Alex Small, BIM and Digital Platforms Manager at Tata Steel discusses the fluid process of Tata Steel’s BIM journey and the challenges of producing BIM objects for thousands of products. As a global organisation, the adoption of Building Information Modelling (BIM) for Tata Steel is a momentous task, when considering each product range, brand and […]
Why are construction product manufacturers avoiding BIM?
What are the key reasons why construction product manufacturers are choosing not to adopt BIM? How have their attitudes towards BIM changed and what is the overall level of non-adoption of BIM in 2015/16 compared to 2014? Competitive Advantage on behalf of BIM4M2 have just published the latest free to download construction research BIM Adoption […]
Why product manufacturers are adopting BIM
Competitive Advantage on behalf of BIM4M2 have just published their latest free to download research BIM Adoption by Product manufacturers 2015/16. This research comes just as the Governments BIM Level 2 mandate deadline has arrived, and is an update on the survey conducted in 2014, to ascertain where product manufacturers were on their journey of […]
Product data: call for proposals
The BIM Task Group in association with the Construction Products Association, BIM4M2 and CIBSE are looking to develop a standardised process for the sharing of product data, including a plain language dictionary to enable both those requesting information, and those providing it (product manufacturers) with a common set of parameters relating to harmonised standards, other […]
BIM: What do specifiers need from product manufacturers?
In their recent survey of building services contractors, the Electrical Contractors Association found that 89% of contractors with turnover above £20 million were ready for the implementation of BIM, but that a third or more with turnover below this level are not BIM-ready. It is probably the same throughout the industry with the larger companies using BIM and already […]
