Strategic BIM Implementation
Plowman Craven believes that it is important to understand that every organisation operates in its own unique way. Making the successful integration of a BIM Implementation Strategy, about much more than just software requirements.
We endeavour to understand our client’s current processes to formulate a bespoke no-nonsense BIM Implementation Strategy, that promotes organisation wide engagement from stakeholder investment, to the everyday BIM application of the workforce.
Our BIM Consulting services can help you kick-start your Digital Construction (BIM) journey, supporting the thinking and design of how to implement BIM within your business. We harness our industry experience to advise on the optimal approach for your organisation.
> Frequently Asked Questions on Building Information Modelling
Frequently Asked Questions
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What is BIM?
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What difference will it make to me?
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Is BIM expensive?
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What is my next step? How do I implement BIM?
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What does the BIM implementation journey with Plowman Craven look like?
What is BIM?
- Many people within the industry believe Building Information Modelling, also known as BIM, to be a tool or a software used in design. Although BIM leverages these aspects during a project, BIM goes far beyond this and should instead be seen as a series or combination of processes for creating, exchanging and managing information throughout a project lifecycle.
- Adopting a Digital Construction (BIM) approach enhances collaboration within the project team and stakeholders, accelerates early stage design and coordination and therefore reduces risk. Through founding this approach on an information rich BIM model, further benefits can be gained – not only through the extraction of information from this “single source of truth” to strengthen standard design and construction processes, but also by using the model as a visual platform to de-risk the construction programme. Upon completion of construction, this information rich as-built model can be handed over to the facilities management team to utilise and drive benefit throughout the operational phase of the assets life.
What difference will it make to me?
- Whether you represent the client, the asset owner, the designer or another interested party, Digital Construction (BIM) has the opportunity and breadth to provide value to you. When facilitated correctly, BIM provides an enhanced design, better quality, a clearer view of project programme and an opportunity to see a greater return on your investment.
- Many pain points exist within a standard design, construct and operate lifecycle. When facilitated correctly, BIM can reduce some of these pain points and convert them into strengths.
- ‘Safe by design’ is something all project teams must feel responsible for. When facilitated correctly, BIM can provide better visibility of safety risks (design, construction, operation) but also provide the digital record for use during the operational phase of the asset.
Is BIM expensive?
- The MacLeamy curve provides a visual illustration of how BIM looks to bring the design effort forward in a project programme to a more preferable position, where the ability to influence or impact the design is greater and the resultant costs associated are less. By ‘shifting the curve’, design maturity is reached at an earlier stage and through this better visibility of the previously unforeseen can be managed more effectively. As a result, cost and programme creep can be mitigated against.
- Realising this can take many different forms whether this be encouraging coordinated visualisation of early stage design in the 3D environment, collaborating more effectively through the likes of a common data environment or perhaps simulating the construction process virtually to visually de-risk. All of the above must first be founded on a versatile, standard approach, committed to from the start and leveraging industry best practice of the BS EN ISO 19650 series.
What is my next step? How do I implement BIM?
- Irrespective of where you sit on your own BIM journey, we believe there are some key steps to implementing BIM in a way that will drive value for you and your project teams. The strength and diversity of value opportunity within BIM means that there is a need to focus on specific BIM goals as opposed to trying to achieve ‘blanket benefit’ in all areas. The former should naturally align to business interest and service provision with an initial effort to construct a foundation to build on.
- Plowman Craven can help you kick-start your BIM journey, supporting the thinking and design of how to implement BIM within your business. We will harness our industry experience to advise on the optimal approach.
What does the BIM implementation journey with Plowman Craven look like?
- Assess – Getting to know your business to understand your current capabilities. Provide initial recommendations of how to progress.
- Align – Aligning the BS EN ISO 19650 BIM standards to your current business approach.
- Adopt – Ensuring your newly-aligned BIM process is adopted in practice on all projects.
- Adapt – Reviewing your adopted BIM process and adapting the approach where required.
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Plowman Craven’s BIM Consultancy is backed by a wealth of in-house experience, as leading innovators across every aspect of the Digital Construction industry. We utilise our real-world experiences to provide practical and strategic BIM support for our clients throughout the entirety of the project lifecycle.
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Plowman Craven has 60 years’ experience providing integrated measurement and consultancy services to the property and infrastructure markets.
