Building Information Modelling – Lessons from the UK

Collaborative contracting can result in a more efficiently delivered project for less. Many contractors are using collaborative construction techniques to enable them to manage projects more efficiently. Building materials are more economically sourced and combined project meetings between contractors and sub-contractors are taking place. This collaborative approach, however, is not necessarily being driven by the form of construction contract in place between the parties and despite there being a number of more collaborative contracts available, the traditional form of contracts are still commonly used in Ireland. Alison Bearpark, RDJ Construction Partner is joined by Joe Salmon, Claims Director at ABB to discuss some of the collaborative clauses used in partnering contracts, such as information modelling, key performance indicators and multi-party collaboration. 

UK government funded projects have been required to use BIM level 2 since 2016 and there have, since then, been several advancements and lessons learned in the UK in relation to the use of BIM on publicly funded projects. Finola McCarthy, Head of RDJ’s Construction practice and Nicholas Gould, Partner in Fenwick Elliot LLP, join us to discuss the UK’s experience with BIM.

The use of level two Building Information Modelling (BIM) and upwards is considered to be a form of collaborative contracting. But what is BIM and what does the use of BIM mean for our construction contracts? Arran Timms, Senior Project Manager at Virtus and Diarmaid Gavin, Corporate partner at RDJ join us to discuss intellectual property rights and BIM.