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BIM Xchange – Presentation
Derek Drysdale

2. Lean Improvement in the HA
BIM in Infrastructure
Derek Drysdale Divisional Director Lean Improvement
Licensed by the Highways Agency, under the Open Government Licence v1.0

3. Highways Agency
Executive Agency of Department for Transport.
3800 staff across 8 offices, 8 traffic control
centres and 29 outstations across England.
Operate, maintain and improve 7000 km
Strategic Motorway and Trunk Road Network
in England.
Annual Spend £2.5bn Enhancing, Maintaining
and Renewing a £90bn Asset

4. The
strategicNetwork

5. What do we do?

7. What is the challenge?

8. Productivity Growth in the Construction Industry
1993-2003

11. There have been many
Reviews!
“Never Waste A Good Crisis”
Author - Andrew Woolstenholm
Constructing Excellence

12. Manufacturing = Construction ?

13. What is Lean?
“getting value to flow by listening to
the voice of the customer then
seeking perfection”
Based on the Toyota Production
System but adapted for
construction

14. Lean Deployment Strategy
Strong Leadership for
a Continuous Improvement culture
Assessment of Lean Maturity
?
The HA Strategy for deploying
Collaborative Planning Problem Benefits Realisation
Visual Management Solving
BIM? Knowledge Transfer
Lean – how can BIM help?
People

16. Developing Industry Capability in Lean
More Guides in
preparation
Including BIM
and Lean!

19. Government Construction Strategy
1. Cost Reduction by 20% during the term of
current parliament
2. “replace adversarial cultures with collaborative
ones”
3. “public sector will become a better client - -
more informed and better co-ordinated when
its requirements are specified, designed and
procured”
4. “Government will require fully collaborative 3D
BIM as a minimum by 2016”
http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/resource-library/government-
construction-strategy

20. Some Questions about BIM?
The challenge of defining BIM!

22. Contact:
LeanImprovement@highways.gsi.gov.uk
Visit Us: www.highways.gov.uk
Derek Drysdale
»Find ‘Lean Improvement’ in
the ‘Our Partners’ section!

23. Reasons for Declining Construction
Productivity
• Heavily regulated
• Fragmented nature of
the industry
• Traditional adversarial
culture
• Low investments in R&D
• Slow to adopt new
technology

24. “Concurrent engineering
Traditional v Future Engineering methodologies permit the
separate tasks of the product
development process to
be carried out simultaneously
rather than sequentially.
Product design, testing,
manufacturing and process
planning through logistics, for
example, are done sideby-
side and interactively.
Potential problems in
fabrication, assembly,
support and quality are
identified and resolved early
in the design process.”
• Izuchukwu, John.
“Architecture and Process
:The Role
of Integrated Systems in
Concurrent Engineering.”
Industrial Management
Mar/Apr 1992: p. 19-23.

25. BIM MATURITY MODEL

27. The UK construction industry
• It accounts for over 8% of GDP
• Consists of over 300,000 firms employing over
2 million people
• One in 10 people rely on the construction
industry for employment
• Contractors employ 1.68 million people in
UK(2005)
• Under pressure to become more sustainable
and productive