Building Information Modelling (BIM) by Peter Caplehorn, UK Construction Products Association

well good afternoon everyone it's very very pleased to be here I'm going to talk about BIM we'll argue about what that means later on I'm gonna talk about digitalization and what the construction products association in the UK is doing yes brilliant just very quickly the construction products association in the UK we represent around 85% of product manufacturers in the UK and that's around three hundred three hundred and thirteen thousand jobs so a very big sector for the UK about fifty billion and we're very pleased that we have a very active membership and most of them are all interested in BIM which is which is great now the question that I'm going to pose to you in this slot is about the construction puzzle we have a situation where lots of things go on in construction lots of uncoordinated things lots of things which are meant to happen for actually at the end of the day they probably don't it's a case of making sense of this to achieve the buildings and the outcomes that we want and that really hardly ever happens we always have a situation where chaos reigns at some point in the production so how do we make this work better that's the challenge of digitalization currently in the UK industry we draw every project two and a half times and we construct it one and a half times that's a ridiculous amount of waste and it's something that we need to address and it's something I think that digitalization rather than BIM because it's a wider subject will actually tackle and get us to a good solution we are taking the initiative from other industries the car industry and the aviation industry long ago in the 70s considered that if they put the design in a computer if they test it in a computer if they emulate everything they can possibly do but most of all if they actually manufacture it in the computer and assemble it in the computer we take the bugs out we take the problems away and we can achieve reliability and that's the aviation and car industry that we've got today so why not buildings very straightforward proposition really think the key thing though is that certainly in the UK and I think across Europe we have a siloed industry and that's the thing that generates the confusion we have we have pockets of designers pockets of procurers pockets of contractors and pockets of clients and rarely do they talk and a meaningful level rarely do they communicate all the way through the project so that silo mentality has got to be broken down about ten years ago in the UK we started to consider what we could do about that silo problem on the screen now there is a plethora of documents and reports we're all used to those endlessly reading them and I've got another one for you at the end of this talk actually but that shows the progression from top left around in a circle of the key documents that were published to get us on the road to get us from a point of an industry which wasn't quite certain whether it should adopt any form of electronic work at all into an industry which is now actually moving to full digitalization and and that's a key element for the way we have progressed and gone forward each of those reports has taken us a step further to a completely integrated platform across the UK we mapped it out and and I hope your of you have seen this diagram before we mapped it out in terms of this ramp diagram as its called starting on the extreme left we're talking about paper drawings uncoordinated projects very very traditional ways of working and we started to chart that the potential of moving into a fully digitalized fully integrated industry in order to do that the the principle was to set out a number of a number of levels so we we have there on that diagram as it's nearly one that they're called phases but they soon morphed into levels we have level nor one level two level three the goal was set by the UK government to achieve general working on government projects at level two by last autumn and there was an earlier there was an earlier deadline of last April 2016 that was sort of achieved but it was never going to be Qi achieved fully because this is a big revolution this this is this is on par with the other revolutions I would suggest that we've talked about earlier but that but the key is to get everybody interested in what does this mean what is working at level two actually mean a common thing right across the industry now but it means that everybody's engaged it's got their attention it's moving things forward in the right direction we are now working very heavily to make sure that level two is embedded and we're also working on what is level three me and effectively level three is that future revolution that Tim talked about everything joined up everything talking to itself and possibly a load of machines that are much more intelligent than the rest of us and whether that's good or bad we will wait to see in the future but nonetheless the game is on if we take that diagram and add a little bit more detail and possibly I'm afraid you won't get to see it right the back but the lines at the bottom of the diagram are the supporting standards that were put in place in order to make this achievable the issue there is clearly when somebody is asked to make a step forward to join a revolution you say well how and I got am I going to do that and by putting in a whole load of standards the 1192 family as it's been come to come know those start to organize people's actions start to organize the way they will approach projects those same standards are now being rewritten in to send standards and they're now also being rewritten into ISO standards so that that starting journey is now starting to spread outwards from the UK and I know colleagues around the room everybody is interested in exactly how we take this forward using those standards part of this story is about how every building has a natural chronology and that chronology is probably best expressed in the Riv a digital plan of work that's up behind me that breaks down every project in into basically eight stages and those stages are crucial for the development running through from the initial inception that the client lays down right the way through to occupation and use that taking that standard and then applying it to a digital platform we see this diagram which is one of the early ones from PA's 1192 - which was the first clear standard on how BIM should operate in the UK draw your attention to the central bit which is the the the triangles there that's composed of three elements those three elements are the 3d graphical emulation of the building the central central bit is around the the digital information which is crucial in this process and the third bit is the legal unnecessary paperwork we have to have at this stage we haven't quite moved on where everything is joined up electronically but the key thing to to demonstrate at that point is the fact that them is not about cat it's not about 3d images it's about data first and foremost the data supports the 3d images and that is so important because it is the data that brings reliability is the data that joins up all the players in the conversation it's the data that gives us sense in terms of what will actually be built reliably reliably and in improved performance and with better health and safety and all those aspects that we're trying to drive for if I just focus a little bit there's a thing called Cobie which some of you might have heard of it came out of the States it was a way of actually organizing this data and making sure that it was it was adaptable and usable in construction and fit for purpose so what effectively we have is is a process of joining up the three graphic with the necessary legal documentation and that all-important data set and in future I'm sure that buildings and projects will be defined totally on the data will use the 3d graphics more as an illustration and a suggestion of what we're going to do this is to do with the sophistication of the software that we're actually using and the journey is really still on in how that works other advances that have taken this forward is the thing called the MBS BIM toolkit which which seeks to take that data and organize it through those stages of the project this is an example of how that works so at the early stages you want to say I want a radiator and I want it in that position in that room we're not really fast on what it is that's an early stage piece of data so it's very very simple so we don't actually overload everybody with lots of information moving forward in the process though we will want to add data we will want to add a level of detail and a level of information as it's called and this particular software takes the designers and takes the client through that journey this is this an early stage really at this process and it will get more sophisticated and we will start to develop things further I'm highlighting that ramp diagram again and showing you that the key bit the data runs right through the middle of it and that is so important if if you take away one thing from this particular slot that is BIM equals data that's the most important issue what are the what are the CPI actually doing about this because the the key issue going forward is that a lot of clients a lot of designers have joined up with the BIM movement and a lot of that has been running for quite some time the issue that's been missing is to join up product data so the the the construction products Association have collaborated with a number of key stakeholders and we are starting to work on one two projects one is lexicon come on to in a minute and the other is digital object indicators we've teamed up with NBS who did the toolkit and we've teamed up with British standards and we've come up with the the object indicator now that the short-form tutelary tell you all is that this is the ISBN number for building products so for all time a manufacturer can register an index which will take you back to an image international registry for that same product so never again are you running around trying to find out what sort of light bulb that is because you can identify it straight away this supports the whole of the bill movement i we have reliability we have certainty in terms of which product we're talking about so often products are substituted during construction or indeed products are just go out of production so therefore we need a process like this to make sure that we are talking the same language about the same products and the digital object indicator will will surely do that we are intending to launch this in the autumn and it will be a commercial system but nonetheless with lots of interest from all our members over how it will work cricket quick illustration this is the chaotic arena if you like in terms of how product information is passed around certainly in the UK industry but that's that's probably the same for Europe as well and then after we introduce a digital object indicator this probably it looks just as complicated but I assure you it's a lot more straightforward and a lot more accurate and more reliable I'll quickly now come on to our lexicon project and this is this is a journey we've we've been on for at least a couple of years and what this is trying to do as I said is bring together product information and make it machine readable and make it consistent across all projects this diagram on the screen attempts to show just what the difference in that process is likely to be last spring we published this document which was primarily written by Steve Thompson I mean embarrassing now and say it was a really good job that standard is now being turned into paws eleven ninety two seven and we hope that it will be the the basis of product data going forward so now the the issue with product data that lexicon addresses is how to make sure that all products use the same language and hence can be machine readable and how are all projects described in their in their data set in that all-important data and this is a analysis of how we start to break that down and we start to identify what other common factors it's far too small for you to read so basically this project has been running now for a little over a year we are on the edge of the launch software and what that will do is we will be able to allow all the companies in the construction Products Association first trial it and then the rest of the industry to take it on and what this will mean for them is that they can start to have common common definitions for things like length and height and width and density we can then have common data templates which are machine readable across whole sectors and it basically means that products then join the rest of the revolution within the BIM world and we hope therefore it will it will go on and start to create a real movement now one of the mechanisms that we are going to use is to join together sectors of the industry and call them relevant authorities who best to decide on the definitions and the data templates then parts of industry itself so that whole mechanism is going to be available on our website and we're going to encourage and we've already got lots of people interested lots of organizations who are who are actually beating down my door come and do this and get on with it so hopeful in the next few weeks this is going to this is going to be launched and I'm afraid this these slides are too wordy for you for you to see so I'm going to skip by them again putting a little relevant Authority together this is the process that we're going to use to make sure that everybody has a level playing field make sure we do not get into market squabbles and disputes to make sure that that we have sense and clear data I just also though wanted to look at the future because other speakers have done it as well from my perspective I think yes drones are essential for the future of construction we already have a load of projects in in the UK that have been set out and controlled using drones we've we've got virtual reality and augmented reality and those are the things that I think can have be used on-site very soon actually and linking straight back to the BIM model so that we can ensure that what we build is actually as accurate as we can get it before the machines arrive anyway and lastly I just want to say that to follow up on this we actually have a report which is a free download off of our website which is called the future for construction product manufacturing again a lot of it authored by Steve and that takes you into a much more detailed much longer journey than I've got time for and explains some of the detailed concepts that we think are going to emerge in this in this area and that's me thank you very much you

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Keywords: BIM, Building Information Modelling, construction, data management, architecture, technology, digital

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Length: 16min 51sec (1011 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 06 2017