The “lessons learned” from a BIM demonstration project are to be serialised in a weekly blog by Clarkson Alliance, the project delivery company that acted as BIM information manager on the Meadow Road housing project.
The firm will publish 50 insights in a twice-weekly update on its website on Tuesdays and Thursdays leading up to April’s mandate start date, and will also publish a full free report to disseminate its findings before the mandate deadline.
Clarkson Alliance secured a grant from Innovate UK towards a research project to study how the client, construction teams and consultants at the 12-unit housing scheme on Meadow Road, Worthing, adapted to the implementation of BIM.
The client on the £1.4m project, featured as a case study on BIM+ and chosen to be representative of the industry’s mainstream workload, was housing association Worthing Homes, while the contractor was PMC Construction.
The project used Clearbox BIM, a software platform originally developed in-house by contractor Kier, to federate the models and create a Common Data Environment.
Clarkson Alliance managing director Graham Clarkson told BIM+ that the firm wanted to research the changes in dynamics and behaviours across the supply chain that would be necessary to leverage BIM’s advantages on a typical project. “We were testing everything in a live environment, where the reality can be far short of the ‘BIM wash’,” he summarised.
One of the findings, he said, was that the proposition of using BIM is initially resisted, because team members react to it as something they must do in addition to workloads, rather than viewing it as an alternative methodology that will save time and effort.
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