Press conference this morning at the order’s headquarters.
Encourage and accelerate the transition to BIM: Building Information Modeling. This is why the order of engineers of Agrigento “reaches out” to the Public Administrations of the Province to join the training and professional development plan on a topic of great interest and relevance: the obligation to train on digital information management (BIM) methods and tools for construction for the design and construction of public works. The details were illustrated this morning at the order’s headquarters in Agrigento. During the press conference, the President of the Order, Achille Furioso, together with the members of the Order Council and the CEO of the leading consultancy company in the BIM sector involved in the initiative, they illustrated the details. The public administration has one year to prepare to manage large BIM contracts, and 4 years for the majority of public contracts.
The challenge is the same for professionals, companies, suppliers and for all those who operate in the construction sector. BIM is not only used for planning the construction of a building, but is also a method for controlling, verifying and reducing errors during execution for a strict method of preventive control of the model.
In Italy the use of the instrument was introduced as an irreversible path in the planning, construction and management of public works.
However, to achieve these objectives it is necessary for public administrators to undertake a process of adapting the planning and management of resources to the new model, through specific training activities and the acquisition of technical and cultural skills in the name of the digitalisation of procedures, qualifying and ensuring competence and professionalism of staff and organisations.
“If the training obligations required by law are not promptly fulfilled – explains the president of the Agrigento engineers’ association, Achille Furioso – there is a risk of losing funding and the possibility of managing the cycle of public works. The Order, in a spirit of service to the community, in the belief that only the professional growth of the operators involved (freelance professionals, sole project managers (RUP) and managers of the technical offices of public administrations), can activate a virtuous path for the design and the realization of public works, has sent to the local authorities a draft memorandum of understanding with the Order which does not provide for any spending commitment.” Territorial bodies that have not received the draft memorandum of understanding can download it from the Order’s website or call the Secretariat at no. 0922/21594 to receive it via e-mail.
