Building Information Modelling

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a collaborative process that uses a digital representation of a building, enabling all stakeholders such as the Architect, Structural Engineers, Services Engineers, Fixed Furniture and Equipment designers and Landscape Architects to work with a shared 3D model.
Silcock Dawson has been working on BIM projects for over a decade, and we currently use the latest revision of Autodesk REVIT 3D to complete our services models within the BIM workflow. A specific stage of BIM referred to as BIM Level 2 has been a requirement for all government construction projects since 2016 and our processes are well established in meeting project requirements to this level of BIM execution. Our workflow follows the requirements of BSRIA BG6/2018 which fully integrates our plan of work with that of the latest RIBA Plan and is organised around BIM level 2.
The advantages of working in a BIM model are well understood and together with our experience of cloud-based collaboration platforms such as Autodesk Construction Cloud and BIM360 we routinely review the building envelope, structure and services in 3D in order to determine pinch points, clashes and ease of maintenance access at early stages of the design process.
In our commitment to the implementation of BIM, and in particular BIM Level 2, we are fully practiced in sharing building services asset information via COBie (Construction Operations Building Information Exchange), ensuring that the building's end user has all the necessary information to effectively operate and maintain the building services installations after construction is complete.