In 2016 all centrally-procured Government construction projects will have to use fully-collaborative 3D Building Information Modelling (BIM). With only months to go until this deadline, the pressure is on healthcare suppliers to make their product ranges compliant. In this article, Philip Ross, director of Safehinge, explains what this means for the marketplace and ‘why you should not be afraid to embrace BIM’.
The latest buzzword among architects and construction teams, and in turn the suppliers whose products they use, is BIM – or Building Information Modelling.
BIM, in essence, describes the process of designing a building collaboratively using a series of computer-generated models, rather than the traditional approach involving a series of separate drawings. It offers considerable cost and time savings, and much greater accuracy, avoiding errors, as multiple teams input into a design over the course of its creation – for example, discovering half way through construction that the range of doors chosen does not match the spaces described on the blueprints would mean major delays, and could lead to increased costs.
To uncover this anomaly during the design process, and before work starts on site, gives the team time to rectify the problem and ensure construction is not held up.
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