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Looking back, pushing forward: David Shepherd

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In the fourth in a short series of Qu0026amp;As to mark the turning of the year, David Shepherd, product manager (data u0026amp; construction enablers) at the Houses of Parliament Restoration u0026amp; Renewal, reveals his 2023 highlights and his hopes and plans for 2024. Beware the boozy fruit cake!

BIMplus: What’s the best thing that happened in BIM and digital construction in 2023?

David Shepherd: Bar none, that was the secondary (consequential) legislation for the Building Safety Act. Apart from regulations that impose a statutory duty to establish a system for giving information, the golden thread is now statutorily defined in Part 4 of the Building (Higher Risk Building Procedures) Regulations 2023.

Those regulations provide a huge boost to the business case for deploying BIM and digital construction.

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