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AUGUST 2015 PRO INSTALLER
PRO NEWS
www.proinstaller.co.uk
FALLING SHORT
OF MANDATORY
BIM TARGET
Three quarters of construction professionals do not believe the
industry is ready to meet mandatory BIM Level 2 requirements by
2016, according to research conducted by UK Construction Week in
partnership with BRE, the leading authority on the built environment.
Just over 74% of respondents think the industry will
fall short of this target,
which is due to come into
effect for all procurement
projects from central government and its agencies
next year. A further 62% of
respondents said that they
do not understand what is
needed in order to meet
the requirements of BIM
Level 2.
The research, which questioned more than 1,200 architects, contractors, developers,
engineers and product manufacturers about their experiences of BIM, revealed a number
of uncertainties throughout
the industry. In particular, the
results uncovered a tension
between the expectations of the
specification community and the
perceived demand for BIM-compliant products by manufacturers and suppliers.
Nearly 71% of the non-manufacturing respondents believe
that suppliers are not moving
quickly enough to provide BIM
ready information. This figure
appears to be borne out by
the survey results, with two
thirds of the building product
manufacturers contacted by UK
Construction Week stating their
products are not yet available
as BIM objects. Conversely
though, when questioned about
the main obstacle to creating
BIM-ready components, 41% of
manufacturers said there is simply not enough demand for this
from their cust