On Saturday November 6th, 2021, the Digital Construction Week of CREATION 5th 2021 has held an international webinar with the theme “BIM as Sustainable Digital Construction in New Era”. This event is a collaboration with the CoE Smart and Green Building Information Modelling TILC Universitas Gadjah Mada, Civil Engineering Department, Vocational College UGM, and Archilantis. The webinar discussed the Building Information Modeling (BIM), one of the technological advances in the construction sector. This event presented four top professional speakers: Ir. Yudha Mediawan, M. Dev. Plg. as the Director General of Construction, represented by Dr. Ir. Putut Marhayudi, MM, MBA, IPU. as Director of Construction Services Development; Mr. Luki Danardi, S.T., M. Eng., IPM. as Senior Vice President Engineering Division at PT Waskita Karya (Persero) Tbk; Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmad Tarmizi Haron as Dean of Commercialization and Associate Professor at Universiti Malaysia Pahang; and Mr. Philippe Acas as Chief Business Officer at Vrex, Norway. This event was attended by more than 350 participants from various countries, and streamed online through YouTube Channel: Creation UGM.
This international webinar was hosted by the Master of Ceremony (MC), Roihatul Jannah and Timotius Eka Paksi, students of the Civil Engineering Department, Vocational College, Universitas Gadjah Mada, with an opening remark from Dr. Ir. Agus Maryono as the Dean of the Vocational College of Universitas Gadjah Mada.
The event was divided into two sessions guided by two moderators. The first session was moderated by Amalia Ula Hazhiyah, S.T., M. Sc., a lecturer in the Civil Engineering Department, Vocational College, UGM. Presentation on the first session were delivered by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmad Tarmizi Haron, speaking on how the construction process in Malaysia has changed from a non-BIM system to the BIM system. He also explained in details on how Malaysia implement the BIM. In the early stage of implementing BIM in Malaysia, there were challenges, such as the lack of awareness, within industry and academia, on the importance of BIM. Due to these challenge, the University of Malaysia Pahang took the initiative to collaborate with the Public Work Department of Malaysia to develop BIM. In 2016, UMP established the MyBIM Satellite Center which was intended as one of the BIM development techniques at that time.
He also explained that a good BIM project execution plan (BEP) is necessary to address the challenges in every BIM implementation process on a construction project. He then mentioned an example of BIM implementation with a good BEP through a Marine Technology Polytechnic development project in Malaysia, where this project has won the first position for the Design & Build Category award from the Public Work Department of Malaysia in 2021.
The second speaker, Dr. Ir. Putut Marhayudi, MM, MBA, IPU. discussed the implementation and regulation of BIM in Indonesia. He explained about the progress of the industrial revolution that is happening today, starting from the industrial revolution 1.0 to the industrial revolution 4.0, where the information technology is used in most activities. This have impacted the infrastructure development in Indonesia as well. Regarding that, PUPR has a vision of 2030 which is carried out in several periods. As in the period of 2020-2024, PUPR plan to accelerate the construction sector such as water resources, connections (transportation), settlements, and housing.
Regarding the acceleration, the government suggests to utilize the advanced technology in the construction sector, such as BIM, to get several advantages such as reducing claims, reducing the project duration and reducing costs. He also discussed the BIM maturity level, where based on the times, BIM has reached level 3 (full integration 6D-8D). However, in Indonesia, the use of BIM is still at level 2 (full collaboration) and to increase this level PUPR has compiled a roadmap of BIM. It is expected that BIM in Indonesia would reach the construction evolution 4.0 soon.
The implementation of BIM in Indonesia has been stipulated in several regulations such as the PERMEN PUPR 22/2018 which contains the obligation to use BIM for all non-simple state-owned buildings. There is also a regulation from SE DIRJEN BINA MARGA 11/2021 which explains that technical planning, construction and maintenance of roads and bridges can already be done with the application of BIM.
The second session, moderated by Rizky Citra Islami, S.T., M.T., M. Sc., a lecturer in the Civil Engineering Department of the Vocational College Universitas Gadjah Mada, started by a presentation from Mr.Luki Danardi, S.T., M. Eng., IPM. He briefly introducing PT Waskita Karya (Persero) Tbk, and then continued by discussing the use of BIM at PT Waskita Karya. The company have had a digital transformation roadmap to progressing the BIM implementation. “In using the BIM, we need a good workflow to manage data so that all raw data can be integrated into some big data” he said during his presentation. PT Waskita Karya (Persero) Tbk has taken advantage of an innovation that integrates GIS with BIM known as GeoBIM, which is a good solution to overcome problems regarding details and how to manage data.
The last presentation was delivered by Philippe Acas who explained the use of Virtual Reality (VR) technology in construction projects. He explained that virtual reality could show everything clearly and gives the actual reality experience to the users. Mr. Philippe pointed out that VREX is able to provide a good understanding and it also make the collaboration easier across different departments. VREX uses a tool that will take us into the virtual world, but it can also be accessed via a computer or laptop. VREX has done many collaborations with BIM Platforms, one of which is Autodesk BIM 360. By utilizing VREX as a construction planning and development solution, we will get many benefits. For example, we don’t need to share files with the entire project team. Instead, we only need to create a virtual “room” which can be accessed repeatedly by anyone who has the access code. In this webinar, VREX provides live demo using the Fornebubanen Project study case which still ongoing and will be finished in 2025.
In each session of the events, the attendance were actively participating by asking questions and engaging in the discussion. This shows the great enthusiasm from all participants. Through this international webinar, it is expected that we could gain new insight, information, and motivation on the importance of BIM in the current era in the construction world.
