10/2/2016

Global multi-disciplinary built environment consultancy RPS is the latest business to be accredited as BIM Level 2 compliant by BRE Global.

Employing over 5000 people across the world including 2000 people in the UK, RPS joins a growing number of early adopters who are preparing their organisations for the digital transformation of construction.

The certification covers the company’s 100-strong Galway office, which focuses primarily on infrastructure, and has a number of active UK projects including the A9 dualling project in Scotland. The company now plans to roll certification out across major offices across the business.

Mark Costello, director of BIM at RPS said: “The driver for investing in BIM was to gain work in the UK. One of the first things our new managing director did when he took over in 2012 was to produce a four-year strategy for the company. This identified opportunities in the UK as a key focus of the business. Being able to work in a BIM environment was a requirement that would make us competitive.”

The BRE scheme is designed to demonstrate compliance with the PAS 91-2013 section 4.2 so that BIM certificated companies do not have to provide evidence of competence each time a tender is undertaken. It requires the completion of an online application, followed by a desktop assessment that is carried out to assure that companies provide evidence that the policies and procedures are in place to deliver BIM Level 2. This is followed by an on-site audit to confirm compliance.

Costello, who is a BRE BIM Level 2 Certificated Practitioner concluded ‘Without certification people can say what they want about their capabilities. Many clients may not have the capabilities to check compliance and if they do this takes time. Having an independent body that says you have all the correct systems in place gives the client assurance that a company can deliver projects with BIM.’

For further information please contact Linda McKeown, BRE, email mckeownl@bre.co.uk

NOTES TO EDITOR

BRE: We are a world leading building science centre and the authority on all aspects of the built environment. We generate new knowledge through research that is used to create products, tools and standards that drive positive change across the built environment. We enable our government and private sector clients to meet the environmental, social and economic challenges they face by delivering higher performing, better quality, safer, more secure and more sustainable products homes, buildings and communities. We are owned by the BRE Trust, a registered charity, which funds research and education that advances knowledge of the built environment.  We are committed to building a better world together. We are BRE. www.bre.co.uk

RPS

RPS has grown into one of the world’s pre-eminent consultancies by underpinning our local connections with the resources and knowledge of an international business. We employ more than 5000 people in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, the Russian Federation, the United States, Canada, Brazil and Africa, Middle East and Australia Asia Pacific regions. www.rpsgroup.com

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