Past Events

Hosted by Jacobs| Winnersh Triangle | RG41 5TU Keynote from David Greenwood, Director – BIM Academy, part of the winning team of the ‘Build Sydney Live 2013 challenge.  David will share how the BIM Academy collaborated with a wide range of BIM specialists to produce this award-winning design during the gruelling 48-hour competition. With team members scattered across the globe, collaborative technologies played a key role in the success. Itinerary 4.30– 5.00pm | Registration and networking 5.00 – 5.10pm | Richard…

Cookham Wood was the first Government BIM Early Adopter project and it was a steep learning curve from the outset.  Balancing the various BIM maturity levels of team members and changing the way some deliverables were approached.  Learn about the Project Team’s experience of implementing BIM on this early adopter project, the challenges faced, the lessons learnt and how it has informed subsequent projects. Itinerary 4.30– 5.00pm | Registration and networking 5.00 – 5.10pm | Richard Lane & John Staves –…

A number of technology providers including  Autodesk, Bentley, Graphisoft, Solibri, Tekla and Trimble will deliver short presentations to provide you with a general overview of BIM related software. Visit the BIM CAVE:  Dr Maxwell Mallia-Parfitt, University of Reading Our hosts, the University of Reading, are also offering the chance to experience total immersion within a BIM model.  In the BIM CAVE (Collaborative Automatic Virtual Environment) graphics are projected in stereo onto three walls and the floor and viewed with active stereo…

Following a Government BIM Task Group Update, a number of technology and services providers, including 4Projects, Asite, Faro, Hobs Reprographics and IDN, will deliver short presentations on how their technologies and services support a BIM project. Itinerary 4.30– 5.00pm | Registration and networking 5.00 – 5.15pm | Welcome, Introduction & BIM Task Group Update 5.15 – 6.45pm | Technology & Services Presentations 6.45  - 7.00pm | Q&A & Networking 7.00 (latest) | Close

Kier shared the details of how they are managing a current BIM project. There was also an overview of the BIM Toolkit (rolled out from April 2015),  providing step-by-step support to define, manage and validate responsibility for information development and delivery at each stage of the asset lifecycle. Itinerary 4.30– 5.00pm  | Registration and networking 5.00 – 5.15pm | Welcome, Introduction & BIM Task Group Update 5.15 – 5.45pm | Project Case Study from Kier 5.45 - 6.30pm  | Overview…

A number of different speakers shared their thoughts on how & why they implemented BIM within their business and what, if any, difference it has made to the business highlighting any specific projects. Itinerary 4.30– 5.00pm  | Registration and networking 5.00 – 5.15pm | Welcome, Introduction  5.15 – 5.45pm | UK BIM alliance Update (John) 5.45 - 6.05pm  | Temporary worksite setup & Kier's digital construction apprenticeship scheme (Stuart) 6.05  - 6.25pm | How Mackley have leveraged the CDE capabilities of GroupBC (Trevor)…

The next BIM regions event is being scheduled for 19th June The agenda is still to be confirmed but stands at: 17:05 – 17:35    We would like a practice that has implemented BIM in the Thames Valley to tell us about their challenges to-date. If you would like to talk at this spot, please email BIMRegionsTV@gmail.com 17:35 – 18:05   Transitioning to ISO19650 from BS1192 (TBC - hopefully someone from the Task Group) 18:05 – 18:35    All things COBie (Daniel Heselwood…

BIM regions Thames Valley will be attending Construction Excellence Berkshire's event BIM & Digital Engineering - Legal & Standard updates If you would like to attend, follow the link below to register. There is a small cost to non-members but it does include breakfast.