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Establishing International BIM Certification System
Prof. Nashwan Dawood
Professor, Teesside University
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Required Know-How for BIM Professionals
• Work-flow and supply chain, WLC information flow. • Contracts strategies and legal issues • Construction processes and requirements for information
at each stage. • Technical expertise (BIM authoring tools, integration, BIM
databases, BIM libraries) • BIM protocols (proper definitions of objects and
communication standards) • LOD need for 3D models at every stage of the construction
stages and processes • Change management and the role of BIM in facilitating
this.
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Where to acquire BIM expertise
• On the job training (mainly skills and industry practices)
• University education (mainly knowledge)
• Research associates working on R&D projects related to BIM.
• Training courses credited by professional institutions.
• BIM acadamies
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BIM Academies
• Strategic alliance between industry and academia
• Deliver educational and training courses to industry
• Collaborative R&D projects
• Involve students with real life projects
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Enabled by UK BIM Task Group
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International views on education institutions with BIM curricula
• A wide range of BIM courses are being offered
by universities around the world (UK, EU,USA, Austria)
• Up-skilling of staff to support of desired learning outcome
• Keeping pace within the technical development of BIM
• Internalisation and integrated framework for BIM education
• Teaming up of academic, institutions and industry to deliver credited BIM courses.
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Integrating BIM into the construction education curriculum
• The formation of BIM Academic Forum in collaboration with BIM academy and CIC (UK)
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Conclusions
• A wide range of knowledge and skills are needed for BIM professionals (process, technical and legal issues).
• Work place, universities, BIM academies and credited training courses are main sources skills and knowledge.
• Research work and developments are currently taken place to develop international BIM curricula to enable a rapid industry BIM adoption
