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Current Filter: CAD>>>>>News> Industry prepares for 2016 BIM mandate Editorial Type: News Date: 11-2015 Views: 3988 Key Topics: CAD BIM Construction Collaboration Key Companies: NBS CPA BIM4M2 CIBSE Key Products: Joint Initiative BIM Key Industries: Government | |||
A joint initiative between the Construction Products Association (CPA), BIM4M2, the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) and NBS has been formed to provide consistent product data parameters and templates to enable manufacturers to prepare their product information in readiness for the Government's April 2016 BIM mandate With the Government's Level 2 BIM requirement rapidly approaching, there is a real and urgent need for accurate, accessible and consistent digital product information. The manufacturer community needs a single and unified approach to product data, using a common language. Manufacturers already have the required information, but a simple and industry-wide approach to product data parameters and templates has until now been a challenge. Through this initiative, building and infrastructure manufacturers will have free and ready access to product data parameters and templates that are relevant to their products and have been developed through a defined consensus process. By using these templates manufacturers will be able to supply product information in a form that aligns with the UK's Level 2 BIM requirements. Each template defines the minimum information about a product that is required for UK Government BIM projects. Mark Bew MBE, Chairman BIM Task Group, said: "When the BIM Task Group identified the client data requirements which are now provided in the BIM Toolkit we were looking for other communities to work together to provide their own common data requirements. This initiative from the products and manufacturing sector signals an important collaboration from industry which will add significant value and clarity." | |||
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