CDBB’s role in the UK BIM Programme
CDBB is one of the organisations tasked by Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) with managing the UK BIM Programme. This involves knowledge sharing among industry stakeholders, academics and policy makers to adopt and implement innovative digital approaches. This includes:
- Coordinating and delivering events and activities that engage industry in adopting BIM for the operation and integration of assets;
- An education and training programme;
- Liaising with national and international standard bodies to create and iterate technical standards and protocols that support industry implementation of BIM;
- Supporting existing communities and strategic organisational work to promote BIM, including government departments (central, local and their agencies), UK BIM Alliance, Digital Transformation Network, buildingSMART, Institution of Civil Engineers’ Digital Transformation Advisory Board, BIM4, BSI, Future Cities Catapult, Construction Leadership Council, Construction Industry Council, Digital Catapult, Alan Turing Institute, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Ordinance Survey, Geospatial Commission, and the Chartered Institute of Building;
- Working with the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) to promote a security-minded approach to BIM and to digital technologies;
- Promoting the UK BIM Programme internationally to grow potential export markets.
CDBB and the Construction Innovation Hub are working to better understand industry progress toward information management and digital ways of working becoming ‘business as usual’ in the construction sector. Focused on promoting the methodology of information management and digital ways of working, rather than technical solutions, they are developing the guidance, case studies, tools and support needed to better design, build and operate buildings and infrastructure.
Together with the BSI and UK BIM Alliance, CDBB supports the UK BIM Framework, which offers guidance and support to businesses of all sizes and at all levels of digital maturity.