22 June 2011

The Construction Industry Council (CIC) has established a Building Information Modelling (BIM) Forum which will hold its first meeting on 7 July. The group will work closely with other industry bodies and will include a subgroup to consider issues of liability.

Group Chairman Rob Manning said: ‘The Building Information Modelling Working Party Strategy Paper has given the CIC an opportunity to influence how the adoption of information modelling will act as an enabler to a more closely integrated way of working through the processes of building design, construction and operation.

‘In particular the professional institutions associated with creating and managing the built environment will be able to act together through CIC to provide shared proposals on how the move to the use of information modelling will bring changes to education, sharing of best practice and research/development.'

CIAT is part of the forum and will be proactive in implementing its recommendations.

For more information on BIM visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_Information_Modeling

For more information on CIC visit www.cic.org.uk/home/index.shtml