COMIT / Fiatech Conference 2014, The Crystal, London
Efficiency Through Digital Projects
Richard Lane from HM Government UK BIM Taskgroup gives his views on innovation and what might be on the road to Level 3 BIM.
15. “Innovative technology to capture
real-time health vital signs and
diagnose multiple health conditions
and diseases, independent of a
health care worker or facility”
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19. Four Trends
Trend
ONE
Physical vs. Digital &
Accessing Experiences
vs. Owning Products
45. Building a consistent, collaborative industry, with
clear and open communication
Information of high-quality is procured to support
business outcomes
Modelling the design increases efficiency,
enabling simulation & analysis
50. • Construction output globally will grow
70% by 2025
• Demand continues to increase in
emerging economies
• UK has a high reputation for services
and technologies
• Relatively few UK construction firms
export
Globalisation
51. Skills & Career Attraction
• A skilled & flexible workforce
vital to performance &
competitiveness
• Challenges recruiting right
skills, qualifications or
experience
• Low level of training vs. other
sectors
• Only 13.5% of people working
in the industry are women
and only 2% are from ethnic
minority groups.
52. Sustainable Development
• Continuing pressure on cost and
carbon reduction
• Growth opportunities in low carbon
construction
• Infrastructure to support demographic
changes
• Create growth to fuel R&D
• Mitigate fragmentation
ENVIRONMENT
Use of scarce
resource.
Waste.
Pollution .
Bio-diversity.
SOCIETY
Customer needs.
Staff needs.
Process/Business
needs
Society needs
ECONOMY
Construction cost
Asset value
Sale value
Revenue Earnings
Revenue Costs
Cost and value to the
taxpayer
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55. Potential Level 3 Considerations
• Accelerating rate of change
• The built environment within the Digital Economy
• Organisational management – Smart Cities
• Information Capture including Existing Assets
• Protocols for Communication & Aggregation
• Enabling Rapid Decision Making
• Complexity vs. Accessibility
• Open vs. Secure
• Crossing the Chasm & Avoiding Polarisation
• Skills Development
For me, innovation is about making connections between seemingly unrelated things to create something new or better.
Reference Monday’s BBC1 program with Richard Hammond “Miracles of Nature” e.g. Woodpecker inspiring new crash helmet technology and physiology of a giraffe’s neck enabling pilots to operate at Mach 9 (under normal circumstances they lose consciousness between Mach 4 and 5).
But why should we care? The 2011 CEO survey published by PWC identified innovation as critical to future business success primarily due to the accelerating pace of change. http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/corporate-strategy-services/publications/ceosurvey-innovation.jhtml
Ref. different types of people – e.g. Rory Sutherland “Life Lessons of an Ad Man”
Ref John Cleese
Creating two frameworks of separate ideas to create new meaning.
Using intuition
As a 25-year-old U.S. Air Mail pilot, Lindbergh emerged suddenly from virtual obscurity to instantaneous world fame as the result of his Orteig Prize-winning solo nonstop flight on May 20–21, 1927, made from theRoosevelt Field[N 1] in Garden City on New York's Long Island to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France, a distance of nearly 3,600 statute miles (5,800 km), in the single-seat, single-engine purpose-built Ryan monoplane Spirit of St. Louis.
n 1996, entrepreneur Peter Diamandis offered a $10 million prize to the first privately financed team that could build and fly a three-passenger vehicle 100 kilometers into space twice within two weeks. The contest, later titled the Ansari XPRIZE for Suborbital Spaceflight, motivated 26 teams from seven nations to invest more than $100 million in pursuit of the $10 million purse. On October 4, 2004, the Ansari XPRIZE was won by Mojave Aerospace Ventures, who successfully completed the contest in their spacecraft SpaceShipOne
XPRIZES are monetary rewards to incentivize three primary goals:
Attract investment from outside the sector that takes new approaches to difficult problems.
Create significant results that are real and meaningful. Competitions have measurable goals, and are created to promote adoption of the innovation.
Cross national and disciplinary boundaries to encourage teams around the world to invest the intellectual and financial capital required to solve difficult challenges.
Since Kickstarter’ launch in 2009, 4.9 million people have pledged $820 million, funding 49,000 creative projects.
Since Kickstarter’ launch in 2009, 4.9 million people have pledged $820 million, funding 49,000 creative projects.
How things work & making / Digital Fabrication e.g. 3d printing / democratising technology
Reference Chris Anderson “Makers: The New Industrial Revolution” http://www.amazon.co.uk/Makers-The-New-Industrial-Revolution/dp/184794065X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1352198402&sr=8-1
Over the past ten years, the internet has democratised publishing, broadcasting and communications, leading to a massive increase in the range of participation in everything digital - the world of bits. Now the same is happening to manufacturing - the world of things.
Chris Anderson explains how this is happening: how such technologies as 3D printing and electronics assembly are becoming available to everybody, and how people are building successful businesses as a result. Whereas once every aspiring entrepreneur needed the support of a major manufacturer, now anybody with a smart idea and a little expertise can make their ideas a reality.
In July, Glasgow University chemist Lee Cronin has made a different sort of 3D printing breakthrough: He found a way to turn a 3D printer into a universal chemistry set. Here’s how they explained it: “Nearly all drugs are made of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, as well as readily available agents such as vegetable oils and paraffin. “With a printer it should be possible that with a relatively small number of inks you can make any organic molecule,” he (Cronin) says.”
Cronin’s idea is to make prescription drugs downloadable—which will be of enormous benefit to nearly everyone.
http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-chemputer-that-could-print-out-any-drug?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=b60382892c-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email
Digital Design & Manufacturing
www.makerbot.com
Reference Yoda model, but highlight not just plastics
Wake Forest in the US. Surgeon Anthony Atala of the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center demonstrated an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney.
http://www.ted.com/talks/anthony_atala_printing_a_human_kidney.html
http://inhabitat.com/3-d-printer-creates-entire-buildings-from-solid-rock/
Enrico Dini’s prototype 3d printer. The printing process starts with a thin layer of sand. The printer then sprays the sand with magnesium-based glue from hundreds of nozzles, which binds the sand into rock. That rock is then built up layer by layer, eventually taking shape of whatever object it is destined to become, be it a curvy sculpture or an entire cathedral. Dini claims the printer is four times faster than conventional building, costs one-third to one-half the price of Portland cement and creates very little waste, so it’s better for the environment
SAM, short for semi-automated mason, is a robot that can lay as many as 3,000 bricks a day, about five times as many as a man or woman, according to its inventors.
We were pretty impressed by the potential of these flying robotswhen we first covered this story in late November. Now the FRAC Centre in Orléans, France has released a video of the robot swarm in action during its current exhibition. Titled "Flight Assembled Architecture," the live installation showcases a fleet of quadrocopters building a six meter-high tower made up of 1,500 prefabricated polystyrene foam modules.
Building a consistent, collaborative industry, with clear and open communication
Adoption of common standard processes and documents
Transitioning from an adversarial to collaborative culture
Early involvement from all key stakeholders, including end users, operators, contractors using a 'language' they can understand
Develop & reuse standard designs, share best practice across clients (within NHS and with other departments e.g. DIO)
Information of high-quality is procured to support business outcomes
Define information needs based on the desired outcomes at each stage of the project
Implement appropriate information and quality assurance roles and processes
Establish the supporting contractual arrangements (using existing forms of contract and without impacting existing liabilities)
Leverage standard data formats and technical collaboration tools
Determining how will be received, stored, validated & used to support the business (during the capital project and asset lifecycle)
Modelling the design increases efficiency, enabling simulation & analysis
Leverage efficient 3d modelling to develop designs and automate complex tasks (e.g. clash detection)
Federate designs from all disciplines e.g. Architectural, Structural, Building Services etc.
4D: Map model to program, include temporary works to optimise sequencing
5D: Associate cost/take information to the model
Simulate the completed project before it is built (e.g. visual walkthroughs, thermal / energy analysis, people movements / evacuations etc.)