Delivering reliable digital data and information management for the Environment Agency’s physical flood and coastal defence assets “Data compliance and trusting data is essential in the digital world. As we begin to connect more, we need to have trust in asset data and independent assurance is a new approach.” Karen Alford, Flood and Coastal Risk…
At the Handover stage of construction projects, both Contractors and Facilities Managers are in a race against time to collect comprehensive asset information for every piece of equipment in the building. The Excel spreadsheet is the typical format for importing that information into Computer-Aided Facilities Management Systems (e.g. Maximo, Archibus FM, Planon, etc.) However, in…
Sellafield Ltd is the UK’s most complex nuclear site containing some of the most hazardous nuclear facilities in Europe. The importance of effective Information Management (IM) has been consistently recognised to aid intelligent decision making, however our approach has been systems and function led, creating the collation of decades of information, which is no longer exploitable…
As part of the UK Government’s New Hospital Programme (NHP) – the biggest hospital building programme in a generation – Milton Keynes University Hospital (MKUH) was granted seed funding to improve their hospital estate. When starting work on this, MKUH soon recognised there were gaps in their ways of working when it came to using data intelligently,…
The University of Worcester were looking to transform their former Worcester News building—a large two and three storey 1965 building – into a first-class centre for the education of health professionals. Now named by the University as the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson building, in honour of the first woman in Britain to qualify as a physician…
Babcock Major Infrastructure Projects (MIP) are currently going through a large capital programme of infrastructure upgrades across the Royal Devonport Dockyard. Due to the nature of our projects/business, Information Management utilising BIM and its Information Security are key drivers for us. Our adoption of BIM is a critical enabler as it supports collaboration but puts…
Bond Bryan Digital has been working with the Department for Education and others to investigate the delivery of ultra-low carbon building standards for educational establishments. The firm has taken a fresh look at how BIM and best-practice information management might be applied to support carbon assessment and determine the cost uplift associated with designing these…
Hinkley Point C, the first new nuclear power station to be built in the UK in a generation, is being delivered using 3D, clash-free, buildable models. Industry Foundation Classes (IFCs) have become business-as-usual and a highly capable standard for use across the whole Architectural Engineering and Construction (AEC) sector. “For us, IFC is not just something…
