This episode's guest Andy Hamer is an experienced expert in a lot of aspects of construction and the built environment, but today Ian is going to discuss the details of Building Information Modelling (BIM) with him. BIM is of particular interest to Andy with its digitisation techniques and meticulous virtual representation of a building project being of great merit to the modern construction sector.
Andy has had a 40-year journey working in technology in telecoms, electronics, software and silicon since graduating with a degree in Marketing Engineering from Huddersfield Poly. He joined the BIM world over 10 years ago starting out in construction with Peter Mann at Codebook. He spends much of his time convincing people to streamline their businesses with the implementation of technology to deliver an efficient, budgeted, timely project. He has become a leading expert in all things BIM and is an RICS Certified BIM Information Project Manager.
He and Ian discuss new software technologies, challenges facing the industry on the technology front, BIM issues and requirements, modern working attitudes to BIM and the many advantages and risk reductions that can be achieved with real time accurate data representation and access.
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BEST MOMENTS
‘I think it’s more than BIM, I think technology itself is disruptive in the construction industry because despite the fact the construction industry seems to think it spends a lot of money on technology, it really doesn't.’ - Andy
‘I’m less of the building and more of the information management. So that information management enables us to drive and create a single source of truth or golden thread……see, different terminologies get used..but that's ostensibly what we do, connect data together.’ – Andy
‘Do you think the industry at large, not just construction but the whole end to end process, from clients initial idea about a project, all the way through to that client actually using that building to operate or generate income, do you think that everything is properly joined up in that process?’ - Ian
‘When you buy a sandwich do you look at the sell by date of the butty you just bought? When that report comes by your desk, do you look at when that data was collected, do you have any ideas of if that data is correct, how long it was there for? And they go ‘no’.’ – Andy
‘We’ve got technology that should spot those sorts of things early on these days.’ – Andy. ‘I’m currently negotiating a series of consultants agreements for a large project. One of the biggest issues that’s coming up on the consultant agreements is the consultants not taking responsibility for the information they receive from others.’ - Ian
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ABOUT THE HOST
Ian Rogers is an entrepreneur running businesses in the Real Estate, Construction and Facilities Management arena. Ian has over 40 years’ industry experience, as he was effectively born into construction with his father having his own building company and Ian spending time working on sites from the age of 11!. As a result Ian has seen the industry from a trades person perspective, as a chartered quantity surveyor working on large commercial projects, as a project manager and then working on structured project finance through PFI/PPP deals. This has given Ian a unique whole life approach to any project by considering the end game at the beginning.
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