BIM: The UK Government

Strategy
David Philp – Head of BIM Implementation
Cabinet Office, UK Government

UK Government Strategy Task Group

BIM: A global conversation / Learn
from others (especially other sectors)
Customers not getting the
outcomes they need / wanted?
BIM: A way of working
A smart way of thinking (“start to start”, not cradle to grave)

Purpose driven
BIM
Q: will it make the boat go faster?

Define the purpose Live the purpose

Start with the end in mind, will it 
give the customer a better asset?
It’s not a silver bullet Give us
Some BIM
Voodoo

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Keep it simple; our
hypothesis is:
BIM
Government as a client
can derive significant
improvements in cost,
value and carbon
performance through
the use of open
sharable asset information
 You need to win 
hearts and minds!

“Son, we’ve been doing this for 30 years.

If there were a better way,
We would have had found it by now!”
BIM Have clear drivers

Integrate you
&#@***’s!
Digital Design Digital Toolset Digital Construct

Understanding
and surety The Risk Managed

Client Better business /

Data for
decision making B.I.M social outcomes

Asset rehearsal / Prize A better business

models
option analysis
Wake up the industry!

Offering new efficiencies

Helping win work
Darwin
! Lots of new acronyms!

Thinking about data management
BIM: Have ambition!

BIM
 Importance of leadership

BIM
Vision Herd the cats
Don’t put BIM in a box!

Part of an overall
Construction Strategy
• Pull (Government)
– Be good a buying data (as well
as assets and services)
– Do it consistently

• Push (Supply Chain)

– Early Warning to Mobilise
– Training
– Methods & Documentation

IMPROVED VALUE FOR MONEY(£)

Create the right environment for BIM

Better the collaborative conditions the better the BIM outcomes
2.32 Government will require
fully collaborative
3D BIM
(with all project and asset
information, documentation
and data being electronic) as a
minimum by 2016. A staged
plan will be published with
mandated milestones showing
measurable progress at the
end of each year.
 Avoid the long‐grass

Leave the complexity to the supply chain – let them innovate
The right benchmark: Level 2 BIM
The federated model environment
A clear target: Goldilocks zone
Level of change needed / behaviours

Level 3 Too hard
Le

Level 0/1 Too Easy

New knowledge / skill and investment
Flush away some misconceptions
Get rid of the fear
• It’s a fad / Morrellism
• It’s only for £50M+ jobs
• I’m an SME so it won’t affect me
• It’s only some 3D they want
• They will tell us how to do it
• It’s a single model, call the lawyer
• It’s from 2016, plenty of time
 Work well together!

Engage and involve
Increasingly Working with industry

Steering Group Core Team & Work Package

Managers

Delivery Operational Private

Supply Technology
Supply Sector
Chain Alliance
Chain For
(UKCG) (CIRIA)
(GPU) BIM

Training, Education Communication

& Academia & Media Liaison

Regional BIM Hubs

Needs an investment
 I didn’t get
where I am
today through
“Collaborative
Working”

Create the intelligent BIM Client.

Purpose driven BIM
English language questions / Complexity to the supply chain
Have greater understanding of the entire life-cycle process
(especially design intent) through the models: data and 3D

Better business outcomes through early collaborative decision making

“Mama always said
construction projects are like a
box of chocolates. You never
know what you’re gonna get.”

Ӎ Asset design based on

outcomes + performance
as well as form!
Ӎ Increased predictability
of performance through
more detailed asset and
life-cycle planning
 A.I.M.
Asset Care

Soft Landings

B.I.M.
Asset Creation
Government Soft Landings

• Ensuring that Soft Landings 
becomes standard for 
government projects.
• Early engagement during the 
design process with end 
users/client/FM
• Ownership post construction 
from design/construction team
• Appropriate handover process 
from construction to end 
user/FM
• Post Occupancy 
Evaluation/Monitoring and tie back 
to ownership and lessons learnt for future design
BIMindigenous!
Training important & limited support
Strategic
What is BIM
The Value proposition: Why BIM

Management of change
Governance, procedures,
policies, standards
Contract management

Tools, data,
standards
Skills
Non-Geometric data is beautiful
Turn data into accurate insight

In use data
feedback

Optimal asset
Data set refined
performance
Need for a common language
– COBie UK 2012

Re-usability
• One input, many outputs

Checkability
• One input, many checks

Interoperability
• One format, many paths
Have Data Use Cases

Hierarchy
Deliverables that let all the supply
chain contribute
Perfect Landing: Construction to FM
Make it a start to start process
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Stress test it / Learn Lessons
So what to do?

• What does BIM mean to you

• Where will bring you / your clients added
value
• What does that look like? Commercial
overlay
• What am I doing already?
• How will it help me be more efficient?
• How will it help me win more work?
• What questions can BIM answer for me?
When
• What behaviours will I have to change?
• What process will I have to change?
• What workflows are important to me?
• Will I need new
software/hardware/training?
The BIM Change Programme
Create a BIM Community Of Practice
Joints dots with others
Understand your supply chains
capability
Help them get ready
What data do you need to create or
interchange?
Who manages your data?
What processes do you use for
managing data?
Create a BIM strategy
Set outcomes based maturity plan
Use BIM PxPs
Read BS1192 and PAS1192/2
Get to know COBie UK 2012
Lots of discrete benefits

BIM
 Most importantly!

BIM
Better: teamwork = better outcomes
Have a look at our web-site
www.bimtaskgroup.org

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