BIM – Academic Research

Challenges & and

Professional Bodies

Professor Charles Egbu PhD FRICS FCIOB FAPM FHEA FRSA

The University of Salford, UK

Academic and research needs and

challenges

BIM, KM and PM

Challenges and opportunities – individual

and organisational

What BIM means for PM’s – professional

bodies (APM) - and ethical issues

Presentation Coverage

Attitudes, behaviours, cultures and

implementation - different strategies for

communication.

BIM Education: BIM in the academic

design studio; student visualization; teaching

sustainable building; learning cycle of

students/graduates and the industry

expectations (BIM Academic Forum – BAF) -

BIM aware; BIM focused; and BIM enabled

education; and having BIM -ready graduates

BIM - Its economic implications

Political and social implications:

How technologies change and

mediate interactions across the

networks of workers that become

involved as multiple parties collaborate

Strategic Use of BIM and Clients’

Perspectives: The provision of a practical

guide and an understanding of the client role in

different models of practice (Heightened

consideration in BIM Level 3 Definition)

BIM and Whole Life Thinking: The

synthesis of data from data capture, modelling

and GIS, and that examine data over the life-

cycle of buildings and infrastructure assets.

BIM to develop new techniques for

safety compliance checking as well as

consideration of safety in design.

Project, Programme, and Portfolio

Control and Management.

Integration of knowledge and the

interoperability of systems connections

- between geographic information

systems (GIS) and BIM.

Lessons learned in BIM.

Reducing the loss of knowledge that

will have negative impacts on BIM

design and collaborations

“Processing data (and some aspects of information) can be

performed by machine, but only the human mind can process

knowledge.”

Jesse Shera in Machlup and Mansfield’s

The Study of Information: Interdisciplinary

Messages. NY: Wiley, 1983.

BIM, KM and PM

The key to knowledge creation lies in the way knowledge is being mobilized and converted through technology

BIM has some tools to store and

manage explicit knowledge. But

there is real challenge with regards

to tacit knowledge

TACIT TO TACIT

(SOCIALIZATION)

e.g., Individual and/or Team

Discussions

TACIT TO EXPLICIT

(EXTERNALIZATION)

e.g., Documenting a Team

Meeting

EXPLICIT TO TACIT

(INTERNALIZATION)

e.g., Learn from a report

and Deduce new ideas

EXPLICIT TO EXPLICIT

(COMBINATION)

e.g. Create a Website from

some form of explicit

knowledge; Email a Report

Building information modeling and model

generation is an evolutionary process, and it

is critical to capture knowledge in this

process from one stage to another.

knowledge management is currently a

stand-alone process - separated from BIM

implementation. What if knowledge, the

refined information, is integrated into BIM?

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BIM that takes a particular disciplinary

or professional perspective

BIM - Professional interactions -

understanding the changes in roles that

accompany BIM.

Architecture (use BIM in architectural

practice)

Quantity Surveying and Cost Estimating

Civil Engineering ( BIM in transport, bridge

construction and subways)

Facilities Management (Asset Management

and Whole life cycle management)

Project Management

Etc.....

“A world in which all

projects succeed” (APM)

Working to the PAS 1192-2 Process and the

Digital Plan of Work ( BSI, 2013)

BIM Level 2: planning, coordination,

communication and auditing:

BIM Level 3: “The Integrator Role” and the

Project Manager

BIM in Body of Knowledge (BoK) and in Competence

Frameworks (CF) ??

A balanced Approach is Needed!

Project Management – Hard and Soft

Tools/Techniques

Hard PM Soft

RICS BIM Manager Certification:

“To assure contractors, consultants and

investors that the professionals and firms

delivering construction and infrastructure

projects have the relevant knowledge,

experience and skills to implement BIM at an

industry tested and approved level”.

How will BIM be used post 2016?

- To add value to the value chain or as a

marketing tool?

- How will organisations and

professional bodies manage ethical

issues of the “BIM Practitioner”?

- How will the “industry” manage the

proliferation of certification and training

programmes?