Back to University.....
Last week I was given the chance to do a talk for the RIBA, at their #BIMinBirmingham event at the newish Curzon Building by AA and Wilmott Dixon . This was something our practice had never spoke at before, so we decided to try and do something a little different.
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I’ve attended many BIM events over the years, and there seems to be a strong similarity between them all in terms of content. In my eyes, we’ve seen the BIM ‘wedge’ too many times. However, I totally understand that its hard to include everyone, especially if you jump into modern day BIM, and newbies can get quite lost in the theory that you’ve just skipped over.
We decided to talk about Clients in BIM, however, we decided to talk about an experience of a client, design team, and contractor that didnt see the need. The story was of how we swung them round, then held their hand through the experience. Result? First Police project in BIM. First Police project completed ahead of time in BIM, an Award for the contractor for BIM, and a cost saving for the client. All due to BIM.
We feel it went well, but the organisation was a little clumsy early on, and we had a limited audience. However, I appreciate that I could not have organised this, so great work to all those involved. We also received some great feedback about the presentation. So job done.
One thing I loved was meeting up with guys I’ve not seen in ages, but I still managed to miss some others due to work deadlines back in the office.
So a big thanks to the RIBA, and Corstorphine + Wright for giving us some time to tell a little story. And a big thumbs down for the weather on the day! Maybe some sun next year.....