HAVE YOU SEEN THE BIM DEADLINE?

摘要

One of the more surprising announcements in last month's Budget - though, it feels like, just about the only uncontroversial one - was chancellor George Osborne's commitment to the next phase of development of Building Information Modelling (BIM), so-called level 3. For those in the BIM-literate community this unexpected news somewhat stole the thunder from this spring's other big BIM development - the long-expected moment when the government's BIM mandate comes into effect, and it starts procuring all work using the technology. The culmination of a five-year journey which has revolutionised parts of the industry, this coming Monday - 4 April - is the date from which central government departments will have to start procuring in collaborative level 2 BIM (if they're not already).