Moses Itanola, Executive Director of BIM Africa and Richard Matchett, Director of BIMcommUNITY.Africa welcome everyone to the inaugural 2020 BIMHarambee.Africa online BIM conference.

Get insight into how large multi-disciplinary AEC firms are doing Digital Design Review. This presentation will run through topics such as: the design review process, the journey of analogue to digital design review, the evolving requirements of digital design review and new age tools for design review and design review automation.

Application of BIM for infrastructure planning and design is very essential with dealing with a large infrastructure site layout with undulating topography and storm water tributaries flowline. The task to provide a smart or sustainable city with many connected road and drainage networks warrant the use of BIM to create a compelling proposal presentation to stakeholders. This session will educate the participants about coordination and collaboration of infrastructure planners to address the issue of non-sustainability of critical infrastructure and drone deploy solutions to a coordinated and well-planned urban city with articulated roads and drainage networks.

If you are currently in the process of implementing standards in your office or you think it's about that time to update them, this session will give you guidance on where to start. In this session we will discuss why we need standard Processes, the benefits and common concerns about them. I will show you the difference it made in our Organisation, not just in the drawing office, but for entire organisation, from concept design reports, snag lists, progress reports, equipment schedules, specifications, drawings, presentations. And the list goes on. With the correct strategy, data management platform, and implementation we have seen an Increase in quality of our documentation with the added benefit of an increase in productivity.

This session will take the audience through a tour of the following: • The need for sustainable development in the African built environment, • Understanding the methodology and strategies of smart city development, • The way forward: achieving sustainable cities in Africa. • Discover how cities in Africa can become more sustainable. • Get equipped with the knowledge that engineer competence, productivity and growth in innovation of sustainable solutions in Africa. • Discover the emerging technologies and resources that can be used to ensure sustainable development, increase quality of life of people and improve efficiency of existing structures. • Explore the opportunities inherent in today’s industry and quest to sustainable development with emerging technologies and innovation in Africa. • Understand the various methodologies and strategies for smart city development and implementation plan.

We would like to make known the evolutions of the digital market and our approach to Morocco, but also to have the opportunity to share our experience with other professionals in order to enrich the African BIM and digital panorama. The Morocco Digital Roadmap strategy has as its main objective the development of a national BIM regulatory framework that can guide BIM processes and practices in the construction sector, using as a reference the international BIM standards such as ISO19650 and UNI11337 and how these international practices can be adapted and applied to the Moroccan context.

The Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) in integration with Building Information Modelling/Management (BIM) is an optimal approach for delivering construction projects. This presentation will show highlight strategies for leveraging BIM to improve success in IPD Projects.

The presentation is primarily based on a reviewed PhD dissertation that sets out to investigate the potentials of Building Information Modeling (BIM) to mitigate risks of corruption in the Ethiopian public construction sector. The wide-ranging capabilities and promises of BIM have led to the strong perception among researchers and practitioners that it is an indispensable technology. However, the researcher argues that both technology developers and adopters are oblivious to the potentials of BIM in addressing critical challenges the construction industry is facing in developing countries, such as corruption. This particularly would be significant in Africa, where its problems and effects are acute. Proceeding from this anticipation, the research work brings up two primary questions: what are areas and risks of corruption in case of the Ethiopian public construction projects; and how could BIM be leveraged to mitigate these risks? To tackle these and other secondary questions, the research employs a mixed-method approach. The selected main research strategies are Survey, Grounded Theory (GT) and Archival Study. By ways of these multiple research endeavors that is based, first and foremost, on the triangulation of qualitative and quantitative data analysis, the author conveys a number of key findings. First, estimations, tender document preparation and evaluation, construction material as well as quality control and additional work orders are found to be the most vulnerable stages in the design, tendering and construction phases respectively. Second, middle management personnel of contractors and clients, aided by brokers, play most critical roles in corrupt transactions within the prevalent corruption network. Third, grand corruption persists in the sector, attributed to the fact that top management and higher officials entertain their overriding power, supported by the lack of project audits and accountability. Contrarily, individuals at operation level utilize intentional and unintentional ‘errors as an opportunity for corruption. In light of these findings, two conceptual BIM-based risk mitigation strategies are prescribed: active and passive automation of project audits; and the monitoring of project information throughout projects’ value chain. These propositions are made in reliance on BIM’s present dimensional capabilities and the promises of Integrated Project Delivery (IPD). Moreover, BIM’s synchronous potentials with other technologies such as Information and Communication Technology (ICT), and Radio Frequency technologies are topics which received a treatment. All these arguments form the basis for the main thesis of this dissertation, that BIM is able to mitigate corruption risks in the Ethiopian public construction sector. The discourse on the skepticisms about BIM that would stem from the complex nature of corruption and strategic as well as technological limitations of BIM is also illuminated and complemented by this work. Watch this presentation to be acquainted with frozen capabilities of BIM that adopters, researchers and technology developers are oblivious about: mitigating risks of corruption.

The presentation is aimed at professionals in the construction sector who wish to take the Industrial Revolution 4.0 turn by adopting best practices for the effective implementation of BIM in their organizations. The challenge of implementing BIM despite the enormous value that BIM can bring, some parts of the industry still very reluctant to implement building information modeling. Habit is still a strong force in construction and is seen as one of the main reasons for the industry’s digital backwardness. This is not something new for the industry given that it is the least digitized market in the world. People are just not interested in changing their habits unless they see a tangible example of the value they can get in return. With this mind, it becomes understandable that construction players are focusing their efforts in digital adoption in order to break the wall of habits and communicate to the industry why BIM is important. Now it is clear that implementing and managing BIM is not a simple walk. It requires collective effort, bold initiatives and a proactive digital culture. Only then can your BIM strategy develop and flourish. To achieve this, your organization will need to follow a number of steps. In a nutshell, here are the main elements of successful BIM implementation and management process.