Highways UK | Overturning the sector’s inherent resistance to change
Matt Lambert Posted On September 16, 2016 
Brian Fitzpatrick, founder of Fitzpatrick Advisory, poses the question can BIM change the industry’s behaviour when 20 years of reports and well-meaning initiatives have failed?
As he sees it, for all the productivity initiatives of the last 20 years or so – Sir Michael Latham’s Constructing the Team, Sir John Egan’s Rethinking Construction etc, and despite all of the ‘partnering’ advocacy and nice words about collaboration, it seems that clients and the supply chain are still in the same camps as ever and silo mentality is alive and well.
Hope, says Brian, lies with BIM. It is not the technical advances that get him excited, but the behavioural impacts, which “get to the nub of addressing the industry’s main problem areas.”
The most significant impact of BIM take-up, he believes, will be to “catalyse and reinforce collaborative behaviour, heralding significant benefits in the time and cost of design and construction, and it will happen much more quickly than people think.”
Brian is speaking as part of the looking beyond 2020 panel at Highways UK, which takes place on 16/17 November at NEC, Birmingham.
The event integrates a services and technology-led exhibition with a high-level conference and an extensive fringe programme. Most of the event is free, the only paid-for elements are the main conference, moderated by BBC transport correspondent Richard Westcott, and a supper event on 16 November. The supper includes entertainment from Athena Kugblenu, an engineer with Highways England by day, comic and finalist in the BBC New Comedy Award by night.
You’ll find full details at www.highways-uk.com
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