Malcolm Clarke, MD, Baxall Construction Contractor Led BIM Presentation to Constructing Excellence Lancashire.

1. An Introduction to Baxall Construction
 Main Contractor & Project Managers
 Design & Build
 Framework Contractor – Tier 2
 Areas of operation: London & South East
 Value of projects: £250k to £8M
 Employees: 52
 Turnover: £20M
 Type of work: Education, High Quality
Residential, Commercial, Industrial, Leisure,
Ecclesiastical and Automotive
Malcolm Clarke, Managing Director
We are about being the best not the biggest

2. Contractor Lead BIM
What are the drivers to get BIM working on our
Projects?
• Government Strategy for Construction 2025

3. Contractor Lead BIM
What are the drivers to get BIM working on our
Projects?
• Frameworks

4. Contractor Lead BIM
What are the drivers to get BIM working on our
Projects?
• Business Case
• Virtual Design gives better information to build with
• Risk managed & designed out at an early stage
• Less reworking & costly variations to site operations
• Reduced delays & abortive costs
• Reduction in disputes and delays to payment
ALL LEADS to INCREASED PROFIT and COMPETITIVENESS

5. Contractor Lead BIM
What are the drivers to get BIM working on our
Projects?
• Customer Satisfaction
• What do customers want?
• Predictable costs
• Predictable timescales
• Defect free product
• Efficient operation of completed building
• No hassle!!
We all know these are not achieved with the current adversarial &
inefficient design & construction process – all our successful projects
are the ones that had good teamwork & everyone worked
collaboratively - that is the BIM ethos not just the software tools

6. Contractor Lead BIM
What are the drivers to get BIM working on our
Projects?
• Enjoyment of what we do at work
• If this is possible why not?!!!!!

7. Contractor Lead BIM
Present:
• Baxall have worked with Union Square to provide an Extranet
version of Workspace to enhance it’s capability to share
information within a Common Data Environment (CDE)

8. Contractor Lead BIM
Present:
• We are now working on two more ESCC School projects and both
are using 3D BIM modelling, both have a BEP and the Teams
understand their capabilities and are working towards an entry
level of design integration to develop the use of the model

9. Contractor Lead BIM
Future:
• We have now introduced and started testing a 4D & 5D model
environment using VICO Office, that will integrate with Workspace in
an Extranet to provide a full Common Data Environment. This will
have the capability to incorporate design from any software package
and create a fully federated model that will provide cost and
programme information. This works intuitively with the model to
provide instant updates on changes and validation of VE as well as the
usual attributes of clash detection and system selection

10. Contractor Lead BIM
Future:
• Baxall are also recruiting and training to ensure that all our projects
teams are capable of full BIM delivery within the next 12 months

11. Contractor Lead BIM
To understand our lessons learnt we have looked at our journey so far
• Baxalls have extensive experience of working in collaborative
teams in the Private Sector – goes back 20 years to Latham
• Baxall have used Union Square Workspace for the last 9 years
• Workspace provides a good baseline for collaborative working and
data storage
• We have worked on four ESCC Schools projects during 2013/14
using this system but on each project the designers had difficulties
supporting design through BIM modelling – but it was a start!

12. Contractor Lead BIM
Learning:
• Stage 3 designs not aligned to Client budget – requires extensive value engineering or
even re-design at Stage 4
• Survey information incomplete at Stage 3 leaving high risks in early Stage 4 design and
confusion over responsibilities to complete
• Incomplete Stakeholder sign off in Stage 3 leaving risk
• End users and FM not ready to accept and use BIM outputs
• Too many risk items unresolved at Stage 3
• BIM model not provided at Stage 3 or integrated early enough
• EIR’s not issued
• Project Managers not engaged until after Contractor appointment
• Capability and / or willingness of Consultants to focus on the 3D environment, failings
usually occur when major VE or re-design is needed because of budget issues
• Opportunities for system selection and MMC left far too late and results in major
changes to the model and early Stage 4 pressure

13. Contractor Lead BIM
Conclusions:
• Project Manager to be appointed during feasibility stage
• Earlier Contractor Involvement to manage all surveys, provide timely system
selection and reduce the “stall” that exists in the delivery at the current
appointment time that costs the project time and money
• Follow the PAS 1192 process closer from the start and use this as the
baseline for activities
• Provide concise EIR information with a BEP format that reflects the EIR
layout
• Set the BIM bar at a level that can be achieved by the team then raise on the
next project and so on – Continuous Improvement
• Client, Consultants and Contractors to work as a collaborative, open and
honest team – the BIG Challenge!!!

14. Contractor Lead BIM
FINAL THOUGHTS
Make BIM work for you before everybody else works it out &
instead of increasing Profit you will be competing with others
that are as good as you again, reducing your ability to increase
your market share & more importantly maintaining a sustainable
business
BIM is here already & will stay so don’t be an Ostrich
BIM is the collaborative process that provides the requirements
of the Government Soft Landings Strategy (GSL) which is
fundamental to the improved management & cost of running all
facilities – ANOTHER day for this one!!!

15. Contractor Lead BIM
ITS ABOUT TIME OUR INDUSTRY BECAME A
GREAT PLACE TO BE
BIM IS OUR OPPORTUNITY – TAKE IT OR NOTHING WILL
CHANGE!!!
GOOD LUCK