Barry McAuley, PhD Post-Doctoral Researcher 086 014 4853 bmcauley@cita.ie www.bicp.ie
Irish BIM Community Engagement 2017 Background The BICP team surveyed a community of BIM managers in Q1 2017. A total of 90 professionals with a particular responsibility for BIM in Ireland were targeted in the study, 47 responses were received. This short report details the key findings of the study. What projects are you currently deploying BIM tools and processes on in Ireland? A good variety of projects were identified by the respondents. This included schools, student accommodation, fit out projects, commercial development, hospitals, third level, data centres, social housing, primary care centres, hotels, social housing, primary care centers, pharmaceutical and food manufacturing facilities. A total 40 BIM projects were reported by the respondents signifying that BIM projects are becoming more mainstream in Ireland in 2017. A full listing of the projects is included at the end of this report.
Only 25% of the sample reported that they had sought or secured grant funding. Funding has primarily been secured through Enterprise Ireland’s BIM Enable and BIM Implement initiatives. Other sources included Enterprise Ireland Innovation Vouchers and the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) call. A number of respondents stated they were unaware of available funding or found some of the criteria required for funding difficult to execute. Has your company sought or secured BIM certification in recent years? The majority of respondents reported that they had not sought or secured any BIM certification in recent years (Figure 2).
Has your company sought or secured any grant funding for deploying BIM within your business? The majority of respondents reported that they had not sought or secured any grant funding for BIM (See Figure 1).
Figure 2 – BIM Certification
Only one fifth of the respondents reported that their company had attained BIM Level 2 certification. The most popular certification bodies chosen included BSI, BRE and Lloyds.
Figure 1 – Grant support for BIM
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A number of respondents indicated that they are in the process of obtaining BIM Level 2 certification. Some respondents reported that they had secured individual professional accreditation through the BRE Academy Level 2 Fundamentals and Project Information Manager (PIM) courses and subsequent exams. A number of respondents reported that they had personally completed specialist BIM postgraduate programmes. What particular BIM protocols or standards does your company currently deploy?
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The majority of respondents reported to be using the Modelling and Information Management procedures outlined in BS 1192 and the PAS 1192 suite of standards. The AEC UK BIM protocol was also used as a source of guidance.
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The CIC BIM protocol was identified by a number of respondents as a key resource. In some isolated instances respondents reported to have developed inhouse BIM and Modelling Standards.
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These results are largely in line with the findings of the 2016 Irish Digital Transition Survey, which showed an increase in adoption of PAS1192: 2 and PAS1192:3 from 33% and 35% in 2015 to 55% and 45% in 2016 respectively.
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What advice would you give to the National BIM Council of Ireland? Some of the most informative responses from this question are detailed below. • •
Leverage the work that the UK has done in implementing BIM. However, Level 1 BIM should be the first goal. Clients need to become more educated about the importance of establishing clear and concise asset information requirements at the outset of projects where BIM is mandated. It would be beneficial to showcase projects where successful delivery of asset data into
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live FM systems has been completed and is in fact in use. Publish Irish standards and protocols for local contracts and provide practical support. The sooner an Irish BIM mandate happens, the better. However, the Irish supply chain is not yet capable of working in a Level 2 BIM Environment. Avoid reinventing the wheel. There is a huge body of work done already which has been implemented by the UK which many practices in Ireland are working to. An affordable and simple to use CDE is proving difficult for us to source. The ones on the market are aimed at large firms and are best suited to contractor led projects. Procure a government BIM mandate. The private sector will be obligated to follow suit. Request that the Government implement the requirement to follow BS1192 naming conventions and CDE processes in their procurement processes imminently. Full engagement with all professionals / stakeholders in AECO Industry and the development of a Construction Contract that would enable the deployment of BIM Level 2 on projects in Ireland. Further promotion in 3rd level education. Keep it simple. Most Irish firms are small to mid-sized. Fifty page technical documents about standard protocols, COBie or PAS 1192 are only realistically implementable by larger companies with specialist BIM coordinators or similar. Define the specific BIM protocols and standards, which will be adopted in Ireland as early as possible, particularly with the recent Brexit decision and EN standards now being published. Comprehensive guidance on BIM implementation available for all stakeholders from clients to designers to contractors. The National BIM Council of Ireland could be the main source of this guidance. A clear strategy for BIM accreditation or certification, which is independent of
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commercial vendors who currently provide this certification. Don't push for an all out Irish Government mandate to use BIM for Public Sector Projects, a mandate only overcomplicates things Government / Public bodies need to offer practical training and guidance for SME's to develop their capabilities, the larger consultants and contractors are developing already. Provide a network of upskilling venues for the industry dedicated for different disciplines. Support training and education (particularly for senior management) Provide grants for upgrade of hardware’s and softwares Consider logistics for SME BIM implementation.
A common feature of the feedback received was to ensure that support is provided for SMEs starting to work with BIM in Ireland and, where possible, we should follow the UK BIM level 2 BIM practice. There was a somewhat cautionary thread in the feedback also with a number of respondents asking the National BIM Council of Ireland to incorporate recommendations in their National BIM Strategy for support structures to help industry move progressively from level 1 to level 2 BIM. List of Projects Reported 1. Academic Hub Library Complex Grangegorman 2. Alterations Radiation Oncology Centres in CUH & UHG 3. Arthur Cox Fit-out 4. Ballymun Super Depot 5. Bolands Quay BMS LOC building, Goethe House 6. Brunswick Street Student Accommodation 7. Carrick-On-Suir School 8. Cherrywood Town Centre 9. Clanwilliam Court Redevelopment 10. Cork MTL
11. Cumberland Street Office Development 12. Dalymount Park Stadium 2 13. Data centre build in Clonee. 14. DCU All Hallows Campus Student Accommodation 15. Dock on Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin 16. Dolphin Phase 2 17. Dublin Enable Ireland Curaheen 18. Dundrum Town Centre 19. Glor Na Mara National School 20. Grafton Capital Hotel 21. Lakedrive Office Development, Citywest 22. Lidl New Stores Local 23. National Maternity Hospital 24. Nenagh IDA Fit-out 25. New Children’s Hospital 26. New Waterford Mortuary 27. Pairc Ui Chaoimh, 28. Parnell Square Cultural Quarters 29. Point Village Student Accommodation 30. Ringsend WWTW Upgrade Works 31. School of Biological Sciences - QUB (Northern Ireland) 32. St. Martin's Special School, Waterford 33. Student Accommodation Goethe House 34. Teagasc Moorepark 35. Trinity Business School 36. VHI Head Office Extension 37. Waste energy plant at Poolbeg 38. Waterford Johnstown Castle Visitor Centre 39. Wexford Focus John's Lane West 40. Windmill Lane Office Development 41. WIT engineering building Prepared by Dr. Barry McAuley (CitA/DIT), Dr. Alan Hore (DIT), Professor Roger West (TCD) Published: March 2017
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