Adoption of BIM (hosted by buildingSMART Australia)
Sydney Chapter Chair Steve Doran and AM Council Director Toby Horstead recently participated in a round table discussion hosted by the Board of buildingSmart Australia that opened with ‘what the challenges are for the adoption of building information modelling (BIM) within their industry’. Also contributing to the discussions were representatives from the Facilities Management Association of Australia (FMA), the Tertiary Education Facilities Management Association (TEFMA), the Department of Defence and MasterSpec NZ.
The focus of discussions was on the poor transfer of BIM and Digital Engineering data from the construction cycle to the asset maintenance cycle. The intent of the discussions was to determine what needs to be done to improve the situation as well as identify the key players we need to influence to ensure that the Facilities Maintenance community get the building/project data they need to effectively manage their assets.
Your AM Council representatives presented our interest in the BIM/digital engineering space and also explained that our view of the asset life cycle being from identification of need through to dispose, rather than asset management starting once construction is complete. The conversation that started with transfer of building information models progressed to digital information and by the end of the round table the focus of the group was ensuring that the right asset information was available for decision making.
It is buildingSmart’s intention is to arrange a follow up workshops with other key industry representation to look at how the issues discussed may be best addressed.