Presentation by Caroline Keane, Bentley and Cameron Blackwell, Mott Macdonald at the 2019 COMIT Conference. More information: http://www.comit.org.uk/conference-2019
2. Access to current, approved, and
trusted information vital for
improved decisions.
Timely
Data-access
Increased demand to meet
mandated requirements and
standards.
Reduce
Risk
Increased need to maximise
profit margins or deliver more
work for budget available.
Reduce
Cost
Greater focus on delivering the
required level of service to
internal and external stakeholders.
Improve
Service
3. Going Digital… 1
Higher-definition
surveying and
geolocation
Rapid digital mapping
and estimating
2
Next-generation
5-D building
information
modeling
Design platform for
the future
3
Digital collaboration
and mobility
Moving to paperless
projects, from the office
to the workforce
4
The Internet of
Things and
advanced analytics
Intelligent asset management
and decision making
5
Future-proof
design and
construction
Designing with
materials and methods
of the future
Digital
construction
organization
Developing next generation of
digital-native leaders to deliver
projects of the future
Source:
Imagining Construction’s Digital Future
McKinsey, June, 2016
5. iModel.js
C r e a t e I m m e r s i v e
Connections with your
Infrastructure Digital Twin
iTwin Services
I m m e r s i v e
Connections for an
Open Ecosystem
8. The organization that plans and delivers
the infrastructure program. It manages
the suppliers and advisors, coordinates
planning, oversees design, construction,
maintenance and operations as
requested by owner. This could be made
up of a single company, or a collective
performing the integrator function.
Digital Integrators
Investor
Key Advisor
Advisor
Key Supplier
Supplier
Owner
Integrator
Project 13
Enterprise Structure
14. Is your data valuable and in a
format that it can be adopted?
Cameron.Blackwell@mottmac.comCaroline.Keane@Bentley.com
Challenge
Hinweis der Redaktion
Good Day everyone. My name is Caroline from Bentley Systems and it is my pleasure to co present to you today with Cameron from Mott Macdonald.
I will be sharing with you our innovate leading techology and Cameron will be sharing how they envision it will provide added value in achieivng greater design efficency and providing increased project value.
In conversations with our users there are a number of areas where they are asking us to help them right now.
First, is to help them deal with and respond to the pressure they are under to deliver increasing levels of service. Whether to internal or external stakeholders, directly or as a supplier indirectly, I think we’re all working hard to meet the demand for increased reliability, stability and value delivered
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Second, whether it’s to maximise profit margins or simply deliver more work for the available budget, there is always pressure to reduce cost
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Third is risk, the organisations I speak with need to reduce the risk they’re exposed to. They need to ensure compliance with legislation, internal policies and standards, at each and every step of the asset lifecycle.
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And the fourth is timely access to information or data they can trust. This is critical, as decisions are made on data; and in recent years the type, volume, and velocity of data being collated has grown rapidly, and is requiring the widespread digitization of business processes.
So how are we doing as an industry? Well according to the McKinsey report on Construction’s Digital Future , while there has been a number of technical advancements which companies are embracing for greater efficency in their workflows and processes in construction there is still a long way to go in their digital advancement
The same report identifies the areas that need to be addressed to enable digitization and I am sure today you will hear more about the Surveying and Internet of Things (try to reference other presentations if possible here).
During this presentation I am going to focus on Next Generation Information Modelling and how these can be leveraged to enable Digital Collaboration.
Cameron will endeavor to show how information and tools can be leveraged to achieved improved design insights and efficiency.
As we pointed out on slide 1, while we need to improve service, reduce costs and provide easier access to data insights, all of this must be against a risk free work site as per the industry’s adoption of safety first.
Once we define our process and workflows we can ustilise the tools to enhance the roles of our people in projects.
iTwin Services are a set of cloud services that enable organizations to create and curate digital twins of
infrastructure projects – They can beProject Digital Twins or Performance Digital Twins
When we talk about Digital Twins, we first need our Reality, that digital context and clients use reality modeling for this to capture existing assets or environment via pictures, photogrammetry or lasser scans, Then they apply Veracity
their digital components all the stuff made up of BIM. Then we look at fidelity so that level of faithfulness across the project lifecycle – enabling those change synchronizations through the project Lifecyle to which we can apply analytics and better insights, efficiency and decision making on our projects.
This can all be connected within that connected data environment managing workflows ad processes for Digital alignment of your project.
iTwin Services is the name we have branded for our Digital Twin services that Bentley have built out surface through Micrsoft Azure platform
These are all built upon our open source platform iModel.js which is a development library available today that your development teams or other technology partners can built out their own aplications to enhance your Digital Twin poject further.
Digital Twins are being talked about in nearly every presentation around the world today. Indeed industry reports anticipate that we will spend $26bn on building Digital Twins by 2025. (Grand View Research 2018)
Bentley’s technologies enable project teams to build out an iTwin consisting of graphical and non graphical data representation from diverse engineering tools utilised by project teams.
Bentley are building out iTwin Services to enable the iTwin to be accessed and capitalised on by the various stakeholders.
The utilisation of an iTwin is what we call a Digital Twin. We are already seeing how a single iTwin can be leveraged by multiple stakeholders.
Cameron will show these Bentley services , and other companies are already creating their own Digital Twin to enable them to digitise their workflows.
The inherent alignment of data and the advanced change register capabilities ensures any investments in building out their digital twins do not need to be duplicated.
And we are in good company as…. It’s not just Bentley that recognizes the need for an open framework for digital twins.
Some of you may be familiar with the Gemini Principles, which is a framework developed by the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) in Cambridge University in the UK.
They are building a National Digital Twin, or “Brit-twin” for the built environment in the UK.
The goal of the Gemini Principles is to build “consensus on foundational definitions and values for effective information
management in the built environment.”
Openness is at the heart of the Gemini Principles: “open source and collaborative models build trust, reduce cost and create more value than other approaches.”
So our focus is what is the real value of this digitalisation – this is absolutely not about technology for technology sake – we must have ruthless laser beamed focus on why we are doing this and what value you are getting out of it
At the high level it is about …….. 20% reduction in capital project costs, reduce maintenance costs, avoiding downtime, increasing capacity/output, improving predictability, extend the life of an asset etc etc
Open is going to WIN
However I think it is worth drawing your attention to this report published in the UK just last month – the Gemini Principles – from the Centre for Digital Built Britain – Gemini being the Latin word for TWIN
The Centre for Digital Built Britain is a partnership between the UK Government Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and the University of Cambridge to understand how the construction and infrastructure sectors could use a digital approach to better design, build, operate, and integrate the built environment.
The UK Government as the client, the owner/operator if you will, for UK infrastructure is leading, driving the initiative, being prescriptive on how we design, build, and operate our infrastructure. There are some lessons to be learned for Shell on driving your own supply chain to transform and be part of journey, but more of that later.
It states:
‘The value of data grows exponentially as it is aggregated and shared between organisations. Convergence of smart infrastructure, modern methods of construction and the digital economy presents growing opportunities to use data to improve citizen quality of life and wellbeing.’
And
‘The UK’s infrastructure pipeline represents more than £600bn of spend over the next decade. These projects will all be built digitally before they are built physically. We need to ensure that asset data is captured in a way that can deliver value throughout its life’
We see the emergence of digital twins as a very exciting opportunity for Technology Integration providers—or “Digital Integrators”— who are focused on serving the engineering, construction and city planning markets.
This is the Project 13 framework as you can see they actually have identified key role of the 'Integrator'
Bentley has begun partnering these types of players, such as Digital Water Works, a solutions provider focused on the global water and wastewater industry.
We envision a growing ecosystem of digital integrators using iModel.js to satisfy the growing demand for the insights and optimizations that can be achieved through infrastructure digital twins.
Intro: Industry challenges
We want to be able to collaborate on our designs better and better inform design decisions.
We want to understand the long term impact of our design changes
Constructability, construction programme, safety impacts, carbon impact
(these are different disciplines that are now interested in the model to do their jobs, increasing relevance of the BIM)
Faster, more effective assurance
Integrator Role
We want to be able to access and review our designs from anywhere
Maintain progress and contact wit hthe design teams
We want to be able to customise our tools for specific tasks/ situations quickly –
customised for the specific user’s needs
Rapid software updates
Personalise interface based on rules engine of who should be able to do what
Understanding impact of design insights
Gaining design insights of design
We want to know the impacts more
This is some of the new features we are testing in iModel.js
We are partnering the development of these features
We want to be able to immediately see what has changed from other disciplines/ etc
Enables enhanced coordination of the design
We want to understand the wider impacts of the changes
To inform design decisions before it is too late
We are interrogating our designs through (PBI and AECOsim)
We are doing this to gain more insights, for instance Piles (add detail from HS2 (“a major infrastructure project”)
Elaborate here – pull more detail from HS2
This is possible within iModel.JS
Next level CDM health and safety database
SharePoint keeps the data within the project
Expand on safetibase as a system
Design Insights:
Lack of easily accessible tools to review project costs, delays or disruptions caused by Design Decisions
Cloud service providing comparison between two design snapshots for calculated values such as cost, safety schedule, procurement time etc.
Change Inpact: Heatmap
Lack of user friendly tool to create visual report highlighting design change
Cloud service offering simple 3D model visualization of design changes for a specified timeline
Design Insights also integrated with Microsoft Power Bi, offering an easy way to create live dashboards. Which will allow to understand the implications of design decisions much earlier in the project.
Engineering Quality Compliance
Lack of automated tools to check engineering design quality for a BIM file
Cloud Service offering automated design result checking against project rules and procedures
Version comparison
Change impact
Risk Mitigation
Design Insights:
Lack of easily accessible tools to review project costs, delays or disruptions caused by Design Decisions
Cloud service providing comparison between two design snapshots for calculated values such as cost, safety schedule, procurement time etc.
Change Inpact: Heatmap
Lack of user friendly tool to create visual report highlighting design change
Cloud service offering simple 3D model visualization of design changes for a specified timeline
Design Insights also integrated with Microsoft Power Bi, offering an easy way to create live dashboards. Which will allow to understand the implications of design decisions much earlier in the project.
Engineering Quality Compliance
Lack of automated tools to check engineering design quality for a BIM file
Cloud Service offering automated design result checking against project rules and procedures
Version comparison
Change impact
Risk Mitigation
After step 2 – creating an itwin –
Enabling a digitial twin
Gate between 345 – digital twin
Design Insights:
Lack of easily accessible tools to review project costs, delays or disruptions caused by Design Decisions
Cloud service providing comparison between two design snapshots for calculated values such as cost, safety schedule, procurement time etc.
Change Inpact: Heatmap
Lack of user friendly tool to create visual report highlighting design change
Cloud service offering simple 3D model visualization of design changes for a specified timeline
Design Insights also integrated with Microsoft Power Bi, offering an easy way to create live dashboards. Which will allow to understand the implications of design decisions much earlier in the project.
Engineering Quality Compliance
Lack of automated tools to check engineering design quality for a BIM file
Cloud Service offering automated design result checking against project rules and procedures
Veersion comparison
Change impact
Risk Mitigation