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Upskilling staff for BIM: Speller Metcalfe’s strategy

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  1. Hi Hugh, thanks for the response. I certainly agree that BIM does not equal REVIT, BIM is a process and cannot be purchased out of a box. I also agree that BIM should not be complicated. BIM is generated through the combined efforts of people, process, and technology, the overall process has an additional degree of complexity over a traditional project, but to the individual it is simply a different way of working. It is that new way of working, and engaging with new technologies that we are raising awareness of. Once individuals realise how BIM relates to their role, they are less fearful of it and more likely to engage with it.

    The client also needs to drive the process, there is (generally speaking) a lack of awareness of the benefits BIM can bring throughout the lifecycle of an Asset.

  2. The industry is still reporting a slow uptake of BIM Level 2. I wonder why that is?
    All this talk about upskilling, training, awareness days and ambassadors implies a degree of complexity associated with BIM that quite frankly does not exist. BIM is not a complicated process, in fact, it is quite logical and most engineers can adapt very quickly to its vagaries.
    Sure some training is necessary to ensure compliance with the basic principles but the general perception that it is complex sends the wrong message.
    Plus the perceived need to invest vast amounts of expenditure on changing CAD software to something like Revit when a company will likely already have a BIM compliant product other than Revit. The idea that BIM=Revit needs to be stamped out.
    It need not be expensive and it need not be complicated. Perhaps if we change the perception more companies will adopt BIM.

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