Final thoughts on RICS BIM Conference

Some quick thoughts and quotes from the RICS BIM Conference today.

Paul Morrell:

• In terms of the cost and carbon situation:
  "BIM may be the paddle that gets us out of shit creek"
• When asked to deal with cost and carbon at the same time:
  "If you cannot ride two horses at once, what are you doing in the circus?"
• Why we need collaboration and not an adversarial culture in the construction industry:
  "I could have retired at 27 if I could have the time back that was spent arguing"
• Looking at how businesses need to adapt:
  "Not one manufacturer of radio valves now makes micro chips"

Mark Bew:

• On Level-2 BIM:
  "We move from just 3D geometry to 3D geometry AND the information behind it"
  "In terms of contract currency, 2D information generated from the models is fine for Level-2."
  "Nobody is doing Level-3. Level-2.9 is best I've seen"
• Looking at plans of work:
  "Plans of work need to define outputs. The data drops. What data does the client get and when?"
• And in terms of bringing the majority of the industry up to Level-2 BIM:
  "The good news is that we set ourselves 5 years. The bad news is that we have already used 1 year up."

Simon Rawlinson:

Forget the Bew-Richards Maturity Model, check out what may just be named the Rawlinson-Coffee-Cup-Diagram. From Level-0 2D cup with no info all of the way to Level-3 cup complete with multi-colour post-its :)

A nice SWOT analysis too - I'll try and grab the slide.

National BIM Report 2012:

I presented the findings from the National BIM Report. Some nice tweets afterwards too - I hope people are finding it a decent document.

Also, great to have the likes of Simon Rawlinson, Brenden Patchell and Bryan Arscott all commenting very favourably about the National BIM Library project.

Chris Millard:

Some real fantastic things from Balfour Beatty here. The iPad augmented reality live demo. Also the photographs of the project team all gathered around a huge screen showing the BIM in the Balfour Beatty "BIM Cave".

Watching a model develop in parallel to the actual construction so that progress can be modelled and an as-built set of information be developed was great.

Brian Arscott:

Brian from John Lewis Partnership showed their ambition as an intelligent client with a "can do" attitude. "The big question is, when can we model our entire estate?"

Nice slide about how BIM is about reducing risk...