Agency holds forum with Korea BIM Society to discuss design standardization and broader rollout
Government agencies, industry and academia joined forces Wednesday to address challenges facing institutions that lack specialized facility personnel or experience carrying out construction projects.
The Public Procurement Service held a forum with the Korea BIM Society at the Government Daejeon Complex on Wednesday to discuss improvements to the application of building information modeling (BIM) in public construction design.
Since introducing BIM into facility construction design under its customized service program in 2010, the agency has consistently worked to expand its application — primarily in the architecture sector — and to build a foundation by developing procurement guidelines.
The forum examined the current state of BIM design, which has often been carried out as a separate task running in parallel with conventional two-dimensional design since its introduction, and sought practical improvements to advance to the next stage.
Academics and industry experts affiliated with the Korea BIM Society attended the session, discussing institutional improvements such as using BIM design outputs as permit documentation and revising fee standards, as well as design standardization measures to increase real-world utility.
Im Byeong-cheol, director general of the Facility Projects Bureau, said the agency urgently needs guidance from academics working on workforce development and technology, as well as practitioners in the field, to promote wider BIM adoption. "We will actively review and pursue the matters discussed today so that the system operates in a rational direction while providing substantive support for national policy," Im said.
kwonhl@heraldcorp.com
