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DEPARTMENTAL ENGAGEMENT AND SUPPORT OFFICER ACTIVITIES (1)

Department of Health &ProCure 21+ (P21+)

Environment Agency (EA) Anne Kemp & Phil Jackson

Richard Lane & Howard Jeffrey

• Richard presented at the IHEEM Healthcare Estates Conference & Exhibition

{ Adam Matthews }

{ Philip Isgar }

• Discussions on Common Data Environment for proposed early adopter project at Woodford

{ Anne Kemp }

{ Richard Lane }

Departmental Engagement and Support Officers Highways Agency (HA)

High Speed 2 (HS2)

Anne Kemp & Phil Jackson

• Meetings with IAM IS team and with the HA CAD Standards development team to work on convergence with the BIM Strategy

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Adam Matthews, Richard Lane, Simon Rawlinson, Anne Kemp

{ John Lorimer }

{ Nick Shaw }

{ Graeme Tappenden }

• HS2 BIM Strategy in development • Meetings with HS2 to prepare for Industry Day 5th November •

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DEPARTMENTAL ENGAGEMENT AND SUPPORT OFFICER ACTIVITIES (2) Nuclear Philip Isgar & Anne Kemp

{ Adam Matthews }

{ Philip Isgar } • Positive announcement by DECC regarding Hinckley Point • Contact with the ‘Nuclear Owners Group’ and DECC is being actively pursued. • The Nuclear Strategy for engagement with Department and Owners Group will be completed during the coming week. • Philip met Richard Coackley - Chair of the NIA - Construction Best Practice Group and has positive linkage with Cabinet Office GSL for NDA Property. • Philip will be attending the the NIA New Build Group event in Oxford w/c 28th October

{ Anne Kemp }

{ Richard Lane }

Departmental Engagement and Support Officers Local Government John Lorimer , Anne Kemp & Graeme Tappenden

{ John Lorimer }

{ Nick Shaw }

{ Graeme Tappenden }

Graeme presented at iESE SE Construction Framework Client Conference on the work of the iESE BIM Special Interest Group to ease iESE clients into Level 2 BIM. Good turn out - 100+, with can didates from a broad spectrum of iESE clients, contractors and consultants. Graeme met Hampshire CC to review HCC BIM and adopter projects. Meeting with project team(s) to review Level 2 progress and on individual projects agreed.

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Graeme & Richard Lane attended CIC BIM SW Group meeting. Well attended sub group - 60 mixed attendees - consultants, con tractors, suppliers. Presentations on ‘What is Level 2 BIM’, PAS1192-2 & The Common Data Environment for SMEs in particular. Competence seen as a key SME differentiator. SMEs were invited to apply to join the EEC funded SCEBE Future Fit Built Assets 5 BIM & GSL programme

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CORE TEAM MEMBER ACTIVITIES (1)

Adam facilitates a workshop @EU BIM Conference, in Brussels

Mark Bew Task Group – Chair

Mark facilitates a workshop @EU BIM Conference, in Brussels

EU / /International Development

Head of Departmental Delivery Adam Matthews

• Met with Bentley team to discuss the Bentley Events and communications • Core Team Meetings to discuss progress • IUK meetings to discuss infrastructure projects • HS2 Strategy development • ICE Conference (see separate Article) • University of Reading – Innovation Research Centre • HA Technical Planning • Brussels EU Innovation in Construction Conference (UK BIM Programme) • EU BIM Conference 13 EU states meet to discuss EU wide collaboration opportunities for public clients • EU Level 3 Opportunities discussion with Holland and Norway • UCL Level 3 design considerations • ICE BIM Action Group • E-Infrastructure Council discussions

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The UK BIM Task Group in conjunction with Norway’s Statsbygg team hosted a unique Construction event in Brussels this week to explore the potential for working with Building Information Modelling across the European public sector community.

• Departmental progress planning meetings • Assisted on the EU BIM Seminar, Brussels

Representatives from thirteen European countries and Singapore’s public client worked to understand the current EU wide state of BIM maturity, approaches to adopt BIM and aligned goals and aspirations. The commonality of the member state situations was striking, with many similar challenges and needs, which led to a proposed agreement to exchange ideas and collaborate on best practices to support our shared goals. The details of this collaboration and how it will work will be developed before the next planned meeting early in 2014. We look forward to bringing you more information in this exciting and important development in future news letters.

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CORE TEAM MEMBER ACTIVITIES (2)

David Philp Task Group (Core Team)

• Facilitated the BIM4Water workshop looking a client data needs and PoW • ISO Plenary meeting in Munich looking at global BIM standards • Chaired the ICE BIM Clients breakfast briefing • Various COBie for all planning meetings • Construction News CEO Summit • Various BIM4 meetings • Various academic briefings • Communication activities

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Tools associated with Government Soft Landings • Subsequent to the first meeting of the BSI steering group the second draft of PAS 1192 Part 3 has been completed and will be ready for public consultation in early November. • A learning outcomes framework has been produced to inform providers with regard to provision of training courses for GSL Champions. The framework is to be discussed with in-house civil service training providers to agree how it will be taken forward.

Government Soft Landings and government departments

• Recommendations have been produced with regard to the legal, contractual and commercial implications of Government Soft Landings. A government and cross-industry working group is to be assembled to agree what formal documentation may be required in this respect to support the implementation of GSL.

• Provided a GSL induction and overview for the team on the Environment Agency Woodford Flood Storage scheme. The Environment Agency are going to undertake a post project evaluation on a completed pumping station to inform the design of this new project. Work will also take place on clarifying outcomes and operational performance and maintenance requirements with the end users and maintainers. • Undertook strategic review of GSL with the Environment Agency and they are focussing on the development of their implementation plan for internal approval and sign off. • Attended a presentation by Ministry of Justice on their asset planning and target setting. Ministry of Justice have identified another Early Adopter project at the Liverpool Local Pris on refurbishment which has been used to inform and update their standard kitchen design. • Undertook a GSL review at the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) Norton Manor project. For this DIO used the GSL Plain Language Questions (PLQs). The GSL PLQs are provided to help the GSL Champion to ask the appropriate questions of the Client, Construction team and Operation team at each of the new government work-stages. The questions were used for Stages 5 and 6 of the project andproved helpful in identifying actions needed and progress. The early adopters are to test the usefulness of these questions as a support to GSL Champions and project managers • The link to these questions can be seen at: http://www.bimtaskgroup.org/gsl/gsl-champions-questions

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{ Rob Manning }

Events associated with Government Soft Landings • The ICE BIM Conference included a presentation entitled “Asset Management: The real savings from information management” which explored the uses and value of an asset information model within the broader asset information management system. It was noted that a number of people who represent asset owners were in the audience and the use of information modelling in operation is becoming a hot topic.

{ Deborah Rowland }

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CONGRATULATIONS TO DEBI! DEBORAH ROWLAND, HEAD OF FACILITIES MANAGEMENT AT THE GOVERNMENT PROPERTY CABINET OFFICE, HAS BEEN CROWNED 2013 FM OF THE YEAR AT THE ANUAL BIFM AWARDS AND GALA DINNER. “ Winning this award is something that I have worked towards for many years as you know I am passionate about FM and what it can achieve. It means a lot to me to be recognised by the industry that I work in and by people that I have had the pleasure to work with. I will not rest on my laurels having reached this goal, this will help me to further advance the FM industry in the development of the profession and I hope to be an ambassador for people who are already in FM or aspire to become an FM and will certainly use this to help continue promote the good work we are doing on BIM and GSL.” Deborah Rowland, head of facilities management at the Government Property Cabinet Office, has been crowned

2013 FM of the Year at the annual BIFM Awards and gala dinner. Rowland received her award in front of an audience of 1,300 at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.

Deborah Rowland is no ordinary FM. After all, how many in the profession can say they directly influence government policy decisions and have developed a revolutionary operating model with a UK-wide impact? But thanks to Rowland, it may not be long before we see similar success stories across the industry. For if ever there was a case for the value of FM, our 2013 FM of the year is it. Rowland was tasked with delivering efficiency savings across central government on facilities management, a high-spend category (to the tune of £3.2bn a year) in an organisation urgently working to reduce its budget deficit. Deborah Rowland receiving 2013 FM of the Year Award (with Ismena Clout, Chair of BIFM )

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Deborah Rowland is no ordinary FM. After all, how many in the profession can say they directly influence government policy decisions and have developed a revolutionary operating model with a UK-wide impact? FM WORLD WEBSITE www.fm-world.co.uk

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“Government has made clear the bulk of reduction will be achieved through [cuts] in spending,” Rowland said. “FM [can achieve] significant running cost efficiencies across the public sector estate. Never before has FM had so much focus in central government.” Rowland has not only provided the vision needed to review how FM is being delivered across the public sector, and indeed revolutionise the way in which it procures, manages and delivers its FM services nationally, but has also exerted the influence required to drive government departments to act as one customer and accept the benefits of central buying, standardisation and co-ordination. No easy task. The size and complexity of the estate, the number of stakeholders, the governance framework and the public scrutiny that accompanies spending of public funds also gives some idea of the scope of Rowland’s role. She has also focused on aligning construction with operation and asset management, leading a work stream within a government strategy to reduce the cost of construction projects by 15-20 per cent before the end of the current Parliament in 2015. From this, the Government Soft Landings concept arose, championing better outcomes for built assets during the design and construction stages and ensuring that value is

achieved in the operational lifecycle of an asset. Under her direction, the Government Property Unit’s FM team within the Cabinet Office is taking important steps towards ensuring buildings are designed, built and operated to match the real needs of their users. The project encourages responsibility for creating more productive and sustainable facilities. Rowland has even set up an FM industry group to consider the relationship between FM and building information modelling in more detail. It should come as no surprise that Rowland has excelled in her role, considering this FM’s exemplary CV. She has specialised in balancing cost and quality and producing tangible benefits for organisations as varied as KPMG, University of London, Sainsbury’s and The Pearl Qatar – an artificial island located offshore of the capital, Doha, and spanning nearly four million square metres.

As if that wasn’t enough, Rowland is also pioneering FM education and research, working with the Facility and Environment Management Board at University College London to join up university-based FM researchers and FM people in government departments. “I joined the civil service because I wanted to make a difference,” Rowland told FM World, and she has certainly done that. What other conclusion could the BIFM judges have come to other than pronouncing Rowland an “outstanding winner”? - Reproduced with kind wpermission of FM World which is published on behalf of the British Institute of Facilities Management - See the original article {LINK}

Rowland’s fearless approach to getting the job done is evident in her comments to FM World about the latter project: “I worked … with property professionals who had not worked with women before and had to employ many qualities to overcome this barrier.”

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The RIBA Plan of Work 2013 Toolbox by: Dr Stephen Hamil – Director of Design and Innovation at NBS This month the latest book associated with the RIBA Plan of Work 2013 was been published. ‘Assembling a collaborative project team’ is a practical look at how the project team can be brought together as a whole – client, design team and contractor. The book is authored by Dale Sinclair, who sits on the RIBA Practice and Profession Committee and is Director at Dyer. An accompaniment to the book is a ‘Toolbox’ spreadsheet that contains examples of the practical tools described in the book. This spreadsheet was developed by NBS following the principles defined in the book.

The commencement of a project is crucial because the decisions made by the client at that point in time have a fundamental impact on how the project team will be assembled. Two of the key questions are ‘Who is in the project team?’ and ‘What does the project team need to do?’. Answering both of these questions satisfactorily ensures that the best possible start to the project is achieved. Within Stage 1 of the RIBA Plan of Work, ‘Preparation and Brief’, two key tasks are defined

within the Procurement task bar, ‘Prepare the Project Roles Table and Contractual Tree and continue assembling the project team’. A number of key support tasks are also defined; these include agreeing the Schedule of Services, Design Responsibility Matrix and Information Exchanges. These tasks go some way to answering the ‘who’ and the ‘what’ questions that are so important the preparation and brief stage. An overview of three of these worksheets within the Toolbox is given on the following page:

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1. Project Roles Table The Project Roles Table allows for each of the roles that are required to be defined for each stage of the RIBA Plan of Work. In addition, through the use of spreadsheet pick lists, it is possible to define the parties that are participating in the project. The user may then define which party will undertake each role at each stage.

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2. Design Responsibility Matrix incorporating Information Exchanges At preparation and brief stage, the areas of design each party are responsible for at each stage can be defined. This provides clarity as to what deliverables are required, who will be delivering them and at what stage. At the preparation and brief stage, these can be defined in terms of the concept aspects of design (elements). As the project develops these aspects of design can become more precise to reflect the design solutions (systems and products).

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3. Multidisciplinary Schedules of Services The Schedule of Services ensures that all of the tasks set out in the RIBA Plan of Work 2013 are allocated to a party set out in the Project Roles Table. If appropriate, further tasks may be added and certain tasks may be allocated to another party. The parties in the Schedules of Services are those previously defined in the Project Roles Table for the particular stage and role.

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Dr Stephen Hamil

Director of Design and Innovation and Head of Building Information Modelling at NBS

Stephen has a particular interest in Building Information Modelling (BIM) and is one of those leading the work at NBS to change specification data from “words on a page” to “intelligent objects describing the building”.

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Stephen joined NBS in 1999 and has led the software development of products and services such as NBS Building, NBS Plus, NBS Scheduler and NBS Domestic Specification

The Toolbox may be downloaded for free from the RIBA Plan of Work 2013 website:

Prior to joining NBS, Stephen studied at Durham University. His first degree was in Structural Engineering followed by a PhD in the digital modelling of building structures.

At NBS, we are considering developing the tools in the Toolbox into applications that project teams can use online. If you would like to help influence these developments, then please consider joining our Beta Test Programme:

And finally, the Toolbox is best used in parallel with the detailed guidance in the book ‘Assembling a collaborative project team’ available at RIBA Bookshops.

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CIVIL AND INFRASTRUCTURE

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THIRD ICE BIM CONFERENCE by: Mark Bew and David Philp The third and largest yet ICE BIM conference, held on 16 October in Central London, was once again a sold-out gathering of the UK’s BIM community under the banner of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

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350 delegates heard presentations and case studies from, among others, BAM Nuttall, Mott MacDonald, Environment Agency, Atkins, and HS2. The programme focussed on end users, and drawing on the experiences of early adopters it aimed to guide the audience toward adopting BIM in such a manner as to truly derive value from its use.

where knowledge sharing and innovation can prosper; David Sibbitt from ASDA on their steps to BIM and how they have quantified their progress and success, Peter Trebilcock, from Balfour Beatty on the scalability of BIM; and Nick Tune from Building SmartUK on the pan-European, collaborative Energy Management KnoholEM project.

Particular highlights from the day included Andrew Watson from the Highways Agency, speaking on the role of the client in creating the environment

As well as the annual BIM conferences, ICE works throughout the year engaging with the engineering community and beyond in efforts to ensure that infrastructure assets benefit from the capabilities of systems we generally refer to as BIM ( Building Information Modelling).

Mark Bew MBE BIM Task Group Chair

The 350 delegates fill out the main hall

The spotlight was again on BIM for Civil & Infrastructure at the third and latest “ICE BIM Conference”, the biggest, brightest, most diverse and best yet. 350 industry professionals gathered at the Grange Tower Bridge to listen to the latest thoughts and experiences of key infrastructure clients, designers and suppliers. The progress made since the inaugural conference in 2011,

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Ultimately as the market looks to a brighter future the changes made by the shift to digital puts the UK in a strong position, but as many suppliers pointed out we haven’t solved all the problems, but the sight of much deeper collaborations across the sector to ensure improvement, the signs are good and as announced at the conference the UK Government has responded with agreement to support and sponsor the next “Level 3” generation, securing a continuing leadership position for the UK Industry.

We’ve come a long way since 2011

which was dominated by the two issues of “What is BIM?” and “What is the construction strategy?” has matured into developed client views and practical industry advice. Paul Morrells call to “Calm down dear!” has been heeded and the UK market has taken the opportunity for step change seriously and it is to their upmost credit. The example of what an “Intelligent” client looks like was well demonstrated through the presentations made by the Highways Agency, ASDA and Environment Agency. It is through continuing leadership such as this that not only will

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Prof. David Philp BIM Task Group the UK client base derive better assets and services, but we will build a competent, efficient and safe supply base. Additionally a new “Heat map” was published by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) capturing responses from across the membership. The heat map, illustrates the depth of awareness on BIM through a special green, amber and red heat graphic aimed to assess industry’s readiness for implementing Level 2 BIM by 2016. View the Heat map at: http://www.ice.org.uk/Information-resources/Document-Library/ ICE-BIM-Heat-Map-2013

In advance of the main conference, David Philp of the BIM Task Group, Chaired the Client BIM Breakfast Meeting. Fuelled by a fruit basket and some caffeine the early morning session was attended by key clients from both public and private sector covering: civil, infrastructure and built assets.

We’re now looking beyond level 2

Levels of BIM maturity were discussed with Terry Stocks and Bill Davis from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) describing their journey in terms of mobilising, implementing and imbuing Level 2 BIM within their department.

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time especially operational data – the importance of the geometrical model in the AIM varied from client to client. Overall a lively debate which emphasised that BIM is an important Client requirement no matter which part of the built environment your play in. The next ICE BIM will take place in October 2014 and will once more draw together the UK’s BIM community as a vital chance to come together, collaborate, crosscheck progress and continue forging the way for the UK’s BIM future.

“Heat map” reveals boost in BIM awareness Bill Davis (MoJ) categories their current BIM maturity

Encouragingly, whilst BIM had slightly different meanings and value propositions from the client perspective everyone was well into the BIM journey and saw the benefits that could be attained from collaborative working and the use of reliable digital data sets. The discussion included the changing behaviours enabled by BIM especially more Totex (total expenditure) consideration through data foresight.

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It was universally agreed that BIM should not be thought of in isolation and equally consideration should be given to creating the collaborative environment in which it can thrive in (choice of procurement route and contract were perceived as major factors). The importance of a good BIM brief (EIRs) were debated and the need to ensure right amount of data at the right

Civil engineers working across a number of key infrastructure sectors such as water, rail and power have a “very good” understanding of what Building Information Modeling (BIM) is and the benefits it can deliver, according to a new “heat map” published by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE). The heat map, which illustrates the depth of awareness on BIM through a special green, yellow and red heat graphic, is based on a recent anecdotal survey of ICE members aimed to assess industry’s readiness for imple-

menting Level 2 BIM by 2016. Results were encouraging with many participating members demonstrating awareness and understanding across a number of areas, including BIM’s potential in saving time and costs, improving operational efficiency and asset management and its role in delivering sustainable construction. The heat map however also featured some ‘red’ areas following the ICE survey, particularly around the detailed knowledge required to confidently deliver a BIM Level 2 project. Mark Bew MBE, Chair of Government’s BIM Working Group and an ICE BIM Action Group member, said: “Back in 2011, the most common question across industry was “What is BIM”. Encouragingly, now we are seeing much improved levels of awareness and understanding around what BIM can do. “There are however still some areas of concern – the understanding of data and classification systems are a particular area of the process that need support. But the fact that some sectors are making good progress provides some best practice examples and an opportunity to learn lessons and ensure support is focused. “ICE, through its BIM Action Group, is keen to support Government and our members in ensuring they are fully

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equipped for the digital switchover. The heat map provides us with useful evidence to help us map out our next steps effectively – including where we need to be collaborating more and exactly where help and guidance is needed. “In addition to the heat map, we have also worked with other key stakeholders to produce a paper ‘Leveraging the Relationship between BIM and Asset Management’, explaining the mutually-supportive relationship between BIM and Asset Management. The two should not be isolated practices, they must be considered together to realise the full benefits for all concerned.” He added. The detailed findings of the heat map will be further analysed by ICE’s BIM Action Group in the coming months.

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S! by: Nigel Fraser This month Nigel Fraser took time out of his work with West One Management Consulting to hold the sixth Construction Rocks event in support of LandAid. The event was conceived with Bill Price of WSP and has become a regular feature in the construction sector’s social calendar. Bands representing construction related companies or major projects compete for a day in a recording studio. This year’s overall winners were Passiv Attack from Levitt Bernstein. The best newcomers trophy went to the CATS from Catalyst Housing and the best fundraising prize went to Mr Meaner representing Cluttons. The event has raised almost £60,000 since it started. With around 400 people involved this year, in the dramatic arches known as The Vaults under Waterloo Station, it proved to be one of the best so far! Look out for it next year - you may even want to compete! See www.constructionrocks.com Photography courtesy of: www.nicolalynphotography.com

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COBie FOR ALL:

REQUIRED INFORMATION FOR FACILITY OWNERSHIP (BUILDINGS AND CIVIL / INFRASTRUCTURE)

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COBie For All Document available via the Labs

“COBie for all” is a project that has taken a close look at the technical issues surrounding the structural storage of data for both buildings and infrastructure. The work already done by the BIM Task Group has delivered a UK specific COBie (COBie-UK-2012) (based and compliant with COBie 2.4). The work of the “COBie for all” team is resourced in a joint team of BIM Task Group, Bentley Systems, HA, HS2 and Crossrail who posed the question;

COBie is pivotal to connecting the delivery and operational stages of the asset life-cycle and ensuring a vehicle for tested data exchanges from the BIM environment. As a formal schema it has been universal enough that it can be used to document Buildings and Infrastructure assets; however the terminology and the lack of geospatial / linear focus has led to the development of the “COBie for All” report outlining how COBie can be used to exchange information about Civil / Infra-structure projects and how COBie could to be extended to further support such projects. Mark Bew, Chair, BIM Task Group comments: When we designed the concept of Level 2 BIM as a key stepping stone on the journey to the interoperable digital economy of Level 3 and beyond, we identified the need for a straight forward data structure that could be simple enough to be understood, but comprehensive enough to be useful. Our goals were to not only allow the effecThe age old divide between our buildtive transfer of information between ings and civils businesses stretches the supply chain and client, but also to from culture to language, but as the UK provide training and awareness of the leads the way to the digital economy, principles of shared data to the 1.9 milconstruction as a whole sector has to lion people employed in our industry. lead the way to a new collaboration between disciplines so we can continue As the BIM program has developed and to deliver ambitious integrated hybrid gathered pace to its 2016 target of all programmes such as HS2, Crossrail public sector projects being delivered and Thames Tideway. Nowhere is this using Level 2 BIM, the need to integrate need to share greater than in the creabuilding and infrastructure has become tion, use and storage of data. more and more obvious.

‘’Will COBie Work for Infrastructure?’’ The work initially identified 15 ‘’issues’’ all of which are described in this document (see download instruction below). The solutions and explanations derived satisfied the team sufficiently to say ‘’we think it will’’. So to test these findings, five “Use Cases” or scenarios have been developed to test our work. IMPORTANT NOTE: This draft manual and downloads available from the ‘Labs’ area of the BIM Task Group website (www.bimtaskgroup.org) are for educational use and comment only. They are not yet available for production use and should not be used for contract use. This document is technical in nature and is not aimed at Lay Users but Design and Data Professionals. Please comment at www.bimtaskgroup.org/comments

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