Ireland’s National BIM Council officially launched

This week has seen the official launch of Ireland’s National BIM Council (NBC) in Dublin to back the advancement of digital in the construction sector.

The National BIM Council was created on the recommendation of the Enterprise Ireland 2014 National BIM Forum and will play a vital role in achieving the government’s national ‘Construction 2020’ strategy.

The council will be made up nine members from the public and private sector and represent clients of construction and the industry supply chain.

Speaking at the inaugural meeting chair Caroline Spillane, Director General of professional body Engineers Ireland said: “The formation is a key step forward in realising the potential of digital tools and processes within Ireland’s construction sector. The NBC recognise the role of technology and ‘better information management’ in achieving measured improvements in productivity, international competitiveness and collaboration. Further, the move towards a more highly engineered ‘data rich’ product with less ‘on-site’ physical labour, opens new opportunities for innovation and a far more interesting, exciting and diverse range of career choices within the industry.

Stephen Hughes, the Head of Construction at Enterprise Ireland, said: “Ireland’s National BIM Council is a partnership between the public sector and industry to provide vision, leadership and a collective voice for the advancement of digital in the design, construction and operation of built assets. A primary role for the council will be to develop an industry ‘road map’ that will seek to optimise the successful implementation of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in Ireland.”

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