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Denmark. Land of Flatness. Bacon, and Massive bridge/tunnel that links Copenhagen to Malmo in Sweden (yes the one from The Bridge /Bron /Broen). It’s reading about Danish BIM Adoption that spurred the idea of the Scandi-BIM Tour. So Tak, to Denmark.

 Also, land of very early BIM adoption.

 Key points –

 2001 – Danish Digital Building Initiative

2007 – 10 Building Owner Demands

2008 – Practical Use

2010 – The Cuneco Initiative (CCS with BIM Applications)

2013 – Updated with Digital Building Code

 The Mandate started in 2007, with 7 BIM Mandates applied in 2013. 3 years ahead of the UK. This was for any public funded project over 700,000 Euros, or any projects over 2.7 Million Euros that had government grants.

 The Mandate is spelt out in black and white also, which is always good:

 ICT Coordination

Management of Digital Building Objects

Digital Communication and CDE

Use of Digital Building Models

Digital Quantity take off and Bids / Tenders

Digital Delivery of Documentation

Digital Inspection

 So, the key word for the Danes is digital, in plain English, there is a collaborative federated model, costing, pdf documentation and digital snagging. Basically, Level 2, plus a bit more. Again, as the trend goes – IFC for model collaboration and investigation.

 What else, well, they don’t use CAWS, obviously that’s a British thing, but they are developing CCS, a new Danish Classification system, which includes CEN (the EU BIM Mandate). There then seems to be heavy use of a system called Spine, which collaborates all the different standards and works as a classification system / manager.

 Guidelines Documentation includes articles bu Danish Building and Property Agency and Ministry of Housing, Urban and Rural Affairs, and again with IFC, buildingSMART is a huge part of Denmark’s strategy.

 How are they doing? Pretty well it appears. As an ultra early adopter, the experience path has already taken the crests and troughs that the UK is now experiencing, and can we learn from them? Hell yes.