BIM Protocols for Qatar Construction Industry Prof. Nashwan Dawood Nashwan Dawood 1 Qatar Foundation funded project • Development of a Whole Life Cycle Information Flow Approach enabled by Building Information Modeling (BIM) Protocols and Technologies for Qatar Construction Industry. Nashwan Dawood 2 The project • 3 Years Qatar Foundation NPRP funded project • Collaboration with Qatar University, ViCON qatar, QPM, WEN, and a host of industrial partners. • To start from 1 May 2014 for three years. Nashwan Dawood 3 Objectives • To capture stakeholder requirements with regards to the development, collaboration, coordination and control of information flow in construction projects in Qatar • Development and mapping of whole life cycle methodology for information flow in QCI (process-led BIM protocols) • Review and learn form current BM protocol experiences in different countries. • Develop BIM protocols that are applicable to QCI. • Identify and isolate the data for facility management (COBie data) within the lifecycle information flow and develop a decision support system • Run 8 case studies to validate WLC and BIM protocols (outline design, design clashes, 4/5D modelling, facility management) . • To develop courseware to be used for training and teaching purposes and disseminate the research results nationally, regionally and internationally. Nashwan Dawood 4 Methodology • To conduct 4 case studies at the design stage on (ie design authoring, design coordination, energy analysis, cost estimation); • To conduct 2 case studies on the construction stage (ie 4D/5D planning, offsite fabrication); • To conduct 2 case studies (following completion of objective 6) at the handover and facility management stage (ie handover of data for operation stage, building maintenance operation management); Nashwan Dawood 5 Objective 2: Capture of stakeholders’ highlevel requirements and review contractual and procurement routes in Qatar (Requirements and policies) Objective 3: Whole-lifecycle information flow mapping and validation Research Management Technology feedback Objective 1: Review and evaluation of the state-of-art of knowledge in BIM processes and BIM technologies review (Technologies) Policy feedback objective 7: Dissemination and courseware training development to other objectives Plans and project logic Objective 4: Development of whole lifecycle information flow which is enabled by process-led BIM protocols and considers technology and policy in Qatar. Objective 5: Testing and validation of whole lifecycle information flow using 8 case studies Objective 6: Identification of relationships between design decisions and facility operations performance by analyzing the “COBie Data Drops” model and the development of a Decision support system for the prediction of operation performance at the design stage Dissemination of research results and outputs and courseware development and training continues beyond the project end data Nashwan Dawood 6 Nashwan Dawood 7 Whole cycle approach to information flow in construction processes Nashwan Dawood 8 Review of Current BIM Protocols AGC - Consensus Docs 301 BIM Addendum GSA, 3D-4D-BIM Program Guidelines USACE, BIM Project Execution Plan, ver 1.0 The State of Ohio BIM Protocols U.S., 2006 Penn State University – project execution planning guide, ver 2 New York City Council – BIM guidelines NIST, 2007 AEC (UK) BIM Protocol U.S., 2010 BSI / CIC BIM Protocols UK, 2012 RIBA: BIM Overlay to the RIBA Outline CRC-CI national guidelines for digital modeling Singapore BIM Guide (ver 1.0) UK, 2012 U.S., 2010  U.S., 2006  SG, 2012        Protocols for level of development (LoD), authorized uses of models and responsibilities for LoDs Standard contract documents for legal and administration issues associated with using BIM  Guidelines for GSA associates and consultants engaging in BIM practices Protocols for implementing BIM in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer's civil works and military construction business processes. General guidelines for building owners (requests for qualifications, agreements, bidding requirements, contracts) Process maps and template resources to assist in the implementation of BIM uses   Basic guidelines for use of BIM for municipal agencies     AU, 2009   U.S., 2012 U.S., 2007  UK, 2012   U.S., 2010 Brief description Ind ustr y U.S., 2008 Target Ent erpr ise Proj ect AIA – E202 Domain Poli cy Country, Year Tec hnol ogy Pro cess Protocol          Standard definitions for information exchanges guidelines, specific to Revit, Bentley, ArchiCAD and Vectorworks, to inform the creation of BIM elements and facilitate collaboration Guides that identify model-based requirements to be produced project team members, permitted uses of models, levels of development and other contractual requirements An overview of how BIM alter the RIBA work outline plan of work. Guidelines for creation, maintenance, modeling procedures and implementation on large projects guidelines for mono and multi-disciplinary modeling and collaboration Nashwan Dawood 9 Reviewing and Utilising Current BIM standards: PAS 1192/2 Nashwan Dawood 10 Initial results of Market Demand in Qatar? • Information reliability. • Models available in different format and when and where are needed. • Efficient data structure to enable models to be used effectively efficiently. • Efficient use of standard library to enable rapid and fast model development. • Allowing multiple BIM files from multiple disciplines and organisations to be merged. Nashwan Dawood 11 Initial results • Colourful and animated 3D models are not greatly contributing to site operations. • Construction supply chain is not supported/benefited from BIM adoption. • No standards and no local capabilities in driving the international BIM agenda. • TRUST is the main gradient for efficient and effective information flow. • Contracts strategies have a major influence on WLC information. Nashwan Dawood 12 Conclusions • There is a great need to develop national Qatar standards in BIM processes and technologies. • There a need for BIM academy/knoweldge centres to embrace research work and train future BIM managers • Construction supply chain should be at the heart of BIM adoption so that benefits can be realised. Nashwan Dawood 13