From a client or owner-operator perspective, how does the UK BIM Framework support their information management needs? A nima workshop report sheds some light. At Digital Construction Week in June 2024, a workshop facilitated by David Churcher and Sarah Davidson explored the priority tasks set out in the UK BIM Framework that involve project clients…
Digitisation of Construction Product Manufacturers: A report of research into senior managers’ views The Construction Leadership Council published research from the Plain Language Group which canvassed the views of 80 senior managers who supply products into the UK construction supply chain. Download the report. Richard Robinson, President, UK & Ireland at Atkins Réalis said, “80…
Initiating the next phases of development of the BS 8644 suite… You may be aware that BS 8644-1 was published by the British Standards Institution in July 2022. This standard is a multi-part series, developed in recognition of both the immediate requirements of the fire safety sector, and the need to develop and encourage a standard information management…
The UK BIM Alliance, through its mission to improve BIM adoption, recognises that terminology often becomes one of the first barriers to BIM. With this in mind, the Alliance has been working with Dan Rossiter, the European and International Standards convenor for BIM terminology, to outline how the Alliance can lead by example in championing…
Manufacturers produce a significant part of the information required to bring about a safer construction industry; but this information is currently not structured or shared in a consistent way. If industry is to meet the challenges of a digital future, avoid a race to the bottom and respond to the requirements of a new building…
The aim of this report is not to set out or repeat discussions on the appropriate BIM contractual framework or provide a detailed analysis of this standard form contracts, which have already been canvassed comprehensively elsewhere. Rather, the aim of this report is to consider the present understand of BIM legal and contractual issues among…
