martin.burrows@cad-q.se

MARTIN BURROWSABOUT CAD-Q

BIM in the Nordics

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Agenda

About Cad-Q

What is BIM for Infrastructure?

BIM in Building construction in Nordic

BIM for Infrastructure in Nordic

How make BIM more common & more adopted?

Examples

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What is BIM?

• BIM = Building Information Model• Work methology or virtual prototype or standard?• ”To build information models” – the verb ”building”, not the noun!• What is information models?

• 349 000 000 results on Google search

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Why BIM?

– Three levels:• Visualization – why?

– BANANA – Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone– NIMBY – Not In My Back Yard

• Integration & interoperability• Automatisation

• Save money – 5D• Community gain• Transparency

•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNFVTd_ont4

•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_information_modeling

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BIM in Building construction

What about Return on Investment (ROI) of BIM? US case studies showed ROI ranging from as little as 15% to as much as 1600%. “Original BIM / BIM for architects” 10 years ahead of BIM for Infrastructure.

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Botniabanan Nyland - Umeå 190 km = 20 years

Västra stambanan560 km = 9 year

9,5km/year 62 km/year

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BIM for Infra in NordicPlayers:

Government & municipalities

Consultants / road designers

Enterpeneurs / construction

Software vendors (both for consultants and entrepeneurs)

Standardisation institutes and industry organisations

Finland (and England) is leading way:• In May 2011 UK Government Chief Construction Adviser Paul Morrell

called for BIM adoption on UK government construction projects of £5million and over BIM adoption amongst UK construction professionals has increased from 13% in 2011 to 39% in 2013 (RIBA).

• Cost estimation time, down 80%. Accuracy within 3%. (Faithful /Gould)• Sweden – test cases and best practices

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Highway to adoption of BIM

– Standards & formats– Best practices & workflow– Purchasing requirements– Software functions

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Exempel - NorConsult

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BPTF6tNJqk

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Thank you!martin.burrows@cad-q.se