BIM skills key to success of area's mega-projects

The region’s mega-construction projects could be affected in the future due to a shortage of qualified Building Information Modelling (BIM) engineers, Atkins MEP head of department, David Crowder, has said.

 

Crowder expects BIM to become a standard expectation for all the region’s major projects, but he said the construction sector needs to “keep up” with the market through strong investment in training.

Speaking to Construction Week after his presentation on BIM at Project Qatar’s HVAC Tech conference, Crowder said: “We expect demand for skilled BIM practitioners to increase substantially as more major projects come on line, but while this is a welcome step forward for the region’s infrastructure sector it could result in a skills shortage unless we start to see significant investment in training.