The CIOB is part of a consortium taking on the BRE and RIBA Enterprises’s NBS for the contract to develop a crucial “missing link” in Level 2 BIM – the digital plan of work. The three competing teams were last week each awarded £50,000 to develop their feasibility plans, with the winning bid due to be selected by late summer…. read full article
Tag Archives: Standards
BS, PAS, etc.
Why architects should engage with BIM before it’s too late
BIM has been billed as an opportunity for architects to reclaim some of our lost ground. However if the profession doesn’t engage fully and quickly it may represent the possibility of being further marginalised… read full article
BIM Digital Plan of Work bidders wait for news
Industry organisations bidding to devise the Digital Plan of Work that will give the industry a vital template on how to manage Level 2 BIM are due to shortly hear whether their proposals will be funded by the Technology Strategy Board.
The TSB is running a £1.5m procurement exercise on behalf of the government’s BIM Task Group to find a project team that will put together a free-to-use system for managing the flow of design and construction information via BIM…. read full Articles
New BIM specification out now
PAS 1192-3 Specification for information management for the operational phase of assets using building information modelling (BIM)… read full article
New models of construction procurement
This brings together draft guidance on new models of construction procurement, based on best practice in public sector construction… red full article
Two speed industry still playing catch up on BIM
BIM Task Group: “Making BIM Happen”
Presentations from “Making BIM Happen” workshop
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The route to BIM in 10 steps
The industry will have to put its foot down to meet the government’s BIM deadline. Here, five experts break the route in 10 key stages… read full article
Record and operational BIMs
This article is an extended version of BIM and FM chapter of BIM for the terrified. This post is 6 months old now but it is worth reading read full article. The BIM for the terrified can be found here
Construction Code: 7 most popular blogs of 2013
Interesting blog. Lists 7 most popular blogs of 2013, worth reading. Talks mainly about NBS, RIBA POW 2013, NBS Library and plugins read full article
BIM Announcer 