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buildingSMART Australasia is formally accrediting three postgraduate university programs in Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) offered by Bond University on the Gold Coast. The Postgraduate Certificate courses are made up of industry-friendly micro-credentialled subjects that have been offered since June 2019. A Postgraduate Diploma and a Masters degree in the topic area are also available. Eligible candidates can complete the Masters degree in one year. These programs were launched following extensive industry engagement and the program offering has been specifically designed to address the professional and skills requirements of the contracting, construction, design, architecture, engineering, infrastructure, and facilities management industries. Of special interest to contractors will be the included coverage of lean construction (an approach to minimising waste across a number of areas). buildingSMART Australasia have advised Bond University on market requirements and the manner in which BIM should be taught to achieve optimum outcomes for project owners. “Our accreditation experts were impressed by the thoroughness of the Bond University programs’ preparation, the scope, breadth of coverage, structure and the emphasis on practical application of knowledge. They also noted the obvious enthusiasm, level of expertise, experience and academic qualifications of the teaching staff.” — David Mitchell, Chairperson, buildingSMART Australasia. In response, Bond University Professor Alan Patching advised that “These programs, and in particular the micro-credentialled subjects, represent a prime example of Bond University’s commitment to meeting the changing needs of government and industry.” Recently state governments of Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland have committed to spend a collective $200 billion on new construction and infrastructure projects over the coming five years. A significant number of these projects are to be delivered under a BIM framework. This is an outstanding opportunity for industry professionals to become qualification-ready. To learn more about the accredited programs please click here, or for further details contact Sean Johnson (Bond Uni) at +61 (0)7 5595 1105.

At the recent Construction Innovation 2019 Forum, David Mitchell – Chairperson of buildingSMART Australasia – gave an update to announce a Memorandum of Understanding between the Air Conditioning & Mechanical Contractors’​ Association of Australia and buildingSMART Australasia which compliments our MoU with GS1 Australia The MoU will help design to as-built and design to fabrication workflows and product identification using: BIM-MEPAUS standards – for design, construction and fabrication workflows openBIM (.ifc) standards – for information exchange, via IFC mapping files created to export BIM-MEPAUS data sets as IFC files GS1 standards – for product identification Further, additional benefits include trace-ability and product authentication to: Check products against specifications Identify recalled products Minimise product failures We’re also pleased to announce that BIM-MEP AUS has come on board as a Supporting Organisation of the Future Infrastructure Summit in Melbourne and Brisbane, alongside Digital Built Environment Institute.

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On the occasion of John Mitchell’s stepping down from the Board of buildingSMART Australasia (bSA) after 22 years at the 2019 Annual General Meeting in December, we want to acknowledge some of the key events where John has been instrumental in the adoption of openBIM in Australasia… John was the first architectural practitioner in Australia to apply BIM technology using BDS (mainframe-based 3D building modelling software from ARC Cambridge, UK) to document the Kyogle Hospital project in around 1978. Even prior to that John contributed to the work of ACADS (Association for Computer Aided Design) throughout the 1970s and early 1980s. He went on to present the full Darling Harbour Development Plan modelled in GDS at the first World GDS User Conference in Cambridge, UK in 1988. Throughout the late 1970s and 1980s, John was also actively involved with the Computer Advisory Committee of the Australian Institute of Architects, promoting the early adoption of CAD and later BIM in Australia. In 1983 John gave a presentation at the ACADS conference in Brisbane above the Sportman’s Hotel in Spring Hill. Current bSA Chairperson, David Mitchell, attended as a 1st year cadet QS. John’s presentation included a demonstration using the mainframe computer which was about the size of a dish washer. John was instrumental in establishing the Australian Chapter of the fledgling International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI) on 27 September 1997 with $300k funding from the Federal Government initiated by the CSIRO, who provided admin support for the Chapter through those formative years. He has been on the Board (generally as Chair) ever since that time, with the exception of a 3-year period (2001-2004) when he worked for Graphisoft in Hungary. He helped organise the IAI international Technical Meeting (ITM, now referred to as Summits) in October 2001 in Sydney, hosted by IAI-AC. John helped disseminate the benefits of interoperability to an influential audience in the early days when he acted as master of ceremonies in the ‘Seeing is Believing’ collaboration demonstration in Oslo in 2005. He helped organise the buildingSMART International Council Meeting in Brisbane in November 2007 (IAI became buildingSMART in 2005). John was instrumental in delivering the report to the Built Environment Innovation and Industry Council (BEIIC), “Productivity in the Buildings Network: Assessing The Impacts of Building Information Models” (29 October 2010) which became known as the Economic Study. John led the planning of the buildingSMART MESH conference in Mar/Apr 2011, which then led to the development of the National BIM Initiative (NBI) planning document published in August 2011. John worked tirelessly in subsequent years up to around 2015 trying to engage with the Australian Government to adopt the NBI. In 2017 at the buildingSMART International Standards Summit in Barcelona, a new Fellowship status was launched to recognise the voluntary contributions of 18 buildingSMART members and officers – past and mainly present – from around the world. The first tranche of awards celebrated the founding of buildingSMART (then called IAI), and those honoured, including John, were instrumental in its creation and in setting up their own chapters. In recent years, the focus of bSA has switched to promoting state-based BIM initiatives and providing industry education and training through workshops, seminars and conferences. John has been a strong supporter of that work, but also initiated and led a bSI Model Setup project, developing guidelines for handling large-scale projects using BIM, particularly in relation to mapping between BIM Cartesian coordinates and geodetic coordinates used typically in geospatial modelling. In “retirement”, John wishes to focus his efforts on “solving real-world challenges through the hands-on application of IFC” … getting back to the implementation of BIM in real projects. Thank you John, from the current buildingSMART Australasia Board (David Mitchell, Chris Penn, Jim Plume, Holger de Groot, Mark Fairbairn, Jon Mirtschin, Eric Bugeja, Don Cameron), bSA personnel (Aaron Watts and Audrey Flemming), on behalf of the many board-members you have worked with over the years, and our industry. It’s been a pleasure and we wish you the very best of luck in your future endeavours.