BIM - How to get started?

How can 3D BIM software improve the

productivity of your construction projects?

The global construction industry has a

productivity problem vs other industries

Source: Branz Study report 2017 Productivity in the construction industry

Agriculture

Energy & Waste

ConstructionManufactoring

In 2018 …. the construction industry holds the dubious honor of having the lowest productivity gains and has the lowest level of digitalization of any industry ….. according to McKinsey.

More risk

More complexity

Less experience

Project complexity

Workforce experience

More risk

The root causes explained by the different industry

players

SOURCE: McKinsey Global Institute analysis

External forces

Industry Dynamics

Firm level operational

factors

• Increasing focus on the environment and to document the companies environmental footprint• The digital infrastructure “is built” and the digital trends hit the society :

• Cloud based server structure – low transaction costs & “affordable” Machine learning /AI• iOT, sensors and tracking • UX /UI / AR – sexy and user friendly software is a “must have”• Mobile devices & “collaboration platforms”

• Retirement ….. How to attract talents ?…. A new generation (digital skilled talents)• Extensive regulation, land fragmentation, and the cyclical nature of public investment• Informality and potential for corruption distort the market • Increasing project and site complexities• Construction is opaque and highly fragmented• Contractual structures and incentives are misaligned• Bespoke or suboptimal owner requirements

• Design processes and investment are inadequate• Poor project management and execution basics• Insufficiently skilled labor at frontline and supervisory levels• Industry underinvests in digitization, innovation, and capital• Lack of digital knowledge

Source: McKinsey

The construction sites today…..

Planning Drawings in the barrack

On-site workA BIM kiosk

Morning meeting on site

BIM kiosks on site

Changes will take place !

Paper Drawings 2D CAD &

Digital drawings

3D CADBIM

VDC

Simulation, AR & VR

AutomationRobotics

2010 – 2011- 2012……….

2017 – 2018 - 2019……….

Source: Autodesk

UK construction Strategy

2025

• Reduce costs

• Build faster

• Be kind to environment

• Improve exports

How to get from where you are

today to where you want to be

tomorrow?

Explore

Understand

Develop

Persue

You should start searching for

«your catalyst» for change

• Project Management and communication are more important skills than being

a technical expert of BIM

• Sexy intuitive 3D software will attract people to «Get started»

• Purchase software which support the open standards (IFC & BCF) and from

software having the collaboration mindset (proprietary formats are expensive

to maintain)

• Don’t be afraid to “Get started” and try not to worry about doing mistakes. You

don’t need to make everything right the first time, but you have to be passion

enough to implement a culture for improvement

• Start using agile work processes and involve people with relevant knowledge in the

planning phase (also those with knowledge on how to build a building”

• Tear down the “Berlin wall” & change the legal contracts !

Catalysts for change – how, what,

whom?

Start recruit talents !!

“The construction industry is criticized for being wasteful, adversarial, fragmented, dominated by single disciplines, reluctant to innovate and poor at disseminating knowledge, and despite numerous attempts to improve efficiency, poor performance still persists”

Source: https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk

…but is the industry´s reputation good enough to recruit the best talents?

How do you then plan to welcome the talented digitalized sharing generation ?

SMEs a cathalyst for change ?In most countries; 99.9% of the construction contracting businesses are SMEs

A small company can implement changes faster, more efficient and with less “noise” than a big company but if they don’t move forward nowthey might be ending up closing down their businesses due to lack of willingness to change”

A big company will still need small local companies as sub-contractors and will prefer those who deliver the best quality and the best price…….and those companies are those which are able to attract the best talents, adopt to a digital mindset and use software they can integrate into their own software solutions.

Build your future value chain and team with subcontractors today and start practise !

Then this team learn to trust each other, work efficient together and create higher margins for each other and you have a lot of work to do, because you will win all the tenders you bid for!

Common Data Environment

• Shared information reduces time and costs

• Ownership of information remains with the originator

• The project team can generate multiple documents from different combinations

of files

• Version control and easy distribution provides everyone with up-to-date

information

• Others can use information for downstream activities

• Information is safe and secure

• Information can be archived

• Instantaneous ; reduces costs and saves time

• Dispersed team can work together regardless of where they’re basedCommon Data Environment = User friendly Open BIM availabe on all devices!

Open BIM is not only about technical

standards and software – it is also a

process …

• Coordinating project information so that everyone has the most up-to-

date version of the accurate and specific information they require for

their next task

• Communicating at the earliest opportunity; when a member of the

project team sees an issue with constructability, highlighting the problem

before it reaches sites and before it impact other design work carried out in

parallel

• Reducing duplication of effort or abortive work by communicating

decisions or analysis to the whole project team

• Interoperable (exchange data no matter which software the data

comes from) vs proprietary which is expensive to maintain and support and

develop )Building + Information + Modelling = Process + People + Platform

An Open BIM road map begins with software

but first you need the people in place to make

the road map and to oversee the journey.

No journey is going to happen by itself. Just

buying software and making it available is no

different from dumping a whole lot of animals

in the office and expecting people (who?) to

ride them (how?) to get somewhere (where?).

Open BIM is quietly changing the

world …

Source: Duke Long

"As a very user-friendly software for collaboration and for distribution of information, based on open BIM, StreamBIM will play a key role and will impact the on-going discussions within the construction industry

about efficiency improvements and digitalisation”

Bjørnar Markussen from Aas-Jakobsen and BIM coordinator for Avinor and the new terminal at Oslo Airport Gardermoen

IFC

BCF

For collaborationbetween software

• Design• Defects / Errors• QA on the site• Handover - ”As built” - Cobie

Most of the digitalization in the construction industry takes place in the design and planning phase…..

…but the construction industry is project based, it is complex and it includes many phases, and the industry needs to disrupt the whole value chain..

… include all phases, also the build and operate phase where the planning is executed, and the values are created.

Some software can help you to lower

your entry barriers and Get started

today!

• Support the open formats and easy to integrate in other software

• Design based innovation - Very user-friendly!

• Web application - cross platforms & standard devices

• Processes huge IFC models very quickly and give the team updated documents and models instant

• Data streaming (instant – available and cost efficient)

• Easy to collaboration with affordable prices: – No payment per user – fixed price per month!

User-friendly 3D BIM software on cross

platforms

“I would not be surprised if we save more than NOK 10 million for just printing and distributing paper drawings. We have more than 200 drawings, which are updated every second week. We are talking about 25,000 drawings over a five-year period. Then you can add costs for travel, building error, saved time etc…

I don’t think it would be possible to put a total value on implementing such user-friendly software. I only know for sure that no one wants to go back to the way we did this before,”

Kristian Brandseth, the Project Manager at the new hospital in Bergen

The new hospital in Bergen BUS 2

• Have to be a very intuitive and user-friendly collaboration platform available from any device. StreamBIM is the best software we have tested out.

• No hidden support or maintenance costs. StreamBIM charge one price per project and there is no additional payment related to activity, number of users, support requests nor feature / product upgrades.

• Have to be able to include value for the users on site. StreamBIMhelps us to execute our digital strategy and to transform our business model towards a fully digital construction process because they have been able to involve the site users.

StreamBIM is amazing and I am proud to tell that StreamBIM delivers on all parts,says Cato Hoel, BIM Manager at Backe AS in Norway (one of the main contracting company in Norway)

These were our criteria for evaluation a platform software:

“We especially like to see how quickly we were able to process the BIM models and the very intuitive way Rendra AS have made StreamBIM, it is so easy to use. You do not need to be an ICT specialist to understand how to use this software and to learn how to extract important information, you just figure it out yourself. This is why we use StreamBIM and why StreamBIMhas become so popular within our projects, he says.

Örn Erlendsson, Environmental Project Manager and

BIM Contact, FSR

FSR has been using StreamBIM under extreme weather conditions on Iceland

Sykehusbygg has been

using StreamBIM to

build several hospitals in

Norway

“We needed a solution with a super easy user interface on all devices because we have many experts on how to build a building but not all of them want to start using BIM software and Rendra has managed to create a very intuitive software providing both drawings and processed 3D BIM in the same interface, also for huge buildings”

Lars Abrahamsen, Project manager at Sykehusbygg

The tool box need to be renewed!

…. because the future construction site has already arrived to a construction site near YOU……

So can we fix the construction industry ?

YES WE CAN

If you want to…

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