The construction industry is increasingly embracing collaborative digital tools like BIM. While leveraging BIM brings many benefits, it also comes with unique challenges such privacy risks for contractors trying to land civil projects.
From an article in Construction Dive by Julie Strupp
Federal and state cybersecurity regulations are evolving rapidly, forcing contractors to stay on top of compliance issues, according to panelists at the National Institute of Building Sciences’ Building Innovation conference in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. The Department of Energy and Department of Transportation both updated their data policies this year, and California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah and Virginia all have data privacy laws that will go into effect in 2023.
To stay compliant, contractors must understand relevant regulations and equip workers and subcontractors to comply — or risk losing civil jobs.
Contractors concerned about compliance
To help builders work through some of these challenges, NIBS recently launched the U.S. National Building Information Management Program, which aims to create a BIM standard throughout the entire life cycle of designing, constructing and operating in the built environment.
Many contractors that work on federal builds have expressed a lack of clarity about who is responsible for what aspects of compliance, panelists said. Getting subcontractors and other stakeholders to comply as well presents another challenge, according to panelist Rachel Riopel, digital practice leader at Omaha, Nebraska-based design firm HDR.
“One of the biggest concerns that I saw among companies that do a lot of federal work is that we’re spending an inordinate amount of money to achieve those requirements, but we’re also flowing that down to our subcontractors and our carpenters and expecting that they jump on board with us, or that they themselves elevate their practices and become compliant,” Riopel said. “Otherwise, we do not get the work.”
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