As part of the BIM Acceleration Committee’s strategy to continually identify potential barriers to BIM adoption, a new survey of the subcontracting industry in New Zealand has just been completed. This may become a regular and evolving feature if it proves valuable in the continuing quest to increase the use of BIM in New Zealand.
This latest EBOSS BIM survey represents the first commissioned by the BIM Acceleration Committee (BAC) specifically targeted towards subcontractors, and provides an interesting insight into a cohort that is traditionally required to work with the BIM output from the cohorts of previous BIM surveys (these being the designers and main contractors).
In this respect, subcontractors form a link between the BIM workflow from the development of the initial BIM brief, through the implementation of the BIM Execution Plan (BEP’s) to the final BIM output for clients’ use. For this reason the survey has included a section on the transition of the BIM model between project phases.
The subcontractor group are also often required to provide the raw BIM data for inclusion in a federated model during clash detection, and to resolve the resultant clashes found through a process that may be stipulated in the construction BEP. As a result survey questions relating to the effectiveness of these processes were included.
The survey has been a joint venture between BAC and the University of Auckland (UoA) with the cohort group being taken from the approved UoA sub-contractor list. In this respect the survey represents the views of BIM users and practitioners working within the current New Zealand subcontractor environment. Our thanks go to all participants and to UoA Property Services for partnering with BAC.
Finally, should any reader of this report have any suggestions for improvement, please don’t hesitate to e-mail BIMinNZ at info@biminnz.co.nz, or raise the issue at one of the regular BIM network meetings now taking place in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch (see www.biminnz.co.nz for more details).
ABOUT EBOSS
Formed in 2006, EBOSS hosts a comprehensive architectural product library, with an active audience of 35,000 architects, designers, main contractors and tradespersons. At EBOSS we are interested in improving the communication of BIM information through the construction value chain and appreciate the opportunity to partner with the BIM Acceleration Committee and sponsor this research initiative.
