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BIM Protocols for Qatar Construction Industry

Prof. Nashwan Dawood

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Qatar Foundation funded project

• Development of a Whole Life Cycle Information Flow Approach enabled by Building Information Modeling (BIM) Protocols and Technologies for Qatar Construction Industry.

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The project

• 3 Years Qatar Foundation NPRP funded project

• Collaboration with Qatar University, ViCON qatar, QPM, WEN, and a host of industrial partners.

• To start from 1 May 2014 for three years.

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Objectives • To capture stakeholder requirements with regards to the development,

collaboration, coordination and control of information flow in construction projects in Qatar

• Development and mapping of whole life cycle methodology for information flow in QCI (process-led BIM protocols)

• Review and learn form current BM protocol experiences in different countries.

• Develop BIM protocols that are applicable to QCI.

• Identify and isolate the data for facility management (COBie data) within the lifecycle information flow and develop a decision support system

• Run 8 case studies to validate WLC and BIM protocols (outline design, design

clashes, 4/5D modelling, facility management) .

• To develop courseware to be used for training and teaching purposes and disseminate the research results nationally, regionally and internationally.

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Methodology

• To conduct 4 case studies at the design stage on (ie design authoring, design coordination, energy analysis, cost estimation);

• To conduct 2 case studies on the construction stage (ie 4D/5D planning, offsite fabrication);

• To conduct 2 case studies (following completion of objective 6) at the handover and facility management stage (ie handover of data for operation stage, building maintenance operation management);

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Plans and project logic

Objective 1: Review and evaluation of the

state-of-art of knowledge in BIM processes

and BIM technologies review (Technologies)

Objective 2: Capture of stakeholders’ high-

level requirements and review contractual

and procurement routes in Qatar

(Requirements and policies)

Objective 3: Whole-lifecycle information flow mapping and validation

Objective 4: Development of whole lifecycle information flow which is enabled by process-led

BIM protocols and considers technology and policy in Qatar.

Objective 5: Testing and validation of whole lifecycle information flow using 8 case studies

Objective 6: Identification of relationships between design decisions and facility operations

performance by analyzing the “COBie Data Drops” model and the development of a Decision

support system for the prediction of operation performance at the design stage

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Whole cycle approach to information flow in construction processes

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Review of Current BIM Protocols Protocol Country,

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AIA – E202 U.S., 2008 Protocols for level of development (LoD), authorized

uses of models and responsibilities for LoDs AGC - Consensus Docs 301 BIM Addendum

U.S., 2006

Standard contract documents for legal and administration issues associated with using BIM

GSA, 3D-4D-BIM Program Guidelines

U.S., 2010 Guidelines for GSA associates and consultants engaging

in BIM practices USACE, BIM Project Execution Plan, ver 1.0

U.S., 2006

Protocols for implementing BIM in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer's civil works and military construction business processes.

The State of Ohio BIM Protocols

U.S., 2010

General guidelines for building owners (requests for qualifications, agreements, bidding requirements, contracts)

Penn State University – project execution planning guide, ver 2

U.S., 2010

Process maps and template resources to assist in the implementation of BIM uses

New York City Council – BIM guidelines

U.S., 2012

Basic guidelines for use of BIM for municipal agencies

NIST, 2007 U.S., 2007 Standard definitions for information exchanges

AEC (UK) BIM Protocol

UK, 2012

guidelines, specific to Revit, Bentley, ArchiCAD and Vectorworks, to inform the creation of BIM elements and facilitate collaboration

BSI / CIC BIM Protocols

UK, 2012

Guides that identify model-based requirements to be produced project team members, permitted uses of models, levels of development and other contractual requirements

RIBA: BIM Overlay to the RIBA Outline

UK, 2012 An overview of how BIM alter the RIBA work outline

plan of work. CRC-CI national guidelines for digital modeling

AU, 2009

Guidelines for creation, maintenance, modeling procedures and implementation on large projects

Singapore BIM Guide (ver 1.0)

SG, 2012 guidelines for mono and multi-disciplinary modeling and

collaboration

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Reviewing and Utilising Current BIM standards: PAS 1192/2

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Initial results of Market Demand in Qatar?

• Information reliability. • Models available in different format

and when and where are needed. • Efficient data structure to enable

models to be used effectively efficiently.

• Efficient use of standard library to enable rapid and fast model development.

• Allowing multiple BIM files from multiple disciplines and organisations to be merged.

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Initial results

• Colourful and animated 3D models are not greatly contributing to site operations.

• Construction supply chain is not supported/benefited from BIM adoption.

• No standards and no local capabilities in driving the international BIM agenda.

• TRUST is the main gradient for efficient and effective information flow.

• Contracts strategies have a major influence on WLC information.

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Conclusions

• There is a great need to develop national Qatar standards in BIM processes and technologies.

• There a need for BIM academy/knoweldge centres to embrace research work and train future BIM managers

• Construction supply chain should be at the heart of BIM adoption so that benefits can be realised.