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BIMHawk tool wins BIM Initiative of the Year

BIMHawk tool wins BIM Initiative of the Year

Newly released BIM tool BIMHawk, developed by the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) and NG Bailey, has won the BIM Initiative of the Year award at the Heating & Ventilation (H&V) News Awards in London.

The freely-accessible, web-based system and software plug-in digitises and manages the creation of standard parameters for BIM objects, and was launched late last year at the CIBSE Building Performance Conference and Exhibition.
The award, presented by H&V News at Grosvenor House Hotel in London, recognises the tool’s ability to improve productivity by eliminating duplication. It also reduces the time spent applying structured data, allowing existing content to be realigned to the data standard without having to re-define it manually.

The software has been developed by Paul Marsland, Design and BIM Development Manager at NG Bailey, and enables authorised users to create or upload Product Data Templates (PDTs) corresponding to real-world products with a full set of industry-recognised parameters ready to be filled in. The model can then be imported directly into BIM platforms without disrupting the rest of the design.
Carl Collins, Digital Engineering Consultant at CIBSE, said: “CIBSE are delighted that our collaborative work with NG Bailey on the BIMHawk project for PDTs has recently been awarded the H&V News’ coveted BIM Initiative of the Year.”

“It is the fruit of many years and many peoples’ hard work and to be able to offer this free to all is a great satisfaction in itself. To have received this award really is the icing on the cake.”

Steve Campbell, Technical Director at NG Bailey, said: “Standardising BIM object information is a relatively ‘unexciting’ aspect of BIM but it is crucial if the productivity gains targeted in BIM Level 2 and beyond are ever going to be met.

“I’m so proud of the work that Paul has put into the development of BIMHawk. He saw an industry-wide issue that wasn’t necessarily being addressed and has used his own initiative and knowhow to create a solution that is freely accessible to the industry.”

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