We talk BIM for LCM and sustainability – The importance of qualification frameworks for professionals” Tarja Makelainen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

The integration of BIM (building information modelling), as an instrument, into sustainable design, construction, and lifetime facility management and user practices for achieving sustainable impacts, takes advantage of many supportive methods. Methods such as teamwork, collaboration, and BIM-based performance analysis with sustainability indicators are leading the process into more informed and visually supported decision-making. BIM as an instrument enables the designers to design many design options and their variations in the conceptual design phase, and this way optimize life cycle cost, emissions, material, and energy usage. Adapting BIM philosophy and implementing the BIM activities during the process, the sustainable goals for the construction project can be reached. However, this all needs solid competences in management, collaboration, process steering, and skills and knowledge on integrated BIM-based information management use-cases and performance-based design practices.

Rapid developments around energy-efficient and life cycle of sustainable buildings with information management highlight the need to define competence requirements for all the professionals and the disciplines in BIM processes. For this purpose, an ongoing standardisation work (CEN/TC 442, WG8 Competence: Frameworks for developing BIM competence requirements) is established and will define a technical specification to support national BIM qualification and/or certification implementations.

This presentation introduces roadmaps toward a desired vision for highly competent professionals in the area of sustainable life cycle management of buildings focusing on (1) policies and legislative frameworks, (2) eLearning and training, and (3) one-stop-shop service for design & construction of sustainable buildings with skilled people.

Further, this presentation discusses usages of a national level Competence Requirement Definition Matrix (Competence-Matrix) and Learning Outcome Definition Matrix (LO-Matrix) and their benefits, in the form of four usage scenarios: (a) Usage Scenario 1: Use of Competence-Matrix based skill verification process during project procurement; examples of BIM coordinator and BIM Manager for digital building permitting; (b) Usage Scenario 2: Competence-Matrix and LO-Matrix based competence management methods for in-house training program for construction and consultancy companies. (c) Usage Scenario 3: Evaluation of required skills, knowledge, and competence levels related to BIM activities (use-cases) and on BIM roles, as part of project management and leadership; (d) Usage Scenario 4: Harmonising BIM trainings and learning modules, and management of eLearning content development.

The content and results of this paper are based on three EU projects: BIMEET and INSTRUCT (Horizon 2020) and ACCORD (Horizon Europe). https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/753994

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/894756

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101056973

Contributing projects:

• BIMEET
• INSTRUCT
• ACCORD

Session Chair:

Tarja Mäkeläinen, VTT