Digitally-enabled Built Environment – An Overview

Event details
Date | 10.01.2017 |
Hour | 10:30 › 11:30 |
Speaker | Prof. Bimal Kumar Department of Construction Processes and Practice Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, United Kingdom |
Location | |
Category | Conferences - Seminars |
This presentation will give an overview of some of the challenges and issues prevalent in construction industries in most parts of the world and how they can be potentially addressed by a structured digitisation and information management. Generally speaking, the construction industry, in most parts of the world, is plagued by low productivity, low margins and litigation. Lately, BIM (Building Information Modelling) has been proposed as a panacea for some of these challenges. However, there is still a lot of ‘mystery’ surrounding what BIM is and indeed how it could solve some of the perennial challenges in this industry. This presentation will attempt to demystify BIM and present a case for structured information management during the entire lifecycle of a built asset as potentially a way forward for addressing some of these challenges. The seminar will be divided into four key parts, viz. an overview of issues in the construction industry, fundamentals of BIM with some case studies, implications of BIM-driven project delivery on education and training and some advanced research around BIM.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- IMAC
Contact
- Sai G.S Pai