Unstoppable BIM

摘要

Five years ago, the government announced its plan to drive construction to take up Building Information Modelling, putting it at the heart of a grand project for the UK to "get full value from public sector construction" and to replace the industry's "adversarial cultures with collaborative ones". In case it had somehow escaped your attention, the centrepiece of that drive so far - for BIM level 2 to be required on central government construction projects - is due to come into force on Monday. So, after half a decade of pressure, persuasion and investment, how successful has the initiative been?