{"id":26140,"date":"2016-08-05T08:43:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T08:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planningandbuildingcontroltoday.co.uk\/?p=25274"},"modified":"2021-09-21T14:31:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T13:31:04","slug":"collaborative-behaviours4collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/digital-construction-news\/bim-news\/collaborative-behaviours4collaboration\/26140\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Collaborative with Behaviours4Collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"

A key message of BIM requires a more collaborative approach, but what does this mean in practice? The founder member of Behaviours4Collaboration, Elizabeth Kavanagh of Stride Treglown provides advice and an update on the progress being made<\/h2>\n

When I first got involved with BIM a few years ago, I realised that BIM enables an important change to our working relationships, with the aim to shift them from adversarial to collaborative. The Level 3 BIM strategy sets out how the government will achieve a collaborative industry through BIM (called Digital Built Britain), and it relies heavily on a shift in behaviours. I was pleased to be a part of the consultation done with the Level 3 strategy so Stride Treglown (Strides) had an input into this strategy.<\/p>\n

I realised we would need to shift our emphasis more towards relationships and change our behaviours, so I did what most HR people would do and set out to describe the behaviours we needed. I recognised that it is not helpful for Strides to develop collaborative capabilities on our own as we all work in project teams \u2013 we can\u2019t collaborate alone! I formed a team and gained some research funding to engage people with collaboration and set out on our first task to define collaborative behaviours. This group is now recognised as a BIM4 group and called Behaviours4Collaboration.<\/p>\n

This group was set up to support the industry in the shift towards collaborative behaviours. Our first project is to define these collaborative behaviours into a Profession Map. The group Behaviours4Collaboration is made up of those who have actively developed this tool as a result of the analysis of collaboration in other sectors. The aim of this tool is to give individual teams and the industry guidance on the change required to establish the collaboration which will enable us to become an innovative industry we can be proud of.<\/p>\n

We already have a number of live projects trialling the tool and buildingSMART International will shortly offer member testing which will enable us to refine the tool. Switzerland is leading the European testing through construction company Implenia Schweiz AG.<\/p>\n

The Profession Map is being embedded within The Higher Education Academy Learning Outcomes framework so that future students of BIM are developed according to behaviours required for collaboration.<\/p>\n

BIM Technologies have committed to embedding it into the BIM Excellence maturity assessment tool during 2017. This means that the industry assessment tool will refer to behaviours for collaboration as well as the technical requirements for BIM proficiency.<\/p>\n

This tool will ultimately be developed into a British Standard hosted by BSi and tied in with the collaboration standards BS11000 for collaborative relationships<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The interest in this area has been huge, and the need for this guidance is clearly something industry has an appetite for. As a result, I have been invited to speak with Women in Property, the Oxford and Derby BIM regions along with Buro Happold, Hoare Lea, Turner and Townsend, Hydrock and Arup. These firms are looking to use this framework to develop their staff and to beta-test with their project teams.<\/p>\n

I will also be engaging with wider industry through speaking engagements at the Construction Industry Summit<\/a> on 21st September, The RIBA Smart Practice Conference: Future Forward<\/a> on 22nd September and the Digital Construction Week panel event on 26th October.<\/p>\n

Our first advice note<\/h3>\n

As a company committed to collaboration, Stride Treglown is delighted to offer our first collaboration advice note. It includes just a few tips that might help you to decide whether collaboration is appropriate and whether you have the setup and process in place to achieve your collaborative aims.<\/p>\n

Are you sure it is collaboration you want?<\/h3>\n

We all use the word collaboration, but which of these definitions best reflects your aims?<\/p>\n

Co-ordination:<\/p>\n