UK's BIM Mandate Driving Major Shift in Digital Tools

摘要

Just a few years ago, "BIM" was just an acronym that meant little to most U.K. construction professionals. Now, building information modeling is the subject of increasingly crowded conferences up and down the country. What made the digital system such a hot topic is a U.K. government mandate saying that, by 2016, collaborative 3D BIM be deployed, with all project and asset information, documentation and data being electronic, on all centrally funded projects of any value. As a result, BIM is now "on the tip of everyone's tongue," says civil engineer Mark Bew. Since becoming chairman of the government's BIM Task Group in early 2011, Bew has made many presentations to audiences increasingly eager to understand their digital future. "To get where we are now is pretty good," adds Bew, saying the five-year BIM implementation plan is "aggressive but sensible."