RICS Perspective on

Project Managers & BIM

Matthew Saunders BEng, MSc, MRICS Associate Director of Built Environment

Professional Groups, Built Environment

Contents

• RICS in context

• The BIM challenge

• RICS activity – RICS BIM Manager Certification

– BIM Manager training

– Guidance

• Software vendor challenge

• Questions

The RICS in context

RICS in context

• Global professional body, 140k

• Land, Property & Construction

• Standards, Guidance, Policy

• Products

The BIM challenge

Questions?

Change

The BIM Challenge - Industry

Naysayer:

“Fallible”

“Expensive”

“Moving goal posts”

“The next fad”

Trailblazer:

“Paradigm shift”

“Essential Investment”

“Standards are set”

“Future proof”

Cultural & Behavioural Change

A human challenge

“Dealing with people is probably the biggest

problem you face, especially if you are in business.

Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife,

architect or engineer.”

Dale Carnegie

Our Challenge

Is BIM relevant to all?

Our challenge

Connecting the dots

Land

Construction Property

BIM & Project Management

Where are the PM’s?

“QS’s

scared of

BIM!!”

Opportunity or obligation?

BIM

Time

Tech

Quality

Risk

Cost

Sustainability

Talk about benefits

Project delivery Business

benefits

Strategy Brief Concept Definition Design Build Handover & close-

out

Operation & end of

life DPoW

Our activities

BIM Training

• Distance Learning: – 5 months - £1,495 - 20+

delegates

• 1 Day Introduction: – F2F - £295 - 30th April - 8+

delegates

• Blended Learning: – F2F + Distance learning

• In-house training: – Bespoke to client

BIM Manager Certification

Syllabus:

• BIM initiation

• Processes

• Collaboration & integration

• Technology

• Commercial & contract

• BIM implementation

guide

• 5D BIM Surveyor

• QS Protocol

RICS Guidance

DPoW

3

Capex & Opex cost data sets

2D

Line

Drawings

3D

Object

Models

4D

Time -

Schedules

5D

Cost Plans /

Estimates

6+D

Operation /

Maintenance LCC,

Carbon, Water, etc

• Standards

• Consistency

• Efficiency

• Better decision making

Software vendor challenge

Laser Scanning of Parliament Square

Laser Scanning of Parliament Square

Scan to BIM

• Four different software vendors

• One BIM model

• One set of questions

• And a tape measure…

BIM Vendor Showcase

To Understand:

• How BIM software can take off quantities

• The challenges faced

• What assumptions were made

• How the results compare against ‘a tape measure’

• Any consistency in the results

• What levels of checking should be applied to outputs

• Considerations for BIM of ‘existing buildings’

BIM Vendor Showcase - Purpose

• What the showcase is not:

BIM Vendor Showcase

Gross Internal Floor Area

The Results

Raw data gives a cost variance of 27% *

Actually <10% on a like-for-like basis

BIM Vendor Showcase - Findings

• Software worked in different ways – 1 way flow vs real-time

interactions

• The BIM was incomplete

• The model was not designed in a way that made it easy to

extract the information

• There were errors in the model

• The software needed inputs from professionals who

understand the appropriate standards/ classifications

BIM Vendor Showcase - Summary

• Technology can do the heavy lifting

• Content planning and model ‘quality’ is key to success

– Identify what the purpose of the Model is and then

plan design requirements around it

• Understand the workflow and collaborative philosophy of

the software you use

• Checking, checking and more checking!

• Importance of the survey specification

• Importance of the BEP

• Ensure designers & QS are using the appropriate

standards

• Peer reviews/ quality assurance/ checking

• Create a collaborative environment

Summary for PMs

Summary

• RICS

• The BIM challenge

• Training and accreditation

• Software vendor challenge

Questions?