BIM Task Group

BIM Task Group is a UK Government funded group, managed through the Cabinet Office which was created in 2011. It was founded to "drive adoption of BIM across government" in support of the Government Construction Strategy. It aimed to strengthen the public sector’s capabilities in BIM implementation to that all central government departments can adopt, as a minimum, collaborative 'Level 2' BIM by 2016.

The core BIM task force, to which companies seconded employees, identified four work streams, each led by a core team member: stakeholder and media engagement, delivery and productivity, commercial and legal, and training and academia. Working parties are established to focus on particular areas including: training and education, COBie data set requirements, Plan of Works, software vendors (the BIM Technologies Alliance), contractors (UK Contractors Group), and materials and products suppliers (Construction Products Association).

The Building Information Modelling (BIM) Task Group is supporting and helping deliver the objectives of the Government Construction Strategy and the requirement to strengthen the public sector’s capability in BIM implementation with the aim that all central government departments will be adopting a minimum required collaborative level by 2016.

Their hypothesis is simple: that significant improvement in cost, value and carbon performance can be achieved through the use of open sharable asset information.  They would also be helping the supply chain unlock more efficient and collaborative ways of work throughout the entire project and asset life-cycle end to end.

This UK task group brings together expertise from industry, government, public sector, institutes and academia. BIM Task Group web site offers an up to date and latest BIM news, linkage to key resources, lessons learned from any recent BIM projects.