Assignment 01

1. Executive Summary
2. Table of Contents
3. Introduction
4. Main Body
Section 1: BIM and Cybersecurity
Section 2: BIM and Risk Reduction
Section 3: BIM and Quality Assurance
5. Conclusion
6. References

For each of the BIM topics below present and justify the arguments in your response to the questions, allowing a maximum of 2,500 words overall, for the purposes of grading any wordcount above the limit will be ignored:
1. BIM and cybersecurity - protecting data, data integrity and intellectual property rights for the project during design and construction and for the client asset management stage post-handover
Engineers need to be more security minded when sharing information via BIM models, it is possible to give unrestricted access to sensitive and compromising information that extends beyond the buildings being designed into neighbouring infrastructure. Models can show details of critical elements of sensitive sites; the location of hidden cables and access facilities; and even blast calculations for steelwork on tender documents sent outside the UK. What could be done to ensure such breaches of security can be avoided?
2. BIM and risk reduction- reduction of both commercial risk (time and cost) and project risks associated with the process of construction (health, safety and welfare)
There is always some element of risk, whether from cost overruns, project delays or buildings not performing as expected. While adopting building information modelling (BIM) cannot eradicate all risks, it facilitates the process of de-risking many areas across the project life cycle. This provides increased certainty and ensures that key project milestones are met and assets delivered as expected.
For each of the following stages identify examples of how BIM can aid risk reduction:
The design phase
The construction phase
The operational phase
Estate management
3. BIM and assuring quality the extent to which BIM can lead to continuous improvement and higher quality standards in project design and construction
How can the adoption of multiple technologies and processes of BIM deliver improvements in quality assurance of the design, construction and asset management stages of a project within all domains to which the BIM technologies are applied?
For the purposes of word-count the following are excluded: appendices, references, cover page and contents page.