Scandi-BIM Tour - Final Stop - Denmark
Denmark. Land of Flatness. Bacon, and Massive bridge/tunnel that links Copenhagen to Malmo in Sweden (yes the one from The Bridge /Bron /Broen). It’s reading about Danish BIM Adoption that spurred the idea of the Scandi-BIM Tour. So Tak, to Denmark.
Also, land of very early BIM adoption.
2001 – Danish Digital Building Initiative
2007 – 10 Building Owner Demands
2010 – The Cuneco Initiative (CCS with BIM Applications)
2013 – Updated with Digital Building Code
The Mandate started in 2007, with 7 BIM Mandates applied in 2013. 3 years ahead of the UK. This was for any public funded project over 700,000 Euros, or any projects over 2.7 Million Euros that had government grants.
The Mandate is spelt out in black and white also, which is always good:
Management of Digital Building Objects
Digital Communication and CDE
Use of Digital Building Models
Digital Quantity take off and Bids / Tenders
Digital Delivery of Documentation
So, the key word for the Danes is digital, in plain English, there is a collaborative federated model, costing, pdf documentation and digital snagging. Basically, Level 2, plus a bit more. Again, as the trend goes – IFC for model collaboration and investigation.
What else, well, they don’t use CAWS, obviously that’s a British thing, but they are developing CCS, a new Danish Classification system, which includes CEN (the EU BIM Mandate). There then seems to be heavy use of a system called Spine, which collaborates all the different standards and works as a classification system / manager.
Guidelines Documentation includes articles bu Danish Building and Property Agency and Ministry of Housing, Urban and Rural Affairs, and again with IFC, buildingSMART is a huge part of Denmark’s strategy.
How are they doing? Pretty well it appears. As an ultra early adopter, the experience path has already taken the crests and troughs that the UK is now experiencing, and can we learn from them? Hell yes.
In the conclusion to the ScandiBIM Tour I will be looking at the overall trends and patters, and information workflows, and how we can benefit from this information in the UK, whilst still conforming to 1192 and the associated documents and workflows.