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the Construction Products Association (CPA), to develop standard data templates that the industry can use free of charge. This will standardise information about products, systems and facilities, and support the government’s strategy to transform construction from analogue to digital.
Product library network A Peabody Product Library was created that contained products installed in St John’s Hill. These can be reused on future schemes, alongside new products. This cloud environment connects product libraries throughout the UK, allowing product manufacturers like Tata Steel, Baxi, St Gobain and SE Controls to deliver their product data in a standardised, digital form. Travis Perkins has joined the network and will be providing its product data to the network, so designers can more easily fi nd product information and contractors can more easily record what they have installed. Once we have overcome COVID-19, the
focus will swing to carbon. As mining becomes unsustainable, recycling will see our existing buildings becoming our material mines of the future. So, we will need to know much more about the products that were installed, how they have been treated and how they can be reused.
Asset information requirements Peabody created its initial asset information (AIR) requirements, building on those we had developed with BRE (Building Research Establishment), Interserve Facilities Management, BSRIA (Building Services Research and Information Association) and Sodexo, and applied them to residential blocks. We agreed to share the Peabody AIR at no cost with other residential developers willing to contribute to refi ning and improving them.
Exchange information requirements Airey Miller built the AIR into the exchange information requirements (EIR) for a new £45m
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Peabody development that was designed by PRP and Calford Seadon. Airey Miller managed the contract for Peabody and Durkan, which won the contract to build it and is now planning for the construction stages of the golden thread.
Safety case reviews PRP Architects established a specialist safety case survey team to support its clients by interpreting the Hackitt recommendations, surveying existing blocks, recording risks and planning remedial works. It engaged Activeplan to develop tools to capture the information in a standardised way that enables better long term management. Clarion was an early adopter, scanning a
1960s tower block, passing the point-cloud to PRP, which transformed it into Revit and published it to Activeplan, creating an AIM presented in both 3D and a 2D plan for simple navigation (London Fire Brigade tells us a reliable plan is what they need). Activeplan presents the risk level of each asset in red, amber or green (see Figure 2 on page 38). By delivering digital data, the golden thread
enables artifi cial intelligence to help assess risks. As a development, Activeplan has taken the layout and door locations into a graph database that can use dependencies between spaces and the assets that might protect the spread of fi re or smoke to create interactive models (see Figure 3 on page 39). We plan to use this to enable experts to run scenarios that highlight which assets are critical to protecting escape routes.
New project processes Project and information managers Airey Miller worked alongside David Miller Architects to help us create processes that enable the ‘golden key’ created by the AIR to fl ow through the process, connecting the asset requirements with the NBS Chorus specifi cation and the products that satisfi ed them (see Figure 4 above). Ideally, this process starts before the project is fi rmed up,
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