Against the backdrop of a Government mandate on BIM implementation that takes effect this month, HEJ’s technical editor, Mike Arrowsmith, reports on a number of sessions at Healthcare Estates 2015 looking at the topics of Government Soft Landings and Building Information Modelling.
When, in May 2011, the Cabinet Office published the Government Construction Strategy, the Strategy stated that ‘Government will require fully collaborative 3D BIM (with all project and asset information, documentation and data being electronic) as a minimum by 2016’. By this month indeed all publicly-funded construction projects are meant, under the Government’s mandate, to be implementing BIM at up to Level 2
The requirement that, by 2016, all central Government construction capital expenditure should be undertaken using ‘Government soft landings’ (GSL) will have a profound effect on NHS procurement programmes. The presentations on Building Information Modelling (BIM) in the Day One Engineering ‘stream’ at the IHEEM annual conference last October provided a broad insight into the concept and of the advantages to all involved in healthcare building technologies. The concept, according to the RIBA Plan of Work 2013 (comprehensive detail is included in BS 8536-1:2015), organises the process into a number of key stages following stage zero, ‘Strategic Definition’.
These are:
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