NBS National BIM Survey 2011

NBS National BIM Survey 2011

NBS National BIM Survey: Participants What is your main discipline? 5% 1 2 25% 3 35% 4 45% 5 Architect Architectural Technologist Other (please specify) Quantity Surveyor Structural Engineer Building Surveyor Civil Engineer Contractor CAD technician Engineer: Other Building Services Engineer Landscape Architect Interior Designer Manufacturer Facilities Manager Property Developer Building Engineer Chartered Surveyor 5% 4% 3% 3% 3% 1 2 37%

NBS National BIM Survey: Participants Which of the following institutes or associations do you belong to, if any? 1 2 3 4 5 Royal Institute of British Architects Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists None Other (please specify) Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Chartered Institute of Building Institution of Civil Engineers Institution of Structural Engineers Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers Landscape Institute Association of Building Engineers Association of Consultant Architects Association for Consultancy and Engineering National House-Building Council Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors Construction Industry Research and Information 7% 7% 5% 5% 5% 19% 14% 40 People 36%

NBS National BIM Survey: Participants 8 74% Which of the following statements apply to you personally 7 66% 6 6 55% 59% 6 54% 55% 5 49% 43% 4 35% 3 24% 2 1 I write project specifications I produce 2D CAD drawings I produce 3D CAD drawings I write schedules of work I administer contracts I prepare Building Regulations submissions

NBS National BIM Survey: Participants organisations 9 Which of the following services does your organisation offer 8 76% 76% 7 6 5 4 3 2 6 6 65% 55% 64% 69% 44% 38% 69% 57% 4 43% 5 48% 27% 24% 35% 29% 3 45% 24% 2 24% 19% 63% 55% 1 Project management Building Regulations Project drawings Detail drawings Interior design Contract Full design & administration build packages 3D visual computer modelling Building & land surveys Master planning CDM coordination Structural engineering reports & calculations Cost estimating and financial advisory services Tender documents

NBS National BIM Survey: Participants organisations 4 How Many People are employed in your organisation? 35% 34% 3 25% 25% 2 1 1 14% 1 5% 6% 9% 5% 5% 8% 6% 5% 5% 7% 1-2 3-5 6-15 16-25 26-50 51-100 101-250 251-500 501+

NBS National BIM Survey: Participants organisations 6 54% How many people in your organisation are directly involved in building documentation & drawing? 5 4 3 3 2 2 1 8% 9% 7% 8% 8% 8% 6% 6% 4% 1-2 3-5 6-15 16-25 26-50 51-100 101-250 251-500 501+

NBS National BIM Survey: CAD When producing CAD drawings, which of the following tools do you mainly use? 5% 1 2 25% 3 35% Autodesk AutoCAD 28% 3 Autodesk AutoCAD LT 2 26% Autodesk Revit (Architecture/Structures/MEP) Nemetschek Vectorworks Graphisoft ArchiCAD 1 9% 1 8% 16% 17% Google Sketchup 4% Bentley Microstation 3% 5% Bentley Building Suite (Architecture/Mechanical/Electrical/Structural) Nemetschek Allplan

NBS National BIM Survey: CAD Which other tools do you use for producing CAD drawings? 1 2 3 4 5 6 Google Sketchup 46% 5 Autodesk AutoCAD 37% 4 Autodesk Revit (Architecture/Structures/MEP) Autodesk AutoCAD LT 8% 2 2 25% Nemetschek Vectorworks 6% 17% Graphisoft ArchiCAD Bentley Microstation Bentley Building Suite (Architecture/Mechanical/Electrical/Structural) Nemetschek Allplan 6% 6% 8%

NBS National BIM Survey: CAD For each of the following statements, how would you describe your organisation's use of CAD? 10 95% 10 9 8 7 85% 84% 6 5 47% 53% 4 3 2 19% 3 35% 29% 3 3 1 We produce 3D visualisations using our CAD models We automatically generate schedules from our CAD models We automatically generate bills from our CAD models We carry out performance analysis (energy consumption/structural/acoustic) on our CAD models We export information from our CAD models to a non-proprietary format (IFC/gbXML) We keep a library of CAD objects we create for reuse

NBS National BIM Survey: BIM Awareness and Use of BIM 10 9 8 7 6 5 48% 44% 4 3 3 27% 29% 2 2 1 Aware and currently using BIM Just Aware of BIM Neither aware nor using BIM

NBS National BIM Survey: BIM From your understanding of BIM, how strongly do you agree or disagree with the following statements? (% agree or strongly agree shown) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 You hear more and more about BIM these days BIM is the future of project information The governmet will make people use BIM for public sector work The industry is not clear enough on what BIM is yet BIM is all about real time collaboration Unless specifications are linked to the CAD model, it's not BIM We will need BIM so we can design sustainable buildings BIM is all about software BIM does not facilitate bespoke design or construction methods BIM is just a synonym for 3D CAD drawings BIM leads to bland buildings 18% 13% 18% 9% 1 29% 46% 5 4 36% 37% 8 78% 7 74% 79% 73% 74% 69% 7 9

NBS National BIM Survey: BIM 10 9 8 7 How would you describe your organisation's use of BIM? 94% 9 84% 75% 67% 94% 6 5 4 4 38% 3 2 1 We currently use BIM... In one year's time we will use BIM... In three year's time we will use BIM... In five year's time we will use BIM...

NBS National BIM Survey: BIM From your experience of using BIM, how strongly do you agree or disagree with the following statements? (agree & strongly agree shown) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Adopting BIM has required changes in our workflow, practices or Adopting BIM has improved visualization Adopting BIM has increased coordination of construction documents Clients will increasingly insist on us using BIM Contractors will increasingly insist on us using BIM Adopting BIM has improved productivity due to easy retrieval of Adopting BIM has brought cost efficiencies We have adopted BIM successfully Adopting BIM has increased speed of delivery Adopting BIM has increased our profitability Adopting BIM has made traditional specifications redundant within our Adopting BIM has made traditional bills of quantities redundant within our I'd rather we had not adopted BIM 14% 1 14% 3 8 79% 64% 78% 8 74% 68% 8 67% 8 65% 8 6 73% 59% 55% 49% 55% 9 9

NBS National BIM Survey: BIM From your understanding of BIM, how strongly do you agree or disagree with the following statements? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Adopting BIM would require changes in our workflow, practices and Adopting BIM would increase coordination of construction documents Adopting BIM would improve visualization Adopting BIM would improve productivity due to easy retrieval of BIM is too expensive for us to consider at the moment Adopting BIM would bring cost efficiencies We need to get through the downturn, then we'll look at BIM Adopting BIM would increase speed of delivery Clients will increasingly insist on us adopting BIM Adopting BIM would increase our profitability Contractors will increasingly insist on us adopting BIM Adopting BIM would make traditional bills of quantities redundant within Adopting BIM would make traditional specifications redundant within I'd rather not adopt BIM 7% 25% 14% 26% 24% 19% 14% 13% 5 47% 53% 33% 48% 4 46% 46% 45% 4 63% 66% 66% 63% 7 83% 93% 94%