In my next post, I will discuss Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) and how value can be delivered and efficiencies derived from its application.
Lamont doesn’t believe it’s necessarily the best process.. On the other side of things, there are governments trying to lead the path to innovation.In the UK there’s Level 2 BIM.
In Australia, different states are following different approaches.In Queensland any government project over 50 million dollars must be fully BIM detailed, with a set of requirements related to output and deliverables.That said, he believes that the contracting market is engaging for compliance, not necessarily to be more efficient.
He talks about Transport for New South Wales, who’ve come up with an amazing, digital engineering framework to set the output requirements they want the industry to meet.Unfortunately, he says, it’s gotten lost in some of the government context of what’s going on there.
The framework is trying to drive large infrastructure programs of work because they’re so complex, and this feeds into health and schools, as well as other government-led projects.
On the other hand, in the commercial sector, he believes profit has been the primary motivator.When the Construction Innovation Hub began, the intention was for a project management strategy focused on iteration and development.
The goal was to develop a kit-of-parts approach that could be implemented with manufacturing processes, assembled in standardised ways, in standardised environments.That still exists, but the Hub is now aware of the need to look at other and bigger elements as well, such as information management..
The Construction Innovation Hub is interested in how we can use data more effectively, and how it can be interoperable, reused in different ways by different parties, and throughout the life of an asset.The Hub will continue to explore how to develop platform construction (P-DfMA), and how people can benefit from it, with an aim of developing guides and rule books, but it’s also now looking beyond modern methods of construction (whether you call that platform construction, offsite, or DfMA), at traditional construction as well.