The building sector plays a key role in the delivery of the European Union’s Europe 2020 goals for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. It has a direct impact on the safety of workers and on the quality of life. The European and global challenge is that the productivity in the building industry is low. This has serious implications on the economy, health, environment and security for all people in the world as building sector is the biggest industry worldwide. The industry spends 40% of world's natural resources with 40% waste, and Government pays 40% or more through tax bills. This increase the carbon footprint and drains energy. Government can by collaboration change this negative development only by using their market power as the industry's largest customer. Society will get more affordable, safer and more sustainable buildings and infrastructure. Government will get more; they will get a digitization strategy for sustainable growth; they will be able to meet global climate agreements without unsocial and unpopular cuts and they will be able to fight black economy and organized crime that today is a a natural part of the low-tech industry.
The big challenge is to get Government to listen and to collaborate between themselves to solve the problem. It is not a industry problem; architects and contractors are paid to correct their own and others. If the bill goes to the private owner, he will raise the price to buyer or tenant and such way increase the cost level, If the bill goes to the public owner, it will increase the tax levels for public services. This is what makes productivity to stay low.
This project aims at providing a commercial solution to make the buidling sector more efficient. The solution is developed by Jotne together with key customers in the public sector covering hospitals, airports, universities, social housing, roads and rail. The technology is branded as Enterprise BIM (EBIM) and is a system for utilizing digital models for managing ownership of data in the entire lifecycle of buildings and to support the core business. Hospital's core business is to treat patients. They certainly need buildings as well as infrastructure for energy, transportation, etc, but any unnecessary construction or operational cosat of the building will reduce their ability to treat patients. The same for Airports, universities, oil refineries, etc.
Enterprise BIM is based on open data standards and one objective is to recommend to EU and affiliated member states to require use of CEN/ISO standards in all their construction activities, to work on improving them by making new requirements and to increase the funding of these standards.
Another objective is to make recommendations for applying Enterprise BIM as a tool for improving the building sector. This can be done relatively easy by implementing Enterprise BIM is a central system for all strategic
