ASSOBIM BIM Report 2020

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Management

Adriano Castagnone (president)

Edoardo Accettulli, Nicola Baraldi, Roberto Belloni, Alberto Eugenio Boriani,

Armando Casella, Marco Ferrario, Massimo Guerini, Luca Moscardi, Riccardo Perego,

Stefano Savoia, Paola Soma, Paolo Ugona (directors)

ASCOBIM

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ASSOBIM leads digitization of buildings

The digitization of the construction sector found in BIM - Building Information Modeling one of his most effective allies thanks to a methodological approach based on collaboration, sharing and organization of information that stands completely changing the design processes, construction and maintenance of the buildings. To the disclosure and promotion of this ASSOBIM innovative methodological approach has been making an important contribution for the past three years with a series of targeted institutional activities both to operators in the construction chain who already use it, especially to those who are they are approaching it and therefore need it of an authoritative and reliable guide in his own implementation. Among these the BIM Report, fact-finding survey conducted at the level national on a significant panel of operators, which reaches its second year this year ASSOBIM edition and aims to offer an updated overview of evolution of Building Information Modeling, his diffusion among construction professionals e its development prospects. The representativeness of the sample of participants, consisting mainly of design studios and engineering companies, construction companies and public bodies Administration, also allowed in this opportunity to plot a detailed ASSOBIM leads digitization of buildings cognitive picture; in these pages ne we present the results, which highlight i main trend indicators on evolution of the national BIM market and more generally the development of digitalization of construction in our country. The BIM Report, which with this second edition permanently enters the category of institutional initiatives promoted by ASSOBIM, it is also joined in this 2020 not without difficulty in a busy schedule of actions addressed not only to members but to all professionals of the supply chain, aimed at increasing the degree of knowledge and dissemination on market of the BIM methodology. ASSOBIM thus confirms its role as a point of reference for professionals and companies in the transition to this innovative approach methodological to the project, to the realization and the management of built heritage, leading the transformation digital that will characterize the industry of construction in the coming years.

Adriano Castagnone,

President ASSOBIM

BIM in Italy: the market is growing, skills grow

The survey on the BIM market in Italy promoted by ASSOBIM, the association created to promote the dissemination of Building Information Modeling and for support the activity of the entire BIM technology chain. The large panel of participants, made up of several hundred professional operators in the supply chain - including design studios, engineering companies, construction and maintenance companies, IT service companies, public and private clients, producers of materials and components, organizations of the Public Administration, University and Research Centers - made it possible to outline an updated map of the diffusion of BIM in Italy, of the perception of its points of strength, criticality and perspectives on the part of operators, in order to contribute to the further development of this methodology and continue the evolutionary path inaugurated with the introduction of Ministerial Decree 560/2017

The diffusion

Also this year the starting point of the investigation was first of all to ascertain the degree of knowledge and use of the Building Information Modeling and its potential among operators in the sector is now almost three years after the entry into force of so-called BIM Decree and the roadmap in it contained. The sample interviewed - made up in large numbers starts from design studios (over 52% of the sample) and engineering company (17.1%), with a number of collaborators over below ten units in almost 68% of cases (they were 76% in 2019) and a turnover below one million euros in 70% of cases (compared to 75% of the last edition) - reflects in the essential characteristics the scale of Italian professional realities, thus making the picture emerging from the responses to the questionnaire particularly faithful: beyond the half of the sample knows and uses the BIM methodology, while a further 40% know it but do not use it or make it a partial use, and only a marginal number of operators (just over 10%) do not is aware of these results substantially in line with those of the last edition of the survey.

The degree of knowledge

This time, always to assess from a qualitative point of view, the degree of BIM prevalence, the second block of questions focusing on the quantification of the BIM skills level declared by operators and the latter information channels used by them to consolidate and integrate them. About 13% of the respondents (slightly compared to 10% in the last edition of the survey) stated that they are very confident in their knowledge and skills, while over 50% - also by two percentage points - are in a good or sufficient degree; the remaining 37% show deficiencies in this respect more or less emphasized (this also means an improvement, five percentage points compared to 2019), still believing his professionalism is not well established in this matter and the resulting need for integration. Back then, a year later, the proportion of professionals who did not yet possess the skills is still high; Consolidated in the BIM field, figures speak of progressive quantitative and qualitative growth of the same, outlining one essentially positive trend curve. Always wide and varied, but with some interesting variations, a panorama of BIM information / training sources that the operators declare to draw; Websites grow until they reach first position Internet and industry media, which is used by 25% of the master, followed by the second-ever successful confrontation with BIM consultants and other professionals and associates who are worth about 18% of the total. Significant ASSOBIM score, which with almost 11% - compared to 7% of the last edition - you see developing its role as a training benchmark, followed by retailers, consultants and other institutions; it remains to improve the contribution of professional associations and ministries, closing the ranking from behind, highlighting the perceived need for more decisive action, while their contribution grows with UNI, possibly also thanks to its intense activity on the front of process and skills certification. The other need to feel this emerges from another question that highlights how over 90% of operators (further growth compared to the already high 2019 result) are asking to be able to count on the norms and standards directly included in the BIM Software, well organized and independent libraries of generic digital objects provided by manufacturers increasingly available on the market. Request for information, training and technical / regulatory reference points clear and defined therefore it is a particularly felt need on the part of operators Significant indications also come from the answer to the question about the year of introduction of BIM in the company: since 2015 (or previously) there is a steady growth which, after a first peak in 2018, continued its rise: over 20% of the sample - 51% more than the previous edition of the survey - recently introduced the Building into the company Information Modeling. A panorama, therefore, which, on the one hand, registers an increasingly widespread diffusion, on the other, it is corroborated by two further data. The first relates to the intention of introducing BIM into the company by how many still do not use it: about 11% plan to adopt it within a year, 16% within three years and nearly 20% over the next five. The second refers instead at the utilization rate: 32% of the sample has declared to have adopted BIM in their own projects always (18%) or in any case extensively (15%) and 23% partially, while only 16% used it to a small extent a compared to almost 60% of the last edition of the survey. An unmistakable signal of growth. No surprise, however, as regards the areas in which BIM is used: a the lion's share is always the architectural design (51%) followed by plant engineering (12%), structures (9%) and in scattered order from other disciplines such as energy recovery and design.

The degree of knowledge

Always for the purpose of evaluating, this time from a qualitative point of view, the degree of diffusion of BIM, a second block of questions focused on quantification the level of BIM skills declared by the operators and the information channels used by the latter to consolidate and integrate them. About 13% of the sample (slightly up from 10% in the last edition of the survey) said they were very confident in their knowledge and skills, while beyond the 50% - also up by two points percentages - it is to a good or sufficient extent; the remaining 37% show shortcomings in this regard more or less accentuated (this too marks an improvement, five percentage points compared to 2019) still believing his professionalism is not well established on the subject and the consequent need to integrate it. A year later, then, too the share of professionals not yet endowed with skills is still high consolidated in the BIM field, the numbers speak of a progressive quantitative growth and qualitative of the same, outlining one substantially positive trend curve. Always wide and varied, but with some interesting variations, the panorama of the sources of information / training in the BIM field which the operators declare to draw; the sites grow until they reach the first position internet and sector media, used by 25% of the champion, followed in second position from the always effective confrontation with BIM consultants and other professionals and colleagues, who they are worth about 18% of the total. Significant result of ASSOBIM, which with almost 11% - in compared to 7% of the last edition - you see grow its role as a training point of reference, followed by retailers, consultants and other institutions; it remains to improve the contribution of professional associations and ministry, which closes the ranking from behind highlighting the perceived need for more incisive action, while the contribution is growing of UNI, probably also thanks to his intense activity on the certification front of processes and skills. Other needs in this sense emerges from a further question, which highlights how over 90% of operators (in further growth compared to the already high figure of 2019) ask to be able to count on norms and standards directly included in the BIM software, well-structured and independent libraries of generic digital objects supplied by manufacturers increasingly widely available on the market. The request for information, training and reference points technical / regulatory clear and defined continues therefore to be a particularly felt need on the part of the operators.

The perceived benefits

If dissemination of knowledge and skills, extension of uses and increase of information and training sources are the data that a second objective of the survey emerges from this first part of the questionnaire was to check whether to such trends there is an effective awareness of the advantages offered by the BIM methodology, and to what extent does it affect this dynamic the compulsory path introduced by DM 560/2017. For this purpose the investigation included a series of questions to test the real degree of perception of the operational, economic and competitive advantages offered from BIM among the operators in the sector. The results they are significant in several respects: beyond 80% of the sample (10% more than the 2019), first of all, he is in fact very or quite convinced that the adoption of BIM is able to contribute strongly (up to a third less) to the reduction of the initial cost of construction and costs related to the entire life cycle of the building, as well as the reduction (up to 50% less) of the total time for carrying out the work, from the start upon completion of the works. Equally significant is the appreciation shown by champion in relation to another strength of the BIM methodology, i.e. the ability to reduce variations on site to solve interference and design defects, a theme that the interviewees (over 93%) almost unanimously agree with. They remain the reservations, already highlighted in the latest edition of the survey, about the possible contribution provided by the adoption of BIM to the reduction trade imbalances between imports and exports of components and materials from construction, aspect on which two thirds of the sample continues to express doubts. Even the answers to a question dedicated to the impact of BIM in terms of time / cost reduction and competitiveness in genre in the context of projects carried out by survey participants confirm the trends outlined by these data: over 60% of the sample (5% more than the last edition) considers the adoption of Building Information to be very or quite advantageous Modeling, a further 17% believe that it is sufficient benefits, while only 7% consider them inadequate.

The regulatory landscape

This edition also dedicated a group of questions to the related regulatory aspects to the implementation and management of the Building Information Modeling. The first concerns the degree of knowledge of the forecasts contained in Decree 560/217, confirms a trend that has already clearly emerged in the last edition: about 63% of the sample (3% more than the last edition) believes it very to good enough, while significantly halved from 20% last year, reaching only 10% the number of operators who claim not to have knowledge about it. Given this data, however very significant, it should however be noted that only 27% of the sample declared that they have already had the opportunity to participate in public tenders that provide for the mandatory nature of BIM models in the tender document; an outcome, this, probably also fruit of the stadium in which the roadmap envisaged by the Decree is currently located, whose thresholds of mandatory amount (currently equal or above € 50 million) are still relatively high in relation to the average size of design studios national. Another interesting fact is what emerges from a question relating to the introduction within the corporate structure of figures professionals with BIM skills certified according to the UNI 11337-7 standard: 16% of champion already has figures within the staff certified professionals while 7% declare to have started a certification process (the two aggregated data corresponded the last year about 10% of the sample), and a further 27% have BIM professionals but not yet certified. Stay still high (more than 50%) instead the number of reality that does not have BIM professionals within its staff. In the face of the broadly positive statements regarding the skills certification processes BIM according to the UNI 11337-7 standard, on which i opinions are substantially unanimous both about the effectiveness of the certification process that its usefulness as a qualification tool on the market, however, seems possible deduce that the latter figure is essentially the result of a lack of resources and not of a lack of conviction about the usefulness of specialized and certified professionals.

Opportunities and criticalities

Finally, one last block of the questionnaire focused on the perception of the opportunities and criticalities highlighted by the methodology BIM among specialized operators. As for the prime, is largely unanimous (almost 90%) the consensus that BIM represents the future of the management of information relating to the project, construction and management / maintenance and allows, as already mentioned, significant savings also on management and maintenance costs of the work (77%), as well as better coordination of the various related documents at work (87%), cost optimization (67%), faster management of the order (66%), the possibility of approaching new sectors and types of projects (62%) and, last but not least, an easier projection on international markets (76%). In the face of these and other elements of strong positivity and awareness of the strategic role that BIM is increasingly destined to play in the creation, implementation and maintenance of as constructed, some responses also highlighted the inevitable criticalities and difficulties that the adoption and extensive use of this methodology entails for operators e in relations with the market. They remain for example strong doubts, expressed by almost 70% of the sample (two percentage points more than in the last edition), about the fact that customers are not yet able to understand the advantages offered by Building Information Modeling, what which consequently requires the adoption of actions aimed at spreading this awareness also among the recipients / end users of the work. A fact, this, partially rebalanced by the conviction expressed by about half of the sample, that's the question of adoption of BIM by clients and customers will be targeted to some extent increase in the near future. High also awareness on the part of operators (88%, substantially in line with last year) about the fact that the adoption of BIM inevitably involves a series of changes in procedures, practices and flows work on their own structures and processes. Between the critical issues and obstacles most perceived by operators in implementation the lack of BIM continues to stand out of internal skills, highlighted by 67% of the sample (five percentage points more compared to 2019), of adequate training (72%, compared to 65% of the last edition) and, not surprising in the light of the present economic stage, implementation costs and the endowment of capital goods (75%). A persistent lack of demand represents a further critical factor for 68% of the panel, as well as the lack of clarity in public clients and in the Informative Specifications (70%), difficulties in developing interoperability (67%) and lack of time (58%). A final note on the disciplinary areas of use of BIM software. Over 52% of the sample (9% more than last year) declares to adopt BIM platforms for architectural design, 10% use it for the structural one, while the plant engineering sector is growing up to 9%.

1 - Subdivision of the sample by type of company - see original

2 - Number of employees - see original

3 - Classes of turnover - see original

4 - What role will BIM play in achieving specific results - see original

5 - Degree of knowledge and use of BIM - see original

6 - Percentage of BIM adoption in company projects and activities - see original

7 - Year of BIM implementation in the company - see the original

8 - Percentage of use of BIM in projects carried out in the last twelve months - see original

9 - Type of works for which BIM was mainly used- see original

10 - Forecasts on the use of BIM in the company in the coming years - see original

11 - Degree of security in relation to knowledge and skills in the BIM field - see original

12 - Evaluation of the impact of BIM in terms of time / cost reduction e of competitiveness in general in the context of projects carried out in the last twelve months - see original

13 - Sources of information relating to BIM used most frequently - see original

14 - Level of knowledge of the contents of Ministerial Decree 560/2017 (BIM mandatory decree, or Baratono decree) - see original

15 - Participation in public tenders that provide for the mandatory nature of BIM models in the tender document - see original

16 - Participation in public tenders that envisage BIM models by type of entity - see original

17 - Introduction into the company of professionals with certified BIM skills according to the UNI 11337-7 standard - see original

18 - Degree of sharing of some statements regarding certification of BIM skills according to the UNI 11337-7 standard - see original

19 - Evaluation of the activities carried out in relation to the projects of the last twelve months - see original

20 - Production of aggregated information models - see original

21 - Degree of sharing of some statements on aspects of BIM - see original

22 - Degree of sharing of some statements on aspects of BIM - see original

23 - Level of adherence to the claims about the benefits of BIM (first part) - see original

23 - Level of adherence to the claims about the benefits of BIM (part two) - see original

24 - Main criticalities and obstacles to the use of BIM - see original

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List of members (update 10/2020) - see original