Mark Bew

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(born 5 March 1967) is an

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engineer and chairman of the PCSG consultancy business, formerly ECS. Until January 2015, he was also chairman of

BuildingSMART buildingSMART, formerly the International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI), is an international organisation which aims to improve the exchange of information between software applications used in the construction industry. It has developed Indu ...

's UK chapter, and, from 2011 to 2016, was chair of the

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BIM Task Group The Building Information Modelling (BIM) Task Group was a UK Government-funded group, managed through the Cabinet Office, created in 2011, and superseded in 2017 by the Centre for Digital Built Britain. History Holding its first meeting in May 201 ...

, a body created to drive implementation of

building information modelling Building information modeling (BIM) is a process supported by various tools, technologies and contracts involving the generation and management of digital representations of physical and functional characteristics of places. Building informatio ...

(BIM) across UK public sector construction projects. Mark Bew worked at John Laing Construction, was business systems director with

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, and then director of business information systems at URS Scott Wilson, before founding his own company, Engineering Construction Strategies (now a division of PCSG), to focus on the UK BIM strategy. In January 2012, he was recognised in the

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with an MBE for services to the construction sector.

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BIM Task Group , A UK Government Initiative
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