I’ve been kind-of busy lately with some minor ‘shifts in
my life’ and failed to keep up with the developments of the UK BIM Government
initiative that will be the ‘game changer’ (ref 1) for the global AEC industry,
according to many ‘in the know’;
For this post let’s attribute the original idea of the ‘game
changer’ to Patrick MacLeamy - Chief Executive Officer of HOK (as quoted in the
publication of ref 1).
Today is a bit of an easy day for me, being officially
unemployed and uninterested in any serious house cleaning, so I decided to look
up how the counting down to the big event in the UK was going?
As with big games in many large cities I lived in, by now
I’d be expecting a big countdown clock to have been installed on Trafalgar
Square, maybe the last Olympic Games’ one repurposed?
Having no one in London to check this for me, I instead
went to Google – looked at the top results on the topic from the past month
(ref 2) and bingo!
Got the updates straight ‘from the horse’s mouth’:
“Bentley’s BIM conference: London excelling; Australia
needs to catch up”; (ref 3)
Unfortunately, the article is a bit one sided, (after all,
the author disclosed to have been the guest of Bentley) – though for a bit of
background and credibility the text allocates a large chunk to “David Philp,
head of BIM for international construction and consultancy firm Mace…” (ref 4) who
is often quoted boldly quantifying the reasons for the UK BIM mandating this ‘no-brainer’…
I got intrigued:
I know this name! Head o BIM at MACE Group? (ref 5) the
last I remembered, he was heading the UK Government’s BIM initiative… OK…
Anyone can change jobs… or even fulfil multiple roles…good old Private-Public
partnership (ref 6) – not much of an arm-length here….But I’m so often told UK
is the ‘mothership’ of transparency and democracy…
And then….The biggest surprise of all! (I must have been
living under a rock for the last 20 years);
Up till moving to Mace, Mr Philp was Mr BIM for Balfour
Beatty! (ref 7) – for 2 decades! Wow!
Is this not the same company that is still failing to
provide me ‘with its whistleblowing policy that will protect’ its subsidiary’s employees
in case of them voicing genuine concerns about directors behaving negligently?
Maybe I should have asked Mr Philp to intervene for me
instead of bothering the ethical committees and whatnots?
Someone of such BIM reputation would in no time confirm my
concerns were genuinely in the company’s interest (re MTR for example?);
Sadly, he left BB by the time my troubles started with
them.
Promisingly though for me, according to another article
(ref 8) “Balfour
Beatty chief executive Mike Peasland was appointed as the chair of a new BIM
supply chain working group, supporting the government’s
BIM task group”.
My LinkedIn search brings up only one Mike Peasland
currently employed by BB as an MD (regional) (ref 9) – but either way, as a CEO
or an MD, obviously a fellow BIM enthusiast, he should really be in a very good
position to speed up the resolution of my case.
I am about to send him a little nudge!
After all, the UK BIM initiative is moving somewhere….and
working for someone…
Someone else…(but me)
References here: http://www.slideshare.net/zolnamurray/references-to-article-20131110
http://www.balfourbeatty.com/index.asp?pageid=18
(map from here)
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