A New Era: Introduction to BIM
- The course provides an understanding of BIM benefits in construction.
- It addresses challenges, interdisciplinary collaboration, and BIM's role.
- Covers interoperability, legal issues, standards, and guidance.
- Delegates will gain insights into BIM processes and business benefits.
- Intended for design professionals, engineers, project managers, and more.
Overview
The BIM Training course aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the benefits of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in construction. It covers challenges in the industry, interdisciplinary collaboration, and BIM's role. The course addresses interoperability, legal issues, standards, and guidance. Sessions include BIM standards, information modeling, and management. Objectives include clarifying BIM concepts, demonstrating business benefits, and explaining legal implications. The course targets design professionals such as engineers, project managers, and contractors.
Who should attend
Engineers, Project Managers, Quantity Surveyors, Developers, Contractors, Planners.
Course Content
The course will give you an objective and realistic understanding of the benefits that can be gained by employing BIM in construction.
It will look at the challenges faced by the construction industry, the strategy for overcoming them, the need for interdisciplinary collaboration and how BIM can play its part.
It will also cover issues of interoperability of systems, legal issues, standards and guidance
Content
- Session 1 – Background, Introduction and State of the art
- Session 2 – BIM Standards and Strategy
- Session 3 – Information Modelling
- Session 4 – Information Management
Objectives
At the end of the course delegates should be able to:
- Enable newcomers to BIM to have a better understanding of what it is, what it isn’t and how it can benefit them
- Give a basic overview on BIM: its processes, its application and deliverables
- Confirm the business benefits of BIM – beyond the visual and graphical
- Give real life examples of how BIM has benefited projects globally
- Understand the associated roles and responsibilities
- Understand the contract and insurance implications of BIM (The legal side)
Intended for:
Design professionals including:
- Engineers
- Project Managers and Design Managers
- Quantity Surveyors, Building Surveyors and Value Engineers
- Developers and Clients
- Specialist Contractors
- General Contractors and supply chain partners
- Planners
- Risk managers/Insurers
Duration:1 Day
Cost:£275 + VAT
