BIM Services
Our Building Information Modelling (BIM) Services enable project teams to collaborate and communicate seamlessly and efficiently.
While the benefits in relation to risk management, productivity, construction time scales and cost savings make a clear case for its use throughout the project lifecycle, BIM is also a powerful tool that can drive our industry towards achieving net-zero carbon targets and a circular economy in construction. It is an important catalyst for change in our efforts to understand how to do better things for the planet and encourage the use of sustainable materials and construction methods.
We are strategic partners of the UK BIM Alliance and also chair the Institute of Structural Engineers BIM Panel. Our in-house specialist BIM team provides the full range of services to allow project teams to make well-informed decisions faster, achieve more efficient and effective designs and deliver buildings that can be built and managed more sustainably.
What is BIM?
BIM helps you improve Design Team coordination by giving you the ability to model and share information in a 3D environment. To reduce the contractor’s risk, we recommend appointing a BIM Coordinator to review, clash detect models and develop a fully coordinated model at Tender.
With a coordinated BIM approach, you can easily produce walkthroughs of the federated model.
Going from flat objects to 3D gives you and the client a better understanding of the project, reducing late changes and ensuring time to make any necessary updates.
By creating videos to support the level of coordination reached, you can instil confidence in the design.
Carbon, reuse, and waste reduction are key considerations for your projects.
We use embedded data within the models to quantify materials, e.g. a 100mm blockwork wall will have a volume associated with it.
This data can be utilised to establish the quantity of materials for reuse or material volumes for purchasing purposes. It can also help generate carbon comparisons and promote the specification of sustainable materials.
BIM can capture and share a greater understanding of health and safety issues with both the Principal Designer and the Building Safety Regulator. This is particularly useful for information related to the Building Safety Act and fire.
In line with the ‘Golden Thread’ ethos, health and safety information should be able to be managed, validated, and traced throughout a project. With careful planning, all risks can be added to models, shown on drawings, and shared as required, with all risks generated and updated in the models.
3D models generate data as standard. How this data is utilised on a project will often depend on whether the building is going to be sold or managed by the client team.
With Asset Information Models and Digital Twins becoming commonplace, careful thought needs to be given to what data the client (and more importantly its facilities manager) will find valuable.
Digital-First Coordination at 20 Giltspur Street
Despite vertical, horizontal and below-ground constraints, we increased the net internal area by 41% through the innovative use of floor jacking at 20 Giltspur Street. By realigning existing floor plates, we unlocked hidden volume and created space to construct a whole new floor.
The complexity of jacking floors demanded unprecedented precision and close collaboration across the design team. From Stage 2, our specialist BIM services team managed the entire BIM process, producing the BEP, coordinating survey and design models, and using clash detection to resolve conflicts between new MEP openings and the existing steel frame. This digital-first approach allowed decisions to be made before contractors arrived on site, de-risking the buildability issues.
Our scope of work
We help clients and partners define the digital strategy, standards and information requirements, including:
- Briefing with PM and DM/client to define project requirements
- Chair kick-off meeting with the design team on the digital strategy
- BIM Execution Plan (BEP) to define roles, responsibilities and workflows
- Model Production Delivery Table [MPDT] to coordinate model responsibilities
- Asset Information Requirements [AIR] for handover and operations
- Carry out an end-of-stage model health and safety check and report
- Maintain and update the BEP, MPDT and AIR
We can help enable collaboration, maintain information quality and manage the digital environment:
- Provide and set-up Autodesk Construction Cloud [ACC]
- Diarise monthly model uploads to ACC
- Carry out monthly model reviews, clash detection and report
- Chair monthly meetings with the Team to review issues on ACC
- Produce visualisation tools (Video flythroughs & virtual reality perspectives) to allow the PM to visualise any key issues
- Produce end-of-stage report and hold meetings with the PM and client
We can support procurement, contractor mobilisation and transition into operations:
- Assist the PM to collate the BIM documentation for tender submission
- Support tender interviews with digital methodology
- Field questions from the Contractor and help the transition*
- Carry out regular model checks and report*
- Support the alignment of requested information for operational and FM requirements*
- Prepare lessons learned documentation to improve performance*
*In a CMT capacity
BIM projects in focus
Holden House
Client: Derwent London
Architect: DSDHA and Veretec
PM: Gardiner & Theobald
We captured Derwent’s FM needs, issued BIM requirements, aligned team processes, and produced a builders’ work openings report for the Fire Consultant. This early clarity on fire-stopping penetrations reduced risk and rework, supported compliance and enabled smoother Stage 5 delivery with Kier and FM integration.
16 Berners Street
Client: Kajima
Architect: Gibson Thornley
PM: Stace
We provided BIM management from Stage 2, producing the BEP, managing ACC as the CDE, and running monthly Navisworks clash detection tracked in BIM Collab. Curo Construction then retained us for Stage 5, where we supported surveys, trained the supply chain, and maintained design–trade coordination.
MYO Kings Cross
Client: Landsec
Architect: SODA Studio
PM: Blackburn & Co
We led BIM from RIBA Stage 3, aligned with Landsec’s BIM team and built a simplified architectural model from 2D drawings. We used Rhino/Grasshopper/Revit automation to support tender coordination and reporting. Landsec retained us into Stage 5 as BIM CMT with Structure Tone to keep deliverables aligned to requirements.
Greencoat & Gordon House
Client: Derwent London
Architect: Squires & Partners
PM: Opera
Building on prior Derwent appointments, we aligned requirements early, flagged existing structural elements for investigation at Stage 3, and produced a Stage 4 coordination video. This helped avoid redesign and delay, demonstrated design maturity, and reduced contractor risk in Stage 5.
