ASSET INFORMATION & DATA MANAGEMENT
“If we were to try to build our asset information model just before we were about to hand it over [to the maintainer/operator], then there would be big cost and time risks.
“It’s about maturing our data progressively – this is the whole premise of BIM and the project lifecycle, instead of having it handed over at each stage and losing information or the integrity and accuracy of it. By doing that, we’ll trusting our data because they’ve worked with that dataset all the way through its lifecycle, and they don’t suddenly have a new set of data that they’re wary of.”
HS2 in the virtual world
Network Rail, Crossrail, LU – they all aspire exception. We asked Kerbey to outline the scale
with phase 1 and phase 2. We’ve got massive and joining all that together is a complex task, to give us this ‘virtual environment’.
“From a technology point of view, building this virtual world is challenging because some of the software doesn’t exist to put linear assets together to have a ‘whole view’ of the virtual railway. Because of the amount of data and the size of some of the datasets, the computers people use can’t display that information, so we’ve had to spend a lot of time devising ways to optimise it and make the data useable.
“If we’re building a virtual railway, we need to be able to interrogate it and use it, otherwise there’s no point. That’s been a really important task for us: to get it onto people’s desks, basically, so they can use it as one of their day- to-day tools.”
and said: “Our asset information management system is up-and-running, and we’re going through a big programme at the moment to make sure it’s adopted and that it contains the ‘single source of truth’ the project will use – for both phase 1 and phase 2.
“The beauty of having a digital railway is that you can use it for testing – so we’re not just talking about how we operate it or how we construct it, but how we test it. We can test how we get people through the station, test signal sighting, all these kinds of things. We’re not there at the moment, in terms of integrating separately – but it’s certainly our aspiration to bring all of those things together. And it will be possible: it’s just a matter of time.”
Next big thing
We’re now in 2015, the year in which Back to the Future 2 was set, prompting many jokes about technologies that have and have not come to pass. It is one more example of the rule that predicting changes in technology tends to be a fool’s game.
Clearly whole-life asset management is not just about the back-end databases, tags, models and visualisations – but also how they’re accessed and interacted with via mobile devices by those for the technology changes that will happen during its construction and operational life as regards mobile devices?
admitted, pointing to the rise of tablets in just thought they needed but which quickly became a technology many feel they can’t do without.
the technology, but to focus on the data. If we’ve got data that is ‘to standard’, that is structured well, and is interoperable, then we can move
trying to take technology ‘out of the equation’,
The team are not just waiting for the future to happen, however: they are working with software vendors, talking to the supply chain, attending conferences and seminars, all to get a competent and clever” people throughout the able to draw on their foresight and research into technology trends.
Passing the baton
RTM recently interviewed Crossrail’s strategic which because of the timing of it, has a better chance of getting up to the Level 3 environment that we might aspire to.”
It is premature to talk about anything being ‘at’ the indications are that it will be about shifting BIM into the cloud and web services, advanced sharing tools, and complete interoperability at every stage of the life-cycle, from the design to the cost to the logistics to the facilities management.
Kerbey said his team is “very much aligned and in touch with” the government’s BIM making sure we’re not backing ourselves into a corner, and making sure we’re going to be moving the industry on, as Crossrail has done. Crossrail has done some amazing work on moving the industry to where it is at the moment, and we certainly intend to take that baton on, and move it onto the next level. If that’s Level 3, then that’s where we’ll go.”
Jon Kerbey
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