Design Management and Building Information Modelling (BIM)
04 June 2009
Speakers included leading practitioners from the sharp end of UK current practice and internationally recognised academics drawing from the very latest research. The event was targeted at mainstream construction professionals who wish to keep up-to-date with rapidly evolving practice in design management.
Building Information Modelling (BIM) offers a fundamentally different paradigm for creating and sharing design information than its predecessor, technical drawing – whether hand or computer-aided. It promises to capture design intent; to enable exploration of multiple detailed design alternatives from the earliest stages of design, including analysis of commercial implications and engineering behaviour; to enable collaboration between disciplines; to make building designs accessible to building clients regardless of their technical skill; and to automate drawing production.
Any one of these, taken on its own, would mean significant shifts in the professional roles and responsibilities of all those involved in the design of buildings; taken together, they will make some roles entirely redundant, make others efficient to a point where fewer members of the profession will be needed, and generate the need for new skill sets that are likely to define new professional roles.
How do these effects work? How can architectural, engineering and construction businesses metamorphose to best exploit the technology? How should design managers re-align the role of design team members and their expectations? These are among the questions that were raised for discussion at this important workshop on Design Management and BIM. A particular emphasis was provided on the need for the ‘business case’, and the dangers of falling behind by adhering to out-dated assumptions about the future dominant modes of working. For further information please contact Sarah Peace on via email research@ciob.org.uk
Building Information Modelling (BIM) offers a fundamentally different paradigm for creating and sharing design information than its predecessor, technical drawing – whether hand or computer-aided. It promises to capture design intent; to enable exploration of multiple detailed design alternatives from the earliest stages of design, including analysis of commercial implications and engineering behaviour; to enable collaboration between disciplines; to make building designs accessible to building clients regardless of their technical skill; and to automate drawing production.
Any one of these, taken on its own, would mean significant shifts in the professional roles and responsibilities of all those involved in the design of buildings; taken together, they will make some roles entirely redundant, make others efficient to a point where fewer members of the profession will be needed, and generate the need for new skill sets that are likely to define new professional roles.
How do these effects work? How can architectural, engineering and construction businesses metamorphose to best exploit the technology? How should design managers re-align the role of design team members and their expectations? These are among the questions that were raised for discussion at this important workshop on Design Management and BIM. A particular emphasis was provided on the need for the ‘business case’, and the dangers of falling behind by adhering to out-dated assumptions about the future dominant modes of working. For further information please contact Sarah Peace on via email research@ciob.org.uk