About BIM4Water
BIM4Water is a not-for-profit forum. It is a cross-industry network open to all organisations involved in the management and delivery of water and wastewater assets. The group is free to join and its composition is reflective of the sector, involving clients, contractors, consultants, suppliers, subcontractors and other bodies. Based on collaboration, BIM4Water activities include providing guidelines and offering free events around the country covering all aspects of “Better Information Management”.
The mission of BIM4Water is: “To lead the digital transformation of the water sector through Better Information Management”.
BIM4Water’s objectives are:
- To facilitate the development of digital plans that include the creation and modification of existing processes, using digital technologies to deliver improved productivity benefits in a changing business and market environment.
- To provide direction for a framework covering knowledge management and its creation, and aide decision making that can enable best practice to be adopted across the water industry.
- To provide guidance on the digital skills and capabilities to enable an organisation to benefit from the transformation, ensuring that staff are taken along the digital transformation journey.
- To be recognised as an authority in Digital Transformation, to facilitate and collaborate across the “BIM community”, where our knowledge, advice, and material is sought and shared.
Discover BIM4Water’s working groups
4D
BIM4Water has identified 4D as a critical collaborative tool to aid leaner, safer and smarter working and project management.
Skills
The Skills Group is specifically aligned to look at readying the water industry with digital skill-sets to assist and support resources and succession planning in AMP 7.
Asset data standards
This group focuses on asset data such as the Standard Product Data Template form which enables product manufacturers to supply non-graphical information, following PAS 1192, about their products for use in water industry projects; and using the Uniclass Water industry guide published last year there is a standard asset naming convention, which resulted from collaboration with UK water companies, BIM4Water,WSAA and NBS.
Owner operator
The Group will define a set of key initiatives to develop a common understanding across the value chain that will be developed and implemented.
Water data task force
The group’s aim is to be a leading voice in the industry – helping our regulators to develop a strategy for a more open, transparent and centralised water data framework.
Communications and engagement
This group supports all aspects of the BIM4Water team including marketing, publicity, Collaboration Agreement and promoting events.
To assist with our aim BIM4Water has developed a five-year Roadmap that sets out the direction, key steps and outcomes we will deliver. The interactive Roadmap is divided in five workstreams: Digital Transformation, Knowledge, Leadership, Communication, and Governance. In developing this programme of work there was a close liaison with the Centre for Digital Built Britain to ensure there was alignment with their own Roadmap.
BIM4Water news and events
BIM4Water hosts successful London summer event
BIM4Water hosted their Summer Event on Thursday 25 September 2025, focused on the critical topic of securing the water sector’s digital infrastructure. The event, sponsored…
BIM4Water discusses asset data standardisation
BIM4Water held a successful event, led by its Asset Data Standards (ADS) group, working in partnership with Water Services Association of Australia, to examine how water…
BIM4Water’s summer event – Beyond the firewall: delivering water sector reform through AMP8
Want to talk about cyber-security and its impacts upon the UK water industry? This is your chance – the BIM4Water 2025 Summer event is fast…
Vote for the Digital Construction Power Players
In May 2025, industry publication Digital Construction Plus launched an informal ranking of the 20 people and organisations who have the most influence and exert…
Improvements needed in water sector information management, says BIM4Water chair
Change is needed to improve information management practices in the water sector, says Clare Taylor, chair of the 2,000-strong practitioners network BIM4Water in a wide-ranging…
Meet the BIM4Water team
BIM4Water is managed through a steering group which reflects the water sector.
Clare Taylor (BIM4Water chair) – Clare is the National Digital Rehearsal Lead at MWH Treatment. She has a strong background in project delivery, across all facets of water industry engineering projects including project management, planning, digital rehearsal and construction, with a broad and in depth understanding of the project lifecycle. Clare previously chaired the BIM4Water 4D task group before being elected as a Vice Chair in September 2020.
Martin Gooch (steering group member) – Martin has nearly 40 years of experience in the water industry. He is a Chartered Civil Engineer, a member of the Chartered Management Institute and has a number of project management qualifications including “Managing Successful Programmes”. His career began with the Building Research Establishment before joining Southern Water. He has held a wide variety of roles with this company including drainage area planning/trenchless technology, business & marketing planning/auditing, IT programme management and development of the IT AMP capital programme, he then moved into an IT business relationship role. Martin then retired from SW and undertakes short term consultancy assignments and is passionate about the water industry maximising the benefits of digital delivery.
Tim Pearson (steering group member, chair of communication task group) – Tim is a time-served mechanical design engineer with over 33 years of experience. He works for KSB Ltd as a design engineer and BIM Project Manager. A recent addition to the BIM4Water Steering Group, he is also a member of the BIM4Water Standard Libraries Group, taking on the Communications Manager role in November 2018. He also acts as the Steering Group sponsor for the newly created 4D group.
Andy Dyer (steering group member) – Andrew is an experienced Information manager with over 28 years in the Construction industry, with the last seven spent as an Information Manager. More lately specialising in Information management within Asset management. He has work with clients and companies on the creation and application of the documents required by the ISO19650 series. Andrew has worked for clients in the Water and Nuclear industries. He has also participated in helping companies gain Kitemark certification for Information management, creation of training plans to help upskill team members in IM and deployment of Common Data Environments on projects.
Dave Dukes (steering group member) – With over 20 years of experience, Dave specialises in digital optimisation across project delivery and advisory services for water industry clients. With a strong background in digital data ecosystems, Dave has driven efficiency and innovation across various large-scale projects and frameworks. His expertise lies in integrating digital tools and methodologies to enhance project outcomes, improve operational processes, and support clients in achieving their sustainability and business goals.
Dave Philp (steering group member) – Elected into Steering Group: 2024 Dave is a Chartered Construction Manager by background, a Fellow of ICE, CIOB, RICS and InstCES with 30 years of industry experience around the globe. He is employed by Cohesive as Chief Value Officer (CVO). He has been involved in delivering innovative programmes, BIM and digital change strategies and digital asset management strategies across the globe from UK, Hong-Kong, Singapore, Australia and the Baltics. Dave is passionate about digital change in the built environment and ensuring it drives sustainable value across the entire asset lifecycle.
Camilla Lauridsen (steering group member) – Elected onto steering group: 2024 Camilla is the Business Systems Manager for the Midlands, Environment (Divisional Systems Manager from 1st November) at Galliford Try. She has worked within Document Control in the Water sector for 6 years and has a background in law. Camilla has worked and still works closely with design teams and delivery teams to understand the best approach to BIM implementation and the Document Control needs this requires.
Tomasz Stasiak (steering group member) – Tomasz is experienced Digital Engineering Manager with experience in various asset-intense projects such as Nuclear New Build, Nuclear Decommissioning, Water, Oil & Gas, Pharma and Energy-to-Waste. Currently working for Severn Trent looking after overall AMP8 strategy for Digital Engineering, Information Management, GIS and digital asset data delivery during Capital Stage. Keen adopter of new technologies into construction process including bespoke software development, machine learning applications, smart contracts or robotic process automation to name few.
Andrew Collett (steering group member) – Andrew is a Project Director within Stantec with over 30 years of experience in the water industry. He works within Stantec’s Major Projects’ water team leading engineering design predominately within project delivery. He has led and coordinated the delivery of projects, and programmes within design and construction contracts and JV organisations. This experience led Andrew to become involved with BIM to harness the benefits for efficient project delivery. He is a Chartered Civil Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and Member of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management.
Melanie Robinson (steering group member) – Melanie is an Associate and Strategic Advisory lead at Okana, specialising in BIM and information management according to ISO 19650. She manages projects across multiple sectors within the UK and internationally, and works closely with clients to develop bespoke digital strategies for project and asset management. Her interests include change management, standardisation, and digital collaboration. She is also Regional Lead for Newcastle-upon-Tyne for Women in BIM, and sits on the Special Interest Group for the Golden Thread for the Building Safety Alliance and the Industry Advisory Board for the School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment at Edinburgh Napier University. Melanie holds a PhD from Edinburgh Napier University, which investigated the micro-level factors to an effective macro-level diffusion of BIM, including the gap between perceived and actual efficacy of BIM understanding and skills.
Teodora Kaneva (steering group member) – Teodora’s background ranges from working in business development for a renewable energy lobbying association in Brussels to the fast moving technology innovation startup scene in the UK. She has designed the market strategy for a German renewable energy engineering scale up for the UK, listed on Nasdaq private market, and now one of the fastest growing scale ups in the world. Previous experience also includes managing a renewable energy startup in London, which has built a small-scale biomass CHP power plant. Teodora is passionate about cross-industry collaboration and working together with academia to inform the design of future educational models and skill building. Most recently Teodora has ran the commercial activities and business development at Future Cities Catapult, focusing on innovation in cities, digital health and wellbeing, mobility, and infrastructure. Teodora is a passionate STEM Ambassador and a vocal advocate for women in tech.
Explore BIM4Water case studies
Access BIM4Water publications
Have you started to define your 4D information requirements in readiness for AMP8? BIM4Water’s 4D and Beyond Task Group have guidance to support your definitions and level of information needs. We have the following publications to share with the sector:
- BIM4Water – Supporting 4D in project delivery by EIR – download PDF; download Doc
- 4D LOIN table of application matrix, including H&S Benefits (PDF)
- WSAA and BIM4Water Asset Management Uniclass guide (PDF)
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