A reality check and list of a few of the main issues facing the AEC industry with BIM.

1. Reality check
keppie design

3. Operate and Maintain
Define and Validate
Manufacture and Assembly
Prototype and Design

4. Early Concept design
Operate and Maintain
Concept design
Occupancy Feedback
Construction Drawings
Detailed Design
Construction Drawings

5. Early Concept design
design
analysis
Operate and Maintain presentation
verification
repeat
Occupancy Feedback Concept design
Construction Drawings
Detailed Design
Construction Drawings

6. Early Concept design
Operate and Maintain
Occupancy Feedback Concept design
design
drawings
specialist design
manufacture
Construction Drawings
Detailed Design
Construction Drawings

7. Operate and Maintain
does anybody Early Concept design
know what’s
going on in
here?
Occupancy Feedback Concept design
Construction Drawings
Detailed Design
Construction Drawings

8. challenges
BIM Silos - internally and externally
(individuals and groups working in isolation)

9. challenges
BIM works more efficiently with collaboration
Current models do not support this
Financial and legal implications (sharing)
Specialists USP is being ‘special’
Internal silos are a problem too...
BIM Silos - internally and externally
(individuals and groups working in isolation)

10. challenges
Interoperability
(each cul-de-sac is a waste of time)

11. challenges
Fundamental contradiction in sharing vs
Ease of data sharing is essential
The Cloud, M-SIX, Google(!)?
Integration of specialist systems
Interoperability
(each cul-de-sac is a waste of time)

12. challenges
Sharing
(is difficult...)

13. challenges
Who owns the f^&$%g model?
Lonely BIM - Selfish BIM
Legal, financial and insurance implications
Overlap of responsibility / ownership
Sharing
(is difficult...)

14. challenges
BIM is not a technology
(it’s not about CAD monkeys - it’s about giving designers the tools to design)

15. challenges
Bolt-on BIM doesn’t work
BIM specialists can be like mini silos
BIM is a process, not a technology
Focusing on technology is focusing on the wrong thing
BIM is not a technology
(it’s not about CAD monkeys - it’s about giving designers the tools to design)

16. challenges
WE HAVE NO CHOICE...
(level 2 BIM by 2016, committees report in February, government leading the way)

17. challenges
British government committees are meeting now...
What models will they apply?
Poorly defined contracts already exist
Knowledge of BIM is increasing and changing
WE HAVE NO CHOICE...
(level 2 BIM by 2016, committees report in February, government leading the way)

18. challenges
This graph really works...
(but only if the hump at that start is recognised - think about what it affects in our industry)

19. challenges
But only if we change the models behind it
Are clients willing to pay to front load BIM?
Are contractors?
So who really benefits from this?
This graph really works...
(but only if the hump at that start is recognised - think about what it affects in our industry)

20. challenges
BIMwash - Offering services that we don’t/can’t provide
(not can’t - don’t)

21. challenges
General ignorance
Constantly changing technology
No precedents for this
BIMwash™
BIMwash - Offering services that we don’t/can’t provide
(not can’t - don’t)

22. ?