Paul May
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Guide and lead, do not tell or act as though you know better, make the process, like Twins, Cooperative. Be supportive and humble, do ont pretend to be an expert and fall into the traps BiM fell into. Do not talk about BiM or Standards, encourage people to ask If Only and to be creative. This is new untraveled ground and ISO19650 (for example) has no place here, rattling of standards stifles creativity. Be a ally to your client (and in all things), not an expert
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John Lewis Partnership – Retail (and other areas)
For me the bigest blocker is piority. There is very little money in retail and we are working with very lean teams to deliver just the day to day work. If I go to a manager to ask for permission to set up a Digital Twin I will be told no, we don’t have the time (FTE, money) or the money. I’ll also get the same response from out internal IT team, there isn’t the time (FTE money) to spend on projects like this, we need to keep the wheels on the bus.
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Plus I’m often told stop talking about Star Wars stuff, we don’t need this.
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I’m just exploring how I can make my data and information a little more useful for the Non Construction user whilst making sure all the “correct” standards and conventions are used in the background. So people ask, Where is my Thing, the where being ISO19650 and the Thing being UNICLASS, however, I see them as crossing over one another (crossword style) and it makes me ponder if there’s commonality or parallels to help triangulate my data and info, (the third line being time of course).
Excuse the bold, I can’t get it to switch off…
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That would be very helpful, cheers
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Thanks for taking the time to look into this Henry, it’s something we have had to put on hold for now due to the major HO restructure but once we come out of the other side of it all I know this one will be back on my plate to look into.
Also and nfortunatley we are not allowed to work with consultants anymore but we can configure software, not customise, so there is hope but I’d still rather not have to configure a big beast (who’s are geared up for landlords not tennants or us as and other retailers who are a mix of both) where we are only benifiting from 40% of the offering to kind of do what I want; I’d rather work with a smaller firm that can give and recived rent to get 80% of the way to what I need out of the box and then worktogether on the final 20%.
It’s the smaller firms I can’t find, or for that matter someone who is promoting and assisting SME’s in digital construction, is there anyone giving the SME’s a leg up?
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Thank you Shelby, we’re no longer AutoDesk relient and have our own in house CAD system however our stakehoders are but for us we’re more intersted in the Data in a model.
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For this thread my main concern is also Estates Management, rent, motgages, occupancy, IRF16 etc. It’s dominated by big companies and I’m wondering if there are smaller SME’s working in this are.
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Thank you Andy, I think you’ve summised my frustration rather well. We’re not as unique as one might think; if you think about doc control and project management software and the uniqueness they have to manage but still manage to be flexible or we find there is a strong range of offerings. There are a lot of mid sized companies who need something, not just retailers, and the core of what we all do is very similar but we all have to compromise and customise because we’re not the big fish.
However, together we are quite a big fish and that’s part of my point. If we are seen on mass there is value here, it’s just the initial uplift required by a company to make it worth while going after.
If /Â when we go to tender I’m sure we will make everyone aware.
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Thank you Tom. It’ proving to be a bit of a sticking point for us. A lot of the focus tends to be about building and assest within during delivery but we would like to ust know what we’re responsible for first. I’ll check out the case study.
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Yup, happy to help, we’ve got some interesting stuff going on