The document discusses implementing building information modeling (BIM) in built environment education. It notes that built environment education currently reflects the fragmented nature of related professions, with separate programs for architecture, engineering, surveying, etc. This perpetuates silo-based working in industry. However, BIM provides an opportunity to rethink education by integrating disciplines and focusing on collaboration, problem-solving and other skills needed in today's workplace. Drivers for change include shifts toward social and active learning models in higher education generally as well as industry needs like innovation and sustainability.
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Implementing BIM in Built Environment Education: An Opportunity for Change
1. IMPLEMENTING BIM IN BUILT
ENVIRONMENT EDUCATION
A challenge or an opportunity?
TONY BURKE
University of Westminster
UK Academic Conference on BIM:
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - September 2012
2. How are we going to
incorporate BIM our courses?
UK Academic Conference on BIM:
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - September 2012
3. Integrate 3D CAD modelling into
our courses???
UK Academic Conference on BIM:
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - September 2012
4. The key challenges which BIM
represents for higher education:
Collaboration
Integrated project delivery
UK Academic Conference on BIM:
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - September 2012
5. This is widely recognised…….
UK Academic Conference on BIM:
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - September 2012
6. “The relationship between those
responsible for design and those
who actually build must be improved
through common education”
UK Academic Conference on BIM:
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - September 2012
7. …the industry is attempting to attract
its new blood into the same old silos
– taking the problem back to the
issues of fragmentation and the
need for more multi-disciplinary
working”
UK Academic Conference on BIM:
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - September 2012
8. “..it is scarcely possible that the
innovation and change that is
essential …can be secured through
the industry as it is currently
structured.......and in the silo-based
habits of the industry’s institutions.”
UK Academic Conference on BIM:
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - September 2012
9. “The relationship
between those
responsible for design
and those who
actually build must be
improved through
common education”
Sir Harold Banwell
1964
UK Academic Conference on BIM:
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - September 2012
10. “…the industry is
attempting to attract its
new blood into the same
old silos – taking the
problem back to the
issues of fragmentation
and the need for more
multi-disciplinary
working”
Sir John Fairclough
2002
UK Academic Conference on BIM:
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - September 2012
11. “..it is scarcely possible that
the innovation and change
that is essential …can be
secured through the
industry as it is currently
structured.......and in the
silo-based habits of the
industry’s institutions.”
Low Carbon Construction
Innovation & Growth Team
(chaired by) Paul Morrell
2010
UK Academic Conference on BIM:
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - September 2012
14. How has this come about?
The historical context….
UK Academic Conference on BIM:
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - September 2012
15. Eighteenth century
• Gradual breakdown of
medieval model
• Increasing use of
intermediary between
employer and tradesmen
UK Academic Conference on BIM:
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - September 2012
16. Early nineteenth
century
• Separation of design and
construction
• Emergence of the
‘measurer’ (QS)
• Growth of general
contracting
UK Academic Conference on BIM:
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - September 2012
17. Professional institutions
1818 Institution of Civil Engineers
1834 Institute of British Architects
1834 Builders’ Society
1868 Institution of Surveyors
..... fragmentation institutionalised
UK Academic Conference on BIM:
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - September 2012
18. Built environment education in 20C
• Architecture and engineering:
established early in universities
• Surveying and building - tradition of
part time education – relatively late in
universities
• All disciplines subject to control from
professional bodies
UK Academic Conference on BIM:
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - September 2012
19. The key issues:
• Built environment education reflects the
fragmented nature of the professions.
• Curriculum heavily influenced by
professional bodies through accreditation.
UK Academic Conference on BIM:
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - September 2012
20. “We educate in
very narrow
silos…they
come out of
university with
preconceived
ideas”
Peter Rogers
Chairman of Strategic
Forum for Construction
2002
UK Academic Conference on BIM:
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - September 2012
21. • Virtually no undergraduate courses which
are genuinely inter-disciplinary across the
built environment disciplines
UK Academic Conference on BIM:
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - September 2012
22. University of Westminster
Construction Studies Programme
BSc (Hons) Architectural Technology
BSc (Hons) Building Engineering
BSc (Hons) Building Surveying
BSc (Hons) Construction Management
BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying & Commercial Management
UK Academic Conference on BIM:
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - September 2012
23. Barriers…….
UK Academic Conference on BIM:
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - September 2012
24. Professional bodies
• Courses accredited by four different
professional bodies
• Each body has its own specific
requirements for accredited courses
UK Academic Conference on BIM:
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - September 2012
25. Employers
• Many have a preference for graduates
from accredited courses
UK Academic Conference on BIM:
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - September 2012
26. Students
•Attracted to professionally accredited courses
•Perception of better employment prospects
UK Academic Conference on BIM:
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - September 2012
27. Universities
• Unlikely to do anything which
might impact on student
recruitment.
UK Academic Conference on BIM:
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - September 2012
32. The technologies we now have
available to us fit in perfectly
with social model of learning
33. • Less emphasis on
knowledge
• More emphasis on:
– creativity
– problem-solving
– using judgement
– working
collaboratively
– coping with constant
change
UK Academic Conference on BIM:
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - September 2012
34. The low carbon
agenda
• Need for innovation
• A catalyst for new
ways of working
UK Academic Conference on BIM:
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - September 2012
35. Impact of tuition fees?
• Universities will have to
be more responsive
UK Academic Conference on BIM:
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - September 2012
36. What can we learn
from other countries?
UK Academic Conference on BIM:
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - September 2012