are labour intensive. GRINNELL Grooved Mechanical Products can reduce installation time by up to 50% and reduce installation cost by up to 30%, allowing contractors to minimize labour costs and stay within budget. 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Plus Chris Blythe offers a solution to the battle for streetspace between London’s cars and bicycles. 12 Feedback Letters, comments and readers’ views on new thinking on health and safety in the industry. 20 Features 14 Building blocks of BIM Construction professional With the BIM mandate upon us, CM’s 24 Bringing materials full circle round table brings together key The reforms of the products players to gauge where the industry lifecycle mooted by the EU’s 24 is at and discuss the findings of its Circular Economy Package will survey into BIM readiness. require buy-in from manufacturers, 20 Cyber attack clients and the wider industry. As the spread of BIM brings data 25 BIM bytes collaboration into the mainstream, Make sure that your use of BIM is security is a crucial issue reflected clearly in contract terms. throughout the supply chain. 26 Public shame for late payers? 30 Doing safety differently New regulations demanding Laing O’Rourke’s John Green is greater transparency could be the spearheading an approach that is answer to poor payment practices. turning accepted thinking about 28 Pay now, argue later site safety on its head. A recent decision of the 34 CPD: A guide to BIM Level 2 Technology and Construction Court A refresher course in the basics stood by the adjudicator’s decision of BIM marks the arrival of the in a dispute over payment. government’s BIM mandate. 54 54 Project of the month + Contact Centre for Medicine, 40-51 University of Leicester. All the latest news and reports from CIOB members and branches Take the test on this issue’s CPD topic on Level 2 BIM and additional topics at www.constructionmanagermagazine.com/cpd CONSTRUCTION MANAGER | APRIL 2016 | 3 03_CMAPR16_AGENDA.indd 3 22/03/2016 16:40 04.CMAPR16.ad.asta.indd 2 21/03/2016 16:53 News Only 4 in 10 clients working at Level 2 BIM Industry-wide survey shows confidence still low and “eight pillars” poorly embedded Construction Manager’s BIM mandate In total, 45% said they would not make survey has revealed an industry that is require Level 2 BIM (see chart, below). gradually absorbing Level 2 BIM into its But Level 2 BIM experience was still contracts and processes, but with patchy spread unevenly across the industry: client uptake and weak understanding of overall 49% said they had not yet its fundamental standards. delivered a Level 2 BIM project, and 28% The survey of 557 industry had delivered only 1 to 3 projects. professionals also revealed that overall As you might expect, £100m+ turnover levels of confidence on BIM are low, with contractors had most experience: 36% had 49% scoring themselves at one to 3 on a worked on 1 to 3 Level 2 BIM projects, and 10-point confidence scale, compared to 22% had notched up at least ten. 17% selecting scores eight, nine or10 (see But the Tier 2 and 3 specialist sub- round-table feature, page 17). contractors seemed to have clocked up The survey polled a representative more experience at Level 2 than the spread of the industry. The largest group smaller Tier 1 contractors with turnover at 23% (129 individuals) were architects, below £100m. Among specialists, 27% M&E or structural design consultants, had worked on one to three Level 2 BIM while 12% (67) worked for major projects, and 15% on 4 or more. For the contractors with turnover above £100m. smaller Tier 1 contractors, those figures Smaller contractors with turnover below were 11% and 11% respectively. £100m represented 8%, and 5% were Within the client group, the number that had not yet delivered a Level 2 BIM project As a client, what will your requirements be on BIM from April 4 onwards (%)? Among clients, the number that rose to 58%, or nearly 6 in 10. Even among clients directly covered by the mandate, had not yet delivered a Level 2 We will ask for Level we will ask for Level 45 three said they were Level 2 virgins. 2 BIM as a contractual 2 BIM as a contractual BIM project rose to 58%, requirement on 100% of requirement on some including 3 central government But the Digital Plan of Work, software our projects projects (under 50% by commissioned from RIBA Enterprises’ NBS we will ask for Level number or value) clients covered by the mandate 2 BIM as a contractual we will ask for BIM, in a £1m contract and originally seen as requirement on most but our requirements will specialist subcontractors in Tier 2 or 3. central to managing data and drawings at projects (over 50% by be below Level 2 number or value) we will ask for BIM, The survey also heard from 82 clients: Level 2 BIM, has picked up few users. but our requirements will 20 implementing the mandate in centrally- According to the 394 respondents who go beyond Level 2 we will not make BIM funded departments, 39 elsewhere in the answered the question, 13% had used it a requirement on our 23 projects, although teams public sector and 23 in the private sector. on a live project, and 10% had trialled it are free to use it Project managers were strongly with plans to use the NBS system. Other (please specify) represented, with 7%(38) advising public But 13% had trialled the process sectors, while another 10% (56) working management software with no plans to 11 11 for private sector developers. use it again, and 48% of the sample had Together, the clients were neither trialled nor used it. 4 2 commissioning projects starting in A question on the likelihood of meeting 3 2016/17 with a total construction value of the BIM Task Group’s “stretch target” for £5bn to £10bn. Factor in the responses of central government clients on electronic embedded. But just 8% said Government client advisers, and the total workload data validation revealed that 31% “have Soft Landings was part of their working represented between £13bn and £20bn. not yet started work towards the target practices, and the same number had Only 14 out of 20 central government and do not fully understand it.” But 17% embedded PAS 1192-5 on cyber security. clients said they would implement the said that they did expect to hit the target, Among clients on centrally-funded mandate on 100% of projects from 4 April and 19% expected to hit it partially. projects, six claimed to have never used – the remaining six preferred not to say. Among the 20 central government clients, PAS 1192-2, and seven said they’d never But among clients in local government, just 4 expected to hit the target. used PAS 1192-3, for operational phase health, education and housing, only 20% A question on the “eight pillars of BIM” The survey showed that the benefits of intended to fully implement the mandate, suggested that its standards were weakly BIM in the construction phase are slightly while 20% would act on it to some extent. embedded. PAS 1992-2 topped the table, overtaking the design phase: 43% had Among the 23 private sector clients, with 20% saying it was fully embedded, seen “good results” on time and cost in only two planned to use it on all projects. while 15% said the CIC BIM Protocol was construction, versus 35% in design. CONSTRUCTION MANAGER | APRIL 2016 | 5 05_CMAPR16_NEWS.indd 5 22/03/2016 18:30 News Barking becomes first virtual reality council East London borough pioneers local authority use of Vucity 3D interactive planning tool The map will be accessible via a tabletop between consented and proposed screen in the town hall, enabling residents schemes, daylight studies and right to light to view proposals in the local context, and – things that are only possible using digital on iPads that have the Vucity app installed. technology. Most important for us was the Darren Rodwell, leader of Barking and high level of model accuracy, which means Dagenham Council, said: “This is the future. key London viewing corridors – including Physical models of London are good but they protected views to St Paul’s Cathedral don’t tell the whole story.