A presentation given at the Offsite Construction Show 2018 in London. The presentation discussed the why, what and how of moving from analog to digital processes in the offsite construction sector.

1. Moving from Analogue to Digital
How Offsite Needs to Evolve to Compete
Graham Cleland and Peter Foster
The Offsite Construction Show
21st November 2018 - ExCel, London

2. Sense of the Opportunity
“Innovation and digitisation through offsite housing manufacture
will be part of the solution to delivering housing in a digital built
Britain, but there is currently little in terms of an evidence base”

3. Offsite construction providers possess varying capability in the context of BIM,
but despite the generally healthy adoption of virtual modelling technologies the
information used to actually create a physical product is largely provided in
analogue format
An Analogue vs Digital Conundrum
Offsite manufacture (as opposed to offsite construction) is a concept that
needs digitisation to help create highly productive, scalable factory
environments that can deliver high quality, high performing products via efficient
creation / sharing of data and information
Much of the extant capability / capacity of the offsite sector can be characterised
as construction under controlled conditions

4. A Construction vs Manufacture Conundrum
“Whilst much has been written about offsite construction generally,
there is little information about how digital technologies are used
in offsite manufacture”
Analogue biased providers – Whilst some use might be made of BIM the
reality is that much of the information / data flow is subject to manual
manipulation, interpretation and communication
Digital biased providers – Whilst some reliance might be placed on
manual interventions the reality is that much of the information / data
flow is made directly between inter-operating / integrated systems

5. Information Modelling Challenge…
Many providers across the offsite
construction and traditional
construction sectors use BIM as a
means of improving visualisation
and co-ordination of building
structure, fabric and services.
This is commendable but these
approaches do not really address
the real challenge associated with
leveraging overall productivity. Such
approaches reflect a lack of lean
thinking
Limited extent of digital data flow

6. …is about dealing with the How as well as the What
Extending digital data flow
1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0

7. Therefore Data is Key…
The efficiency of the process of
converting virtual intent to physical
objects can be considered as a true
measure of how lean a business is,
and hence a digitally enabled agile
manufacturing platform to control
data flow is fundamental to
leveraging enterprise productivity
DATA
MANAGEMENT

8. …as is How, Where and When it flows
An efficient approach to offsite manufacture must be founded on single sources
of structured product data which flows between inter-operating and integrated
systems across the product life-cycle

9. For Offsite to Compete…
How do we get data on the efficiency of a baton pass?
Analogue biased – Offsite 75-80%
Digital biased – Offsite 90-95% ?

10. A Shift from Modelling to Intelligence

11. The Golden Thread of Information

12. Product Data Report – Key Learnings
“…work towards separate but connected data
and objects…”
“…objects are optional, but
information is not…”
“…information should be structured by common
standards…”

13. Helping Manufacturers Understand BIM

14. The Need for Standardisation

15. The Big BIM Picture
Informationexchange
[BEP] [ISO 19650]
STAKEHOLDERS
[IDM]
M2M
[IFC] [BCF]
TERMINOLOGY
[DICTIONARIES]
[CLASSIFICATIONS]
[CITY GML]
[PLCS]
[CONTENEURS]
[Linked data]
STANDARDIZATION BIM “BIG PICTURE”
© Frederic Grand, Philip Ridgway, Souheil Soubra

16. The Big BIM Picture
Strategy
ISO TC59/SC13/TF2
CEN TC442/WG1
bSI
[BEP] [ISO 19650]
[IDM]
[IFC] [BCF]
[DICTIONARIES]
[CLASSIFICATIONS]
[CITY GML]
[PLCS]
[CONTENEURS]
[Linked data]
ISO/TC59/SC13/WG13
CEN/TC442/WG3
bSI
ISO/TC59/SC13/JWG12
CEN/TC442/WG2
bSI / bSDD
ISO/TC59/SC13/WG6
CEN/TC442/WG4
ISO/TC59/SC13/JWG12
CEN/TC442/WG2
ISO/TC211
OGC
ISO/TC59/SC13/WG11
CEN/TC442/WG4
CEN/TC442/WG2
ISO/TC59/SC13/JWG12
ISO/TC211
bSI OGC W3C
ISO/TC59/SC13/WG8
ISO/TC59/SC13/WG13
CEN/TC442/WG3
ISO/TC59/SC13/WG8
ISO/TC184/SC4
STANDARDIZATION BIM “BIG PICTURE”
© Frederic Grand, Philip Ridgway, Souheil Soubra

17. (Product) Data Templates (P)DT

18. (Product) Data Sheets (P)DS

19. Data Management

20. Facilitating a Digital Built Environment

21. Thank You
Graham Cleland and Peter Foster
The Offsite Construction Show
21st November 2018 - ExCel, London