In 2019 the National Gallery produced a short prospectus for a BIM implementation project – BIM had never been used in the gallery previously and we were aware that capital projects in the coming years would be severely compromised without it. We were also aware that BIM held many possibilities for both managing maintenance of the…
Coventry University has multiple campuses in the UK and worldwide. The main campus is based in Coventry with an additional four locations in London, Scarborough and Wroclaw, Poland. Globally, it has hubs in Africa, Europe, and Asia. The university began adopting digital building information management processes in 2017 to drive efficiency in its estates’ operations….
HMP Five Wells is the UK’s largest Category C resettlement prison, located in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. Built almost entirely from standardised components, with a unique design that enables more contact between staff and prisoners, it came with its own set of complex information requirements. Main contractor Kier, working for the Ministry of Justice, identified that utilising a…
Delivering reliable digital data and information management for the Environment Agency’s physical flood and coastal defence assets “Data compliance and trusting data is essential in the digital world. As we begin to connect more, we need to have trust in asset data and independent assurance is a new approach.” Karen Alford, Flood and Coastal Risk…
At the Handover stage of construction projects, both Contractors and Facilities Managers are in a race against time to collect comprehensive asset information for every piece of equipment in the building. The Excel spreadsheet is the typical format for importing that information into Computer-Aided Facilities Management Systems (e.g. Maximo, Archibus FM, Planon, etc.) However, in…
Sellafield Ltd is the UK’s most complex nuclear site containing some of the most hazardous nuclear facilities in Europe. The importance of effective Information Management (IM) has been consistently recognised to aid intelligent decision making, however our approach has been systems and function led, creating the collation of decades of information, which is no longer exploitable…
As part of the UK Government’s New Hospital Programme (NHP) – the biggest hospital building programme in a generation – Milton Keynes University Hospital (MKUH) was granted seed funding to improve their hospital estate. When starting work on this, MKUH soon recognised there were gaps in their ways of working when it came to using data intelligently,…
The University of Worcester were looking to transform their former Worcester News building—a large two and three storey 1965 building – into a first-class centre for the education of health professionals. Now named by the University as the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson building, in honour of the first woman in Britain to qualify as a physician…
Babcock Major Infrastructure Projects (MIP) are currently going through a large capital programme of infrastructure upgrades across the Royal Devonport Dockyard. Due to the nature of our projects/business, Information Management utilising BIM and its Information Security are key drivers for us. Our adoption of BIM is a critical enabler as it supports collaboration but puts…
Bond Bryan Digital has been working with the Department for Education and others to investigate the delivery of ultra-low carbon building standards for educational establishments. The firm has taken a fresh look at how BIM and best-practice information management might be applied to support carbon assessment and determine the cost uplift associated with designing these…
