1. Integration of BIM in Lithuania
DALIUS GEDVILAS
Director of Public institution “Skaitmeninė statyba”
President of Lithuanian Builders Association

2. BIM & Labour market today

3. BIM needs in construction labour market
>1340 open positions for BIM specialists at linkedin.com
~1200 open positions for BIM specialists in the United Kingdom at indeed.co.uk
In Lithuania - ???

4. Reality – BIM becomes the standard

5. New approaches Human aspects of digitalization
Urban world
Digital future
Health reimagined
Entrepreneurship rising
Resourceful planet
Global marketplace
Digital future – world of data
Human aspects of digitalization
BIM is a socio-technical system

6. Developer of the initiative –
Public institution “Skaitmeninė statyba”
Observer at

7. Public institution “Skaitmeninė statyba”
Aim – to coordinate the digitalization process of Lithuanian construction.
Mission – to contribute to the development of sustainable environment of the Lithuanian construction sector, both public and private, for cooperation and partnership by developing innovative solutions for rational exchange and dissemination of information in the construction sector, development of ICT systems and services in the construction sector; to educate and organize training.

8. Current status

9. Issues of Lithuanian construction industry
Ineffective communication, planning and cooperation – reason of most problems
Inappropriate quality of construction projects – misunderstandings, corrections
New generation of specialists, but old technologies and old legislation

10. INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
COOPERATION
REGULATIONS
KNOWLEDGE
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
“Skaitmeninė statyba”: main directions

11. Cooperation with Government & Ministry of Environment
On 28/09/2015 Government of the Republic of Lithuania officially agreed to the initiative to digitalize Lithuanian construction sector.
On 10/11/2015 Minister of Environment approved Guidelines of developing Lithuanian construction sector with main strategic aims until 2020.
On 03/11/2015 Minister of Environment approved a working group for the implementation of the initiative to digitalize Lithuanian construction sector.
“Skaitmeninė statyba” conducted a study of digitalizing Lithuanian construction sector and financing the actions by the request of Ministry of Environment and the Construction Products Certification Centre.

12. Lithuanian Standards Board
Cooperation with
Lithuanian Standards Board
COOPERATION
Lithuanian Standards Board, together with Public institution “Skaitmeninė statyba” translated the main BIM ISO standards.
The standards are now available to apply.
LST ISO :2015
Building information models – Information delivery manual – Part 2: Interaction framework (ISO :2012, identical)
LST ISO/TS 12911:2015
Framework for building information modelling (BIM) guidance (ISO/TS 12911:2012, identical)

13. Lithuanian Standards Board
Cooperation with
Lithuanian Standards Board
COOPERATION
A technical committee “Building Information Modelling” was established in cooperation with Lithuanian Standards Board.
Aim of the committee is not only to contribute to setting up Lithuanian and adapting EU standards, but also to represent Lithuania in European technical committee CEN/TC 442.

14. Adjusting good practice: RIBA in Lithuania
REGULATIONS
RIBA – Royal Institute of British Architects
RIBA documents were translated and introduced to various associations of Lithuanian construction industry to discuss.
The aim is to adjust the core statements of BS1192 to the Lithuanian law.

15. What does construction market need today
REGULATIONS
Requirements of:
Using ICT in public construction projects
Hand-over of technical information, digital descriptions of buildings
Preservation of digital model data, technical CAD specifications
Using open data from Lithuanian registers in digital models of buildings
Public procurement of designing and construction services
Applying IFC and classification

16. What does construction market need today
REGULATIONS
Digitizing a construction process and developing BIM
Catalogue of public procurement criteria
Pre-qualification of suppliers
Electronic daily construction report
Other

17. BIM
Hands-on

18. “Skaitmeninė statyba”: documents being created
REGULATIONS
BIM Employer's Information Requirements (EIR)
BIM Guide
BIM Dictionary
BIM Execution Plan (BEP1)
Detailed BIM Execution Plan (BEP2)
Contract templates for tenders

19. BIM education
KNOWLADGE
Lithuanian universities are actively adapting their study programs with respect to needed knowledge of BIM.

20. What’s ahead?
KNOWLADGE
“Smart and digital” as the main focus on the biggest construction exhibition in Lithuania “RESTA” in 2017.
As part of exhibition:
“Digital construction 2017, Vilnius” – annual international conference (28 April, 2017). Focus of the conference – Life Cycle Management.
“Lithuanian BIM Awards 2017” – second contest of BIM projects of Lithuanian companies.

21. INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
Important assets
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
Case study of 3D cities in Lithuania
Creating a concept of Building Passport – a tool to gather data for facility management.
Dealing with “Big Data”, integrate data registers.
Creating and developing of BIM Library consisting of generic and proprietary BIM objects in IFC format.

22. National BIM Standard of Lithuania
To summarize:
We need documents and regulations to create the right environment for BIM in Lithuania.
It is expected to have our own national BIM standards in 2017.

23. We welcome you to cooperate!

24. Thank you! DALIUS GEDVILAS
Director of Public institution “Skaitmeninė statyba”
President of Lithuanian Builders Association