Clacton and Holland on Sea Coastal Protection Case Study to assess the pros and cons of using BIM on coastal protection schemes
Dr David Collery
Mott McDonald Ltd/GMIT
David is current a part-time lecturer at GMIT and director of DCS Engineering Consultancy which provides contract project management and BIM implementation services. David has worked on range of civil, flood risk and coastal schemes. With many schemes achieving awards for Environmental Best Practices, Innovative Design, Construction and Considerate Construction practices. David has research background in sustainable concretes.
Abstract
Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a topic that is high on the agenda within the construction industry, so much so, that it has central UK government backing, who have set a target to require “collaborative 3D BIM (with... [ view full abstract ]
Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a topic that is high on the agenda within the construction industry, so much so, that it has central UK government backing, who have set a target to require “collaborative 3D BIM (with all project and asset information, documentation and data being electronic) on its projects by 2016” (BIM Task Group, 2013). Yet there seems to be little impetus for implementation within local authorities, despite the opportunities for significant cost savings and efficiencies. BIM is the process of creating digital data sets formed of graphical and non-graphical information in a shared digital space called a common data environment. BIM incorporates all aspects of the building process from all the various stakeholders from the design stage right through to the facilities management.
The Clacton and Holland-on-Sea Coastal Protection Scheme is one of the first coastal protection infrastructure projects in the UK, designed and implemented using BIM (Phipps, 2014) making this first scheme very important in terms of setting a bench-mark for best practice in this area and is therefore considered to be an ideal case study to showcase this information.
Aim
The aim of this paper is to identify the extent to which BIM was used within the Clacton and Holland-on-Sea Coastal Protection Scheme, evaluate the benefits of its use through the project and to communicate these lessons to the potential implementation of BIM in the Irish Construction Industry.
In order to meet the primary aim of this paper, several ‘research objectives’ have been identified. They are:
1) To what extent was BIM used at Clacton?
2) What were the benefits of BIM being implemented on the Clacton project?
3) What lessons from the Clacton project could be applied to BIM implementation within the Irish Construction Industry?
Authors
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Dr David Collery
(Mott McDonald Ltd/GMIT)
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Andrew McCloud
(Canham Consulting)
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Victoria Deakin
(Mott McDonald Ltd)
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James Ennos
(Tendring District Council)
Topic Area
Topics: Topic #1
Session
TL-1 » Teaching and Learning (16:20 - Monday, 29th August, ENG-2001)
Paper
183.pdf
