This document discusses a project to develop Building Information Modeling (BIM) protocols for the Qatar construction industry. The project is funded by Qatar Foundation and involves collaboration between Qatar University, ViCON Qatar, QPM, WEN, and industrial partners. The objectives are to capture stakeholder requirements, develop a whole lifecycle methodology for information flow using BIM protocols, review experiences from other countries, develop applicable BIM protocols for Qatar, test the protocols in 8 case studies, and disseminate the results. The methodology involves conducting case studies at different project stages to validate the information flow approach.

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BIM Protocols for Qatar
Construction Industry
Prof. Nashwan Dawood

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Qatar Foundation funded project
• Development of a Whole Life
Cycle Information Flow
Approach enabled by Building
Information Modeling (BIM)
Protocols and Technologies for
Qatar Construction Industry.

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The project
• 3 Years Qatar Foundation NPRP
funded project
• Collaboration with Qatar
University, ViCON qatar, QPM,
WEN, and a host of industrial
partners.
• To start from 1 May 2014 for
three years.

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Objectives
• To capture stakeholder requirements with regards to the development,
collaboration, coordination and control of information flow in construction
projects in Qatar
• Development and mapping of whole life cycle methodology for
information flow in QCI (process-led BIM protocols)
• Review and learn form current BM protocol experiences in different
countries.
• Develop BIM protocols that are applicable to QCI.
• Identify and isolate the data for facility management (COBie data) within
the lifecycle information flow and develop a decision support system
• Run 8 case studies to validate WLC and BIM protocols (outline design, design
clashes, 4/5D modelling, facility management) .
• To develop courseware to be used for training and teaching purposes and
disseminate the research results nationally, regionally and internationally.

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Methodology
• To conduct 4 case studies at the design stage on
(ie design authoring, design coordination, energy
analysis, cost estimation);
• To conduct 2 case studies on the construction
stage (ie 4D/5D planning, offsite fabrication);
• To conduct 2 case studies (following completion
of objective 6) at the handover and facility
management stage (ie handover of data for
operation stage, building maintenance operation
management);

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Plans and project logic
Objective 1: Review and evaluation of the
state-of-art of knowledge in BIM processes
and BIM technologies review (Technologies)
Objective 2: Capture of stakeholders’ high-
level requirements and review contractual
and procurement routes in Qatar
(Requirements and policies)
Objective 3: Whole-lifecycle information flow mapping and validation
Objective 4: Development of whole lifecycle information flow which is enabled by process-led
BIM protocols and considers technology and policy in Qatar.
Objective 5: Testing and validation of whole lifecycle information flow using 8 case studies
Objective 6: Identification of relationships between design decisions and facility operations
performance by analyzing the “COBie Data Drops” model and the development of a Decision
support system for the prediction of operation performance at the design stage
objective7:Disseminationandcoursewaretraining
developmenttootherobjectives
ResearchManagement
Dissemination of research results and outputs and courseware development and training
continues beyond the project end data
Technologyfeedback
Policyfeedback

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Whole cycle approach to information
flow in construction processes

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Review of Current BIM Protocols
Protocol Country,
Year
Domain Target Brief description
Tec
hnol
ogy
Pro
cess
Poli
cy
Ent
erpr
ise
Proj
ect
Ind
ustr
y
AIA – E202 U.S., 2008
   Protocols for level of development (LoD), authorized
uses of models and responsibilities for LoDs
AGC - Consensus
Docs 301 BIM
Addendum
U.S., 2006
  
Standard contract documents for legal and administration
issues associated with using BIM
GSA, 3D-4D-BIM
Program Guidelines
U.S., 2010
   Guidelines for GSA associates and consultants engaging
in BIM practices
USACE, BIM Project
Execution Plan, ver
1.0
U.S., 2006
 
Protocols for implementing BIM in the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineer's civil works and military construction
business processes.
The State of Ohio
BIM Protocols
U.S., 2010
 
General guidelines for building owners (requests for
qualifications, agreements, bidding requirements,
contracts)
Penn State University
– project execution
planning guide, ver 2
U.S., 2010
 
Process maps and template resources to assist in the
implementation of BIM uses
New York City
Council – BIM
guidelines
U.S., 2012
 
Basic guidelines for use of BIM for municipal agencies
NIST, 2007 U.S., 2007   Standard definitions for information exchanges
AEC (UK) BIM
Protocol
UK, 2012
 
guidelines, specific to Revit, Bentley, ArchiCAD and
Vectorworks, to inform the creation of BIM elements and
facilitate collaboration
BSI / CIC BIM
Protocols
UK, 2012
  
Guides that identify model-based requirements to be
produced project team members, permitted uses of
models, levels of development and other contractual
requirements
RIBA: BIM Overlay
to the RIBA Outline
UK, 2012
  An overview of how BIM alter the RIBA work outline
plan of work.
CRC-CI national
guidelines for digital
modeling
AU, 2009
 
Guidelines for creation, maintenance, modeling
procedures and implementation on large projects
Singapore BIM
Guide (ver 1.0)
SG, 2012
  guidelines for mono and multi-disciplinary modeling and
collaboration

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Reviewing and Utilising Current BIM
standards: PAS 1192/2

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Initial results of Market Demand in
Qatar?
• Information reliability.
• Models available in different format
and when and where are needed.
• Efficient data structure to enable
models to be used effectively
efficiently.
• Efficient use of standard library to
enable rapid and fast model
development.
• Allowing multiple BIM files from
multiple disciplines and organisations
to be merged.

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Initial results
• Colourful and animated 3D models are not
greatly contributing to site operations.
• Construction supply chain is not
supported/benefited from BIM adoption.
• No standards and no local capabilities in driving
the international BIM agenda.
• TRUST is the main gradient for efficient and
effective information flow.
• Contracts strategies have a major influence on
WLC information.

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Conclusions
• There is a great need to develop national
Qatar standards in BIM processes and
technologies.
• There a need for BIM academy/knoweldge
centres to embrace research work and train
future BIM managers
• Construction supply chain should be at the
heart of BIM adoption so that benefits can be
realised.