Increasing the uptake of BIM

- New Zealand Approach

The Building and Construction Sector Productivity Partnership

Chris Kane - Manager

Increasing the uptake of BIM

in New Zealand - An Update

1) The Productivity Partnership – why, who, what

2) The Workstreams

3) BIM Acceleration – why and how

4) Barriers – trample or dodge

5) Contributing initiatives

The Productivity Partnership

• Established in February 2011 to address low productivity in the sector

• Collaboration between industry organisations and government

• Four work streams: Skills, Evidence, Procurement and Construction Systems

Construction productivity is lagging

Ian Page, BRANZ

Partnership aims

• Focus is to build the value of New Zealand’s building and construction sector

– Productive, safe and profitable

– Deliver good quality homes and buildings

– Provide a foundation for strong communities and a prosperous economy

• Goal: 20% increase in productivity by 2020

20%/2020 ≈ 2% GDP ≈ $2.6 billion

Mud on the boots approach

Productivity will improve when

we get the right people with the right tools doing the right

stuff

we use a lot of low skill labour, don’t use our capital wisely

and quality isn’t a key driver

Industry leader’s definition, 2011

• Sole Traders • Sub-Contactors

• Franchise Arrangements

• Private companies • Public companies • Commercial J.V’s • PPP’s

One size does not fit all

We’ve got a bit more volatility

than other economies

Data: OECD, Source: Ian Page, BRANZ

Importance to NZ Inc

• 90% of NZ household wealth is held in housing

• 50% of building work ($50k+) results in disagreements or disputes

(DBH Research, 2010)

• Leaky building syndrome has damaged the reputation of the sector

– PwC estimate ≈ $11.3 billion cost to repair

• The collapse of 50 finance companies since 2006 ≈ $6 billion

• Remedial earthquake strengthening of national building stock

• Cabinet estimate ≈ $1.7 billion cost to strengthen

• Christchurch rebuild

• Current estimates between $32 billion and $40 billion

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Initiatives update

Workstreams Purpose Progress

Ways to improve labour

productivity and skills

• Skills Strategy launched

• Implementation plan being rolled out

Research as a tool to target and

improve productivity • KPIs, targets and statistics

• Research Action Plan implementation

Changes to procurement

processes to improve productivity

and quality

•Auckland Procurement Forum

•Canterbury Procurement Forum

•Centre of expertise

Ways to improve on the

productivity on construction and

system

• National Pipeline

•Segmentation of market/process mapping

• Building Information Modelling

Skills

Evidence

Procurement

Construction

Systems

BIM Acceleration Strategy,

An Update

• Strategy is to support and give profile to early adopters

–Then to build a case/not for government to assist with

incentives

• Primary focus is on large projects

–Target key influencers on client decisions

–QS, PM, Designers, Contractors

–Follow the money!

Change models

• The Partnership is the start of a change

programme

Platform for change

Technical Implementation Issues

• BIM uptake in New Zealand is low

• Shortage of trained BIM practitioners

• Works better when there is a single project BIM provider; so ‘Turnkey’, ‘Design and Build’ and ‘PPP’ commercial project structures are better suited to BIM than design-bid-build

• Different BIM software suites do not necessarily ‘talk’ to each other

Non-technical Implementation

Issues

• Clients are not sure whether to commit $$

–Lack of NZ-specific case studies

• Wall of work

–No need/time to change how things are done

• Procurement practices still discourage forming the team early

–Client instincts are still towards open tender

Partnership forward work

• NZ BIM guide on the way

–For practitioners

–Updated, NZ version of Australian guide

–Produced by NatSpec

• BIM Client Guide on the way

–For clients, answering some of the questions about

“why should I pay for BIM?”

Procurement holds the key

• Significant effort being put into lifting capability in procurement

–Self-assessment tool for clients

–Sharing of critical forward workload information

–Consolidation of government procurement

responsibility in Ministry of Business, Innovation and

Employment

–Creation of Centre of Expertise

Procurement

Construction Procurement

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Communication Education

Oversight Forward Programme

Industry Structure

Other Regions

Auckland

Canterbury

Defining Better Practice, Benchmarking On-line model for Client and Constructor

Pipeline

Coord. Effort

Proc. Initiatives

Fragmentation Aggregation Standardisation

Minimum, Standards Best Practice Guidelines: Project/proc. Mgt On-line guides for SME builders

Christchurch rebuild

• The largest single construction “project” in

the southern hemisphere

–Have established a procurement forum for clients to

discuss forward work – currently a serious overload is

looming

–Need to change how projects are brought to market,

and how they are to be managed

–Centre of Expertise will grow first within the Canterbury

Earthquake Recovery Authority

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Scheduling of projects

KEY:

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109 Headline Projects

10 Lead Agencies

Other commentary

• 6 RFPs in a week

• 4 clients on GETS for PM services

• $900m of construction starts within 3 months of each other

• Over $4.1bn of work from inception to start by Q1 2015

• Project phasing provided in isolation

• Appetite for collaboration?

Other Initiaitves

• Three other initiatives will rely on BIM

–GeoBuild

–Better Public Services “Result Area 9”

–Canterbury Forward Works Spatial Coordination

project

GeoBuild STRATEGIC OUTCOMES

A national information exchange framework that

digitises building, geographical and environmental data

and information.

GeoBuild promotes open, standards based and

reusable information:

• within the built environment

• and ultimately the whole environment

Consistent with both Australian and New Zealand

Governments recognition that there is synergy between

building and spatial information, e.g. the Foundation

Spatial Data Framework More information can be found here: http://spatial.gov.au/anzlic/foundation-data-themes

THE GeoBuild PROGRAMME

There are three initial components to GeoBuild:

Implementing a

National Online

Consenting System

Accelerating the use of

Building Information

Modelling

Enhanced local and national location

based information and Building modelling

data – the interoperability layer

BETTER

LOCATION

KNOWLEDGE

BUILDING INFORMATION

MODELLING

Infrastructure Modelling

Building Modelling

Precinct Modelling

Environment Modelling

National Online Consenting System

LOCATION INFORMATION

NATIONAL ONLINE CONSENTING

CONSENTING

• 69 BCAs

• Inconsistency of interpretation and process

• Delays in consent processing

• Burdensome logistics (e.g. hard copy)

• Difficult to monitor and measure BCA activity

• Difficult to collate and analyse national data sets

• Fragmented approach by BCAs in use of IT

• Sector and Applicant demand for Online

• Rate payers demand for Digital

INTEROPERABILITY

Utilities - Water

GeoTech

Utilities – Gas/Electricity

Location I.D

Building Construction Consent Information

Enable layering of datasets linked to individual locations

Shared transaction platforms and processes

through data interoperability

Providing an easily accessible, and more

complete and accurate/reliable, picture

of land-based property information

A cross-government vision for location-based property information.

OTHER PERSPECTIVES

• Certainty and consistency of outcome

• Innovation without undue compliance burden

• Reduced search cost - standards based

• Reduce cost & time for building projects

• Robust framework for sharing information

• More efficient use of scarce resources.

KEY BENEFITS

“Result 9”

• NZ businesses have a one-stop online shop

for all government advice and support

–Target: Business costs from dealing with government will

reduce by 25 per cent by 2017, through a year-on-year

reduction in effort required to work with agencies.

–Target: Government services to business will have similar

key performance ratings as leading private sector firms by

July 2017, and businesses will be able to contribute to this

through an online feedback system from July 2013

–Major cross-government exercise

Forward Works Spatial Co-ordination

Project

• Aims to develop a shared view of horizontal infrastructure repair and built environment construction plans and activities. –Expect to see reduced conflicts, costs, and delays to repair

infrastructure, and repair or rebuild of residential and commercial buildings –meaning a faster economic recovery and enhanced community wellbeing

–Aims to ultimately use BIM data to inform GIS data

already being collected for the city.

Timing Drives Actions

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

OLC

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Interoperability of data underpins GeoBuild optimisation

Conclusion

• Numerous opportunities to benefit from the increased use of BIM

• We will continue to support and profile the early adopters –Provide resources

–Publicise benefits

–Join the dots

• Work inside government to build the evidence base for incentives to use BIM

Thank You

The Partnership’s resources are available online

www.buildingvalue.co.nz