Building Information Modelling:From 2D collaboration to integrated project delivery in nD – work (almost) in progress

by Paul Wilkinson(BIW Technologies / pwcom.co.uk Ltd)

For UCLAN Innovation Circle, 08 May 2009

Presentation overview

Collaboration – 1990s Collaboration – 2000s Building Information Modelling (BIM) Issues raised by BIM Where are we today with BIM adoption? The future?

SpecsDrawingsMinutesProgrammesCost plansetc

EmailCourierPostFax

Traditional AEC collaboration (c. 1990s)

Online file management Fewer interoperability issues Less paper Latest information available to all Complete record of project Full information audit trail Single central repository of information Greater re-use of information (eg: for H&S File, standards, tendering, defects mgmt, O&M, etc)

But nearly all still 2D Heavy reliance on CAD

Online AEC collaboration (c. 2000s)

BIM is not CAD

“CAD helps people to draw. BIM helps people to construct.” (Richard Saxon, Ecobuild, February 2009)

"BIM is not CAD. BIM was never meant to be CAD. CAD is a replacement for pen and paper, a documentation tool. By comparison, BIM programs are design applications in which the documentation flows from and is a derivative of the process, from schematic design to construction to facility management.“(Pete Zyskowski, Cadalyst)

Building Information Modelling (BIM)

Building Information Modelling (BIM)

Issues raised by BIM

Education and training Investment in hardware/software Standards Project procurement Intellectual property Contracts Risk – insurance Regulations

Issues raised by BIM

Where are we today with BIM adoption?

USA estimates (2009) CAD managers survey (Robert Green, Cadalyst)

market is still very 2D-centric: Totally 2D -- 19% Mainly 2D but evaluating 3D -- 51% Hybrid 2D/3D -- 24% Totally 3D -- 6%

AEC market is worse: Totally 2D -- 33% Mainly 2D but evaluating 3D -- 51% Hybrid 2D/3D -- 14% Totally 3D -- 2%

but civil engineering ahead of the rest Totally 2D -- 23% Mainly 2D but evaluating 3D -- 45% Hybrid 2D/3D -- 21% Totally 3D -- 11%

Where are we today with BIM adoption?

USA estimates (2009) Structural engineers survey

(GoStructural.com)

BIM familiarity 97% (from 29% in 2006)

44% have used BIM (23% in 2006)

Only 2% firms using BIM on all projects

41% don’t use BIM at all When will BIM be used by

50% of industry? 43% said within 5-10 years (less saying “never”!)

When will BIM be used by 90% of industry? 53% said within 15 years

Most commentators suggest UK is lagging behind USA

Recession:Right time or wrong time to invest?

Where are we today with BIM adoption?

The future?

From: substantial in-house investment in hardware and software, training, etc Autodesk Revit, Bentley, et al interoperability hurdles (eg, USACE BIM standards)

To: software-as-a-service (SaaS), ie: models shared “in the cloud” (BIMaaS)

Maybe a hybrid of the two? Today: VisualTAO, BIMserver.org, Onuma, Asite

cBIM, Autodesk labs tools, Dezineforce Web 2.0: owner/user inputs (YouCanPlan),

operational information (Pachube), etc

Building Information Modelling

paul.wilkinson@pwcom.co.ukhttp://www.pwcom.co.ukTwitter: @EEPaulTel: 020 8858 1104mob 07788 445920