BIM-Integration in Higher and Continuing Education

Building Information Model (BIM) has been taken into wide use especially in building design. There are companies that implement BIM also in building process management (timetables, purchases, work planning). Compared to so-called traditional design and management tools, BIM enables different parties to work with a common platform, real-time and with accurate and up-to-hour details and technical information. 3D-dimensions visually offer a quick way to pick up problems and overlaps in designs, and bottlenecks in the production. However, to be able to work with the model, traditional ways on the design and management don’t apply. There are new problems to be solved, such as lack of common terminology and development phase of standardization; need for new processes; lack of technical know-how and lack of competence in process development within the construction industry.
Project period
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Project state
Finished
Project area
International
Project funding
South-East Finland-Russia CBC
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LAB role
Lead partner
Unit
Technology
Project focus area
Multipurpose materials
Objectives
The specific objective of the project is to improve the productivity and quality of building industry by developing competences and processes that support the use of digital tools. Benefits are measured in time, cost and quality. By quality is meant both the quality of the end-product as well as quality of working environment. Competences and processes are developed by creating new training models for different target groups, processing benchmarking information and, based on the outcomes, creating suggestions for next step BIM-standardization development in Finland and in Russia.
Realisation of goals
The competitiveness and philosophy of "new digitalized construction" is a basic idea of working towards to common goal and common added value, instead of competing from the share of revenue with the other partners in the project, as a traditional building process is formed. Therefore, there are new and compatible skills required from all parties, such as:

1) Understanding the logic on which the BIM is built. All definitions and the hierarchy have to be defined as the basis of the modelled project. In Finland there is a manual called “Yleiset tietomallivaatimukset 2012, YTV 2012”. This will be implemented and critically observed in the project. Also, development suggestions will be made, based on benchmarking and work done in the project.

2) Knowing the software and having practice using the software. This is mainly due new professionals, but senior designers and construction managers need practice and education about using the tools as well. This project aims to new educational offering towards BIM competence building.

3) Practicing new type of communication and interaction. The processes speed up and meetings can be done on-line. Traditional design conferences will change form. Terminology also requires some harmonization. Inter-organizational and multi professional communication will be practiced in this project.

4) Understanding the overall management of building as developing processes, rather than a project with separate phases and distinguished roles. Process requires co-working, responsibility sharing and willingness and ability to develop with small steps. This should be the driving force of development in the field of construction.
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