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The race to net zero
How digital twin technology can
help fight climate change
Future Infrastructure Stars
Bentley's challenge for students in civil
engineering and design
A cause for collaboration
Elecosoft launches Powerproject
Collaboration Cloud
Big ideas for tiny homes
Vectorworks helps turn a home on
wheels dream into reality
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CONTENTS
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2021
CONTENTS
BIG IDEAS FOR TINY HOMES 10
Two people, one van and a giant ambition,
made real through the power of technology.
Discover how Vectorworks brought this tiny
home on wheels to life
THE 2021 WINNERS HAVE ARRIVED! 18
The 16th annual Construction Computing
Awards were held in London in November - a
welcome return after the challenges of 2020.
Find out more about this year's winners and
runners-up in our awards round-up
BUILDING RESILIENCE 26
Chris LeBoeuf, Senior Director, ABS Group,
explains how and why we need to meet the
challenge of climate change and invest in
natural hazard risk management
A TEMPORARY SOLUTION 28
Andrew Gascoine, Digital Engineer at Mabey
Hire, explores the digital design evolution and
introduces an immersive application that
brings the world of temporary works to life
NEWS.................................................INDUSTRY NEWS.......................................................................................................6
• BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY SELECTS NEW CDE • ELECO ELECTS TO REPAY FURLOUGH FUNDS
CASE STUDY......................................A STREET SMART VIEW OF DIGITAL TWINS........................................................9
• THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HARROW IS USING DIGITAL TWINS TO IMPROVE EFFICIENCY
SOFTWARE FOCUS...........................A CAUSE FOR COLLABORATION.....................................................................12
• ARE WE LEVERAGING ALL WE CAN GET OUT OF THE COLLABORATION PROCESS?
INDUSTRY FOCUS..............................NEGOTIATING CONTRACTS.................................................................................14
• HOW EASYBUILD'S CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT CAN HELP WITH SUCCESSFUL CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS
INDUSTRY FOCUS.............................A CHALLENGE FOR THE FUTURE.....................................................................16
• BENTLEY EDUCATION HAS INTRODUCED ITS FUTURE INFRASTRUCTURE STARS CHALLENGE FOR STUDENTS
.
INDUSTRY FOCUS.............................THE PROJECT PREDICTOR...................................................................................20
• DAVID CHADWICK LOOKS AT SAFRAN SOFTWARE'S COST/SCHEDULE RISK ANALYSIS TOOL, SAFRAN RISK
TECHNOLOGY FOCUS......................END-TO-END CDES.................................................................................................22
• DATA VALIDATION IS A VITAL COMPONENT FOR A SUCCESSFUL AIM CDE, ACCORDING TO GLIDER
CASE STUDY.......................................PAVING THE WAY TO PAPERLESS.......................................................................24
• HANSON CONTRACTING ADOPTS A PAPERLESS MOBILE WORKFORCE MANAGEMENT SOLUTION FROM CAUSEWAY
CASE STUDY......................................A SPACE SHUTTLE FOR THE STREETS............................................................25
• THE DARWIN INNOVATION GROUP IS TRIALLING AN AUTONOMOUS SHUTTLE IN OXFORD'S HI-TECH CAMPUS
INDUSTRY COMMENT.......................HOW DIGITAL TWINS CAN HELP FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE...........................30
• DON MACLEAN, FOUNDER OF IES, SHARES HIS COMPANY'S VIEWS ON THE CONSTRUCTION CHALLENGES AHEAD
TRAINING MAP...................................AUTODESK TRAINING.........................................................................................32
• YOUR GUIDE TO AUTODESK TRAINING
SOFTWARE FOCUS...........................ARCHICAD 25 UPDATE 2...................................................................................34
• GRAPHISOFT IS ALREADY SUPPORTING THE LATEST RELEASE OF ARCHICAD WITH NEW FEATURES
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Comment
The Risk Business
by David Chadwick
The UK Government's decision to
cancel half of HS2 North of
Birmingham has underscored the
theme of two articles in this issue which
deal with the importance of spending a
bit of time negotiating contracts and
ensuring you are thoroughly clued up
with all the elements of a project that
could cause problems, and which need
to be addressed before you sign.
Funny how the political element was
not given much prominence compared
to the weather, material and resource
shortages, design problems and so on,
yet when it does rear its head like this it
is catastrophic - full stop!
Our two articles look at this issue from
both ends of the industry. The piece on
negotiating contracts outlines the steps
that need to be taken with even the
smallest of signed contracts, It focuses
on EasyBuild's Construction Software,
which provides all the information you
will need to work out, for instance, how
much a delay is going to cost you if
your team is unavailable for a number of
weeks. It then compares that with the
cost of hiring replacements from an
agency to cover the work, against the
penalty laid out in the contract if you
don't finish the work on time.
The second article looks at Safran
Risk, which is used on complex projects
with thousands of variables that could
impact its progress, and hence its ability
to stay on schedule and within its
budget. The software's Cost/Schedule
Risk Analysis (CSRA) uses
sophisticated software tools to run
thousands of simulations that ultimately
provide a dashboard overview showing
where your problems lie. Safran Risk
also provides real-time analysis, using
group datasets so that individual issues
can be simulated and resolved in group
meetings with the Project Manager and
individual work units.
Fine-tuning project risk is the only way
to keep contracts on track. It is next to
impossible to bring a major project in on
time and cost, but at least you will not
have to broadcast wildly variable
forecasts like the ones surrounding
HS2, and your control of the small print
of each and every contract is simplified.
Elsewhere this issue Chris Le Boeuf at
ABS explores the key issue discussed at
COP26, namely climate change. Chris
discusses the extreme weather patterns
we are now experiencing and the risks
they bring to infrastructure projects -
including those aimed at mitigating its
effects - on both local and a global basis.
We have reached the end of a difficult
year for the industry with the prospect of
more challenges to come, yet we are in
a buoyant mood as evidenced by the
exuberant attendance at the 2021
Construction Computing Awards which
were held in November. In spite of the
issues we face the industry appears to
be in rude health and fully energised.
We have a round-up of this year's
awards on pages 18 and 19 of this
issue. Congratulations once again to all
of our winners and runners-up, and we'd
like to thank everyone who took the time
to vote online.
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INDUSTRY news
BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY SELECTS NEW CDE
British Antarctic Survey
(BAS) has selected gliderbim®
as its new Common Data
Environment (CDE) to support
the delivery of phase 2 of the
Antarctic Infrastructure Modernisation
Programme (AIMP).
This 10 year, £500m programme
will deliver on a wide
range of construction projects
required to support operations
and science delivery across
five BAS research stations.
BAS is a component of the
Natural Environment Research
Council (NERC), the UK's
largest funder of independent
environmental science, training
and innovation, which in turn is
part of UK Research and Innovation.
BAS delivers and
enables world-leading interdisciplinary
research in the Polar
Regions from its locations at
the UK, Antarctica and the Arctic.
Its findings from the Polar
Regions are used to advance
understanding of the Earth as a
sustainable planet.
The Antarctic Infrastructure
Modernisation Programme
comprises a number of construction
works associated
with the introduction of a new
aircraft to deliver logistical
support to BAS science
research activity and the modernisation
of science research
stations as operated by BAS
in the polar regions, predominantly
in Antarctica and Sub-
Antarctica, as well as decarbonisation
and renewables
projects. This modernisation
includes an aircraft hangar
facility, runway modifications,
related offices and other buildings
in these regions where
scientist research is managed
or carried out by BAS, NERC
and UKRI.
The introduction of gliderbim®
as the CDE for the programme
will see the implementation of
new information management
procedures, ensuring a commonality
across the supply
chain. gliderbim® will allow
BAS and its main contractor
BAM Nuttall, appointed engineer,
Sweco and Technical
Advisor, Ramboll to better
manage workflows and models
to deliver comprehensive
O&M information throughout
the project lifecycle.
Nick Hutchinson, Managing
Director at Glider said: "It is
an amazing achievement to
be formally appointed by BAS
and begin the mobilisation
phase of the gliderbim® rollout.
We are looking forward to
engaging in the AIMP Phase
2 programme over the coming
years ahead with BAS and
its partners.”
www.glidertech.com
ELECO ELECTS TO REPAY FURLOUGH FUNDS
The Board of Eleco, the construction
software specialist,
made the decision this year
to pay back furloughed funds
that qualified for repayment in
all its regions. This decision
was made following the
resilient performance during
the 2020 and amounted to
£135,000 in 2021 (2020: £nil).
Eleco was delighted to have
repaid the furlough funds,
showing confidence in the sector
recovery and outlook for
the company.
Construction was disrupted in
2020 as the pandemic shut
down sites and many were furloughed;
however the outlook
for 2021 and beyond for the
sector was one of growth.
Eleco focused on providing a
positive contribution to the
industry during these challenging
times. In the UK, Eleco
With the goal of giving surveyors
a better understanding
of the topographic
data captured by drone mapping
sensors, Virtual Surveyor
has unveiled Profile View functionality
in Version 8.4 of its
popular surveying software.
Profile View enables users to
generate an elevation profile
simply by drawing an onscreen
traverse across any part of the
data set created from drone
imagery or LiDAR point clouds.
Virtual Surveyor bridges the
gap between drone photogrammetric
processing applications
and engineering design
packages, enabling surveyors
to derive topographic information
from drone data needed
by engineers for construction,
mining, and excavation projects.
The software presents an
interactive onscreen environment
with drone orthophotos,
supported planners who were
on furlough by offering complimentary
training and software
to ensure they maintained their
skillset. Additionally, educational
webinars were also provided
globally to assist with tackling
delays, pauses and disruptions
on projects.
Eleco has since gone on to
deliver a positive financial performance
in the first half of
2021, with growth in all regions
and all customer segments.
The Group's already strong
financial position was further
strengthened with revenue up
13%, adjusted EBITDA up 11%
and operating profit up 14%.
The Company's resilience
during the challenging times
last year is testament to the
dedication and commitment of
the whole team at Eleco.
www.eleco.com
ENHANCED DRONE SURVEY DATA INSIGHTS
digital surface models, and/or
LiDAR point clouds where
users generate CAD models,
create cut-and-fill maps, and
calculate volume reports.
The Profile View allows users
to draw straight or curved lines
to cut across the terrain surface
or follow an irregular feature,
such as a road. The elevation
profile is displayed in a new
window onscreen. Profile View
functionality will be valuable for
surveyors working in any application
related to construction,
surface mining, landfill, and
other types of excavation.
www.virtual-surveyor.com
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November/December 2021

INDUSTRY news
TACKLING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH INNOVATION
The National Digital Twin programme
(NDTp) and partners
on the Climate Resilience
Demonstrator (CReDo) have
released a short film, Tomorrow
Today, showing the essential
role of infrastructure resilience
in the climate emergency, and
an interactive app, which allows
users to explore how connected
digital twins can help plan
for better resilience. Both were
launched at the UN Climate
Change Conference (COP26).
The interactive app, developed
by the NDTp together
with Esri UK and in partnership
with Mott MacDonald, introduces
the fictional Sunford City.
The city experiences a series of
severe storms, driven by climate
change, that cause a cascade
of emergencies across
the city and hamper the ability
of utility networks to recover.
Users can test different scenarios
by using isolated digital
twins versus connected digital
twins, to see how this enables
them to make decisions to better
protect the city. This demonstrates
how connecting
datasets and digital twins
across organisations and sectors
through the National Digital
Twin is vital to future infrastructure
resilience and is on the critical
path to net zero.
Collaborating on the CReDo
project with the National Digital
Twin programme are Anglian
Water, BT and UK Power Networks,
who will use their asset
and operations data combined
with environmental data to
inform an increased level of
infrastructure resilience.
https://digitaltwinhub.co.uk
NEW ACQUISITION FOR BENTLEY SYSTEMS
Bentley Systems has
entered into a definitive
agreement to acquire Power
Line Systems, a leader in software
for the design of overhead
electric power transmission
lines and their structures,
from private equity firm TA
Associates for approximately
$700 million. The combination
will substantially complete the
reach of Bentley’s portfolio for
the lifecycle integration of grid
infrastructure across electrical
transmission, substation, and
distribution assets, and communications
towers, uniquely
positioning the company to
support the modernisation of
grid infrastructure for renewable
energy sources and storage,
mobility electrification, ubiquitous
broadband and 5G communications,
and environmental
resilience and adaptation.
www.bentley.com
ENHANCEMENTS TO IDEATEAPPS FOR REVIT
Ideate Software has made significant
improvements to three
tools within the IdeateApps collection
that simplify the tasks
that Revit users perform most
often. The IdeateApps November
updates reduce the time
spent on tedious tasks,
enhance the quality of the BIM
data, and free time for more
interesting activities.
The ViewCreator tool automates
the naming of interior
elevations and other roombased
views. Users can also
now transfer areas, area
Transforming BIM and CAD
models into immersive 3D
experiences has now become
faster, easier, and more dynamic
with the release of Enscape
3.2. This update includes features
that help architects and
designers worldwide create
more vivid real-time visualisations
and streamline the entire
design worfklow.
"Real-time visualisation is
more than just beautiful rendering.
It is now an essential and
critical part of any design
process, providing important
data to make design decisionsand
communicate them to key
stakeholders," said Petr Mitev,
VP, Visualisation Product Group
at Enscape. "Enscape 3.2 is
another step forward intruly
integrating the design and visualisation
workflows into one."
With the new Dynamic Asset
boundaries and views from one
area scheme to another. Ideate
ReNumber now includes a new
rule to automatically rename
randomly named elevation
views to match company standards.
There is also a new rule
included to automate sheet
numbering per the ISO19650
sheet naming standards.
Ideate XRay now includes
additional checks to understand
and fix visibility challenges
related to callouts and
section and elevation markers.
https://ideatesoftware.com
DYNAMIC REAL-TIME VISUALISATION UPDATES
Placement, Enscape users can
select, place, and edit assets
from the Asset Libraries into
their designs via the Enscape
rendering window. Everything
added to the rendering is
instantly reflected in the modeling
software, offering a two-way
asset placement.
The new Batch Panorama
enables users to render multiple
panoramas, such as an
image, mono panorama, or
stereo panorama, at once.
Panorama Tours are also available
to guide clients and
prospects through proposed
designs. A new collection of
over 150 green building assets,
including a diverse range of
trees, plants and flowers often
used within green building
design, have also been added
in the new update.
https://enscape3d.com
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November/December 2021

CASEstudy
A Street Smart view of digital twins
The London Borough of Harrow is using digital twins compiled
by Cyclorama with Esri UK to improve the efficiency of its
planning departments
There appears to be a growing
demand for retro-fitting properties,
rather than building new ones. It's
hardly surprising, as much of the current
stock is aging, ill-suited to today's needs
and not capable of taking advantage of the
latest environmentally efficient systems
required to reach net zero. They're old and
draughty, lack insulation, and the wrong
shape and size for the occupier's
requirements - but they're there, and too
good to just pull down,
Local planning regulations, however,
forbid major alterations or improvements
to a building if they impinge on other
property rights or privileges, or the
perceived general ambience of an area.
You can do what you like inside unless
your property is listed, but you mustn't
upset your neighbours.
But in order to do so you not to contend
with an increase in planning applications
pending and limited personnel resources,
combined with strict deadlines for
objections or approvals to be raised and
submitted - and once considered the
committee's decisions are generally final.
Aiming to both improve the information
available and to streamline the process,
the London Borough of Harrow has added
high-definition street-level imagery and
LiDAR data to its Esri UK corporate GIS
system. It is used to build digital twins
which provide additional information about
a project without having to make timeconsuming
physical site visits.
The new imagery is provided by Esri UK
partner Cyclomedia. Combined with Esri's
LiDAR data, it provides a full 3D digital
representation of an area and its buildings
which can be viewed simultaneously
alongside other geospatial data within the
Esri GIS, such as planning applications,
street furniture, council tax records, and
Ordnance Survey data.
Planning meetings can now take place
where committee members can view
properties alongside the relevant planning
applications, and objections can be
discussed in detail, using the various
analysis tools within the Esri GIS system
which enable the accurate measuring of
properties or boundaries and viewshed
analysis - for example determining how the
shadows from a project impinge on
neighbouring properties.
Highways can also use the information to
verify that street works have been
delivered, or use the tool's capabilities to
plan new mobility schemes such as the
provision of cycle lanes or roundabouts,
while the Council Tax department can carry
out remote property inspections.
CYCLOMEDIA
Cyclomedia's imagery data and LiDAR
point clouds are accessible through its
Street Smart HTML web viewer, integrated
with Esri's ArcGIS platform. The Street
Smart API allows GeoCyclorama imagery,
point clouds, and software functions to be
used with a variety of geo-focused systems
and applications within any organisation.
The software uses AI to detect, define and
automatically extract assets within both
images and point clouds, which are used to
build up a database of assets within a town
or city, such as street lights, traffic signs,
trees, manhole covers, and billboards.
Harrow appears to be a forward-thinking
and proactive London borough. They
adopted street level imagery some time
ago to assist in local planning, and have
been a customer of Esri UK for over 15
years, using Esri's GIS system for a
number of purposes. They wanted to go
further, though and enlisted the aid of
Cyclomedia, which runs a fleet of 100
megapixel camera cars to produce more
accurate, higher resolution and more upto-date
information about an area. The
Cyclomedia imagery, supported by a
wealth of information from other local
resources, is integrated with Esri's GIS
data building a digital twin that is
accessible to numerous departments with
the Harrow Borough.
Sam Tizzard, head of GIS at London
Borough of Harrow, said "High resolution,
current and time-stamped imagery along
with LiDAR data gives us a reliable digital
twin of the borough that we can trust, vital
in carrying out effective management,
maintenance and planning. It also helps to
dramatically reduce site visits, which is
essential as new hybrid working methods
evolve to help keep staff and the public
safe due to Covid-19."
Paul Clarke, head of government at Esri
UK added "This is the first UK example of
Cyclomedia and Esri GIS integration so
we're looking forward to helping Harrow
explore the possibilities of what this
innovative project can deliver in the
coming months."
CHANGING WORK PATTERNS
In the wake of the Covid pandemic, work
patterns are changing dramatically, with
many people choosing to work from home.
Having access to accurate digital models
and the ability to interrogate them enables
the teams within London Borough of
Harrow to work together to solve issues
and make decisions more effectively.
www.cyclomedia.com
November/December 2021 9

CASE study
Big ideas for tiny homes
Two people, one van and a giant ambition, made real through the power of technology. Discover
how Vectorworks brought this tiny home on wheels to life
to purchase land in Portugal and build
their own home, creating their own
sustainable ecosystem, but they are
taking one step at a time, and the here
and now demanded a means to get
them on their journey. They plan to take
the van on the road across Europe with
Portugal as their final stop.
Samit Patel and Molly Ball had a
dream to quit London life and live
off-grid, being fully self-sufficient.
But in order to do this they needed to
make real life-changing decisions, and
the first was to purchase a Citroen
Relay L3H2 Van.
Attracted to the concept of the tiny
house movement, they had a vision of
transforming the van into a home - a
home on wheels from which they could
travel and embark on new adventures.
The growing trend towards tiny houses
has become a social movement, as
people are choosing to downsize the
space they live in and live with less.
People are embracing this philosophy,
and the freedom that it affords them.
The tiny house movement is about more
than simply living in a small space, it's
about a whole new way of living.
In the long-term Sam and Molly plan
VECTORWORKS AND THE DIGITAL
FIRST APPROACH
Ambitions are to be admired, but there
needs to be an outlet for them to
become a reality - and for Sam and
Molly, Vectorworks was that outlet. For
10 years Sam has worked in digital
construction software and was one of
Cadventure's BIM Consultants, before
becoming a Lead Trainer for London
Software Training, delivering training in
Vectorworks and other design software.
During his time at Cadventure it
became very evident that Sam had a
talent for designing in the Vectorworks
software and the team at Cadventure
gave their full backing to the
campervan refit project. Sam was the
first to admit that there were too many
ideas in his head to comprehend. This,
combined with the fact that he could
not fine-tune the details mentally, meant
that once they reached a certain degree
of complexity, solely imagining the build
process wasn't enough. Sam needed a
way to organise his thoughts and
extend the potential of the design - and
this is where Cadventure came in.
Sam told us: "As soon as I open a
blank file, the software works as an
extension of me, like an arm or a leg. I
subconsciously merge with the
program and tackle those issues of
complexity which I could not overcome
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CASEstudy
in my head, in a digital environment.
Plus I knew it had to be Vectorworks -
the perfect tool to make the digital
interpretation of my vision for the van -
and it was amazing that Cadventure
could support us with this.
"Once in a state of flow, I knew the
complexities of my design could be
worked through with Vectorworks. Hats
off to the technical team at Vectorworks
too, they continuously push towards a
seamless, empowering design tool!"
With a design proposal initiated Sam
began designing models for the
campervan. Stage one was to create a
concept model. Planning the layout and
configuring spaces for living, sleeping,
cooking, washing, heating - all the
things we take for granted in our
homes. He mapped out dedicated
areas for a fully functional kitchen and
bathroom and even decided to raise
the roof to create more space,
designing a "pop-top" roof.
The first stage model was made of
simple Extrusions and Solid Additions.
The attributes for these extrusions were
set to None in Fill colour and unique
Pen colours to highlight key spaces,
such as the bathroom and kitchen.
Layers were added but were primarily
used to name each space. 20+ Layers
helped Sam move objects around and
create 'process sequences'.
Once happy with a layout, Sam
developed a steel frame to support it.
This included a steel framing Layer and
primary, secondary and bracing Classes
(highlighted in the image top left).
Next came the refinement of the
structure and fleshing out the model
with surfaces. Additional Classes were
used to organise components within
Layers for the sleeping, shower, kitchen,
and lounge spaces. Even insulation and
vapor barriers were modelled.
Samit created a cutting list, also from
the Vectorworks model, which he sent
to his steel work suppliers in Aberdeen
who cut the steel box sections (30mm
x30mm x 1.5mm) to the sizes and
angles shown in the documents
provided.The pop-top roof was also
designed in Vectorworks and built using
steel profiles and hinges which were
welded together.
Sam added: "The project was an
awesome learning curve and I built
version 1 of the massive (4m x 1.2m)
pop-top myself. The structure folded up
and down to create a large, insulated
bedroom with windows on top of our
roof. Vectorworks allowed me to design
efficient, complex geometry in 3D, from
which I could extract 2D Drawings
which steel companies can read and
fabricate."
Elaine Lewis of Cadventure
commented: "We were thrilled to get
onboard with Sam and Molly's vision
and support the design process for
their campervan project. It gave us a
great opportunity to showcase what
Vectorworks can do in the world of tiny
homes. Sam's design flair together with
his knowledge and the technical
capabilities of Vectorworks have proved
a winning combination."
Whilst the project is still ongoing, Sam
has a goal to complete the campervan
in early January and start the journey
across Europe, living solely in the
campervan. This home on wheels is a
true masterpiece and testament to
Sam's ingenuity and the technology
afforded to him through the
Vectorworks software. This is not a
typical project where we would expect
Vectorworks to be applied but certainly
an impressive one just the same.
To follow Sam and Molly's journey you
can keep up with them on their
Instagram page @samandmollie and to
see more detail on Vectorworks in action
visit the Cadventure website here.
www.cadventure.co.uk
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A cause for collaboration
Are we leveraging all we can get out of collaboration? Elecosoft's Powerproject Collaboration
Cloud taps into the heart of this challenge, writes David Chadwick
Are we being too glib in our use of
the term collaboration? It's
certainly a popular buzzword at
the moment, and is attached to any
forward-thinking design, construction
or manufacturing process to describe
how much people talk to each other
and share data and ideas. In doing so,
we are able to increase efficiency,
eradicate risks and issues and shorten
timescales and schedules - and
ultimately, save money and increase
profit margins.
All very laudable, and on the largest
projects it's an absolutely essential
ideology without which the complexity
of a modern building site, with its
dozens of contractors and
suppliers and many
thousands of
documents and
communications
between project
teams, simply
could not function.
The issues are the
same throughout
the industry,
though,
whether you have just three or thirty
planners coordinating schedules,
analysing data and providing essential
information to managers making
critical decisions.
'Time is money' is just as glibly used
as the term collaboration. We are all
working to increasingly tight margins,
and the current industry climate is
littered with obstacles such as material
shortages, delivery issues, a lack of
skilled labour, pandemic restrictions,
and design changes at every turn.
Each one of these requires action to be
taken that will affect the project
schedule, and the longer the delay in
doing so, the greater the impact on the
wider 'critical path'. We need to be able
to leverage collaboration in a
dedicated environment in order to
maximise its benefits.
POWERPROJECT
COLLABORATION CLOUD
An optimum environment for
collaboration is provided by Elecosoft's
Powerproject Collaboration Cloud.
Providers of the popular Powerproject
Project Management solution used by
many companies in the construction
industry, Elecosoft's recently launched
Powerproject Collaboration Cloud
provides users with access to three of
the company's applications in one
monthly subscription: Powerproject,
Site Progress Mobile and
Powerpoint Vision.
Providing a centralised
database of information allows
construction companies to
manage all of their projects in
one place, enabling
everyone involved to share
data anytime and anywhere.
It can also provide
managers with a platform to
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extract the key project information
necessary to make critical decisions.
Based on Powerproject, which is used
to build schedules, assign tasks,
manage resources and maintain a
project delivery timeline and costs,
Collaboration Cloud provides a
complete management tool under a
single license. Besides the principal
application, the license includes Site
Progress Mobile, which gives on-site
teams the ability to update progress
instantly using mobile technologies,
and Powerproject Vision, which
provides a single source of truth and
control over every construction project.
With a single log-in users can access upto-date
project information, track revision
histories and seamlessly connect with
project teams across an organisation.
Everyone is kept on the same page and
decisions based on accurate information
can be made instantly.
Powerproject Vision provides the
central platform for all projects,
delivering a transparent and accurate
source of information which can be
used to generate forecasts and project
scenarios. It can also be used to
investigate alternative strategies to
minimise or mitigate risks using a range
of business analytical tools. With
access to live data across all projects,
companies can improve workflows and
project profitability and react positively
to emerging issues.
Taking collaboration to new levels,
Vision can also be used to create
automated project reviews and approval
processes, and to build amendment
workflows, which can be redirected to
on-site teams using Site Progress
Mobile's two-way communication
processes. Customised management
reports are also made available to
project managers immediately on
receipt and consolidation of the relevant
project information.
Site Progress Mobile provides the upto-date
project information that Vision
needs - a direct two-way
communication channel that enables
both on-site and off-site teams to stay
connected with project schedules. It
provides a much better solution than
the usual disconnect that occurs with
standard reporting procedures such as
emails, which are not always answered
promptly. The Site Progress app allows
site personnel to update progress at
any time, and at any location,
regardless of an Internet or mobile
connection, synchronising the changes
back to Powerproject.
Total integration means that the latest
information is fed directly into a
schedule, eliminating the need to
collect information from multiple
sources to update the project.
COLLABORATION CLOUD IN
PRACTICE
Powerproject Collaboration Cloud is
designed to follow a project's actual
work processes. It doesn't replace the
processes that project teams regularly
use but instead simplifies them by
maintaining all information in a secure
and easy to access database. It
incorporates a real-time, on-site
reporting process and adds a data
management tool that controls the use
of the information, automating the
production of reports and reviews
wherever possible. The result is greater
efficiency, fewer problems, and less
time wasted.
The emphasis on collaboration has
traditionally been aimed at larger
enterprises that would be unable to
succeed without a centralised system of
control and management, but the need
to maintain control is just as relevant to
smaller businesses, which do not have
the luxury of diversifying costs. Smaller
companies need to make each project
profitable, and to maintain tight
schedules on smaller margins.
Powerproject Collaboration Cloud is
ideally suited for SMEs who need to
keep a tight rein on each project and
companies that are upscaling and
expanding by taking on more work, and
who need to retain the same level of
control over multiple projects.
Collaboration Cloud can level the
playing field by giving them access to
the kind of integrated planning solution
that was previously only available to
larger corporations.
www.elecosoft.com
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Negotiating contracts
The basis of good contract negotiation is having the ability to put together the resources, costs and
other factors that govern a project's successful outcome. This is where EasyBuild's Construction
Management can help, writes David Chadwick
It has certainly been a turbulent year and
a half, with a dramatic decrease in
turnover during the COVID-19
lockdowns followed by a surge in the
latent demand for housing, exacerbated
by homeowners striving to buy larger
properties to accommodate WFH and a
more agreeable lifestyle. This, naturally,
increased the demand for building
materials such as lumber, steel and
especially timber, which is not being
produced fast enough to meet global
demand - especially when other countries
are happy to pay more for it.
The pandemic has also disrupted the
supply chains, already hard hit in the UK
by the ongoing Brexit negotiations and the
UK Government's "infrastructure
revolution", which is promising net zero by
2050, delivered by major transformations
to the construction industry as it strives to
become more sustainable. Throw in a few
more curveballs like the skills shortages
and an ageing workforce and the
Government's VAT reverse charge, which
came into effect in March 2021, and it
would be tempting to think that joining the
construction industry is a somewhat
unattractive prospect at present. However,
it is a sector which is known for soldiering
on and adapting.
Having survived the pandemic it's only
natural that contractors will be hungry for
new work and will tender for projects at a
lower level than they would normally,
trusting that the main contractors are not
under pressure themselves and will be
able to pay them promptly, enabling them
to preserve an adequate cashflow. To
alleviate some of the burdens on
subcontractors, we have also seen that
some tier 1 contractors are buying
materials on their behalf.
At the end of the day, however, it all boils
down to the legal framework drawn up to
outline the responsibilities of each party
and set out the penalties for failures to
meet those commitments - namely the
contract. Each party to the contract has a
job to do, and it is in the interests of both
to set out what they expect of each other
and how much leeway is given to delays
and schedule overruns, or to unavoidable
liabilities and risks. You need to factor in,
for instance, how much extra it will cost a
subcontractor to keep a team idle for a
week or so while they wait for supplies, or
to stand them down in the midst of winter,
and negotiate a permitted overrun,
dependent upon circumstances, without
incurring late completion penalties.
I recently discussed this with Carol
Massay, Head of Construction at The
Access Group, who stated that it had
become a hot topic among respondents
to her blog posts, with some asking how
"contractors could negotiate without
compromising themselves." Whilst
explaining that EasyBuild's Construction
Management application provides the
information that you need before you
attempt to negotiate a contract, Carol
outlined some of the steps that contractors
should follow.
NEGOTIATING CONTRACTS
Start early, take it one step at a time and
get the simple bits laid out first. You can
use a term sheet to outline the terms and
conditions and state the goods and
services that are being provided. These
aren't part of the actual contract and are
not binding, but give an indication that you
are both working to the same ends.
What comes next - the financial
commitment of each side or the schedule?
I would suggest the cost of the project, the
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payment schedule and the financing terms
would focus each party's attention rather
than sorting out the proposed start of a
contract and its completion or termination
dates, and the milestones between. The
latter has a large financial impact, though,
as compensation has to be decided for
delays to completion or for termination of
the contract - which, confusingly, may not
be the same as completion.
With the financial element and the
schedule agreed, and both sides relatively
happy, you can start to introduce the 'ahh,
buts', one step at a time. Make a list of all
of the potential problems and deal with
them. "We're starting the job in November;
how much leeway do we get if the weather
stops us working?". If you are using a
comprehensive ERP system, you will know
how much such a delay will cost you and
will have made provision for it within your
contract price.
Don't be in a hurry to complete the
negotiation. With each step agreed, the
investment of each party is increased
and the incentive to sort out the more
complex issues is increased. Don't be
afraid to rewrite, revisit or renegotiate
parts you are not entirely happy with. The
contract you end up with could be vastly
different to the one you start out with, but
you will feel more confident that you have
covered all corners.
CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT
EasyBuild's Construction Management
provides all the detailed information you will
need to both put together a team of
subcontractors for a project, and to
assemble the costs associated with it. It
comes with access to a library of 10 million
cost items, and a subcontractor resource
which allows you to select qualified teams
and rank them in terms of skill levels, costs
and availability. Both of these facilities are set
up in EasyBuild's Cloud Services, making it
easy to request quotes from suppliers or
send and receive subcontractor queries.
One of the most accurate source of costs
for budgets is real data from recent
projects. Properly audited, historical data
provides a realistic illustration of project
costs and, when used properly, also
highlights events that have contributed to
time and expense overruns, and which can
be added to the list of potential problems
on any new project - and therefore
included in contract negotiations.
SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
This is probably the most important
element of contract negotiation. Labour
and skill shortages, weather, holidays and
Government regulation changes are all
either quantifiable, fairly easy to forecast
and capable of mitigation at variable cost.
The supply chain, though, has been
thoroughly disrupted, and with global
demand increasing, shipping costs rising
and increasingly intermittent, and road
haulage in some disrepair, the ability to pay
for materials and guarantee their arrival
within any specified period of time is
becoming almost impossible.
Without materials work on the project is
held up, your skilled subcontractors are out
of work and have to seek it elsewhere and,
if you have paid up front for the materials at
a higher price, the gap between laying out
your money and being paid for the
completed work stretches alarmingly.
Hence the assistance being provided by
some tier 1 contractors to fund material
supplies for the project.
It is in the interest of both parties in a
contract to make it work and smooth the
wheels. Companies that provide this lifeline
to their contractors earn the right to employ
the best available and enjoy their loyalty.
Good contract negotiations stem from a
level of give and take between both parties
that guarantees that the aims of both are
achieved. Your client will be relying on you
to use your resources to thoroughly
research and understand what you need to
complete the project efficiently, within time
and on budget - or as close as you can
possibly achieve.
www.theaccessgroup.com/en-gb/
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A challenge for the future
Future Infrastructure Star Challenge 2021 Finalist Christian Orozco: https://youtu.be/gwEARoNQ6Ac
Bentley Education has introduced its Future Infrastructure Stars challenge for students
embarking on a career in civil infrastructure design. On the shortlist of winners is Green One
Building from Christian Orozco, a student at Sheffield University
As COP26 played out, and with
everybody's attention drawn to
climate change and net-zero
aspirations, I had the opportunity to talk
to Christian Orozco. Christian is the
author of a report that gained Sheffield
University a place in the finals for
Bentley Education's Future
Infrastructure Stars, a student challenge
designed to encourage the
development of future infrastructure
professionals for careers in engineering,
design, and architecture.
Green One Building - The Future of
Building focuses on the role that the
Canadian Green Building Council is
playing in reducing their assessment
that 39% of carbon emissions can be
attributed to the building sector - 28%
from operational activities and 11%
from "upfront" carbon or embodied and
construction carbon emissions.
Buildings designed to last for possibly
over 120 years require cooling, heating,
or both. In 2018, it was estimated that in
Canada, they were responsible for 8.9
million tons of carbon dioxide emissions.
The report has a Canadian perspective
because Christian is Canadian, but
currently studying at Sheffield. His
report has a particular poignancy
because he was in Canada during the
recent record-breaking temperatures.
Christian's report looks at the effect of
greenhouse gases that stay in the
atmosphere, trapping heat from the sun
and contributing to the gradual warming
of the planet. It is widely considered that
we are a mere 1.5 degrees Celsius from
an irreversible "hothouse Earth" effect.
Although the rate in greenhouse gas
emissions (GHG) is currently declining
in the Toronto area, Christian states that
decline is plateauing. To help reverse
the trend and get us back on track to
reach net-zero levels by 2050, he
believes that we now need to move to
more sustainable building technologies.
Current attempts at reducing
emissions are not viable, Christian says,
citing The Shard in London as an
example. It uses CHP - combined
carbon-based natural gas for heating
and electrical power - a technology still
being rolled out in projects that are less
than two years old.
THE SOLUTIONS
"We have to reduce or eliminate carbon
emissions from construction and stop
using fossil fuel to heat or cool
buildings," said Christian. His report
looks at several ways in which this can
be achieved, including an interesting
view on a technology that provides selfgenerated
electricity, reducing the
stress on the National Power Grid.
There are three changes that need to
be made, he suggests. The first step is
to adopt construction materials not
reliant on carbon-based technologies,
such as bioplastics for non-structural
building components like façades. One
example is the carbon negative material
Bioplastic, created by Made by Air,
which can store two tons of carbon
dioxide for every ton of bioplastic.
Bioplastic is made from a biochar with
a binder to create a material that can
be moulded.
Two more examples use subgrade
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materials, such as olivine sands and
carbon neutral concrete for road
building. Olivine sand can store its own
weight in carbon dioxide. Carbon
neutral concrete, produced by
Montreal-based company CarbiCrete,
uses waste from the steel industry and
carbon captured from industrial plants
to replace cement, making this
concrete carbon negative. This
concrete can also be used for concrete
masonry units (CMUs).
The second part of the solution, he
suggests, lies in increased utilisation of
existing technologies, with greater
reliance on solar and wind power
generation, and moving towards
modular construction technologies,
which both help to reduce waste and
facilitate the energy savings associated
with digital twins. Being able to analyse
the performance of buildings before
they are constructed allows us to finetune
their heating and cooling
requirements. We can even simulate the
needs of their occupants and then,
using modular construction
technologies, incorporate the optimum
solutions in building components prior
to construction.
Finally, he suggests that we can use
human activities to generate power.
Sidewalks can use plastic waste instead
of concrete to create new elastic and
durable paths, which can use the
pressure of steps, bikes, and cars to
generate power. An example is
Pavegen, which uses pressure from a
step to generate a small amount of
power. When aggregated, it can provide
sufficient electricity to power street
devices. One step can generate
sufficient energy to power one
streetlamp for 30 seconds. By installing
this technology in hallways, common
areas, and external sidewalks, it is
possible to generate secondary power
needs in a building.
Christian suggests that knowing the
habits of the human occupants of a
building would enable customised
technology control to create suitable
working and living environment where
and when they are needed, as well as
ramp up the energy derived from sports
amenities, such as gym and fitness
facilities. Christian suggests that, "a set
of energy gyms can be created to both
help the people keep a healthier life as
well as generating necessary power for
the buildings."
THE CHALLENGES
The typical challenges, Christian says, are
the costs, the availability of carbon
negative materials, and adoption by
stakeholders. Modular construction
makes it possible, he argues, to plan for
the manufacturing of materials and
technology and adopt these step by step.
In order to get stakeholders onboard,
Christian says that a trial project could
be set up in a Toronto suburb, which
can be used to study the feasibility and
its benefits - perhaps a 10-storey
building that could demonstrate a
reduction in building costs and an
improved environment for its residents -
promoting it to companies interested in
getting into "greener real estate."
Singling out a particular brown site in
Toronto may be a small start but could
demonstrate an approach for
sustainable construction for other
Canadian cities and even the wider
global community.
I spoke to Christian about the human
element in all this, disregarding the fact
that the whole subject is essentially
human focused. I asked about the
growing global demand for air
conditioning systems to counteract the
rising global temperatures. While air
conditioning was brought about when
electricity was cheap and underutilised,
many First World countries have now
grown accustomed to using the
technology. However, it takes an
enormous amount of power to run the
devices, exacerbating the climate
situation at the same time.
Christian acknowledged the dilemma
but stated that he was in Canada whilst
the record temperatures were breached
earlier this year. While he was living in
an air-conditioned accommodation,
numerous deaths occurred amongst
those who didn't have the technology.
"Picture a world," he said, "where
humans are responsible for the
powering of their own buildings, homes,
and communities by keeping their daily
habits and improving their health." The
technology can be applied to buildings
and then expanded to transportation
and subdivision communities in
suburban areas, using carbon-negative
materials and even introducing green
roofs. We could use all of the energy
available to power our communities,
cities, and the world.
FUTURE INFRASTRUCTURE STAR
CHALLENGE 2021
The Bentley Education program was
initially available in the United Kingdom,
Australia, Singapore, Ireland, and
Lithuania, before expanding globally in
late October. The program's student
and educator entitlements provide nocost
learning licenses for Bentley
infrastructure engineering applications
and proven learnings through the new
Bentley Education portal. Students and
educators from around the globe can
register on the portal and connect to
infrastructure organisations and
resources to prepare and recruit for
infrastructure engineering careers. The
portal can be accessed via
https://education.bentley.com.
Vinayak Trivedi, vice president of
Bentley Education said, "We want to
make the Bentley Education portal the
place where students can go to learn
about and become inspired to make
infrastructure engineering their career
choice. The goal of the program is to
help students who are passionate about
infrastructure to get a jump-start on a
fulfilling career."
The Bentley Education program is
designed to develop world-class talent
that can rise to the challenge of
improving our quality of life and
positively changing the world using
Bentley infrastructure engineering
software, applications, and proven
learnings. The Bentley Education
program will also help students
develop digital skills, which are critical
for a qualified talent pipeline to
support infrastructure growth and
resilience worldwide.
www.bentley.com
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2021 awards
@CCMagAndAwards
Sponsored by:
The 2021 Hammers Awards winners have arrived!
The 16th annual Construction Computing Awards took place
in November in London, and everyone who attended was
clearly enjoying once again meeting up with old friends,
colleagues and associates. The 2021 Hammers Awards were
also a celebration of the return, somewhat, to normality. It has
been a tough couple of years for the industry, but the companies
present represented those who had met the challenges head on
and become stronger as a result. Not everyone who attended
won an award, but to me they were all winners.
During the awards we were updated by Bill Hill, CEO of the
Lighthouse Club, the Construction industry charity which runs
the Construction Industry Helpline to support those affected by
the 2,000 plus major accidents that occur on building sites
every year, and the 82,000 work related illnesses, including
mental health, that workers suffer from. We ran a charity auction
at the event which raised over £4,000 - many thanks to all those
who contributed so generously.
This year's Editor's Choice Award was won by 3D Repo, who
have been very active in the past twelve months, and my
tongue-in-cheek comment on the night about how they
probably deserved it for the huge number of Zoom and Teams
meetings they must have been involved in recently probably
applies to you all. Welcome back!
INNOVATION OF THE YEAR 2021
Winner: Open ECX for WebContractor
Runner Up: Revizto for Cross Team Collaboration with Revizto 5
ONE TO WATCH COMPANY 2021
Winner: Digital Construction Works
Runner Up: Paperless Construction
BEST USE OF IT IN AN INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT
OF THE YEAR 2021
Winner: Sustrans with Esri ArcGIS Platform for The National Cycle Network
Runner Up: Revizto with KiwiRail for Scaling Up Cities with Next-Gen Railway Issue Tracking
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BIM PROJECT OF THE YEAR 2021
Winner: Bond Bryan Digital with Information Hub for Gen Zero
Runner Up: Mercury Engineering with Autodesk BIM 360 for The
Digital Construction Journey
COLLABORATION PROJECT OF THE YEAR 2021
Winner: Revizto with Revizto Platform for The Smithsonian
National Air and Space Museum
Runner Up: Symetri and Buro Happold with BIM 360 for
Maximising business and operational value
CLOUD TECHNOLOGY OF THE YEAR 2021
Winner: Glider with gliderbim Common Data Environment for
Powering a Data Driven Future
Runner Up: IFS UK&I with Stewart Milne and IFS Cloud for
Optimizing Offsite Manufacturing
CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
OF THE YEAR 2021
Winner: Asite
Runner Up: 4PS For 4PS Construct
HEALTH & SAFETY SOFTWARE OF THE YEAR 2021
Winner: 3D Repo with HSE, Manchester University, Atkins and
SafetiBase Risk Treatment Tool for Discovering Safety
Runner Up: Access Construction with EasyBuild for Compliance
for the Construction Industry
AR/VR PROJECT OF THE YEAR 2021
Winner: XYZ Reality with HoloSite for Substructure Concrete
Works
Runner Up: Jonathan Reeves Architecture with Vectorworks &
Twinmotion for Virtual Presentations
for Leicestershire Ecohome.
TEAM OF THE YEAR 2021
Winner: Symetri with Wessex Water & Autodesk Construction
Cloud for Keeping Projects Operational During the Covid-19
Pandemic
Runner Up: Access Construction for EasyBuild and ConQuest join
forces.
BIM PRODUCT OF THE YEAR 2021
Winner: Graphisoft for Archicad 25
Runner Up: Autodesk for AEC Collection
COLLABORATION PRODUCT OF THE YEAR
Winner: Trimble Viewpoint for Viewpoint for Projects
Runner Up: Bluebeam for Bluebeam Studio
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN SOFTWARE OF THE YEAR 2021
Winner: Vectorworks Inc. for Vectorworks Architect
Runner Up: Autodesk for AEC Collection
DOCUMENT AND CONTENT MANAGEMENT PRODUCT
OF THE YEAR
Winner: Newforma for Project Center
Runner Up: Asite for Asite Common Data Environment
ERP SOFTWARE OF THE YEAR 2021
Winner: Access Construction for EasyBuild
Runner Up: RedSky IT for Summit
PROJECT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE OF THE YEAR 2021
Winner: Elecosoft for Powerproject
Runner Up: Bentley Systems for Synchro 4D
PROJECT ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE OF THE YEAR 2021
Winner: Integrity Software for Evolution Mx
Runner Up: RedSky IT for Summit
ESTIMATION AND VALUATION SOFTWARE
OF THE YEAR 2021
Winner: RIB Software for iTWO costX
Runner Up: Access Construction for ConQuest
CONSTRUCTION FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
OF THE YEAR 2021
Winner: RedSky IT for Summit
Runner Up: Access Construction for EasyBuild
ASSET MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE OF THE YEAR 2021
Winner: IFS UK&I for IFS Cloud
Runner Up: Elecosoft for ShireSystem
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING SOFTWARE
OF THE YEAR 2021
Winner: Trimble Solutions (UK) Ltd for Tekla Structural
Designer
Runner Up: Autodesk for Revit Structures
GIS/MAPPING PRODUCT OF THE YEAR 2021
Winner: Esri UK for ArcGIS Platform
Runner Up: Trimble for Trimble MX50
MOBILE TECHNOLOGY OF THE YEAR 2021
Winner: Graphisoft for BIMx
Runner Up: Asite for Adoddle Field for Site
CHANNEL PARTNER OF THE YEAR 2021
Winner: Symetri
Runner Up: Cadventure
CONSTRUCTION SOFTWARE PRODUCT
OF THE YEAR 2021
Winner: Solibri UK Ltd for Solibri Office
Runner Up: Revizto for Revizto V5
EDITOR'S CHOICE OF 2021
Winner: 3D Repo
PRODUCT OF THE YEAR 2021
Winner: Autodesk for BIM 360
Runner Up: Newforma for Project Center
COMPANY OF THE YEAR 2021
Winner: Bentley Systems
Runner Up: Glider
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The project predictor
It's rare that a company completes a project both on schedule and within cost. David Chadwick
looks at Safran Software's Cost/Schedule Risk Analysis (CSRA) tool Safran Risk, which provides
insights into the impact that multiple risks have on major projects, enabling project managers to
make provisions to alleviate their effect
be interacted with in real-time on an
average project manager's workstation.
The larger the project, the greater
the risk. That's an uncontroversial
statement, of course, but
analysing that risk becomes an
exponential exercise that could provide
a wide range of results. On projects
like HS2, risk could cost eye-watering
sums of money at the extreme end of
the scale, earning alarmist headlines in
the media, which in turn could scare
off potential investors and the general
public, who would otherwise support
the project. In reality though a more
accurate assessment of those risks
would produce a narrower and more
acceptable range of figures.
I recently had an interesting
conversation with Mark Franklin, VP
International Development at Safran
Software Solutions, who brought a great
deal of sanity to the discussion,
explaining that all projects run over in
terms of time and cost, and the purpose
of risk analysis is to determine a more
realistic estimate of by just how much.
Projects that finish on time and within
budget, at this scale, just don't exist.
What the industry is trying to achieve is
to produce numerical insights into risks
and uncertainties, enabling them to be
ranked according to their opportunity
for cost-effective mitigation in order to
deliver projects at lower cost.
On a project with many thousands of
different elements, where any one of
them could be a potential spanner in
the works, the mechanics of
quantifying each of them and
integrating them into the overall risk is
immense. Mark explained that the
solutions that Safran have developed,
and which has been used successfully
within the industry during the last
seven years, include Safran Risk, a tool
which simplifies that process and
reduces the total cost of complex
projects by between 4 and 28 percent.
Moreover, the results don't depend on
handing over the calculations to
external dedicated processors for
weeks, if not months, to churn through
the numbers. With Safran Risk they can
WHO HANDLES RISK AT THIS
LEVEL?
It has always been the role of the Project
Manager to assess risk across critical
aspects of the project. When it became
possible to crunch through large
calculations on early devices, an early
programme called PERT was developed
to handle the intricacies of risk analysis.
But it proved difficult to use and
required the services of statistics
experts to convert risks into quantifiable
elements, which they could then feed
into analytical software and return after
a while with the results of their
endeavour.
The techniques used in PERT were
later used in Pertmaster, a well-known
risk analysis tool developed by
Primavera before they were bought out
by Oracle, who renamed it Oracle
Primavera Risk Analysis (OPRA). That
has now been superseded by Safran
Risk, which uses Monte Carlo simulation
to calculate risks, and introduces new
utilities that not only provide more
accurate assessments of risk but are
able to provide real-time feedback as
data is fed into the model.
To provide a simple example, by
sourcing and introducing historical
weather data into the equation, a Project
Manager can use the software to see
how an average weather profile for the
region would affect the project over the
winter. The ability to introduce such
variability to different aspects of a
project and to see the knock-on effects
to other areas gives Project Managers
far greater control over their risks, and
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hence enables them to make more
informed decisions.
INTEGRATING TIME AND COST
Which risks cause the biggest delays in
a project, and which risks are going to
cost you most? If something is delayed
on site it could cost thousands of
pounds a week, but if we try to save
some of this time how much cost will be
saved? Handling project risks
intelligently means capturing the
relationship between time and cost.
This means that we have to integrate
costs with the project schedule. To do
so, we need to import a complete
project schedule from MS Project, for
example, into Safran Risk - the
resources, schedule and the cost data.
A risk register is then imported as an
Excel spreadsheet, in this respect still
the most flexible tool that you can use.
The risks are then associated to relevant
project activities using its mapping tool,
and the whole scenario is run through
Monte Carlo simulation.
Sounds simple, but in order to
compare all possible outcomes, each
risk has to be evaluated against all of
the others in a massive series of
simulations, the input parameters being
varied slightly each time. The results are
then available in different formats
(graphs, charts, etc.) for easy
assimilation. Safran Risk is capable of
handling the mass of permutations
around 28 times faster than its
predecessor, according to this
comparison report.
With the two elements integrated,
partial analysis can be used to provide
instant analysis of the impact of
potential issues. Selecting a group
header from the browser, rather than all
individual items, allows the mapping to
be focused on headline data and its
sensitivity to the new risk, or to multiple
risks affecting the same activity. The
real-time 'mini Monte Carlo' analysis can
be fined-tuned to look at the
probabilistic duration or cost impact of a
risk - perhaps the length of time
groundworks would be held up because
of frozen ground - and relate that to how
long it would take before the contractor
goes bust.
SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS
This is the part I find most fascinating.
It's not a new concept and has been
practiced to a limited degree for years.
Given a list of risks, which of them is
going to affect a project the most, not
just relatively, but in days or cost? It
adds another process to risk
simulations. Select, say, ten significant
risks and run the simulations, taking
away one of them entirely each time, so
that it assumes that the risk no longer
exists. You can then run the simulation
focusing on the potential cost or the
delay that would be caused, minus the
one, temporarily excluded, risk.
Removing each risk manually and rerunning
the analysis this way with other
tools could take up to a week - but
Safran Risk's Sensitivity Analysis feature
does it in minutes. It is a simple
process, thereafter, of displaying each
set of results and comparing them. The
risk that has most effect on the results -
the absence of which causes the least
degradation of the project - is the one
that has to be dealt with first.
BENEFITS OF REAL TIME ANALYSIS
Safran Risk has come a long way since
its principal developers left
Pertmaster/OPRA and set about
building a more modern risk analysis
application, rewriting the technology to
build it with a new scheduling engine.
The new company has since expanded
by leaps and bounds with major
companies like BP, Aker BP and Aramco
among its customers.
The need for efficient risk analysis is
critical within the oil industry because of
the complexity of the drilling platforms
and their susceptibility to extreme
operating conditions. Being able to use
Safran's real time risk analysis enables
them to run back-to-back 'what if'
scenarios in project management
meetings, and to compare the results of
each simulation on the spot.
Safran Risk improves the quality of
Cost/Schedule Risk Analysis outputs,
improving a project's profits by raising
PRMM (Project Risk Management
maturity). On "basic complexity"
projects, a new report shows total
project costs can be reduced by up to
10%, while on "high complexity"
projects, total project cost can be
reduced by as much as 28%. On the
scale of the projects using the software,
that is a significant amount of money -
or you can weigh the risk and use some
of that money to shorten the schedule.
In short, Safran's schedule and cost risk
analysis enables companies to use what
they know (their project risk data) to find
out what they don't know - the impact of
different uncertainties and risks on the
project's schedule and costs.
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End-to-end CDEs
Data validation is a vital component for a successful AIM CDE, according to Glider
We sometimes talk about CDEs
(Common Data Environments) as
if they are merely a handy melting
pot for all of the information created and
collected during the building phase of a
project from designers, builders and asset
managers irrespective of the software they
are using in order to, as Glider puts it
"ensure information is controlled and
managed effectively whether it is data rich
3D models, structured datasets such as
COBie, or other associated documents."
The reality is far more complex, and on a
project with a lot of information and many
documents there will be key differences
between structured and unstructured
information, what it comprises, and how it
flows through a CDE. A CDE for project
delivery, for instance, is unlikely to be the
same as a CDE needed post-handover.
The latter, referred to as an AIM (Asset
information Management) CDE, must fulfil
the requirements of asset managers to
adhere to ISO 19650-3:2020 a complex
standard which is becoming increasingly
so as we handle the growth of smart
buildings. Moreover, to set up an AIM
CDE you need to spend time prior to
handover in data testing and validating
the systems that are going to be using to
manage the building.
According to Glider, if you want to provide
a comprehensive solution that satisfies
both the build and the asset management
aims of a project for its whole lifecycle,
then an AIM CDE has to be run in parallel
with the Project CDE from the very
beginning to ensure that the full aims of the
project are met.
GLIDER AND THE CDE
With exquisite timing Glider Technology
was conceived precisely at the moment
when the UK Government introduced its
BIM Level 2 mandate in 2016, when the
emphasis went from merely managing 2D
and 3D CAD to managing the information
in a building model in a collaborative 3D
environment with data attached. Glider's
founders, Nick Hutchinson and Steve
Rukuts, had been discussing the need to
go beyond just collecting data, and to
develop an intelligent platform for
managing project data information that
allowed customers to ultimately create their
own specific CDE that can be connected
to smart technology and eventually deliver
a full digital twin capability - and with it to
manage a building's assets throughout its
whole lifecycle.
The software they developed is used to
"validate that information deliverables
conform to the employers project and
asset requirements." Originally intended to
be a complementary tool for existing
platforms, Glider decided to change
course and develop its own CDE - now
widely used throughout the industry with
customers as varied as Deloitte,
Schroders, Arm and the MOD.
With it, customers can create their own
structured data pipeline and control all
documents and asset information, with
data versioning, workflow, model viewing
and even the ability to create their own
data schemas and ontologies. The
software they developed, gliderbim®, uses
a DMS (Document Management System)
to validate the data collected so that it can
be collected and verified as asset
information and stored in a secure single
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location - easy to locate and use.
The processes that Glider use - they
have now dropped the 'Technology' suffix
to their name - can be integrated within a
customer's own system using a highly
flexible API (as used by Deutsche Bank,
Defence Infrastructure Organisation and
Coventry University for instance),
providing simple and flexible collaboration
with third parties and other companies
using gliderbim®.
On completion of the building phase of a
project, Glider often hands over the
gliderbim® license to developers or clients
who can run the AIM CDE under their own
terms, deleting contractors and suppliers
purely involved in the building phases if no
longer required. They can also use the CDE
to support their own business intelligence
processes. As well as supporting ISO
19650 standards, gliderbim® can be
configured to support similar best practice
schemas where needed.
VALIDATION IS A KEY PROCESS
On large projects, with many teams
involved with multiple technologies,
designers, engineers and other contractors
will more than likely be using their own
systems, and the information being
compiled for the CDEs will be in a number
of different formats or will come with the
originating source's component names
and descriptions. It could even have
originated in older catalogues of
components and archaic practices - long
before the concept of CDEs was
introduced. Before a contractor uses
gliderbim® to create a Project CDE or an
AIM CDE, it needs to collate that
information, to simplify naming systems,
remove ambiguities and get rid of
confusing duplicates before it can build a
Common Data Environment that is easy to
access and relevant to its ultimate purpose
- namely to furnish an AIM CDE with the
information that facility and asset
managers need to manage their property.
That goes way beyond just substituting a
lengthy product code with a shorter and
unique title. Sometimes the individual item
needs specific attribution that precisely
describes its location and identifying
features. To provide the necessary
information, gliderbim®, uniquely as a
developer of CDEs, goes through a
process of document and data validation
before it stores it within the CDE.
In consultation with the contractor
charged with creating the CDE, Glider
helps them build a data validation
framework using Excel and Glider's
mapping tools to convert information
from its original format into one that can
be used by gliderbim®. Excel may not be
the most modern of tools, but in this
context it appears to be ideally suitable
because of its universal availability and
flexibility in handling gliderbim® data
mapping tasks.
Once it is validated - the data has been
converted to meet the exchange
information requirements - the information
deliverables are approved and made
available in COBie and/or download
formats for transfer at handover. The
Project CDE will have provided the raw
materials for the construction phase,
providing a common and single source of
information for contractors, subcontractors
and suppliers, but with that task completed
and the project ready for handover, Glider
is happy to transfer the AIM CDE directly to
the asset owner or developer, enabling
them to fulfil their obligations to the client
more professionally, at lower cost and
more quickly. They can also hold on to the
license until the building is sold, when the
gliberbim license and modeled data
containing fully validated information can
become a value added item.
Glider also license gliderbim directly to
the asset owners and developers, allowing
them to insource the data and take full
ownership of all validated project and
asset deliverables. In doing so, they have
a highly enriched representation of their
built asset portfolio complete with all
relevant documents and data needed to
support operational teams during the
operational phase.
The aim, ultimately, is to provide the client
with an AIM CDE that provides complete
independence from the construction
supply chain, by providing them with
ongoing and intuitive access to their built
asset data. Ownership of the gliderbim
license also provides the client with a level
of independence over the software as
asset information needs change over time
as they can configure their own workflows
and processes and task management
processes, such as RFIs and change
management, FM, and, of course, their
own data validation processes.
Clients using gliderbim® for the whole
lifecycle of an asset can then use it to
control who enters the CDE - for example
contractors employed for building
modifications, refurbishments or
equipment exchange - and when.
Contractors can then be removed following
the completion of the building phase. A
typical instance where this would be useful
is in campus or estate management.
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Paving the way to paperless
Hanson Contracting is adopting a new paperless mobile workforce
management solution from Causeway
If you live in West Somerset and use the
roads around Bridgwater and
Cannington, you will be familiar with the
steady stream of Hanson Contracting
lorries heading in and out of Hinkley Point
Nuclear Power Station, symbolic of the
huge scope of the development. Hanson
are a contractor on the Hinkley Point project
and are now synonymous with any largescale
infrastructure development, and it is
inevitable that they have taken steps to
improve the efficiency of their operation.
The road to that efficiency - no pun
intended - is to scrap the inefficient paperbased
systems that were prevalent just a
few years ago in order to go digital. In
short, to go paperless. To this end, Hanson
Contracting has begun rolling out
Causeway Ermeo to help manage its
mobile workforce, further enhancing their
digital capabilities by replacing paper forms
and workflows.
This is part of the wider digitalisation
happening at all levels across Hanson's
national road surfacing business. The aim
is to positively impact how the company
works, collaborates, and interacts with
customers - and ultimately to improve the
way the company does business. Hanson
wanted to make this digitalisation process
as easy as possible for its field teams,
which meant finding a construction-specific
tool that let them focus on their job instead
of filling out paperwork.
Causeway Ermeo is a mobile workforce
management solution that achieves this goal
by connecting the site and office through
digital workflows, with easy to use reporting
functions, converting all paper forms into
digital documents. Its additional functionality
streamlines this process even further.
Hanson plans to use Causeway Ermeo for
timesheets, risk assessments, plant
inspections, holiday requests, and other
manual processes. The list is still growing.
Chris Harrison, Business Manager,
Hanson Contracting, said: "There is a lot of
excitement from our business improvement
team for Causeway Ermeo. We are always
looking for any efficiencies and lean
improvements to make in the business,
and we see this solution as a key one.
"It's also the back-end reporting," he
added. "It is simple from the end user point
of view, which is what we wanted. Basically,
we can use it within the business itself to
make us more agile and flexible."
Causeway Ermeo fits within Hanson's
intention to become the first "industrial tech
company" in the sector and it has three
distinct workstreams to drive it towards that
goal. Central to this is to enable customers
to make better, data backed decisions, and
then act upon those decisions in a fully selfservice
environment. The three
workstreams are:
HCONNECT
Hanson's digital workplace which helps
employees work more efficiently, stay in
touch, and streamline processes whether
on location or with home working.
Meanwhile its OnSite app puts the sites
teams at the forefront, giving them access
to their data all in one place.
HPRODUCE
Through energy calculators and dashboard
planners, the company's cement plants are
also going digital and will transform its
product lines and operations. Hanson will
get more data than ever before and provide
this to customers.
HSERVICE
Procurement teams can browse service e-
catalogues, create contracts directly from
offers, and send order confirmations
directly to customers. The data collected
via the forms is automatically sent from the
mobile app in the field or on site, into the
cloud, and onto the platform, creating realtime
information flows and giving users full
visibility of their data. Additionally. with its
API integration, the Causeway Ermeo
solution interfaces directly with the IT
ecosystem.
"We want data and technology to be at the
heart of everything that we do. It gives us
better operational and commercial
performance on site and also aligns us with
our key customer's vision for the future,
such as National Highways Digital Roads
strategy," added Chris Harrison.
Causeway Ermeo has a "no code" editing
studio that allows Hanson Contracting to
create customisable forms with ease. When
field workers open the digital document,
they will find the relevant information prepopulated.
They cannot submit the form
until all fields are complete.
Ermeo can also be used to digitise any
paper-based process, including asset
inspections work orders, H&S forms and
site diaries, and is estimated to increase
the efficiency on a job by 20%. It also
provides automatic reporting and project
compliance - and the trend towards the
elimination of paper-based systems is
another step in the battle to reduce our
carbon footprints.
Causeway Technologies and Hanson
Contracting share a longstanding
relationship that dates back to 2008. The
highways specialists plan to integrate this
platform with its current Causeway
solutions and external systems, such as its
asphalt ticketing system.
Chris added: "I see this as the start of the
journey. We've been working with
Causeway for several years now and we're
keen to kick on and see where else in the
industry we can make improvements."
www.causeway.com
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A space shuttle for the streets
The Darwin Innovation Group is trialling an autonomous shuttle in Oxford's hi-tech campus with ESA and
the UK Space Agency
Afully autonomous passenger shuttle
service has begun trials on UK roads,
Science Minister George Freeman
has announced. The new service is being
trialled by Darwin Innovation Group, with
support from ESA and the UK Space
Agency. An autonomous shuttle will
transport passengers around Harwell
Science and Innovation Campus in
Oxfordshire, which is home to some of the
UK's most innovative companies and
research organisations.
The shuttle, created by Navya, uses LiDAR
sensors cameras and ultrasound sensors to
navigate safely around any obstacles. It
also features a satellite (GNSS) antenna for
positioning. There is no steering wheel, but
it does have safety controls, which will be
managed by an on-board operator
throughout the trial. Darwin will maintain and
monitor the service, tracking the shuttle's
location and gathering information about its
operation as it travels. Telematics data will
be transmitted from the shuttle in real time
using Hispasat's satellite communication
channels and O2's 4G and 5G networks.
The use of satellite communications in this
trial is significant. In previous trials,
autonomous vehicles have relied on
terrestrial Wi-Fi to stay connected. By
making use of satellites in addition to 4G
and 5G, autonomous vehicles can operate
even in rural or remote areas that may not
yet have complete terrestrial coverage.
Science Minister George Freeman said:
"Until now autonomous vehicles have relied
on terrestrial Wi-Fi which means they can
struggle to operate in remote and rural
areas. By unlocking the power of space and
satellite technology, these new shuttles can
stay connected all the time.
"Our National Space Strategy promises
to put space technology at the heart of our
efforts to make the UK a science and
innovation superpower. Autonomous
vehicle technology has huge applications
in key industries and the UK is committed
to lead in adoption as well as
technological innovation."
This shuttle service will help demonstrate
the potential of self-driving vehicles to
operate in a real-world setting, serving as a
step towards the wider use of this
technology in the UK. Similar Navya shuttles
have been used in an urban setting in
Switzerland and have safely transported
tens of thousands of passengers.
The shuttle, which is battery powered,
shows that the future of public
transportation can be green as well as
autonomous. The potential to transport
passengers while emitting zero carbon, if
put in place more widely, could help the UK
towards its emission targets. The shuttle
service has already created new jobs at the
campus: shuttle safety operators and
shuttle mechanics. The people working with
the shuttle will be able to share their
experience with technology colleges and
help improve the available courses.
In addition to Darwin, Navya, ESA and UK
Space Agency, a range of organisations
have supported the new shuttle service.
Mobile operator O2 and satellite operator
Hispasat have aided Darwin in its research
into connectivity, and the shuttle will make
use of their networks as it travels around the
campus. O2 also provides added
investment to Darwin, as well as supporting
with patent development. Harwell Science
Campus and STFC are hosting the service,
and AWS is providing storage for the data
produced by the shuttle.
The shuttle is insured by Aviva, which will
use the trial and resulting data to better
understand the evolving mobility market.
With this information, Aviva will be able to
create innovative insurance products to
cater for this fast-changing market,
including autonomous vehicles and
associated technologies.
The autonomous shuttle service operates
at Harwell Science Campus during
weekdays, morning to evening. It travels
two routes, one along Fermi Avenue and
one along Eighth Avenue, with the ESA
building being the central stop for both
routes. There is no cost to ride the shuttle,
which is currently available to campus
pass-holders and registered guests of
pass-holders.
Daniela Petrovic, Delivery Director at
Darwin, said: "We're thrilled to play a part in
demonstrating the real-world potential of
autonomous vehicles. Self-driving cars are
no longer theoretical, and we believe that
CAV trials can help move the UK towards
greener, more efficient and more accessible
modes of transport." José Luis Serrano,
Head of Innovation at Hispasat added, "We
believe this trial will be a major step forward
in combining satellite technology with 4G
and 5G environments to ensure that
autonomous driving can be performed
reliably and resiliently regardless of
geographic location."
https://darwincav.com
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Building resilience
COP26 has focused minds once again on the global
environmental crisis. Chris LeBoeuf, Senior Director, ABS Group,
explains how and why we need to meet the challenge of climate
change and invest in natural hazard risk management
With extreme weather events
growing in frequency around
the world, there are many
ways that organisations can do more
to protect their assets and mitigate
some of the risks posed by natural
hazards. From raging wildfires in
Australia at the start of 2020 to the
devastating flash flooding across much
of Europe in July 2021, recent years
have been littered with natural hazard
events that have destroyed property
and infrastructure, devastated
businesses and taken lives. In the US,
Hurricane Ida brought back painful
memories to the people of New
Orleans, a city which is still rebuilding
after Hurricane Katrina caused 1,800
deaths and $125 billion of damage
back in 2005.
Unfortunately, natural disaster events
such as hurricanes, cyclones, storms,
floods and wildfires are occurring more
often and with greater severity. This
can be viewed in terms of economic
cost increasing over time.
The Asia Pacific region tells a similar
story. Here, average annual disaster
event-induced economic losses
between 2000 and 2009 stood at $56.7
billion - and for 2010-2019, that figure
more than doubled to $117.9 billion.
The Tohoku Earthquake which struck
Japan in 2011 is largely responsible for
this, but even when removing 2011
from the period, the nine remaining
years average out at $89.1 billion in
annual natural disaster damage.
In the US, meanwhile, the ten-year
average annual cost of natural disaster
events exceeding $1 billion increased
more than fourfold between the 1980's
($18.4 billion) and the 2010's ($84.5
billion). Source: NOAA National
Centers for Environmental Information
(NCEI) U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and
Climate Disasters, 2021.
Such has been the impact of growing
and more severe weather events that
the magnitude of the 100-year and
500-year flood has undergone revision
in Houston, a significant development
that experts are now keeping a close
eye on.
COUNTING THE COST
These concerning figures translate into
a multitude of damages encountered
by organisations that operate across a
variety of industries, which notably
include petrochemical, energy,
chemicals, technology and other
industrial sectors with large and highly
valuable infrastructure bases.
Unplanned outages and economic
losses from production downtime are
major consequences of the disruption
caused by extreme weather events.
Beyond this, there are many secondary
and tertiary social and environmental
impacts that stem from the primary
damage done to these businesses.
But why are power and chemical
plants particularly prone to natural
disaster events? Geography plays a
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critical role here. For instance, many
petrochemical facilities are
strategically located close to coastal
and inland waterways to enable easy
transportation of goods in and out of
their sites.
However, this makes them especially
susceptible to hurricane and flood
risks. In the US, many plants and
industrial sites are located near the
Gulf Coast, Atlantic Coast and
Mississippi River. Earthquakes are
another risk factor, primarily in the
western states and other regions near
fault lines. Key risk areas in Europe
include sites along rivers and coasts,
including those in regions which are at
or only slightly above sea level.
As we saw at COP26, there is a
greater sense of urgency among key
political decision-makers, enterprises
and wider society. Hosted in Glasgow,
UK, the summit represented a defining
moment for Britain's Prime Minister
Boris Johnson, whose government is
pushing ahead with some of the most
ambitious climate targets a UK
government has ever pledged. But
enterprises should not wait for more
comprehensive legislation and
regulation to prompt them into action.
In many regions around the world,
there are little or no regulatory drivers
aimed at industrial facilities that require
them to withstand extreme weather
events. The onus currently is on
organisations to determine any natural
hazard risk management strategy, and
given the growing frequency of these
incidents, the time to act is now.
HOW TO APPROACH NATURAL
HAZARD RISK MANAGEMENT
The extent and nature of such action is
largely dependent on each individual
business's appetite for risk - in other
words, the extent to which your
business is prepared to deal with
disruptions caused by storms,
hurricanes, wildfires, floods and other
extreme events. Direct concerns may
include the reliability and resilience of
an organisation's equipment, facilities
to provide worker safety and reduced
unplanned outages.
However, it is also important to bear
in mind that physical damage to
buildings and equipment represents
only the initial source of financial loss.
Resultant business disruption and
market displacement can also hit
revenue figures hard, depending on
the severity of the natural hazard in
question. Concerns here can centre
around storing materials and
disruption to feedstock supply,
transportation availability and access,
and cost and availability of energy.
To help quantify some of these risks,
organisations should consider a range
of factors. What amount of revenue will
be lost if I have to shut down my facility
for an extended period of time? Can
additional understanding of the risks
help my company to manage our
operations? Will improvements to
preparedness and response reduce
direct damage and limit revenue loss
following an extreme weather event?
Getting to grips with these questions
is a good place to start, the answers to
which may prompt a series of potential
mitigation measures.
Facility hardening, enhanced
preparedness and response planning,
and organisational measures to limit
the impact of any single extreme event
are among the risk mitigating steps
companies can take, along with
acquiring insurance policies.
Another option is to leverage the
engineering and risk management
expertise of third parties. Independent
risk assessments and audits can serve
as vital tools in quantifying actual risks,
with engineering-based studies
revolved around rigorous site-specific
technical assessments, enabling
facilities to measure their exposure to
numerous natural hazards.
This can carry advantages over
advice and subsequent cover offered
by insurance firms, which may not offer
this level of rigorous evaluation and
technical understanding.
Regardless of what approach is
taken, we advise companies to build
risk into their cost of business and plan
for a certain degree of extreme weather
disruption every year.
PROVIDING A HELPING HAND
Some organisations may lack the inhouse
technical and engineering
expertise to properly plan and execute
an entire natural hazard risk
management strategy. Expertise in the
field of process safety (including
accidental hazards such as fires,
explosions and toxic spillages) and
structural engineering is critical for
companies to get the support from the
cradle-to-grave process.
It will also require specific services,
such as risk assessments and
independent audits; equipment
elevation audits (flood risk); natural
hazard audits (from backup power
systems to data protection); flood and
storm surge risk analyses; reviews of
emergency response plans; and much
more - such as natural hazard risk
ranagement toolkits, which offer
insights and resources to assist
industrial facilities in reducing their
exposure to natural and man-made
hazards.
Knowledge sharing is crucial if
organisations with assets prone to
natural hazard risk are to futureproof
themselves effectively. In the UK, for
example, there are a number of
conference papers planned for the
Hazards 31 conference that focus on
issues around process safety.
Here, flooding is the most frequent
and damaging natural hazard, the risk
of which is growing due to climate
change and increasing regularity of
extreme weather events. To help
organisations understand and prepare
for these risks, the conference
considered vital lessons learned
through the years, and how to navigate
the UK's Control of Major Accident
Hazards (COMAH) regulations.
With more industrial businesses in the
UK, wider Europe and other regions
around the world being impacted by
natural hazards there is a clear
message; risk from natural hazards is
growing. As climate change continues
to produce extreme weather events
which may become more frequent and
severe, the time to act is now.
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A temporary solution
Andrew Gascoine, Digital Engineer at Mabey Hire, explores the digital design evolution and
introduces an immersive application that brings the world of temporary works to life
While the rise of Building
Information Modelling (BIM) has
undoubtedly had a positive
impact on Construction, BIM cannot be
the end of the road in terms of
technological development, with more
still to be done if we are to continue
combatting the everyday challenges still
faced by the industry. When it comes to
where BIM could go next, temporary
works specialist Mabey Hire thinks it
could have an answer, with the
development of an innovative digital
design platform that integrates both the
construction model and temporary works
in a fully immersive experience.
Discussion around construction's
relationship with digital technology is
nothing new. There have long been calls
for the construction industry to digitise,
modernise and revolutionise its approach
in line with the changing world and
technological developments. The 2016
Mark Farmer report is perhaps the most
infamous example, calling on the industry
to "modernise or die" - to adapt and
reap the efficiency and productivity
rewards or risk falling behind as
other sectors pushed ahead.
DESIGN EVOLUTION
The design stage of the
construction sequence is a really
great and positive example of
what can happen when we
modernise, develop and
digitise. Initially, this meant evolving from
2D drawing boards to CAD. Then, as
projects became more ambitious, the
industry needed a more accurate,
reliable and advanced way of making
these structures a reality, with the
introduction of BIM.
It goes without saying that working in
the 3D environment enabled by BIM
software has brought with it a great
number of productivity and efficiency
benefits for the construction industry, with
the immense amount of data contained
within a 3D model and the level of detail it
provides all contributing to enhanced
visualisation and improved collaboration.
But what is next? It's important that we
all continue to drive this digital journey
forwards and see where else it could take
us, both as individual companies and as
a collective industry.
THE CHALLENGES
When considering where the industry
could go next, we first need to take a step
back and consider the everyday
challenges still being faced within the
temporary works sector and also the wider
construction sector. Only then can we can
truly reap the rewards of digital evolution.
While 3D modelling has undoubtedly
come a long way in providing project
teams with a greater understanding of a
project and its on-site delivery, as projects
become increasingly complex more is
needed from this concept of a digital
rehearsal. Too often, the first time that site
teams will see, interact with and explore
the proposed structure will be when they
are on site constructing or erecting it. Not
only can this lead to logistical challenges
or access issues being encountered for
the first time on site, leading to time and
cost delays, it can also carry with it an
associated safety risk.
Meanwhile, pressure remains to deliver a
perfectly optimised and engineered
building or structure. With client
budgets tightening and material
shortages placing additional
pressure on an already volatile
supply chain, being smart with
your temporary or permanent
works scheme design has
never been more important.
Effective collaboration is
another important
consideration, found at the
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heart of every successful construction
project, both internally within a team and
also externally, between contractors,
suppliers and stakeholders. Here, again,
BIM has had a positive effect, enhancing
the way that teams work together by
providing them with a visual 3D model
that can be used as a discussion point.
However, taking this further by adding an
immersive and interactive element into
the mix could enhance this collaboration
aspect even further.
Looking specifically at temporary works,
there is clearly another challenge facing
the sector. While transient in nature,
temporary works can have a permanent
and long-lasting impact on a project.
However, this is not always how they are
perceived, with the potential for them to
be seen as something of an afterthought
or an 'add-on'. Indeed, technological
developments, when they do occur within
construction, are often focused solely on
the permanent works sector, leaving the
temporary works sector behind.
ALL ABOUT EVE
However, Mabey Hire are working to do
their bit to change this and provide a
solution to some of the ever-present
challenges faced by the industry, with the
introduction of EVE. An exciting new
design solution that utilises immersive
technology, EVE (Engineer, Visualise,
Explore) is designed to bring the world of
temporary works to life. Providing
engineers and contractors with a truly
unique experience, EVE allows users to
fully engage themselves in their project.
From taking a virtual walk through the
construction site and/or existing structure
to physically visualising and exploring the
engineered temporary works scheme insitu,
all without leaving their desk. Users
can also use EVE to easily highlight and
plan around any potential risks or
hazards, make annotations within the
virtual environment and view model data,
including weights and dimensions.
At Mabey Hire, the foundations of our
business are built on engineering
excellence, and we are always looking
for ways to push and develop this
further. We knew that we wanted to
further invest in software and our digital
engineering capabilities, as well as
bringing new skillsets and ways of
thinking into the company to help us do
this, such as borrowing from the world of
game design.
In terms of what we wanted to achieve
by developing EVE, encouraging early
client engagement and collaboration
was a big 'must' for us. While temporary
works can often be pushed down the
priority list, we regularly see first-hand
the benefits that early consideration of a
projects temporary works can have, not
just on the delivery of the temporary but
also the overall project. As such, we
knew that we wanted to create a digital
design package that enabled us to
communicate with customers about their
project at the earliest possible stage and
would really help to bring the scheme to
life in an exciting and immersive way.
Ultimately, EVE provides contractors
and stakeholders with early visibility of
how the temporary works scheme will
work and interact with the permanent,
highlighting any potential issues, health
and safety risks, installation
requirements and project phasing - to
name just a few - in a more advanced,
interactive and immersive way than BIM
currently allows.
By taking the benefits of BIM and
thinking of ways in which we can further
advance and develop the technology
and push the benefits and values even
further, we can all look to deliver
construction, engineering and
infrastructure projects more accurately,
collaboratively and efficiently than ever
before. Where will you take BIM next?
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How digital twin technology can help fight climate change
Following on from COP26, Don MacLean, Founder of IES, which has been at the forefront of
building performance and sustainability, shares his company's views on the role of the
construction industry in meeting the challenges ahead
The warnings are everywhere, telling
us we must take action to tackle
climate change and meet net zero
targets by 2050 if we are to keep below
the critical two-degrees Celsius warming
threshold. The impacts of climate change
are already evident on a daily basis and
we must deviate from the norm if we are
to ignite tangible change.
It will take the efforts of governments,
industries, companies and communities
to reach net zero, and as a major emitter
of carbon emissions, the built
environment has a pivotal role to play.
Buildings now account for more than half
of total city emissions on average and
almost 40% of total global energy-related
emissions. Therefore, the built
environment is a sector that has real
power and responsibility to create
change, as do all of those that work
within it.
UTILISING TECHNOLOGY IN THE
RACE TO NET ZERO
The role of technology in decarbonising
the built environment should not be
underestimated; it is essential if we are to
meet targets. The latest Green Alliance
Report shows that emissions from
buildings have only fallen by 10% over
the last decade and highlights that the
UK remains a long way off net zero,
demonstrating the real need for
technology to speed up the process of
both improving performance of existing
buildings and designing and
constructing new ones that don't add to
the emission output.
It's often said that the construction
industry has been slower to embrace
digital software, but there has never been
a better time than now to get on board
with its benefits. Good communication
and collaboration between all of those
involved in the design, build and
operation of a building is essential within
the construction industry and technology
can assist with this. For example, by
enabling access of shared data and
informing decisions all the way through
the building lifecycle.
THE POWER OF DIGITAL TWINS
Underpinned by powerful physics
simulation intelligence, digital twin
technology is a vital part of the strategy
for decarbonisation. Digital twins work by
creating virtual models of buildings, that
respond exactly as they would in real life
and evolve in line with their real-world
counterparts. They help to translate data
into essential decision support
information to improve performance and
identify where savings can be made.
This technology aids those in the
construction industry by accelerating the
design, production and operational
processes, making these processes
easier, more sustainable and based on
informed decisions influenced by data.
Data from the digital twins is pivotal on
the road to net zero, enabling people to
see how a building will perform before it
is even exists. This allows for alignment
of design and sustainability goals by
virtually testing different features and
systems, ensuring the most ecoconscious
options are selected. This also
prevents costly mistakes, as changes
can be made in the design, as opposed
to in the construction or operation stages
where it is much more difficult and timeconsuming
to do so. By streamlining
processes from design to operation, it
ensures that all are on the same page
and can access the data to inform
different stages of the buildings creation.
Not only can digital twins be beneficial
to buildings not yet built, this technology
also allows for improvements to be made
to buildings that already exist.
Considering that 80% of the buildings
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that will be around in 2050 are built
already, we cannot simply focus on
making new buildings energy efficient.
The data can demonstrate where
changes can be made to improve energy
efficiency, carbon performance and cut
costs. The performance of buildings can
then be continually monitored, to see the
impact of the changes. With a
collaboration of improving old buildings
and designing and constructing efficient
new ones, it is much more feasible that
net zero targets will be met.
However, faced with the current climate
crisis, taking one building at a time,
whether new or old, simply isn't enough
to meet the necessary level of change.
This is where IES's ICL (Intelligent
Communities Lifecycle) comes in, taking
the concept one step further to tackle
whole communities.
CASE STUDY: BCA ACADEMY
CAMPUS
An example of how digital twins can be
used both to improve existing buildings
and inform decisions about improved
ones, can be seen through the IES BCA
Academy Campus project in Singapore.
This project utilised the ICL software to
create a 3D master planning model of
the existing campus as well as detailed
Building Energy Models of the proposed
new buildings using the ISCAN and VE
software. These models allowed IES to
plan two new low/zero energy buildings
of optimal design to meet energy
performance targets.
The masterplanning model enabled the
team to analyse the best position for the
new buildings, based on the impact and
interaction with surrounding buildings,
and then determine energy conservation
measures to achieve 57% energy
savings for the proposed Super Low
Energy High Rise Building and 67%
energy for the proposed Zero Energy Mid
Rise Building.
Additionally, opportunities were
identified to achieve optimal building
performance in the existing building.
After creating a detailed model,
operational errors that would reduce
energy consumption by 12% and 7%
were discovered, and it was identified
that there could be up to 21% savings if
improvements were made.
The case study demonstrates the
power of using technology to identify
savings and improve energy efficiency
and carbon performance. It is these sorts
of improvements that we need to be
making to every single building, new and
old, if we are to facilitate rapid change.
Even utilising this technology to highlight
quick changes that could have a
significant impact is a start on the
journey to net zero.
CONCLUSION
To decarbonise by 2050, the built
environment must be at the centre of net
zero strategies. As a huge contributor to
emissions globally, it's not a sector that
can sit back in the fight against climate
change. The good news is, we do have
the technology to make the changes
and meet the targets, we just need more
rapid uptake of digital technologies, not
just within the construction industry but
across all those in the sector.
Digital twin technology enables all of
those involved in the design, build and
operation of a building to make climate
wise decisions and improvements, and
we must collaborate and use this data
across the board to create necessary
levels of change. As emissions from the
built environment sector hit their highest
ever level in 2019, it's pivotal that we
stop it moving in the wrong direction
and instead use a technology-led
approach to turn the tide.
The key takeaway for the construction
industry is that the time to turn to digital
is now and it must be incorporated in
the design and build of future buildings
and in the improvement and
modernisation of older ones if the
industry is to step up and play its role.
Enabling time, cost and, most
importantly, energy savings, digital twin
technology can facilitate change at
speeds that we simply cannot achieve
without it.
The time for change is now and we must
adapt in order to overcome this crisis.
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Archicad 25 Update 2
Archicad 25 was only released in the summer, but Graphisoft is already supporting it with new features
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Graphisoft has released another
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