The CIOB has published a new BIM-enabled edition of its best-selling Code of Practice for Project Management for Construction and Development, the fifth since it was originally published in 1992.
The new version offers guidelines on integrating BIM at each stage of a project, more emphasis on the early pre-construction stages and further guidance on sustainability issues.
For the first time, the Code of Practice is also now available as a downloadable e-book.
The new updated version was written by a working group of practising project managers representing the CIOB and other institutions, including the RICS, ICE, APM and RIBA. In addition, drafts were circulated for comment to a wider review group of project management professionals.
David Woolven MCIOB, chair of the working group, said: “The new version has been subject to extensive revision and updating. It’s an authoritative guide to the practice of project management in construction – there’s nothing else like it. We know it’s extensively used in education as well as by those involved in the industry and clients looking to run projects.”
The new edition has been thoroughly restructured and updated with examples drawn from real-life – although anonymised – projects to give it a contemporary feel.
Chris Blythe, CIOB chief executive, said: “I am pleased to see that the 5th edition of this document is being published at a time where the built environment is gathering great momentum, with a number of high-profile projects as well as the resurgence of the housing sector, where construction project management, as a professional service and discipline, is at the forefront of ensuring delivery management.
“I have no doubt that this updated and thoroughly overhauled edition will prove to be an invaluable all-round reference made for clients, contractors, other construction professionals and students of the profession. The Code of Practice will retain its position as the primary source of guidance on the principles and practice of construction project management irrespective of the size, nature or complexity of the project.”
On BIM, David Woolven added: “The document goes through each stage of the construction process, and at each stage it addresses BIM. There are guidelines on what people need to do in relation to BIM.”
The eight stages identified in the Code are Inception, Feasibility; Strategy; Pre-construction; Construction; Testing and Commissioning; Completion, handover and operation; and Post-completion review and in use.
Woolven said the shallow BIM adoption curve meant that there were not yet any examples of BIM projects included in the Code, but he added. “In the next edition, if there is one, we will be able to draw on actual experience,” he said.
