BIM in Health 2010 Seminar

This seminar is designed to inform the industry of the adoption of BIM in the health design and construction sector.

Speakers include Jane Carthey, Director CHAA - health facility guidelines , UNSW, Robert Rust, CEO Health Infrastructure, NSW - client, Darren Tims, Rice Daubney - architects, Andrew Bagnall, GHD - service engineers, Paul Nunn, Laing O’Rourke building contractor, Russell Lowe, FBE, UNSW - gaming expert, and John Mitchell, Chairman, buildingSMART - Built Environment BIM standards organisation

Russell Lowe adds a novel component to the discussion with a simulation work practice in clinical spaces (image above) using a gaming engine with a model derived from the BIM database.

Many significant national and individual organisational issues need resolution. For example a major stumbling block is the limited availability of product data in a form suitable for use in health facility models. Already many firms have built libraries from scratch at significant cost, with results that fall short of the rich information needed for full performance analysis, product specifications and asset management and only apply to their software and not to all of the partners of their projects. 

For health projects an additional library of equipment is also needed that should be supplied by these specialist product manufacturers. 

How can we improve the usefulness of the AusHFG - currently used mostly as a hardcopy resource and only possible to be adapted for BIM by a tedious, error prone, manual, organisation by organisation, transcription of the text. We can develop open format AusHFG data in model format - should this be a strategic goal?

Clients, owners, government agencies at all levels need to procure and manage better over the whole facility life-cycle. The issue is not just for the design and construction phase, it is also those who are responsible for urban infrastructure such as Councils for example. 

How will BIM guidelines support the special needs of health facility planning? What are the clients information needs to support asset management. What are the technical standards to be applied to health facilities and are they state or national standards? 

This seminar will focus on how BIM applies to the complex area of health facility planning, construction and management. Of all the building types, health buildings represent one of the most challenging development tasks.

Date: 23th June 2010, Gonski-Levi Theatre, Law Building (F8), UNSW, 5pm-7:30pm