Sabadell- SaBIMdell... The path is made by walking...

Abstract

Virtual reality has approached all strata of the population. Using Google Maps to rehearse a future route is a common activity among citizens. This comfort in the acquisition of ordered information, easily and correctly interpretable in a geospatial way, even by lay people in the reading of plans, is an asset that has crept into our lives. The transforming agents of urban realities must take advantage of new technologies for the development of smart, sustainable, economically efficient and socially inclusive cities. Sabadell is a city of just over 200,000 inhabitants, whose region is home to more than 900,000 inhabitants and a wide variety of business activities. The construction sector represents around 6% of the total invoiced annually.

Description of the challenges of migration to digital modeling and structuring of a median city of 200,000 inhabitants in the context of a skinny and numb administration for 10 consecutive years of economic crisis.

Own municipal experience and comparison with other benchmark experiences in other nearby administrations (Barcelona Metropolitan Area and Infrastructures.cat), and with other local institutions that promote digital change, such as the Institut de Tecnologia de la Construcció, the commission is. BIM of the Ministry of Public Works, GuBIMcat (Grup d'Usuaris BIM de Catalunya), etc.

Own experiences in the development of different urban projects, both in the preliminary project and executive project drafting phases, both modeling and communication with the different managers, tender. These projects have served as a pilot test, prior to the generalization and systematization of the experience. Right now we are pending both the implementation of projects carried out with this methodology, as well as their subsequent management or maintenance, to have the opportunity to evaluate the complete life cycle of the infrastructure.

It has been within this legislature, specifically in the period 2017-2019, within the municipal administration of Sabadell. At first, it was carried out almost in a veiled, almost imperceptible way, without the municipal machinery stopping, which did not seem to cost. In a second moment, with new allies within the municipal administration, and with the help of key departments, IT, Human Resources

The results at the communication level, both with citizens and with the rest of the managers of the "municipal heritage" are spectacular, since, often, the difficulties of reading and spatial understanding of the proposals represented an insurmountable handicap. Citizen participation is not possible without an understanding of the proposals for changes. The extension of the methodology already appears as a major difficulty. The progressive reduction of the human and material endowment within the administrations of our environment and in this last decade, as well as its aging, appears as a serious obstacle to modernization. Likewise, a certain appreciation of the innovative vocation is lacking. It seems that day to day leaves little room for innovation.

Progress in any field, and also in technology, is currently an extra cost that, at the moment, not all managers of municipal resources (human, technical, material) are proactively willing to give up. This methodology, which has an easy communication component, is easy to promote at the top level.

The difficulty, beyond communication, lies in an effective implementation, to obtain a significant increase in productivity, by automating as many functions as possible, as well as having useful information systematized, classified and ordered for subsequent maintenance. It is necessary to keep in mind the principle of long-term effectiveness, to avoid that today's emergencies do not prevent us from paving the way for the improvement of tomorrow's productivity. On the other hand, it is necessary to extend, publish and democratize technological advances in order to have a return in the industrial activity of the sector, both at regional and national level.