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A newly created EU BIM Task Group has been launched with the aim of helping to harmonise government-led projects, Construction News can reveal.

Fondation Louis Vuitton Paris BIM mesh The group has won European Commission funding to establish a common approach on implementation. It now has two years’ worth of…

Watch on-demand: Level 2 BIM webinar hosted by Construction News and 4Projects.

“BIM won’t give you the answers, but it’ll put the information at your fingertips” Dr Stephen Hamil, NBS The progression to Level 2 BIM has advanced significantly with the news that NBS will complete the final two aspects…

Building information modelling will soon be an “exportable skill” for UK contractors in emerging economies, according to Autodesk vice-president Phil Bernstein.

Mr Bernstein said emerging economies will “need help” with BIM in future and the UK government’s work is ensuring the industry here will have an exportable skill.He said: “If some…

A survey by Pinsent Masons has found that around two-thirds of construction businesses believe the government mandate of achieving Level 2 building information modelling on central government projects by 2016 is unachievable.

The survey respondents were primarily design consultants (48 per cent) and main contractors (22 per cent).Almost all were aware…

Estates directors at London’s leading universities have admitted they are hesitant about using building information modelling on projects due to concerns over costs.

Directors of the London School of Economics and Queen Mary, University of London, said they had concerns over using BIM on capital projects.The LSE plans to invest £400m…

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