{"id":8000,"date":"2014-07-23T08:30:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T07:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adjacentgovernment.co.uk\/?p=8000"},"modified":"2020-08-27T14:19:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T13:19:57","slug":"bim-the-smes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/digital-construction-news\/bim-news\/bim-the-smes\/8000\/","title":{"rendered":"BIM and SMEs: Opportunity is knocking"},"content":{"rendered":"

SMEs are key to the UK\u2019s BIM journey, so their uptake is vital to ensure our BIM leadership. David Philp, head of BIM at Mace and the UK BIM Task Group explains their importance<\/h2>\n

In 2013, there were 4.9 million businesses in the UK, with over 99% categorized as small or medium-sized businesses (SMEs) i.e. employing between 0-249 people. Of this populace, the SME community\u2019s<\/a> share of construction turnover in the UK private sector was 72.4%.<\/p>\n

Given that SMEs are the backbone of our sector, we must ensure that they have sufficient digital capacity and capability to ensure that the UK remains at the forefront of BIM leadership across the globe. But why should they care? Why should they consider investing in change?<\/p>\n

The reality is they have to compete on a new basis with fierce international competition for the provision of skills and products and ever tight project affordability constraints. It is self-evident, therefore, that to flourish with the backdrop of these challenges that they must reform and unlock more efficient ways of working.<\/p>\n

It really offers SMEs the opportunity to raise their game and contend in the heavyweight classes. Despite often being resource-constrained, the SMEs are a motor of innovation with inherent change characteristics often not found in bigger organisations, coupled with faster decision making processes. It is essential, however, that SMEs build adequate knowledge capital in the BIM<\/a> space to improve their value creation processes to:<\/p>\n