PAYERAS ARCH & TECH, represented by Engineer Mariana Canto, was present at the BIM FORUM BRAZIL held on May 22nd and 23rd, 2023.
Below are some notes on relevant topics:
Public Sector:
Major victories that inspire the entire ecosystem, such as the resumption of the BIM BR strategy by the current government;
Inclusion in the bidding law that mandates "preferably" all projects to be developed in BIM (if not preferred, justification is required for not doing so);
Training:
Collaboration between the federal and state governments needed to train municipalities;
The TCU (Federal Court of Audits) is also working to train itself to both supervise and educate municipalities;
Construction companies are urging their suppliers to join the implementation process as they cannot find adequately skilled suppliers in the market;
Ensuring that competence is transferred from skilled individuals to the company and does not solely reside with them; information management;
Implementation:
Mature construction companies acknowledge that implementation took 5-7 years and is still not 100% across all their sectors, meaning it's not quick! Understand that it's a process;
MPD Engenharia reported that BIM on the site only worked after model access and training were disseminated to the site foremen and not just the engineers;
Cultural Barrier:
To adopt BIM, it's necessary to change the process, the project development flow. The phases we know must become obsolete; documentation needs to occur only at the end of the process;
Open BIM:
The Open CDE creation was presented. The communication protocol promises to enable conversation among various CDEs directly with software, removing barriers and the need for downloads, working in real-time. It depends on developers' implementation;
BCF 3.0 format is now available allowing more than one image per issue, but software hasn't yet implemented/adopted the format;
The creation of the Brazilian chapter of Building Smart was announced to promote the use of Open BIM, create material in Portuguese, and translate our standards into IDS language;
BIM Contracting Guide:
The BIM Contracting Guide has been launched. You can download it directly from the BIM Fórum website;
If BIM is collaboration, how do we translate collaboration into contractual clauses? How do we handle intellectual property?
BIM implementation cannot forever be a 1:1 consultancy model because it's unfeasible in the long term. We need standards that can be adopted by municipalities, small companies without the effort required currently;
Live Project:
The project is a concept/database at the center of everything, encompassing all phases from Feasibility Studies to post-operation. BIM that is only used in design is BIM that dies;
Use this data to train AI to provide continuous improvement insights. A massive data lake;
We have the technology (1061 tech + construction startups in Brazil), we need to learn how to connect them and maintain continuity.