This document summarizes Tim Broyd's presentation on the impact of digital engineering. It discusses how digital engineering is shifting more project work to the design phase through tools like BIM that help coordinate building systems. This allows projects to better manage costs and schedule. Broyd notes both opportunities and challenges with digital engineering, such as potential for non-interoperable software and handling large data sets. He emphasizes embracing digital engineering while still applying engineering principles and judgment. Collaboration is also key to realizing benefits like reduced costs and timelines.

1. The Impact of Digital Engineering
Tim Broyd
Director of UCL Institute of Digital Innovation in the
Built Environment
Professor of Built Environment Foresight, UCL
Hon. Professor of Civil Engineering, UCL
President Elect, Institution of Civil Engineers
Vice Chairman, Construction Industry Council
Bentley, London, 20sep2016

2. Liverpool Manchester Railway
• Opened 1830
• 35 miles
• 2 mile tunnel
• 2 mile cutting 70’ deep in hard rock
• 64 stone and masonry bridges, 9-arch viaduct
• 4.75 mile crossing a bog
• 4’ 8.5” gauge, double track
• Max grade 1 in 50
• Part of Network Rail system

14. Architect
Structural
Engineer
Building
Owner
Construction
Manager
Building
Services
Engineer
Controls
Engineer
Civil
Engineer
Facilities
Manager
The 1999 James Forrest Lecture
Progress within projects -
communications
Current information interchange

15. Civil
Engineer
Architect
Structural
Engineer
Building
Owner
Facilities
Manager
Construction
Manager
Building
Services
Engineer
Controls
Engineer
Shared Project
Model
The 1999 James Forrest Lecture
Progress within projects -
communications
Shared information

16. Progress within projects -
concept
Toggle switches
control the on/off
display of the
relevant discipline
specific view of the
overall model
Toggle buttons
control the on/off
display of the separate
sub-models
The 1999 James Forrest Lecture

17. Progress within projects -
concept
The 1999 James Forrest Lecture

18. Progress within projects -
concept
The 1999 James Forrest Lecture

20. Egan targets
• Capital cost -10%pa
• Construction time -10%pa
• Predictability +20%pa
• Defects -20%pa
• Accidents -20%pa
• Productivity +10%pa
• Turnover and profits +10%pa

21. 2004
$15.8 billion/year

22. 29 June 2009
Interoperability: Shift to Digital Design
of
Design
Changes
Cost
Abilityto
cost
control
Concept Outline Design
Detail design
Const Docs Construction
Effort
Time
Traditional
Design
Digital
Design
Digital Design shifts the bulk of project work to the
Design phase to help coordinate building systems
and the project and manage project costs
Source: International Alliance for Interoperability, 2007Source: International Alliance for Interoperability, 2007

23. Collaboration and Interoperability

24. Dear Chief
Secretary
I’m sorry to tell you
there’s no money
left.

27. The Government Strategy

29. External forces - customers
• United Kingdom
– Government Construction Strategy (May 2011)
• “2.32 Government will require fully collaborative 3D BIM (with all
project and asset information, documentation and data being
electronic) as a minimum by 2016.”
– BIS BIM recommendations (March 2011)
• Leave complexity and competition in the supply chain
• Be very specific with supply chain providers, they will only provide that which
is asked for
• Measure and make use of outputs
• Provide appropriate support infrastructure
• Take progressive steps
• Have a clear target for the ‘trailing edge’ of the industry
• North America
– BIM techniques mandated by an increasing number of:
• States
• Cities
• Federal and other customers (eg GSA – General Services Administration)
– Use of ‘BIM tools’ (eg Revit) were becoming a hygiene factor for
property design

30. What is BIM?

33. Government Soft Landings
POE

42. 29 June
2009

46. UK Budget Report – March 2016

54. CEGE – 3DIMPactDepartment of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering (CEGE)
3D Imaging, Metrology, Photogrammetry Applied Coordinate Technologies (3DIMPact)
Optical non-contact railway track measurement with
static terrestrial laser scanning
A. Soni, S. Robson, B. Gleeson
University College London & Network Rail, U.K.

55. 55
1World class
railway
5Tunnel main
drives
19Boroughs
passed
through
37Upgraded or
new stations
2x21KM of tunnel
under London
Setting the scene

56. 1 Common Data Environment
• EDMS
• ECMS
• Master data management
• Client owns the systems
• Client owns the data
3 key requirements

57. Common Data
Environment
Element:
WCH Element:
LIV Element:
TCR
Element:
Bond St Stn
Element Handover “Playlists”Contract Templates for each
facility
LUL
Information
Element:
CWF Element
:
CH
Element:
Woolwich
RfL
Information
Data Checks:
•Compliance
Reviews
•CARE
•MAID
•etc
How we are handing
over the CDE from
Capex into Opex..
But what if operators
and maintainers are
application – centric?
Data Handover Concept…...Data handover concept

58. Version Controlled 3D Repository
Building Information Modelling
- Mandated by the Cabinet Office on all public
construction by 2016
- Up to 20% cost reduction
- Common data environment specified by the British
Standards Institution
d
Entire Construction Supply Chain
- Architects, engineers, contractors
- Facilities managers
- Clients & stakeholders
- General public (public inquiry)
d
Open Data Collaboration
- Fully open source
- Freemium business model
- 40+ 3D data formats
- Endpoint encryption via SSL certificates
- Cross-platform, web, mobile

59. • Arup sponsors EngD research in Virtual
Environments, Imaging and Visualisation at
UCL => result is 3D Repo
• Finalist of the Royal Academy of Engineering
ERA Foundation Entrepreneurs Awards
• Winner of Innovate UK Smart Round 5 grant
• Winner of the Breakthrough Information
Technology Exchange Award for Olympic
Stadium Transformation project with Balfour
Beatty
• Finalist of the EPSRC UK ICT Research
Pioneers Awards
• Winner of the MongoDB World Innovation
Award in the open source category
• 3D Repo receives angel proof of concept
funding
2010-2015
2014
• Winner of Innovate UK Digitising the
Construction Sector grant with Balfour
Beatty and the FIS
• Winner of the EIT Digital Mobile Data for
Control Rooms grant with KTH and Thales
• Winner of the EIT Digital Trusted Cloud
High Impact Initiative with VTT, BT and F-
Secure
• Winner of Cognicity Challenge by Canary
Wharf Group Plc
• 3D Repo receives VC seed funding led by
Sussex Place Ventures of London Business
School
• Piloted by Canary Wharf Contractors on the
Wood Wharf Development
• Winner of Horizon 2020 grant with BT, HP
and SAP
2015
2016

62. • World’s oldest engineering institution
• Founded in 1818
• Royal charter 1828
• Currently >90,000 members in >150 countries
• Main responsibilities
• Being a qualifying body - providing an internationally
recognised civil engineering professional qualification
• Being a centre of excellence for civil engineering
knowledge
• Promoting the civil engineering profession by ensuring
that as many as possible understand the positive impact
that civil engineers have on society

65.  Created in 2012
 Helps UK Government BIM Task Group to
deliver the BIM Strategy
 Develops and shares knowledge
 Develops and provides training
 ICE BIM Conferences - five annual conferences
since 2011, growing in popularity and stature
The ICE BIM Action Group

66. Institution of Civil EngineersBIM and ICE
ICE will develop and support the
world’s best digitally enabled civil engineers
and will provide thought leadership and direction
to the way BIM is implemented throughout the
built environment.
Vision

67. Institution of Civil EngineersBIM and ICE
Case studies
 Modelling Canary Wharf station
 Implementing BIM on the Manchester Victoria station redevelopment
 Lean Construction Management in Spain
Webinars
Building Information Modelling: History, purpose and benefits – webinar
Lean Construction Management and BIM: How to speed up construction
Books
BIM in Principle and in Practice, 2nd Edition
BIM in Healthcare Infrastructure: Planning, design and construction coming soon
Journals
Proceedings of the ICE - Management, Procurement and Law
Civil Engineering
Infrastructure Asset Management
Training
Heat Map
Knowledge Outputs

68. Institution of Civil EngineersBIM and ICE
 2013 First one
 2014 Gaining traction
 2015 Wide awareness
ICE BIM Heat Map -
Survey of industry reaction to BIM implementation

69. Institution of Civil EngineersBIM and ICE
ICE BIM Heat Map - 2015

70. Institution of Civil EngineersBIM and ICE
ICE BIM 2016
20 October, London
Save the Date
The annual BIM conference
ice-
bim.com@ice_BIM

71. Institution of Civil EngineersBIM and ICE
 To provide thought leadership on the digital economy for the global
social infrastructure. (To identify, create and share best practice)
 To broaden the response to the ICE BIM Heat Map
 To establish and monitor where our industry stands on BIM
 To establish and monitor where our industry stands on Smarter Cities/
Future Cities and the interface with BIM
 To determine and monitor the Legal Implications
 To plan and support development of Publications and Events
 To support the developing UK BIM Alliance
Next 3 years –
support the BIM Strategy:

72. Institute for Digital Innovation in the Built Environment
WHY (example) Characteristics of UK built environment sector
•Includes both buildings and national economic infrastructure
•Capital procurement = 6.7% GDP, 2.9m jobs, 280k businesses, 10% GDP if include Facilities & Asset Management
•Currently fragmented, low collaboration and poorly integrated information
•UK Government setting pace via Building Information Modelling
•UCL at forefront of this shift and seen as a pathfinder
•2025 Government / Industry targets of lifetime cost and carbon reductions of 33% and 50%, + 50% time compression
•These targets require disruptive innovation – incremental innovation will be insufficient
WHAT Our vision
The UCL Institute for Digital Innovation in the Built
Environment provides cutting-edge insight into the design
and use of digital systems to shape future architectural
and built environment practice. Our forward-looking
approach combines expertise across UCL — from BIM to
behaviour change, smart cities to big data and the
Internet of everything — to critically interrogate the
imaginative and disruptive potential of these systems. We
are based in The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built
environment.
HOW Anticipated activities – pan
UCL
•MSc Digital Innovation in the Built Environment - 2017
•Series of MSc programmes in development
•PhD and CDT / EngD programmes
•Research
•Industry club including Digital Talks / bi-monthly series
•Ideas Incubator
•CPD
•Consultancy
Launching 01 August 2016
iDIBE Director — Prof Tim Broyd tim.broyd@ucl.ac.uk
Let’s talk….

73. Institute for Digital Innovation in the Built
EnvironmentDIBE Masters Programme
Compulsory Modules
•Principles of Asset, Project and Facilities Management
•Principles and applications of BIM
•Spatial Databases and Data Management
•Applied BIM
•Digital Life Cycle Management
•Internet of Things
Optional Modules
•Service Operations Management
•Management Concepts for Facilities
•Strategic Project and Quality Management
•BIM for Project Managers
•Data Analysis
•Smart Cities: Context, Policy and Government

74. The bad……..
• Substituting precision for accuracy (and beware
‘false accuracy’)
• Necessary use of ‘black box’ software
• Forgetting the principles of what and why things are
being done
• Losing the ability to brief
• Incomplete data dictionaries
• Developing new forms of Trust

75. The ugly……..
• Non-interoperable software
• Handling large data sets and files
• COBie
• Forcing collaboration through process and
technology
• Patchy and inconsistent IFC development

76. And finally……..
• Digital engineering is here to stay, so embrace it
• Don’t forget engineering principles – digital
engineering is a facilitator not a replacement for
engineering judgement
• Don’t forget that sensors, of all kinds, need regular
calibration and testing. Do they provide ‘the truth’?
Do they provide ‘the whole truth’?
• Collaboration is key

77. Thank you
tim.broyd@ucl.ac.uk