While BIM programmes can be lengthy and complex, they are also impactful and valuable. The Global BIM Network can now demonstrate the 14-year digital transformation journey of the United Kingdom through a series of artefacts shared on its website.

The country’s journey from 2008 to 2022 shows that, while public-sector-led, national transformation takes time to complete, it is achievable. It also demonstrates how programmes and transformational states may often overlap. Many will be ‘ongoing’ with new phases, innovations, increasing maturity, new drivers and objectives, or continuous improvement.

The long duration of a digital transformation journey and the likelihood of political change may require multiple revisits to states such as justifying during the life of the programme. This may be driven by the need for new stakeholders to understand and support the case for change.

The UK’s experience also shows how the need to secure resources within a new funding period may require a return to the justifying state. 

The Global BIM Network provides information on digital transformation through its newly-released Public Sector Construction Digital Transformation Playbook and its growing digital knowledge base, the Information Collection. 

Together, these resources build a shared picture of experiences in public sector construction digital transformation. They illustrate how leveraging international good practice can accelerate the process of transformation.  

The Playbook contains international case studies, each focusing on one of the five transformational states: justifying, mobilising, developing, implementing, scaling. Now, the Network has gathered sufficient resources to be able to demonstrate digital transformation at a country level and spanning all five states. This places in context the large number of programmes and initiatives in the UK. 

The Global BIM Network is looking to describe other countries’ digital transformation journeys. Share your artefacts to help us build a complete picture.