DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE BUILDING INFORMATION MODEL

Prior embarking on execution of this assignment the Project Management Team conducted the Gap Analysis of the Engineering processes. The scope of the analysis included all the Engineering disciplines across Company branches nationwide and Liefa Architectural services and their respective processes, human resources and infrastructure.

The following were main findings and related risks of the conducted Gap Analysis:

 

  • Lagging of the Company current design and development processes behind the leading operational trends within the industry imposing risk on Company operational effectiveness and ability to successfully compete in meeting Customer ever changing requirements. Subsequent consequence may be decline and potential loss of the current market share.
  • Lack of application of best practice and competitive tools and methods to design and development processes leads to weakening competitiveness within the industry and subsequently to diminished opportunity to enter lucrative markets nationally and internationally
  • Lack of provision of adequate work infrastructure and environment for further professional development of the engineering staff leads to inability to retain critical human resources and loss of competitiveness and sustainability of the Company operation in future.

 

The Project Management Team perceived these findings rather as an opportunities for improvements than the threat to achieving defined business requirements and based its proposal that the Company embarks on the well-structured and well-controlled process of development and implementation of the Building Information Modeling (BIM) environment for its engineering processes on this premise.

In preparing proposed solution, the Project Management Team took into consideration the following:

 

  • BIM represents the future of construction industry. Most of the governments of the developed countries already require that the organisation have achieved, as a minimum, the level 2 of its BIM maturity to be able to tender for public contracts.
  • Well recognised benefits of working in BIM environment such as; ssignificant improvement of productivity, significant reduction of rework, reduction of conflicts and changes during construction, timely detection of clashes, reduction of time and costs etc.

It is important to understand that the implementation of BIM is a strategic decision and significant phase of change that is to come in the built environment industry. This does not come with an insignificant expense; the expense is not limited to new technology tools and programs, data storage and information security costs only but also training and engagement costs for staff. Currently, the Project Management Team, together with the reputable external services provider Modena AEC is mainly engaged with implementation of the BIM Competence Program for all the Engineering staff of the Company. By now, all the planned activities are executed on time, within agreed budget and scope.

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