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Are they ready yet? – Delivering the Level 2 BIM tools
As you will no doubt have seen the UK Government has refined its BIM Level 2 requirements over past months and now describes them in terms of compliance with a number of documents and tools (see...
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Using Robotic Total Stations to drive down the cost of construction
Since the days of the Latham report in 1994 there has been a desire to cut the cost of construction, mainly by finding more efficient ways of doing things. Of course, there will always be people who...
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Nearly there – delivering the Level 2 BIM tools. Will they be what we were...
We are just a few weeks away now from the first deliverables from the Innovate UK’s competition to deliver the last two key components of UK BIM Level 2 – a digital plan of work (dPoW) and an...
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BSRIA BIM Network event review – Delivering the Level 2 BIM tools
BSRIA’s BIM Network focusses on bringing particular issues around BIM to its members in an informal environment. As part of this mission, it has previously held two events specifically looking at the...
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The Building Services/Engineering ‘BIM Readiness’ Survey
BSRIA is delighted to be supporting a sector-wide BIM survey which has been launched by the Electrical Contractors’ Association (ECA), alongside the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers...
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Goodbye BIM… Hello digital
When BIM first reached the masses in about 2010 it was exciting: finally the construction industry wakes up to the 21st century and embraces the ability of computers to take on our more mundane tasks...
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The practicalities of classification in a BIM Level 2 environment
I first raised the issue of classification in the BSRIA blog back in March 2014 – my, how time flies. As you would expect (or at least hope) things have moved on and there are some issues within the...
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BSRIA’s Model Format for Building Services Specifications and UniClass 2015
To reflect the importance of specifications in the construction process, in 2015 BSRIA published its guide BG 56 Model Format for Building Services Specifications. The guide stressed the need to...
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BSRIA and our approach to BIM
As part of an upcoming BIM blog series following on from the Open BIM REC webinar series BSRIA answered the following questions. What has been the key to your success with BIM? The key to a successful...
View ArticleShift in Construction Technology for a ‘post-Covid, pre-vaccine’ era
Two thirds of surveyed construction companies rolled out new technology during the lockdown, with 94% of these seeing an improvement to productivity and teamwork. However, what exactly are these...
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