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Middle-East BIM Report
BIM in the Middle East 2011 The Reality and The Way Forward
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Middle-East BIM Report
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BIM is a term that is increasingly being used in the region – but often without a real understanding of what it means. Building SMART ME are raising awareness, which is exactly what is needed.
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Ramesh Tolani, Tolani, Managing Director Al Rashid Investments
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Organisations that recognise market trends and are open to the integration of new technology in their business process, are likely to succeed and become leaders in their eld. I believe this report will assist in further establishing the BIM culture within the MENA region.
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Laurie Voyer, Voyer, CEO & Managing Director Al Habtoor Leighton Group
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One of the key problems we face as an industry is to source the skills required to deploy BIM successfully. buildingSMART ME is taking the initiative with the current workforce. However, to meet skills requirements in the longer term academia must provide the core curricula, so that new entrants in the workforce have the necessary skills.
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Dr. Imad Al Jamal, Jamal, Vice Chairman UAE Contractors Association
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If we are seriously looking to increase the usage of BIM in the market, we need to know the current status and the things that prevent take up. This survey is the starting point and from here industry can grow its understanding understanding of the challenges and develop meaningful programmes to address them.
Cheng Tai Fatt, Fatt, Director Corporate Development Division Building & Construction Authority
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Middle-East BIM Report
“
BIM is a term that is increasingly being used in the region – but often without a real understanding of what it means. Building SMART ME are raising awareness, which is exactly what is needed.
”
Ramesh Tolani, Tolani, Managing Director Al Rashid Investments
“
Organisations that recognise market trends and are open to the integration of new technology in their business process, are likely to succeed and become leaders in their eld. I believe this report will assist in further establishing the BIM culture within the MENA region.
”
Laurie Voyer, Voyer, CEO & Managing Director Al Habtoor Leighton Group
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One of the key problems we face as an industry is to source the skills required to deploy BIM successfully. buildingSMART ME is taking the initiative with the current workforce. However, to meet skills requirements in the longer term academia must provide the core curricula, so that new entrants in the workforce have the necessary skills.
”
Dr. Imad Al Jamal, Jamal, Vice Chairman UAE Contractors Association
“
If we are seriously looking to increase the usage of BIM in the market, we need to know the current status and the things that prevent take up. This survey is the starting point and from here industry can grow its understanding understanding of the challenges and develop meaningful programmes to address them.
Cheng Tai Fatt, Fatt, Director Corporate Development Division Building & Construction Authority
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Middle-East BIM Report
Foreword BuildingSMART ME – Bringing ‘buildingSMART’ to the Middle East, North Africa and India.
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uildingSMART ME was launched in 2009 and is the 14th regional alliance of buildingSMART International.
buildingSMART International was founded founded in 1995 by a group of North American organisations. Originally known as the International Alliance for Interoperability, its goal was to build SMARTER and to revolutionise the entire building industry by transforming the way the various project participants - including architects, engineers, contractors, manufacturers and building owners/operators - communicate and share information. Since then it has made signicant progress. Groups all over the world are forming new buildingSMART regional alliances that are driving their local markets towards greater building efciencies and innovations. Building Information Modelling software is beginning to streamline the design, construction, and operation processes. Teams are using the open international standards developed by buildingSMART for information exchange in projects worldwide.
Patrick MacLeamy, FAIA Chairman, buildingSMART International
North Africa and India as it is elsewhere. The challenge is to move quickly, q uickly, using buildingSMART processes to positively impact on construction across the region. Working together globally, it is possible to deliver faster, better, sustainable buildings at more affordable prices. buildingSMART International endorses the efforts of buildingSMART ME as it helps to drive forward the building industry in the Middle East, North Africa and India.
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However, today’s buildings still aren’t good enough. Unlike other major sectors of the world’s economy, the construction industry has failed to take full advantage of the opportunities provided by technology to achieve new efciencies. Manufacturers, for example, can produce and ship their products much faster and less expensively than they could a decade ago. Meanwhile, construction methods have improved only marginally over the past century. If you look at photographs of buildings being built 100 years ago, you will nd scenes remarkably similar to those we see now on construction sites. Though local conditions place different demands on buildings, the need to develop better buildings knows no geographic boundaries. Today, this demand is as urgent in the fast-growing cities of the Middle East,
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Middle-East BIM Report
Welcome
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uilding Information Modelling offers signicant benets for construction projects and the project owners: faster delivery, better quality control, increased certainty of cost, reduced risk, enhanced sustainable performance and greater efciency. What the Middle East construction sector shares with construction in other regions is the need to eliminate waste and inefciency, improve productivity and quality, whilst adopting sustainable practices.
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To be able to reap the rewards, there has to be investment. As the world emerges from recession, companies and clients are still reluctant to adopt changes. Many do not even know where to start with the change.
Tahir Sharif
The decision to adopt BIM involves three areas: people, process and technology. Binding these three areas together is information; accurate, immediate and collaborative information. The key to successful BIM deployment is ensuring that this rened level of information is accessible to the entire project team throughout the life of the project.
improved policies, enhanced processes, trained people and overall a better way of working.
Recognised as an industry authority and a successful ‘brand’, buildingSMART was identied as the vehicle to support and progress the adoption of BIM in the Middle East construction sector. Acknowledging the unique conditions of this market, buildingSMART ME was established to deliver innovative solutions.
Launched in February 2009, BIM Journal 1 is an online newsletter, that draws on industry experts and BIM pioneers to demystify BIM and present it as a necessary and integral part of the design, construction and operation process.
Capitalising on the extensive experience and the vision of its founding team, buildingSMART ME went from concept stage to its successful launch in November 2009.
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buildingSMART ME is working to integrate BIM into academic programmes, to secure government endorsement and to develop the standards, training and certication, that will result in a professionally qualied and skilled workforce, equipped to fully realize the benets of BIM. Its role is to help deliver
Founding President, buildingSMART ME
The pioneering BIM Support Bureau provides a delivery mechanism - bridging the gap between theory and practice and enabling businesses to benet from interoperable process and technology.
buildingSMART ME undertook the rst ever, Middle East BIM survey, earlier this year. The ndings of that survey are presented in this report and are being used to help dene strategic objectives for buildingSMART ME. buildingSMART ME extends a special thanks to its survey sponsors - Premium Corporate Partner Tekla and Corporate Partners BIMES, Bentley and Oger International.
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