The BIM-Futures Toolkit: Designing, developing and piloting a professional development capacity framework for staff, students and industry stakeholders involved in BIM-related practice.
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The BIM-Futures project will design, develop and pilot a professional development framework for staff, students and industry stakeholders involved in BIM-related academic and industry practice by exploring their BIM knowledge, attitudes and self-reported behaviours.
Partners
Collaborating with main contractors, consultancies and other higher education institutions.
Aim
The BIM-Futures project will design, develop and pilot a set of complementary tools (competency assessment matrix, learning resources and BIM badges) that will build capacity and establish a coordinated professional development framework for academic and industry stakeholders. A collaborative mentoring circle framework utilising existing national and international networks will provide an enhanced evidence-based learning environment for students and staff and establish a clear recognition framework for formal, informal and non-formal learning opportunities using open education principles.
Target Groups:
All stakeholder groups in industry and higher education programmes related to the built environment.
Exchange of Experiences:
Collaboration with industry, higher education institutions.
Outcomes

Provide learning opportunities for students to develop skills, competences and attitudes that will enable them to work, live, learn and lead in an increasingly digital world and industrial sector.
Impacts/Outcomes 2:
Provide learning opportunities for academic staff to develop skills, competences and attitudes that will enable them to facilitate an innovative and collaborative learning environment using BIM as a pedagogical methodology across higher education programmes.
Impacts/Outcomes 3:
Provide learning opportunities for industry stakeholders to inform their transitions towards becoming BIM-enabled organisations.
Policy/Initiative

Explore BIM knowledge, attitudes and self-reported behaviours of academic staff, students and industry stakeholders.
Mis-Matching of Skills:
Embed BIM as a pedagogical methodology across built environment programmes.
Skills Shortages:
Significant gap in BIM knowledge and skills from an academic staff perspective, which provides an opportunity to develop a research-informed and evidence-based approach to providing learning opportunities across the higher education sector and the construction sector.
Recommendations
Training:Develop BIM learning resources that will be applicable in a real-world context i.e. on site and in the classroom.
Career Moves:
Improved employability of higher education students and addressing the need to address competency shortages related to BIM practice in the construction sector.
Mobility:
Opportunities to collaborate nationally and internationally with industry and the higher education sector.
Other EQF-Level:
Preparation of a BIM Educational Framework that will be transferable across the higher education sector.
Transfer in Europe:
Opportunites to do so.
Target Groups:
All stakeholder groups in industry and higher education programmes related to the built environment.
Other:
General improvement of the construction sector image with increased attractiveness and competitiveness
Contact Information
Name of Organisation: | Galway and Mayo Institute of Technology, GMIT |
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Address: | Department of Building and Civil Engineering, Dublin Road |
Zip/City: | Galway H91 TRNW |
Country: | Ireland |
Telephone: | 091742161 |
Email: | Mark.Kelly@gmit.ie |
Website: | https://www.gmit.ie |
Contact Person | |
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Contact Name: | Mark Kelly |
Contact Phone: | 091742161 |
Contact Email: | Mark.Kelly@gmit.ie |