 My name is Mark Kelly and I'll be bringing you through the proposal I work in the Department of Building and Civil Engineering in the GMIT and we'd like to thank the forum today for giving us the opportunity to present our proposal. The aim of the project is to design, develop and pilot a professional development framework for students, staff, academic staff and industry stakeholders involved in being related practice. It was submitted on the proposal type 2. The main aims of it are to enhance teaching and learning in GMIT and outside of GMIT professional development of the three sections that I mentioned previously and also to specifically look at a specific discipline namely building information modeling but also to initiate a cultural change which is required in the industry and in academia at the moment. It's also building on a delta award we won the inaugural engineering delta award in March of this year and we were delighted to do so this project proposal is to build on that award. Although it was a GMIT submission I just want to sort of highlight the collaboration amongst the team so it's mainly a collaboration internally between the GMIT building and civil department but also the teaching and learning unit. We support from our head of school and head of department and we also have a number of industry people involved in it Mark Costlow whose RPS being director Michelle Faheus being implementation manager with J. G. Radigans which is a construction company. Jimmy Faheus who's here on my left who's the regional coordinator and regional beam manager for BAM Ireland also a building contractor and Kenneth Graney who's a quantity surveyor with Cary Building Development. So we're delighted to have the industry input on the core team. Mark Costlow and Jordan Ingersen have just come back from Las Vegas and where they presented our beam related research at the Audit S University series over there so they were a bit like that's why they couldn't be up here today. So what is it? What is it we're talking about? So BIM is a collaborative way of working which uses a digital model and places at the center of all the work and this is a complete difference to where the industry traditionally has worked and that the industry has been fragmented through the different stages of the project from the design construction to the operation to the final hand over the project. It's a process of creating and managing information over the whole project lifecycle to inform decisions over that lifecycle based on the digital description of every aspect of that built asset but it's not just about the technology or the 3D software that you might see it's also a process to engage everybody involved in the supply chain at every stage to collaborate and it's also about the people. So as I mentioned it's going to need a huge culture change in the industry in Ireland both in in all sorts of projects to go towards this collaborative way of working that moves away for the adversarial practice that we've had over the last number of years. So again the collaborative aspect of it we're already engaged in the network we're going to expand that network to include students and other industry stakeholders but we have the national BIM regions so there's a series of regional BIM hubs that are set up around the country where we have activities between academia and industry. CESA which is the construction IT Alliance which has been a leader in the BIM space there's also a national BIM council and we're also linking in with DIT and WIT through their BIM research collectives. We also have links with Tampere University in Finland and we're actually preparing a delta the new Erasmus plus delta scholarship application at the moment to build on this work and another work that we do with Tampere to go over there in April of next year. We also have members on the BIM academic forum in the UK and we also have been collaborating with the BRE from the UK over the last number of years. We have extensive industry engagement we have support of all the professional bodies and as I mentioned we have a number of contractors and different design teams involved at this stage so the idea would be would be to invite representatives from these people to join the steering group if this project was lucky enough to be funded. So there's three elements to the project really is to build a BIM competency assessment tool which doesn't exist at the moment either in industry or in academia. To link this to a series of BIM reusable learning resources so we're going to use an already developed framework called the My Experience which was used for the recognition of prior learning we're going to adapt that to develop the company assessment tool. We're already going to use a developed CPD Learn Online to host the BIM reusable learning resources and we're going to align that with a series of digital badges. So one of our core team members Wayne Gibbons in our department is doing a PhD at the moment in digital badges in education and we've developed some pilot digital badges which second year students already and we want to expand that so that it can apply to staff students and industry as well. It's building on a reciprocal learning framework that ourselves in RP, RPS developed over the last five years in the development of the higher diploma in BIM and engineering which has been running very successfully. We're going to align with the national professional development framework elements by introducing different activities and exercises at each stage. An example of that will be the BIM bites lunchtime series where we would have staff and students co-create presentations to the rest of staff. If somebody introduced the BIM intervention into their teaching practice we want student feedback on how that worked for them and the idea is to bring the student and staff together and to present that and disseminate that to other staff across all the IOTs and universities not just in GMIT. This will link into our digital badge framework where we can identify both students the staff has been the GMIT and BIM leaders. We're going to do an extensive review of international best practice and we've already sort of started this to look at the competency framework so that we can base it the digital badge framework around the basic intermediate advanced and expert levels. So what will it deliver? What we really want to deliver is start catalyzing a culture change from within the institute but also outside in the industry and this graphic here our cartoon shows what is can happen in the industry and the difficulties that can arise so the different interpretations of what a client wants from a project or a building leading into how the architect might visualize it, how the engineer might design it and then how it's safe to want it. But the thing we're trying to avoid is the endpoint is what the client paid for and what the client actually received. So that is a big issue in the industry as the tool ads here will attest to how can we get over that. So the technology has always been a driver in the industry and it's beginning to be there's a tipping point now in the construction sector where really it's beginning to take off. But just to give you a sort of historical context of driver in 1967 we had the motor mason was presented as a solution to the housing crisis in Britain which might sound familiar to anybody familiar with Ireland at the moment as it laid bricks five to ten times faster than a human. A latest iteration of that is the Hadrian X which is able to build a complete shell of a house in just two days. Fabricator robots which can form steel reinforcement frameworks ahead of concrete pores. Drones have been used for site surveying, health and safety inspections and progress reporting but also can be used for construction works. Virtual reality applications can create an immersive environment and headset to enable industry stakeholders to step into their buildings of the future. Humanoid robots being developed in Japan are installing plastic board slabs and a recent University of Oxford study said that actually that profession has 80% chance of being replaced in the next 10 to 15 years. Augmented reality is a live copied view of the physical real world environment which allows users to become interactive and have the ability to manipulate the world scan to beam which is a process of 3D laser scanning physical space or size to create accurate digital representation of it. 3D printing can be used from anything from rapid prototyping component manufacturing scale modeling to full-scale printing of a house and bridge components. Other technologies which are also prevalent are the use of autonomous and self-driving vehicles on site ectoskeleton applications for heavy lifting, the use of internet and things and big data, the use of artificial intelligence for project scheduling and planning and also blockchain applications for smart contracts and identity certification. So what do you think this is a utopian or dystopian view of the future? It is still incumbent on higher education to be able to respond to this and to enable students to be able to thrive and lead in this sector because all of these things look good on a video but they pose huge challenges both from an educational point of view and an industry point of view. We want the project to continue to empower leaders both from a staff point of view but also student point of view so we've been industry partners we've been development have seen progress they've been awarded certifications we've embedded a BRE BIM approved graduate program for students and publishing that. We want GMIT as a client to be a public sector BIM leader itself and evidence of that is the GMIT innovation hope which is a four million euro project which is due to commence in a couple of weeks has a BIM requirement as part of that process so we're working very close with the building and the state's office on that. We want to develop the community of practice so we already have an existing community of practice but we want to expand on that and looking through different aspects but we want to encourage one thing that's missing from the community of practice at the moment is getting to students as partners students as researchers and working into interdisciplinary spaces so we still have there are silos in industry under the different trades but we also have silos in our department between architectural technology civil engineering construction management and quantity surveying and we want to bring those together because that reflects what the industry should be. As I mentioned we were looking enough to win the delta award back in March of this year and what as part of that delta submission we have to submit a three-year plan of work so this project will help us implement that plan of work to ensure that we can expand the community of practice and develop that BIM and digital literacy will be embedded as threshold come concepts across the whole for all our programs not just in the building a civil engineering but also in the school of engineering. We're looking at developing curriculum assessment we want the digital badge framework to be embedded into the student population so that as they go through the four years in the college they can clock up these digital badges under the from going from basic to advanced so that the industry can recognize that. We also want to engage our students as I mentioned as partners co-creators and researchers and we're already starting to do that as part of our GMIT first five first five weeks induction programs but also to push students towards more looking at developing e-portfolios and digital CVs so that the industry can see evidence of their work rather than handing in a hard copy CV because industry as we might allude to later and having difficulties in identifying who's competent and doing what. We're also developing our current higher diploma in building information modeling to spring to springboard phone funding in an online environment and we have 50 industry people signed up to start at a march and we have another 50 to 60 on a waiting list so the demand is really high for this area. Assessment strategies so what we want to look at is sort of democratic assessment strategies again engaging with staff and students that the great thing about the digital construction area is that students can become very creative as can staff so if they want to go off and do something different to what's on the curriculum we give them that space to do that so we've started to introduce things like hackathons having research papers going into a final year research journal and also multidisciplinary group work to competitions and so on. Everything is based on the whole idea of scholarship and evidence based and also on to be research informed so we're using that learning reciprocal learning framework to do that and that has served us well up until now and we want to expand it a bit further but we want digital literacy influence is a guiding threshold concept. Our programmatic review is this year coming up and this is one of the guiding principles of threshold concepts across the whole program. We're also responding to national drivers there is a national road match to digital transition driver there policy document from government to government are haven't gone haven't mandated it yet but it's coming down the line but in that document they identify that we should be producing a preparing consistent seamless and coherent digital experience for students and specifically obviously target to the construction sector. We're also responding to the national digital skills strategy and also the national teaching learning forum because we're looking at digital innovation and digital capability has been a core part of any construction related program. So what you see is we have a number of overlapping work packages that we're going to go through which have a number of things linked to the different quarters and different milestones and different outputs so we will have continuous engagement with students staff in industry to questionnaire service focus groups work groups Delphi studies and so on and we'll be maximizing resources that already have been developed namely to my experience IE and CPD learn online and they are using and have been sustainable as Karina may test you later on but the key thing is engagement with everybody so that we can capture we can ensure that the students that the staff are competent enough to deliver the material that the students gain those competencies that will benefit industry. So we'll have continuous peer feedback on the two when we develop the competency assessment tool that will have a feedback mechanism there where students academic staff and industry will come back and say does it work well does it not work well similarly with the digital badge micro credentials and all the learning resources we're going to develop as well. Our dissemination output we intend to do you know use the formal and informal manners but we're going to be using our work groups within the institution we're going to use the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary work groups but we're also going to have we have a number of events within the GMIT like our annual construction management conference that we're going to look at as well as well as academic papers and so on. We're basing around the activities of the national forum so people can jump in at whatever the competency level is so if people is already fairly being labeled they can jump in at the leading element and we're also going to leave room for critical reflection because we want to have the institute as a role model pedagogical there's no point in us telling industry that you need to all collaborate if we're not collaborating within our department or across other higher education institutes and the aim is to bring the site into the classroom so one of the things with the innovation hope is due to construct we're bringing that into the classroom when that's a case study to be embedded into the curriculum and the impact there'll be a number of impacts as I've already mentioned but we're looking at developing newer things like the BIM Futures Research Journal where we'll have students as researchers where they'd be allowed to publish a working paper at the end of the year and looking at teaching learning practice to make sure that it's a pedagogical methodology so that everybody along the line can enable them to be leaders so just when you're looking at a student life cycle and the transitions that are contained or in for the student what we want to use the the two is first of all to attract students in to GMIT and into the construction related programs but also to empower them during the thing to become from taking being a passive learner to empower them to be leaders in this area so we have a number of initiatives there that we hope to and we're going to link in with digital citizenship and literacy and also the the guy lens of the national student engagement program so we've already won a number of awards for the program including the delta award and recognized by industry but we want to evolve this further and what we see this is that this is a subset of a bigger scale which is a building futures project and we actually are convening a national meeting workshop next year with the construction industry federation sort of led by GMIT where we're bringing all the higher education institutes together and industry together to talk about what industry needs more broadly BIM is one part of that but we're looking at a more broad picture. Just finally to address the international panel comments from the first review student leadership was key I hope we address that through looking at the different strategies that we've identified and also the collaborative aspects of the panel and so on. Lastly I hope it can be seen that we're meeting the strategic priorities of the national forum itself with professional development I hope to also teach teaching and enhancing and looking at it in digital world and enabling student success I'm under pressure so thank you very much