Building Information Modeling (BIM) is considered as a common language in construction industry projects today. It is rapidly being acknowledged as a driver for change on a global scale. The perceived benefits of BIM by the early adopters and various researches indicate that collaborative BIM approaches help in delivering projects with reduced time, lower cost, higher quality, and greater customer satisfaction. Recent government uptakes and demands for fully collaborative BIM as a requirement in different countries have resulted in a strong interest towards BIM adoption and its uses, creating a huge demand of BIM competent workforce. Thus, there is an accelerated need for upskilling the industry practitioners and educate the future engineers. However, there is a major challenge for academic organizations to embrace BIM in their curricula for educating the future professionals due to lack of skilled BIM educators. Engineering education is still often based on drafting, since most teachers are experts in 2D or 3D modeling, and only few in BIM. The present lack of skilled BIM educators calls for educating the educators and thus becoming acquainted with the BIM processes, concepts and technologies. The present paper presents the current state and strategies of BIM academic integration in the School of Civil Engineering and Building Services (SCEBS) of Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Finland. It describes both an initiation and the results derived from "OpeBIM" (BIM for teachers) implemented to educate the educators. The paper collects the feedback and recommendations provided by the participating educators.
Construction industry has a wide impact to our built environment. It plays a vital role for governments and supports in both developed and developing economies. The industry supports economic growth of a nation through various trades and activities as well as provides new jobs. It is one of the largest industrial sectors that has a projected output of 13.5% by 2025. Climate change, resource depletion and rapid urbanization are the most severe amongst the challenges we face today. The construction industry alone is responsible for 20% of the global energy consumption and approximately one-third of energy-related CO2 emissions. The industry entails the high energy saving potentials and provides various opportunities to implement sustainable solutions to decrease the environmental impacts and thus lower greenhouse gas emissions. In the construction projects today, we can implement different energy efficiency strategies and products virtually during the planning phases of the construction projects using model based environment and tools commonly known today as virtual design and construction (VDC) as well as building information modeling (BIM). We can accurately simulate and calculate the impacts and thus support the increasing demand of complex high-performance buildings in order to effectively address energy and carbon reduction targets. However, one of the key challenges, the industry faces is the availability of skilled workforce and experts that have enough BIM and energy efficiency skills. The paper addresses such needs and presents the current status of a H2020 project with a focus on defining roles and responsibilities construction project stakeholders have for the energy efficiency measures along the different project phases. It also provides an outlook for the development of the learning outcomes based on knowledge, skills and competence (KSC) framework as well as systematically presents the base for harmonization of the learning outcomes at the EU level.
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