National BIM Roadmap 2012
The key objective of the roadmap is to coordinate the many activities amongst the industry groups working with adopters of BIM in Australia, which unless coordinated, have the potential to be overlapping, or a duplication of resources, technically different and incompatible, and not comprising a complete enough solution that will benefit the Australian Construction sector.
Many private organisations and Government agencies have interests in the National BIM Roadmap and will identify stakeholders to ensure a representative position is taken across the industry in Australia. This will not only include direct BIM users, but also take into account Local Government, the need for coordination with the Infrastructure sector, government agencies such as major facility procurers - Defence, Health, Housing - and agencies responsible for Geo-spatial data, land information etc.
The recent buildingSMART International and ISO TC59/SC13 joint meeting in Singapore (held on 19-22 September 2011) identified a strong international consensus for the development of globally common standards, classification and work practice. Notably - nominated by 8 international chapters of buildingSMART - was the need for global building product data standards to ensure the next step in BIM implementation was a success, and global work practices and information standards aligned.
Sustainability and Life Cycle Assessment (undertaken by ALSA and BPIC) are moving to a new phase which needs integration with BIM technology and new formats for product data information.
The role of Commonwealth agencies with a sustainability objective will be a priority as the industry matures in its use of BIM and moves to using the technology to analyse and measure building performance. Nationally consistent and coordinated solutions are needed to have clarity about assessment tools, availability of building data and evidence based measurement that delivers transparent processes for industry and government.
Client groups such as APCC, PCOA, GBCA and the development industry will also be canvassed to get their requirements and support.
Stakeholder Forums
These will be held in each capital city. The forum will be a half day session, with participants invited from all sectors and interests, coordinated by a State correspondent.
Attendees to each forum will be issued with the Key Issues Paper to provide a clear briefing for the Forum.
The Roadmap will comprise:
- the status of BIM related activities within Australia and in the International context
- current activities and their relationship to the National BIM Roadmap, in the context of potentials for innovative and sustainable design, advanced supply chains and manufacturing, enhanced facility performance and optimised facility management
- the roles of Government agencies as client, regulator and innovator
- the status of educational programs to strengthen skills development across the current professions and trades, new programs for TAFE and Universities
- recommendations on how coordination is to be achieved between all relevant activities
- identification of extra resources required to deliver the National BIM Roadmap
- development of a budget & timetable for the BIM Program
Outline Program
The timetable is to hold workshops in February 2012, follow through with the Roadmap description and the delivery of the final report at the end of March 2012.
- Inception and Stakeholder Survey - January 2012
- Key Issues Paper - beginning February 2012
- Industry Stakeholder Forums
- Workshops - February 2012
- Obtain consensus - late February 2012
- Roadmap Business Case Proposal - March 2012
- Peer Review - end March 2012.
More detail will follow.
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