Successful Education of professionals for supporting future BIM implementation within the Architecture Engineering Construction context

Abstract

the consequence of this has somewhat hindered progress in the use of such innovative technologies (Pour Rahimian et al., 2011). That being said, from a United Kingdom (UK) perspective, there has been a resurgence to address these challenges in order to exploit the full potential of such technologies. In doing so, the UK Government mandated the implementation of Building Information Management (BIM) Level 2 in all public projects from 2016. This required AEC firms to use exchangeable digital building models amongst project parties to enable 2D/3D spatial compliance with British Standard BS1192:2007. This approach was mandated to address a number of challenges, not least to optimise project costs and labour (by eliminating redundant/duplicate effort), but also to ensure parallel production of multiple design solutions could be more effectively leveraged. This requires unprecedented levels of integration, supported by seamless design/implementation platforms (to maximise automation). This presents a challenge, as automation per se is currently hindered at very early conceptual design and planning phases [as advanced visualisation and modelling technologies are traditionally only employed at the detailed design stages].