Having sold the soul to the devil –clients in this case; the work starts to take a different guise.
The red beacon starts to flash. Not
the ones in streets of Amsterdam, but the red light pulsating over the sleazy
houses in the legal and insurance districts.
In the year dot, neither the legal nor the insurer’s fraternities
knew what the BIM stuff was. Even today
these fraternities are still pretty much in the dark. Working collaboratively is the essence of
BIM. These fraternities have to start
developing new structures and solutions and foremost need to disassociate
themselves from pimping risk and the transfer of risk.
Vis major (Act of God) aside (or force majeure in legal speak),
as part of project management, we introduced within the collaboration policy
the concept of “Delineation of Risk” (DOR) – not the Nintendo game! – LOL. Simply, the collaborators have to identify
the risks and act upon these with mitigation measures throughout the
project. It is an iterative process, so
when structured into the collaboration policy, one project at a time, the
transfer or the intent of transfer of risk is reduced and demonstrated by
simple measurement.
It is done in other industries, from bio medics; to the oil
and gas; to the aerospace and even banking, so porting the procedures into the
AEC was simple.
One may argue that risk assessments are done all the time in
the AEC, in particular for Health and Safety requirements, but this is only
one component of risk. When applied to the
full design and construction process, but with the measurand embedded in the workflow
starts to show effective risk management making the project risk adverse. So
the DOR measurand makes the risk and the intent of transfer self-regulating –
not so bad.
To reduce the industries cost burden, is it possible to have
a shift in the antediluvian and avaricious insurance practices within the AEC –
I wonder.
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