BIM.Monitoring and Evaluation Services Ltd
Globally, the number of projects or programs that fail is alarming. The two main techniques for improving their performance are Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) and Building Information Modelling (BIM). The former is a more general concept applicable to any domain although it is often applied in the aid development field while the latter is common in the construction or the built environment field. BIM.Monitoring and Evaluation Consulting (bimMEc) Ltd will provide services, with focus on research, M&E and capacity building in BIM, M&E and integrated BIM and M&E.
BIM
M&E
According to ISO 19650 BIM is defined as the “use of a shared digital representation of a built asset to facilitate design, construction and operation processes to form a reliable basis for decisions”
The application domain is the construction field.
Operationally defined, monitoring is a process of continuous observation and assessment throughout the project execution while evaluation is a periodic assessment of the same and includes interim and terminal evaluations
Operationally defined, an M&E system is an M&E concept which refers to all the indicators, tools and processes that can be used to assess whether a program has been implemented according to the plan (monitoring) and is having the desired result (evaluation).
The application domain is climate change and construction fields.
Integrated BIM and M&E
M&E strategies and emerging BIM have been hailed as solutions to improve the performance of projects and/or programmes. Over the years, M&E has been widely used in the aid development field while although still emerging BIM has enjoyed a similar popularity in construction. However, both M&E and BIM have been used in isolation without tapping into the opportunities associated with combining both. Therefore, it is imperative to integrate BIM and M&E to optimise the performance during the monitoring and evaluation of projects and programs.
The areas of applications will be on construction projects or programs.