Around the world, BIM mandates are seeing increased take-up – the European Union recently encouraged BIM for publicly-funded construction and building projects by 2016, while Dubai Municipality recently mandated BIM for all mechanical, electrical, and plumbing projects for large and internationally-delivered projects and specialised buildings.

Qatar is the GCC’s fastest-growing construction and infrastructure market, with more than $200-billion worth of projects by 2021. Right now, across the Middle East and especially in Qatar, while there is strong awareness of BIM technology, organisation-wide adoption of the system has been lagging.

Existing and prospective strategies, procedures, technologies, standards, challenges and opportunities for adoption of Building Information Modelling (BIM) by the Qatari construction industry and major consultants and project owners are considered as high level requirements to facilitate lifecycle information flow, reflecting the global construction trends.

Simply put, BIM is a design management and project planning tool. Used correctly and fully it has the capacity to minimise project delays and cost over-runs- major issues in Qatar and to maximise the on-site management for planning and executing construction or infrastructure projects. It enables all stakeholders to access relevant information to manage projects faster, with less unexpected costs and more sustainably. It can also fully manage the design process and ensure that the original designs and project specifications can be fully carried through the entire life-cycle of the project from designer to consultant to contractor and sub-contractors.

With Qatar witnessing its ongoing construction boom, the country must adopt a national approach towards developing BIM standards. A variety of international standards are available worldwide, and are used by different countries. Government may mandate its use on the major infrastructure projects. Dubai Municipality already led the way with this. BIM is being implemented on Lusail City, Qatar Rail projects and most Qatar Foundation projects.

Future BIM Implementation Qatar 2017 has been launched to support the optimisation of BIM implementation to improve the management of complex construction and infrastructure projects, address the growing use of BIM technologies in Qatar, and explore how utilising BIM can ensure that major architectural and engineering projects are delivered to design specifications, within the agreed timelines and on budget.

This industry leading regional event will provide a platform for relevant government bodies, main consultants, project owners, developers, main contractors, sub-contractors, architects and designers, researchers and academics as well as BIM technology providers, with the objective of learning how to use and understand BIM as a new tool in construction, architectural, engineering projects to save time and money and what is the construction strategy for Qatar National Vision 2030.

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20- 21 March 2017
Doha, Qatar