- Title
- Building Information Modelling (BIM) in Tasmania: foresight report
- Creator
- Brewer, Graham; Gajendran, Thayaparan; Le Goff, Raichel
- Publisher
- Tasmanian Construction and Building Training Board
- Resource Type
- report
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- As the last in a series of three discussion papers commissioned by the Tasmanian Building and Construction Industry Training Board (TBCITB) the following pages contain a digest of current BIM thinking contextualised in Tasmania. Given that it is known that BIM capacity is barely present in the State it has been decided to treat this as a strategic. Foresight report where both the statewide industry and individual firms are examined using a SWOT analysis. Wherever possible it builds upon pre-existing published research and other publicly available documents/media, but ultimately it signposts possible Tasmanian futures in a BIM-enabled world. This paper begins by analysing the capabilities of the architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) sector as a whole, highlighting some critical implications for sectorwide productivity and its impact on the State’s economy. It goes on to examine a notional firm within the Tasmanian AEC sector, identifying a range of consequences for it, arising from its action or inaction in relation to BIM. The paper concludes with a set of recommendations that can be summarised thus: Tasmanian engagement with a BIM-enabled AEC environment is starting from a low base, but the roll-out of the National Broadband Network (NBN) provides it with a comparatively brief opportunity to leverage faster data transfer speeds than the majority of mainland competitors. ; The Tasmanian AEC sector is entirely comprised of small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Firms of this size are more capable of agility and responsiveness. ; In an information-intensive industry BIM provides the opportunity for new products and services to be created, marketed and delivered to Tasmanian, mainland, and international clients and supply chain partners. ; Creating competitiveness through BIM is as much a human and business issue as it is a technological one. Unleashing the full innovative potential of a BIM-enabled Tasmanian AEC sector can only be achieved through a combination of the strategic recognition of BIM’s innovation potential by leaders of businesses, followed by appropriate high-level technology adoption and training. ; The TBCITB is ideally positioned to support BIM (and other high-technology) adoption and consequent innovation across the sector.
- Subject
- Building Information Modelling (BIM); Tasmania; AEC sector; construction
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1356679
- Identifier
- uon:31751
- Language
- eng
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