BIM Coordinator article 2022
ARISE Programme Manager Paul McCormack spoke at the 2022 BIM Coordinator Summit in the RDS in Dublin on September 8. Paul wrote an article for the event, 'What is it that we cannot see ?' Read here:PAUL BIM CORD ARTICLE
BIM Basics article
ARISE Programme Manager Paul McCormack has written 6 BIM related articles in the past year for the Dublin based Building Services magazine. Read article 2 of the 6 here: ARTICLE 2- BIM Part 2
Digitalisation in the Built Environment article
ARISE Programme Manager Paul McCormack has written six articles on BIM for the Dublin Building Services magazine. Article one is 'Digitalisation in the Built Environment'. Read the attached link.ARTICLE 1-Digitilisation
Anna Moreno from ARISE Partner appointed to directors' board at Building Smart
During the first day of the buildingSMART International Council, which took place in Zurich on June 28 and 29, the members of the Board of Directors were announced.
Among the new appointments to the Board, we are thrilled to announce the election of IBIMI buildingSMART President Anna Moreno, who commented on her election as follows:
"I have known the interoperability industry for more than 30 years. I served on the ISO TC 184 -SC4 technical committee as an expert on traceability of information regarding materials. I remember my first meeting, it was held in Turin and more than 200 people participated divided into various breakouts: buildings, ships, aircrafts... I asked, "But where are the Italians?" They answered, "You are the only one" and I remained the only Italian for over 25 years.
So when I decided to found IBIMI, which is our association of BIM professionals, I told myself I didn't want to be alone anymore. Today we are the Italian chapter of buildingSMART and we have about 200 members. Thank you for this opportunity, it's really nice not to feel alone anymore!"
IBIMI- Institute for BIM Italy- is a nonprofit association that promotes and supports the digitization of the construction industry, and is the Italian Chapter of the global community buildingSMART. The association is a partner in the ARISE project, leading the WP2 "Benchmarking Energy e Digitalisation Skills"
Sustainable Places 2022-September 2022
ARISE Programme Manager Paul McCormack will be making an online presentation at the Sustainable Places event in September, 2022.
https://www.sustainableplaces.eu/sp22-sustainable-energy-skills-in-the-construction-sector-3/
European Sustainable Energy Week 2022
There will be an ARISE presentation at the European Sustainable Energy Week on September 21, 2022 from 12.00-13.30 CET. The title of the session is: Leveraging digitalisation and construction skills towards 2030 energy goals.
https://european-sustainable-energy-week.b2match.io/agenda?session=c2Vzc2lvbjoxMjMwNzA%3D&track_id=21187
BIM Co-Ordinator Summit, Dublin, September 8, 2022
The BIM Co-Ordinator Summit in Dublin on September 8, 2022 will include ARISE Programme Manager, Paul McCormack, Barry Mc Auley from ARISE Partner, TU Dublin and Dr James Harty from ARISE Partner, KEA, Denmark as speakers.
https://www.bimcoordinatorsummit.net/
ARISE Partner Meeting in North Macedonia-June 21-22, 2022
ARISE Partner Meeting in North Macedonia
The latest Meeting of the Belfast Met led £1.12 million EU digital construction project, ARISE is being held this week in North Macedonia, (June 21-22)
At the home of ARISE Partner IECE, (Institute for Research in Environment, Civil Engineering and Energy) in Skopje, North Macedonia, the nine core ARISE European partners are meeting to continue their transformational work in empowering the digital transformation of the built environment.
The open session event was themed: ‘Improvement and recognition of digital and sustainable energy skills in the construction sector of North Macedonia-needs, opportunities and challenges,’ and detailed the leading role the country is playing, leveraging skills transformations to achieve carbon reductions in the built environment
The Keynote Speaker of the event was Mr Deyan Metikosh, Vice President of the Chamber of Certified Architects and Engineers of North Macedonia. Mr Metikosh spoke on ‘Digital transformations and BIM Methodology-the priority in the processes of continuous improvement of skills of certified architects and engineers’.
Also among the speakers was Mr Vlatko Ivanov, General Manager of Civil Engineering Institute Macedonia who spoke on ‘Needs of the construction sector in North Macedonia for upskilling the knowledge and skills.”
Mrs Dijana Likar, Co Ordinator of the IECE Project team presented on ‘Project ARISE in perspective of national stakeholders’.
ARISE Programme Manager Paul McCormack said: “The ARISE project seeks to create a level digital skills playing field across Europe and to support industry and individuals within the built environment to map their individual digital transformation journey. Through micro credentials, certcoins, time credits we can revolutionise the skills process for blue and white collar workers. With these new skills we can also help decarbonise construction and stimulate energy skills across all levels within construction. Our ARISE Partners from Italy, North Macedonia, Portugal, Ireland, UK, Brussels and Denmark are all contributing to developing this new trans European skills process. Our Partner Meeting in Skopje, North Macedonia is another step in creating new learning pathways.”
The new system of training and recognition of digital skills will be valid across the EU thus increasing the spread of skilled workers in the building market.
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SEAI Breakfast BIM briefing
USING BIM TO CONTROL ENERGY IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
On March 30-31, 2022 the SEAI Breakfast Briefing was held at the SEAI Energy Show in Dublin. The briefing focused on: USING BIM TO CONTROL ENERGY IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
The panel members included: Dr Avril Behan, Project Director, Build Digital, TU Dublin, Michael Curran, Chairman CIBSE Ireland and Head of Building Services, Energy and Utilities, NUIG, Michael Early, BIM Champion and BIM Manager, DAA, Joseph Mady, MD, Digital Construction technologies and Eamonn Sheils, SEAI Programme Manager-Commercial Retrofit.
While digitalisation of the construction process is now recognised as the way forward if we are to realise net zero energy and carbon buildings, BIM is the enabling tool that will make the transformation possible. BIM can transform traditional information processes into data that is easier analysed and shared across the AEC sector so that architects, engineers and contractors communicate on a common platform.
However, as with all new processes and technologies, there is a learning curve for those involved. Hence, this breakfast briefing comprised a panel discussion between experts from each of the key construction disciplines who shared their experience and opinions on how BIM can best be utilised, and the various challenges posed can be met.
The presentations and discussion covered four primary quadrants of the energy cycle – Plan: Potential energy; Design: Embedded energy; Build: Operational energy; and Operate: Sustainable energy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6-TYTruJSc
Stimulating the demand for skills article
ARISE Programme Manager Paul McCormack has had his 6th article published in a series of 6 for the Dublin magazine, Building Services Engineering. The article by Paul, titled: 'Stimulating the demand for skills' is on pages 44 and 45 of the April 2022 issue. You can read it here:
https://buildingservicesengineering.ie/https-buildingservicesengineering-ie-wp-content-uploads-bim-part-6-pdf/