ukbima communities virtual conference - digital update...yorkshire and humberside • delivered 74...

May 28th, 2020

UKBIMA Communities Virtual

Conference -

Digital Update

Session Number: 16 – Digital Update

UKBIMA Communities Virtual Conference

#UKBIMAVirtual #tbim2020

Digital News Update

Duncan Reed

Chair, thinkBIM

http://ckehub.org/thinkbim




• A knowledge exchange network, launched in March 2011

• The home of the UK BIM Alliance Yorkshire and Humberside

• Delivered 74 events across Yorkshire, the UK and Mauritius

• Quarterly conferences to an audience of industry and academia

• Keynote speakers from government and leading industry practitioners

• Unique round table workshops

• Pecha Kucha sessions

What is thinkBIM?





• The sector contributed £149 billion to the economy in 2018 and grew by 8% compared to the previous year

• Up until the mid 2010s, the sector had been growing in line with the wider rate of UK economy growth. But the official figures show that in 2015 the digital sector’s growth started to outstrip the economy as a whole and has continued on an upward trajectory since

Digital worth more than £400m-a-day to UK economy





• The National Audit Office report

finds that there are three

substantive issues –

• Data is not always seen as a priority by

government

• The quality of data is not well

understood

• There is a culture of tolerating and

working around poor-quality data

Challenges in using data across government





• The machine uses precise positioning technology to mark out where white lines need to be painted on new or resurfaced roads.

• It has already saved hundreds of hours of working time on Highways England projects including Britain’s biggest road upgrade, the £1.5bn A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement.

Robot road marker

https://bit.ly/2Tgukt0


https://bit.ly/2Tgukt0




• This can print all information from

the BIM onto the floor, including

layouts for each trade and

details about wall types and

doors

• FieldPrinter also creates

continuous progress reports and

communicates field status back

to project teams in real-time so

they can respond to any issues

FieldPrinter

https://bit.ly/2TlhSZ7


https://bit.ly/2TlhSZ7




• CITB fully funded ILM (The

Institute of Leadership &

Management) accredited

training that is available through

the NFB (National Federation of

Builders)

NFB - Digital Leaders funded training





• Apple, Google and Amazon have teamed up to develop an open-source smart home standard to make it easier for manufacturers to create new devices that work together

• The goal of the new project is to ensure than any smart device a consumer buys will work in their home regardless of which smartphone or voice assistant their using

Open-source smart home standard

https://bit.ly/32NzZd6


https://bit.ly/32NzZd6




• The plans from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), will make sure all consumer smart devices sold in the UK adhere to the three rigorous IoTsecurity requirements

• All consumer internet-connected device passwords must be unique and not resettable to any universal factory setting

• Manufacturers of consumer IoT devices must provide a public point of contact so anyone can report a vulnerability and it will be acted on in a timely manner

• Manufacturers of consumer IoT devices must explicitly state the minimum length of time for which the device will receive security updates at the point of sale, either in store or online

New IoT law will protect ‘millions of household devices’





• A new wearable system that alerts workers if they move closer than 2m to each other has been launched

• The bracelet-style device from Lincoln firm Tended is also designed to enable ‘contact tracing’, letting employers see if workers reporting a Covid-19 diagnosis have been in contact with colleagues, and for how long

Social Distancing technology





• TIGER – Track Integrated Geometry Engineers Reports

• Developed by Network Rail, ABB, AMT Sybex and DXC

• A digital permanent way management system that has an easy user interface

• TIGER captures all the faults from Condition Data Management System and simplifies the process of raising work orders

• Accurate job locations using GPS

• The ability to amend or generate new tasks

TIGER - a permanent way management system





IET - Digital Twins for the Built Environment





• As a result of the Better Together weekly calls, British Water is working with Arup to prototype a digital platform to examine challenges in the delivery of resources and supplies

• This will help build resilience in the supply community

• The platform will be designed in collaboration with members so that the needs of members and the industry are met

Water Industry Digital Platform





thinkBIM 2020

Our next event

Wednesday 30th September

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning





Thank You

thinkBIM, the home of the UK BIM Alliance

Yorkshire and Humberside


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