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Sponsored by: BIM – Do we need it? Tony Bassett - ECS

What does the construction industry do? Provides clients with facilities which enable them to do what they want by:  Understanding their needs  Proposing, testing and developing solutions  Planning and building facilities The key skills needed for this are:  Listening to clients and understanding their ambitions  Knowledge and imagination to solve their problems  Effective planning and delivery skills  The ability to make good decisions

How do you make good decisions? Research at Stanford University found that the best teams:  Work together – collaboration  Have clear responsibilities – e.g. Digital Plan of Works  Use more real time information – live data  Measure everything – verification  Integrate current decisions with past and future ones – whole life  Rely on trusted experienced counsellors – people matter Doing so delivers:  Accelerated thinking – faster decision making  Consideration and comparison of more alternatives  Improved flexibility to change – running with more options  Keeps team satisfied – improved engagement  Creates confidence – better decisions, less risk

Knowledge - lessons learnt:  Personal experience  Industry standards/guidance  Recent global experiences Information – interpreted facts:  Project proposals  Site constraints  Project constraints Data – analyzable facts:  Project data  Real time data  Big data Improved Decision making Data Information Knowledge Uncertainty Data Information Knowledge Uncertainty TraditionalBIM enabled

Best results if data, information and knowledge pass from stage to stage: Effective Whole Life Decision Making D C Operation Business Society Design Construction Information Data Knowledge

BIM – so do we need it? BIM offers way to improve:  Working together – collaboration  Having clearer responsibilities – e.g. Digital Plan of Works  Use more real time information – live data  Measuring everything – verification  Integrating current decisions with past and future ones – whole life BIM still needs trusted experienced counsellors – people still matter

In Conclusion BIM helps improve:  Communication  Decision making  The ability to share information  The ability to learn from each other So yes, we need BIM!