CPD Specifier May 2015 issue September 2015 | Page 58

Outdoor Engineering

Charcon Landscaping
products BIM-enabled
The Charcon range of more than 200 commercial hard landscaping
products has been delivered to market BIM-enabled, almost a year ahead
of the Government’s June 2016 deadline.
With the largest and most varied BIM-enabled product offering in the
commercial hard landscaping sector, Charcon has ensured that it is
best placed to meet the needs of those specifiers who have adopted the
technology ahead of schedule.

The Charcon team has been getting ready for BIM themselves, having
already received expert training from Henry Fenby-Taylor of Colour Urban
Design Ltd who is the appointed author for a major new book from the
Landscape Institute: ‘BIM for Landscape’.

Richard Wilks, Technical Adviser for Aggregate Industries, said: “We are
proud to be leading the way in our sector for implementing strategic BIM
procedures way ahead of the 2016 deadline. At present we have the
majority of the Charcon product range available for early adopters of BIM
technology; that’s 206 commercial landscaping materials that are BIMenabled.

Aggregate Industries has a company-wide appreciation of BIM, and
training will continue within the Charcon division to ensure that everyone
from top-line management down has an understanding of BIM, including
its goals, timescales and benefits so that this knowledge can be passed
on to, or support, its partners in the supply chain.

“With many of Charcon’s customers keen to bring their architect practices
in line with legislative changes sooner rather than later, we have ensured
that the products they use regularly are available to them in exactly the
right format.”

The Government originally proposed the industry-wide adoption of BIM
technology in 2011 to promote sector modernisation across all publicly
funded projects. The two key objectives were to reduce capital costs and
decrease the carbon consumption of the construction and operation of
the built environment. The latest industry guidelines dictate a deadline
of June 2016, at which point all projects built with Government money
will be conceived, designed, specified, built, maintained and eventually
demolished using BIM technology as a central source of information
sharing.

BIM documentation for these products can be easily downloaded from the
Aggregate Industries website, with a dedicated team on hand to prepare
additional files for customers who require material outside of the initial
offering.

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FOSTER CONTRACTING LTD

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