SMEs targeted with Back to BIM Basics initiative

Introducing the initiative during the Alliance’s Q4 Forum, leader of its South West arm and director of Evolve Consultancy Nigel Davies said: “If you can answer those questions, you are ‘doing BIM’. This is not experts saying: ‘thou shalt do’; it’s trying to get the perspectives of people in the industry – it’s ‘by the people, for the people’.

“In the past two years, every report that comes out has some comment about digital skills and the level of understanding in the industry. We’ve made great efforts across the Alliance to address this, the BIM4 groups, the communities and some absolutely fantastic resources [for example], but even with that guidance, we’re still bombarded with acronyms that we understand and use in everyday conversation, but the general industry doesn’t.

“And ISO 19650 – as great as it is – introduces a whole series of terms that people simply don’t understand: appointing party, federation strategies – all these things are new.

“People don’t understand what it means to them and their business. We’ve got to simplify this and talk about it in a language that everyone understands and sees the relevance for them.”