Author: D. Eley and G. Aldwinckle (Arup)
31 October 2013
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D. Eley and G. Aldwinckle (Arup)
The Structural Engineer, Volume 91, Issue 11, 2013, Page(s) 5
In late 2011, although in the depths of recession and competing against some suicidal fee bids, we looked strategically at BIM. The implementation and use of BIM has been a significant financial and technical challenge and the three projects in this paper follow our timeline, experience, pitfalls and lessons learnt, and set out where the benefits lie for an SME.
The Cookham Wood project was the first of four Ministry of Justice (MoJ) projects in its Level 2 Building Information Modelling (BIM) ‘Early Adopter Programme’ - part of MoJ’s strategy for meeting the Government’s plan to roll out BIM Level 2 across all public sector projects by 2016. This article describes URS’ experience, from high-level thinking about BIM on this pilot scheme, to the realities of delivering full BIM models in a tight (6 week) programme.
Will Arnold explains how Arup are harnessing the power of BIM during construction, and considers how this information might be shared with clients in the future.