To enact the change both individually and collectively we just need to recognise that we are stuck in the Devil’s Snare and decide to stop struggling..

The data set developed by the Hub could be expanded (‘upwards’ from spaces into assets and complexes and ‘downwards’ into sub-assemblies and products) to create a holistic data set that would allow suppliers to carry out their own analysis and forecasting.. Where better to publish this data than on a digital marketplace?.Searching the data for ‘SL_90_10_47 Lifts’ would show the exact number of lifts in the five-year pipeline and allow government to place contracts for the manufacture, installation and assembly of bulk orders of lifts, creating economies of scale;.

Open sourcing this data set would then allow third parties to develop their own goods and services (in exactly the way that open source data published by Transport for London, OpenStreetMaps and others has allowed the creation of common apps such as Citymapper, Bus Checker and Waze).This could create a new ecosystem of apps and tools that could sit alongside e-commerce to help clients, designers and manufacturers;.Longer term digital transformation.. Last year, I wrote a. piece on a future state for Platforms.

, much of which was underpinned by a continuous flow of data across the design, manufacturing, assembly and operation phases.The ability of a classification system like Uniclass (or some future version of it) to allow data aggregation at all scales from complexes to products and everything in between, will be exactly what is needed to allow the future state I described, and I believe it will be a key way in which we will navigate the marketplace;.

Gemini Principles.

’ set out by the Cambridge Centre for Digital Built Britain state that ‘Greater data sharing could release an additional £7bn per year of benefits across the UK infrastructure sectors’.Lamont believes we need BIM 19650 in terms of language and connectivity to ensure we’re getting the consistency of outcome we require.

However, he doesn’t think BIM on its own is going to save the day in terms of driving industry change.He says both prescription and innovation have a role to play.

With respect to 19650 and UK standards, he says there’s a recognition in Australia that some kind of standard is needed to meet the requirement, but currently people are doing a little bit of their own thing.This is creating confusion surrounding outputs in terms of what people are receiving and why.