Videos - thinkBIM webinar on “The Golden Thread”

April 21, 2022 / / 0 Comments

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On Thursday 24th March 2022, we kicked off our series of 2022 events with an afternoon webinar on the Golden Thread. The Building Regulations Advisory Committee (BRAC) defines the Golden Thread as follows;

‘The golden thread is both the information that allows you to understand a building and the steps needed to keep both the building and people safe, now and in the future’.

Whilst we can all understand why the Golden Thread is so important to our industry, our stakeholders and end users, this webinar explored how our industry can move from printing out data sheets and drawings at handover to creating, checking, validating and managing digital information for the lifecycle of an asset?

Presenters included;

Steve Baker, Joint Chair of Operations - East & North, YORhub

Sean Kearney, Operations Lead, Digital Ventures Advisory, Mott MacDonald

Bobby Chakravarthy, Partner, Arcus Consulting LLP

*PLEASE NOTE: Unfortunately Kirsty Villiers (BIM Workstream Lead, Strategic Services, L & Q Group) had to withdraw from the event but we will make arrangements for Kirsty’s presentation to be recorded at a separate date.

Please find below a selection of resources from the seminar.

Videos

Digital Update by Duncan Reed (Chair of thinkBIM) : March 2022

Golden Thread Interview with Steve Baker, YORhub

Golden Thread Poll Enabled Panel Discussion with

Sean Kearney, Operations Lead, Digital Ventures Advisory, Mott MacDonald

Bobby Chakravarthy, Partner, Arcus Consulting LLP

Tom Oulton, Digital Transformation and BIM Lead. Rider Levett Bucknall

Resources from thinkBIM Autumn Conference on BIM Process and People (What can we learn from Housing Associations) - September 2021

October 6, 2021 / / 0 Comments

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Many thanks to all those who joined us on 15th September for our thinkBIM Autumn webinar with BIM 4 Housing Associations. For those that missed it or those who want to go over the presentations again, links to the full set of videos can be found below. We have also included a list of links to many of the reports, publications and articles mentioned by Duncan in his digital update and the approximate timings they appear.

Presentations from September’s thinkBIM

Digital News Update – a round-up of the latest in BIM and Digital for the architecture, engineering and construction industries – Duncan Reed, Chair of thinkBIM (19 mins)

Keynote Presentation: Applying BIM Process and People (approx 51 mins) presented by

Jack Ostrofsky, Head of Quality and Design at Southern Housing Group

Varun Soni, Associate - BIM Manager, Calford Seaden LLP

Poll Enabled Panel Discussion (40 mins approx) featuring;

Jack Ostrofsky, Head of Quality and Design at Southern Housing Group

Varun Soni, Associate - BIM Manager, Calford Seaden

Su Butcher, Director, Just Practising and Project Manager at BIM 4 Housing Associations

Chaired by Duncan Reed, Trimble Tekla (and thinkBIM Chair)

LINKS TO RESOURCES FROM DUNCAN’S DIGITAL UPDATE

(0:51) Watch James’s amazing presentation here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkLWCEiXnEA   

(1:42) BIM+ article https://www.bimplus.co.uk/shoestring-project-identifies-top-10-digital-prior/  

(1:41) CDBB link https://www.cdbb.cam.ac.uk/news/research-profile-digital-construction-shoestring  

(2:30) https://www.bimplus.co.uk/golden-thread-definition-approved-government/

Furthermore, on 6th July 2021, a follow up article was published that “Golden thread legislation could commence as early as spring 2023, according to the government’s timelines for Building Safety Bill.”

https://www.bimplus.co.uk/building-safety-bill-golden-thread-detail-appear-l/

Policy Paper published July 2021

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/building-regulations-advisory-committee-golden-thread-report/building-regulations-advisory-committee-golden-thread-report

Further useful article from George Stevenson, Chair BIM4Housing and Managing Director - ActivePlan on LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-information-do-we-need-create-golden-thread-george-stevenson-1f/?trackingId=1Y8dQOH9hMIpU5bOKhQtyQ%3D%3D

(4:25) https://uktechnews.co.uk/2021/06/02/smart-and-intelligent-buildings-facility-management-provides-the-glue/

(5:09) https://www.bimplus.co.uk/morrison-manage-roadworks-cloud-system/

(5:41) Original article here

http://www.infrastructure-intelligence.com/article/jun-2021/busting-hype-around-digital-transformation?utm_medium=email&utm_source=transactional&utm_campaign=weekly-email

Further information and first 4 blogs here

https://www.acenet.co.uk/news?tag=Hype

(6:18) Article link

http://www.infrastructure-intelligence.com/article/jun-2021/information-management-construction-%E2%80%98can-deliver-productivity-boost%E2%80%99

Report link

https://www.cdbb.cam.ac.uk/files/cdbb_econ_value_of_im_report.pdf

(6:53) https://futurescot.com/councils-bold-vision-for-digital-by-design-as-online-demand-soars-by-691-since-covid/

(7:46) https://www.ukconstructionmedia.co.uk/features/half-the-uk-workforce-lacks-basic-digital-kkills/

(8:31) https://www.pbctoday.co.uk/news/hr-skills-news/digital-construction-skills/96321/

(9:04) https://www.bimplus.co.uk/construction-mission-room-tech-set-for-rail-passenger-use/

(9:56) https://www.ukbimframework.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/UKBIMF-UKBIMF-XX-XX-IM-PT-000001-UKBIMFramework_Infographic.pdf

(10:39) https://www.bimplus.co.uk/sir-robert-mcalpine-spearheads-industrys-first-data-trust/

(11.19) https://www.bimplus.co.uk/hse-develops-bim-safety-guidance-for-clients/

(11.57) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transforming-infrastructure-performance-roadmap-to-2030/transforming-infrastructure-performance-roadmap-to-2030#annex-b-information-management-mandate

(14:26) https://www.ukbimalliance.org/ukbima-state-of-the-nation-annual-survey-report-2021/

(17:03) https://www.ukbimalliance.org/events/

Resources from GreenBIM Conference - May 2021

June 8, 2021 / / 0 Comments

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Many thanks to all those who joined us on 26th May for our thinkBIM webinar on GreenBIM: sustainability through a digital lens. It was a fascinating afternoon of discussion where we leant about VR in the theatre and performing arts industries, low carbon tracking tools, the supply chain sustainability school, agile BIM and even whether a hamburger or a plastic bag has the most carbon (hint: It’s a burger, 250 times to be exact!).

For those that missed it or those who want to go over the presentations again, links to the full set of videos can be found below. We have also included a list of links to many of the reports, publications and articles mentioned by Duncan in his digital update and the approximate timings they appear.

Presentations from May thinkBIM

Digital News Update – a round-up of the latest in BIM and Digital for the architecture, engineering and construction industries – Duncan Reed, Chair of thinkBIM (22 mins)

Visualisation in theatre & performing arts, James Simpson, Copper Candle Ltd and Rose Bruford College (24 mins)

BIM and Parametric Life Cycle Assessment, Johanna Jarvinen, Business Development Manager, One Click LCA (18 mins)

Downloading a digital mindset, David Emery, Supply Chain Sustainability School (26 mins)

Panel Discussion with Johanna Jarvinen, Lee Barnett (Curtins) and Brian Murphy (Green Building Calculator). The five minute presentations delivered by Lee and Brian are found at the beginning of the panel discussion (37 mins)

Agile BIM Frameworks, François Muzard, Bricks APP (22 mins)

Useful Links from Duncan’s digital update

https://www.cdbb.cam.ac.uk/top-trump-… (0:23)

https://futurescot.com/if-you-want-a-… (1:18)

https://www.cdbb.cam.ac.uk/news/infor… (2:09)

https://www.istructe.org/resources/gu… (3:06)

https://www.bimplus.co.uk/technology/… (4.07)

https://www.bimplus.co.uk/news/global… (5:11)

https://www.cpni.gov.uk/security-mind… and https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/report/weekly… (6:18)

https://www.cdbb.cam.ac.uk/news/press… (8:22)

Https://www.bimplus.co.uk/news/bim-tr… (9:21)

https://www.bimplus.co.uk/analysis/bi… (10:26)

https://futurescot.com/the-17-digital… (11:57)

https://highwaysengland.co.uk/industr… (12:52)

https://www.cdbb.cam.ac.uk/files/0605… (13:47)

https://www.ukbimalliance.org/events/ (20:06)

The return of GreenBIM!

May 20, 2021 / / 0 Comments

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GreenBIM Webinar

Wednesday 26th May 2021 | 12:30 to 15:30

FREE

Visualisation – lessons we can learn from the Theatre and Performance Industry

and new presentation announced -

The Supply Chain Sustainability School ‘Downloading a Digital Mindset’

Digitisation and Sustainability are both extremely important topics, and rightly so. For our GreenBIM conference we’ve made sure to take a wide view of the subject, to champion new ideas and drive change in the industry.

So we are pleased to welcome James Simpson, with his background in virtual theatre and digital experience at Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance to discuss how visualisation can be used to massively improve stakeholder engagement.

Secondly we welcome back David Emery, now at the Supply Chain Sustainability School, to talk about their new ‘Downloading a Digital Mindset’ project. These free-to-use learning materials help businesses of all sizes understand: Digital Leadership, The Business Case for Digital, Cyber Security and Digital Adoption.

Together with presentations from Johanna Jarvinen, One Click LCA; Francois Muzard, Bricks App as well as our interactive panel discussion with Brian Murphy, Green Building Calculator and Lee Barnett, Curtins it’s not just the obvious ideas when it comes to doing sustainability digitally but an afternoon of great speakers and wide ranging debate. Join us for what promises to be a very informative session!

REGISTER FOR YOUR FREE TICKET HERE

*You will be directed to an eventbrite booking page for you to register. Joining instructions with a link to the webinar will send a few days prior to the event.

Digitisation and the Manufacturing sector

February 26, 2021 / / 0 Comments

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Wednesday 3rd March 2021 | 13:00 to 15:00

FREE WEBINAR

We are pleased to announce the full line up of our panel discussion for our thinkBIM Spring conference. We’ll be exploring a wide variety of themes that are important to manufacturers and those who specify, procure, install and maintain manufacturers’ products in the built environment. Come and join us to join the conversation and listen to the views of our great panel of presenters.

Su Butcher; Social Strategist in Construction at Just Practising offers strategic marketing and business development advice to Construction Product Manufacturers and Trade Associations. Su was Chair of the Product Data Working Group at the UK BIM Alliance who published A Fresh Way Forward For Product Data.

Paul Surin; Global Lead Built Environment at IBM has in depth experience in modern methods of constructions and manufacturing processes as well as chairing the Construction Product Europe Digitalization Task Group.

John Parsons; Director Digital at BEAMA Ltd has oversight of the Networks and Flexible Energy Systems Portfolios and responsibility for driving forward BEAMA’s engagement with the digitalisation agenda.

Richard Gardiner; Sector Lead – Rail at The University of Sheffield - AMRC who works de-risk the development and application of new manufacturing and maintenance processes and technologies, with a speciality in the rail industry.

Join our panel for a lively interactive discussion around the important themes of digitisation and the manufacturing sector.

HOW TO BOOK

Please book via our eventbrite page. Joining instructions will be sent out to you separately with a link to join the webinar.

Interoperability - Resources from our December Conference

January 1, 2021 / / 0 Comments

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Many thanks to all those that tuned into our webinar on Interoperability on 2nd December 2020. For those that missed it, we have published all the videos from the event on the School of Built Environment, Engineering and Computing YouTube channel at the links below.

Please click on the links below to view the presentations.

Digital Update - December 2020 – Duncan Reed, Chair of thinkBIM

An overview of the BIM Interoperability Expert Group (BIEG) - Fiona Moore, Construction Innovation Hub (CIH), Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) UK Implementation Team.

The Value of Classification for Interoperability - Sarah Delany, NBS and Classification Workstream Lead at BIM Interoperability Expert Group (BIEG)

An Introduction to IFC and COBie - Emma Hooper, Digital Information Specialist, Bond Bryan Digital and BIEG

The Cultural Impacts of Interoperability - Jenni Barrett from co|LAB and Kirsty Childs from WYG.

As part of our pre-conference preparations, and as a base to start discussions, we asked members of the UK BIM Alliance Technology Group to give us a two minute vox pop on what “Interoperability” means to them.

You can view their reponses in the following playlist.

Thanks to Glider, Vectorworks, Morta, Trimble, Cobuilder, Graphisoft, Asite, Solibri UK, Buildots, Viewpoint, Revizto, Autodesk and thinkproject for taking part.

Visit and subscribe to our youtube channel to view more of our resources.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning - Resources

November 23, 2020 / / 0 Comments

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Many thanks to all those that tuned into our webinar on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning on 30th September 2020. For those that missed it, we have published all the videos from the event on the School of Built Environment, Engineering and Computing YouTube channel at the links below.

BIM and Digital Update - Duncan Reed, Chair of thinkBIM and Trimble

Panel discussion with Natalia Wojtowicz (Grimshaw Global), Chris Pilling (Fujitsu), Aviv Leibovici (Buildots).

How Agri-tech is delivering performance and productivity through AI technology - Becky Dodds, Agri-TechE

For more videos like this, please subscribe to the School of Built Environment, Engineering and Computing You Tube channel.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning - What does it mean for the built environment?

September 23, 2020 / / 0 Comments

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thinkBIM Webinar

Wednesday 30th September 2020 | 13:00 to 15:00

Free

Following on from our last event looking at Digital Twins, thinkBIM is pleased to be exploring another well used but perhaps poorly understood set of terms currently appearing in articles on the digital transformation of the built environment industry. Artificial intelligence is an overarching term for describing when a machine mimics human thinking, like problem-solving, pattern recognition, and learning. Machine learning is defined as a subset of Artificial Intelligence using statistical techniques to give computer systems the ability to “learn” from data, without being explicitly programmed. Join us on the 30th for our interactive panel discussion and presentation looking at what these terms mean for our industry.

Our presenters include;

*JUST ADDED* Aviv Leibovici, Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder, Buildots

Aviv comes from a background of data-heavy cyber security systems, and leads the company’s product development and the relationship with the UK construction industry.

Natalia Wojtowicz, Computational Design Specialist, Grimshaw

Natalia is a specialist working across the fields of computational design, applied machine learning, software development, environmental design and data-driven strategies.

 Chris Pilling, Principal Consultant, Fujitsu Digital Business Services

Chris has 25 years IT & Tech industry experience and joined Fujitsu in 2016 as EMEIA Principal Consultant. In 2017 he co-founded Fujitsu’s Blockchain Innovation Centre in Brussels which works with customers to define strategy for this emerging paradigm. Chris is at the forefront of helping customers understand and adopt Fujitsu’s Quantum Inspired computing services and capability.

In addition we are pleased to have Becky Dodds from Agri-TechE to give an overview of how Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are being used in the agriculture industry too.

New online format!

We are pleased to announce that the format of this online event will include a series of polls for our attendees to support a panel debate on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Another great way you can get involved with thinkBIM!

Booking

The link below will take you to our Eventbrite booking site. Once you have signed up a joining email will be sent to you with the link to join the webinar.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/artificial-intelligence-and-machine-learning-thinkbim-webinar-tickets-121215309253?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch

With thanks to our sponsors…

Buildots solve one of the biggest challenges in construction management using an AI-based approach. Find out more at https://buildots.com/

Digital Twins - What are they, why do we need them and if you want one, how do you get started?

June 5, 2020 / / 0 Comments

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Many thanks to all those that tuned into our webinar on Digital Twins on 20th May 2020. For those that missed it, we have published all the videos from the event on the School of Built Environment, Engineering and Computing YouTube channel at the links below.

These videos should help answer some of the above questions but do keep checking our blog for our follow up thought pieces on the issues raised.

BIM and Digital Update - Duncan Reed, Chair of thinkBIM and Trimble

The National Digital Twin Programme - Mark Enzer, Centre for Digital Built Britain

Don’t get triggered by Digital Twins - John Adams, Glider BIM

The importance of knowing why? - Vicki Reynolds, i3PT Certification

The value of being fashionably late - George Mokhtar, Turner and Townsend

Online Q & A with our speakers - Chaired by Duncan Reed, Chair of thinkBIM

Challenging Digital Twins - Pre-recorded interview with Maria Villanueva, Jacobs Engineering

Twitter Stream

If you want to read the tweets from the afternoon these have been collated at following link. https://wakelet.com/wake/dC-3Ze-nJ6YUbiRFvl72W

For more videos like this, please subscribe to the School of Built Environment, Engineering and Computing You Tube channel.

With thanks to our event sponsors GliderBIM
and our network sponsors Trimble

thinkBIM is going online! Join our webinar on “Digital Twins” on 20th May 2020

April 29, 2020 / / 0 Comments

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@ Image taken from Centre for Digital Built Britain

Webinar

Wednesday 20th May 2020 | 13:00 to 16:00

Digital Twins

The term Digital Twin, whilst it has only become a popular term in the last couple of years has already earned itself the divisive status that BIM had previously held. So what do we really mean by the term Digital Twin?

Why do we need them?

Who is going to benefit?

And if you want one, how do you get started?

These, and other important questions around the next step in the digitalisation of the whole of the built environment will be addressed by our fantastic line up of speakers for our Summer Online Conference on 20th May 2020.

Mark Enzer, Digital Director, Centre for Digital Built Britain

John Adams, Digital Construction Strategist, Glider Technology

Vicki Reynolds, Head of Digital, i3PT Certification

George Mokhtar, Strategic Director, Digital Advisory, Turner & Townsend

Marina Villanueva, Technical Director Digital Engineering, Built Environment, Jacobs

Brought to you by our event sponsors Glider Technology.

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THIS FREE WEBINAR

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