Along with our working group activity, BIM4housing will be hosting events and plugging-in to independent industry events, some of which will be brought under our umbrella.
Digital Construction Week
Session Title: BIM4Housing – What needs to be considered when creating a digital record?
Session Description:
What information should be included in the Digital Record for the Golden Thread?
BIM4Housing is hosting five Round Table workshops at DCW 2022 on Thursday 19th May from 11:30 to 12:15 to try and answer this question.
Given that most fire-related deaths result from smoke inhalation rather than burns, we will discuss which asset types form a smoke control system and what we must do to ensure each asset is installed, commissioned and maintained properly.
We will take one specific asset type, a fire door, and what we need to know to ensure it performs and how it relates to the other asset types that prevent the spread of smoke.
Different stakeholder groups need different information about that fire door to ensure it will perform when called on.
So, the BIM4Housing Working Groups:
- Owner/Developer
- Design
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Operations
will lead a Round Table of ten cross-disciplinary delegates to agree:
- what information is important?
- how they receive it?
- what do they do with it?
- who do they share it with?
- the format they will use?
- how that information can be used within different software applications?
This will be an in-person event at London Excel so the number of places at each Round Table are limited but if you can let us know which Working Group you would like to join and a brief explanation of how you feel you can contribute, we will try and accommodate you.
This will get you a seat at the table, however you will still need to register to attend DCW here
BIMinhousing is collaboration between owners/developers and members of their supply chains. They arrange workshops to discuss the challenges residential landlords face and explore ways in which Better Information could be provided to help them.
They held the first of these in November 2018 (Reducing Risk and Improving Outcomes with BIM) where 100 experts in residential development shared their experiences and debated how things could be improved. The second was held in November 2019 and looked at the state-of-play in the BIM journey, the challenges that lie ahead- and how to overcome them. (see below)
BIM in Housing Seminar November 2019
Building in a Modern Way
Legal and regulatory changes, asset data and asset management
Our presenters outlining the state-of-play in the BIM journey, the challenges that lie ahead- and how to overcome them.
Lloyd Connors – Airey Miller
Introduction. Now BIM is a reality, challenges are around regulatory compliance.
3 min video
Emma Richman –Great Places Housing Group
BIM being driven by the asset managers. Using BIM on existing buildings.
3 min video
Mark Pratten – Airey Miller
BIM compliant procurement. Greater client input at the design stage.
3 min video
Kathryn Kligerman– Devonshires Solicitors
3 min video
Andrew De Silva – David Miller Architects
The benefits of digitising the design aspects of the build process.
3 min video
Andrew De Silva – David Miller Architects
3 min video
George Stevenson – ActivePlan
The Golden Thread is as relevant to existing buildings as it is to new builds.
3 min video
Reducing Risk and Improving Outcomes with BIM
This seminar is hosted by Airey Miller, Devonshires, David Miller Architects and Activeplan with guest from Notting Hill Genesis
November 2018 - David Miller Architects, Airey Miller, ActivePlan, Devonshires and Notting Hill Genesis hosted a workshop of residential developers and their supply chains to identify the issues they were experiencing. The event explored how better information management and BIM in particular could help reduce risk and improve the quality of the environments
Client
Designer
Data Engineer
Information Manager
Lawyer
This led to the establishment of BIMinHousing
BIMinHousing is a collaboration between people who want to transform the way residential properties are designed, delivered and maintained.
The shorthand for this is Dame Judith Hackitt’s vision of the “Golden Thread”
BIMinHousing
We are all working to simplify how that can be delivered and maintained.
A core objective is to reduce the risk of:
- a) Designers specifying products that are swapped during “value engineering” with inadequate change control
- b) Contractors losing track of the products and materials their subcontractors install
- c) Asset teams not communicating their Asset Information Requirements (AIR)
- d) Supply chains not delivering the information to satisfy the AIR and the “Golden Thread”
- e) Asset managers managing more complex arrangements like shared ownership having clear information about warranties, for which assets they are responsible, which not and if so, who IS responsible.
- f) Contractor’s insurance not covering them in the case of an incident - or worse
February 2019 – the team was invited to present at BIMShow Live, showing how the Golden Thread can be delivered
How will BIM add value post-handover?
Done properly, BIM captures all the information Asset Managers need to ensure the operating environment is safe and effective.
This reduces the risk of incidents and potential litigation for owners/landlords, penalties/deductions from unitary charges for FM organisations.
In terms of efficiency, more reliable information about the assets in the building, what systems they are part of and the functional spaces they support allows the FM managers to prioritise activities and align resources to better satisfy operational KPIs. Users have an improved experience because the services that support more heavily used spaces have fewer issues.
Less time is wasted finding product information in the case of reactive or proactive service works and the engineer can take the spare parts to their first visit, saving their time and speeding up call resolution.
What is an Asset Information Model?
The Asset Information Model (AIM) is a digital version of the O&M, so it includes the coordinated master data set required in individual applications like CAFM/CMMS, BMS, Lifecycle, security, space management and smart buildings.
The AIM is ideally connected via data services (APIs) to the other applications so they have the coordinated and validated information they require, and the AIM is constantly updated with changes recorded in different applications. For example, where a planned maintenance on fire doors identifies an issue with one door and raises a reactive call to address it, the CAFM “informs” the AIM which can alert the space management or availability/deductions solutions that might cause a response to be prioritised.
How is it used and updated?
Mobilising maintenance teams is currently hampered by the lack of reliable information at handover, leading to FMs taking on contracts that include far more assets than they have budgeted for. Risk can never be truly transferred, and, in some way, the client ends up paying more in the form of surveys to create asset lists of brand-new buildings or reduced quality of service because the FM can’t afford to maintain 70% more equipment than they have budgeted for.
Lifecycle planning is also better informed – not simply replacing all like types at a pre-determined date but informing the condition assessment of assets with the systems they form part of, the importance of the activities in the spaces the systems support and also the level of usage – which of the air-conditioning assets are running 16 or 24 hrs per day?
Government Soft Landings – this is often overlooked but it crystallises why clients are investing in a new building, irrespective of how it is delivered. GSL allows them to define, at the outset, how the new (or refurbished) facility will help them and how they will measure that it continues to deliver value. This is something we should be putting more effort into – clients and FMs.