The current situation with BIM in Estonia and plans for future

The current situation with
BIM in Estonia
and plans for future
Aivars Alt,
UAS Tallinna Tehnikakõrgkool
Landmarks
— 2006 – firts projects with BIM elements
— 2007 sept. – first public lecture of BIM by Kari Ristolainen, Senate
Properties
— 2008-2009 – State Real Estate Company Ltd (RKAS) adopts COBIM
— 2009 – IT cluster initiates new cluster activities in Estonia
including construction sector,
— 2010 first BIM procurement , Narva PPA
— 2011 Ragn Sells waste treatment facility - MARU
— 2011 3D model of Old Town of Tallinn
— 2012 Senate Properties new COBIM
— 2012 Estonia as observer in buildingSMART Nordic
— 2013 translation of COBIM 2012
—2013-2014 Research projects (parametric elements, information
classification, BIM execution plan template)
—2014 - initiative of forming of construction cluster of Estonia. BIM
as supportive technology
Estonian BIM Maturity Level
3
Designers activities short review
Estonian design market – mostly small enterprises, best
of them are usually concentrating for one design
discipline only. Could be users of softwares but not
developers, not really interested about BIMinteroperability.
Several of them using BIM softwares for their own
discipline already for many years (architects,
structural, HVAC) but presenting
dwg-s as a rule also for design management .
Some bigger companies (in Estonian scale) adopting and
integrating BIM for all basic design disciplines.
Quality varies (both engineering- and BIM-capability
quality)
Quiet ignorance (in public) to develop BIM capabilities by
older generation and quiet rise of young (sometimes
unexperienced) BIM-generation. Resume of all –
implementing BIM is just a question of time.
Latest years – tuff economical situation for Estonian
building industry incl. designers. But getting better.
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Main BIM-softwares in use
Archicad has been a favourite for architects for many years but output
from architects to others only dwg-files as a tradition.
For benefit of Autodesk products is long tradition and superior amount
of Autocad users among Estonian engineers. Supported by several
sellers, frequent campaigns and long list of product names (high
expectations for interoperability).
Tekla is not widely presented and used mostly in companies tied
directly to some building industry branch producer (concrete
elements, steel structures). No sellers/representatives in Estonia
MagiCAD and CADS Planner presented and used but rarely BIM.
Bentley is presented in Estonia but rare users among building
designers.
Rare Solibri paid software versions.
Solibri not presented in Estonia.
Allplan not presented and probably not used in Estonia
SketcUp is real play maker 
Archibus is going to utilize BIM. Used by several bigger real estate
owners in Estonia, representative in Baltic States locates in
Tallinn.
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Kiriku 2/4 Tallinn => vacant, tenant needs ca 2000 sqm
Office building
area ~1700 m², 2 floors
Kiriku 2/4 Tallinn
area ~2000+ m² including attic
suitable for a tenant
Art School in Tallinn
—1st stage:
architectural
competition
—2nd stage:
BIM
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walls
slabs
space elements
room names
Art School in Tallinn
8 BIMs
Art School in Tallinn
Location – buildings
Quantities – area, volume
Spaces – location
Tasks – costumer (user) needs
Wismari 7 Tallinn => scan to FM BIM
Office building
area ~2000 m²
Wismari 7 Tallinn => scan to FM BIM
Point cloud
before cleaning
cleaned
• Who creates a BIModel?
• What software to prefer?
• What kind of information to
add, where? space vs element
Wismari 7 Tallinn => scan to FM BIM
part of the building
a door
a room
Wismari 7 Tallinn => scan to FM BIM
Model
BIM
Narva Police and Rescue Station => new building, 5000 m²
Stage 1:
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Different users
Different functions
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office
customer service
training and meeting rooms
jail 24h
rescue works 24h
design
Narva Police and Rescue Station => new building, 5000 m²
Softwares:
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ArchiCAD
Revit Structure
MagiCAD
Solibri MC
Tekla BIMsight
Main goals:
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better quality construction project
quantity analysis
clash detection
energy analysis by models
better communication
Narva Police and Rescue Station => new building, 5000 m²
Narva Police and Rescue Station => new building, 5000 m²
Stage 2
— Construction planning and
management
— FM BIM
Softwares:
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Synchro
VICO office
Revit
Solibri MC
Tekla BIMsight
Suur-Ameerika 1 Tallinn => new building
Office building
—2 towers
—Underground parking
—Closed net.area ~22,000 m²
Suur-Ameerika 1 Tallinn => new building
—Softwares:
Revit
MagiCAD
CADS Planner
Solibri MC
Tekla BIMsight
Suur-Ameerika 1 Tallinn => new building
… under way
—Tallinna Vangla (prison)
—Rahvusarhiiv (National Archives)
—Piusa kordon (border quard station)
—Kiriku 2/4 Tallinn kontorihoone (office
building)
—Pärnu PPA (police and rescue station)
—Lubja 4 kohtumaja (court building)
Thank you!
Comments/questions?
Aivars Alt
Tallinna Tehnikakõrgkool/University of
Applied Sciences
aivars@tktk.ee