University of Ljubljana
Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering,
Institute of Civil Enegineering, Earthquake Engineering and Construction IT,
Chair of Construction Informatics
State of the art in engineering
collaboration and data
management
M. Dolenc
mdolenc@itc.fgg.uni-lj.si
CC2007, St. Julians, Malta, 18 - 21 September 2007

University of Ljubljana
Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering,
Institute of Civil Enegineering, Earthquake Engineering and Construction IT,
Chair of Construction Informatics
State of the art in engineering
collaboration and data
management
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CC2007, St. Julians, Malta, 18 - 21 September 2007

The presentation relates to:
CC2007, St. Julians, Malta, 18 - 21 September 2007 State of the art in engineering collaboration and data management

The paper and presentation are based on the
InteliGrid report:
J. Hyvärinen, Z. Turk, M. Dolenc, E. Balaton, C. Ebert, A. Gehre, P.
Katranuschkov, A.S. Kazi, K. Kurowski, E. Petrinja, V. Stankovski
(2007). D11.2 State of the art and market watch report, The
InteliGrid Consortium c/o University of Ljubljana,
www.InteliGrid.com.
CC2007, St. Julians, Malta, 18 - 21 September 2007 State of the art in engineering collaboration and data management

Content
□ Collaboration environment
□ End-user requirements
□ Virtual organisation
□ Engineering data management: a need for engineering
data management
□ Addressing building life-cycle management
□ Islands of automation
□ InteliGrid project
□ Context / vision
□ Technologies / architecture
□ Experiance
□ Summary and conclusions
CC2007, St. Julians, Malta, 18 - 21 September 2007 State of the art in engineering collaboration and data management

Collaboration environment requirements
□ Security
□ Simplicity
□ Stability & Standards
□ Scalable service orientation architecture
□ Semantics
CC2007, St. Julians, Malta, 18 - 21 September 2007 State of the art in engineering collaboration and data management

Collaboration environment requirements
□ Security
□ fine grained role based access control (RBAC)
□ Simplicity
□ integration with current applications, work practices !!
□ Stability & Standards
□ open data and ICT standards
□ Scalable service orientation architecture
□ well accepted architecture (Web/Grid Services)
□ Semantics
□ must support rich, domain specific semantics
CC2007, St. Julians, Malta, 18 - 21 September 2007 State of the art in engineering collaboration and data management

Virtual organisation
“a temporary collaboration to exploit a
business opportunity (with each business
transaction being performed by a
collaborating legal entity)”
CC2007, St. Julians, Malta, 18 - 21 September 2007 State of the art in engineering collaboration and data management

Virtual organisation research
□ 30+ projects in FP5 IST: Most projects developed their
own ontologies and prototype platforms.
□ In other words: the VO interoperability problem has been made worse
by R&D so far.
□ Growing expectation in the VO community:
□ Collaborative ICT infrastructure needs to become embedded in the
standard Internet infrastructure
CC2007, St. Julians, Malta, 18 - 21 September 2007 State of the art in engineering collaboration and data management

Construction process is fragmented
Design 6%
Construction 20%
Disposal 4%
Operation 70%
Source:
The Building Information Model: A Look at Graphisoft’s Virtual Building Concept,
Cyon Research White Paper, January 2, 2003
CC2007, St. Julians, Malta, 18 - 21 September 2007 State of the art in engineering collaboration and data management

Relative influence level of a decision
Source:
PM4D Final Report, CIFE Technical Report Number 143,
Martin Fischer and Calvin Kam, October 2002
CC2007, St. Julians, Malta, 18 - 21 September 2007 State of the art in engineering collaboration and data management

Islands of automation
Source:
M. Hannus & P. Silen, “Islands of Automation”,
http://cic.vtt.fi/hannus/islands/, 1987, (updated by M. Hannus, 2002)
CC2007, St. Julians, Malta, 18 - 21 September 2007 State of the art in engineering collaboration and data management

CE Vision 2010:
Industrial Innovation Transition
CE-NET (2004):
A Roadmap towards the Collaborative Enterprise -
CE Vision 2010
http://esoce.net/Roadmap%20Summary%20v17.pdf
CC2007, St. Julians, Malta, 18 - 21 September 2007 State of the art in engineering collaboration and data management

Building Information Model (BIM)
□ Addresses the following core assumptions about the
building process:
□ Design evolves from the “fuzzy” to the specific.
□ Design is an iterative process.
□ Multiple design variations are created in the early phases of a project.
□ Architects do not want limitations either in the form or the size of the
design.
□ Architects would like to spend more time designing and less time
documenting.
□ Communication is an essential component of the design process.
□ Is supported by many software vendors
□ Interoperability issues
CC2007, St. Julians, Malta, 18 - 21 September 2007 State of the art in engineering collaboration and data management

SMART integration ...
2D Plan 3D model-based
Transformation CAD +
into IFC via Facility
Converter Management
Electrical Collision
engineering checking
Heating
Ventilation
design
design
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... enables SMART actions ...
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... and different use cases
CC2007, St. Julians, Malta, 18 - 21 September 2007 State of the art in engineering collaboration and data management

InteliGrid project
□ InteliGrid - Interoperability of Virtual Organizations on
Complex Semantic Grid
□ Effort 360 person months
□ September 2004 – April 2007
□ 9 partners
□ EU funding 2.100.000 € (STREP)
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InteliGrid context
□ European large scale
engineering industries
□ huge number of experts
□ a wide range of software and
hardware resources
□ dynamic virtual organization
□ secure information sharing
□ Engineering domains
□ construction
□ automotive
□ shipbuilding
□ ...
InteliGrid is providing information infrastructure
CC2007, St. Julians, Malta, 18 - 21 September 2007 State of the art in engineering collaboration and data management

InteliGrid vision
InteliGrid is providing information infrastructure
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InteliGrid technologies
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InteliGrid layers
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Conceptual framework
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Ontology framework
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InteliGrid architecture
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Generic engineering scenario
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InteliGrid experience
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InteliGrid experience
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CC2007, St. Julians, Malta, 18 - 21 September 2007 State of the art in engineering collaboration and data management

InteliGrid experience
1 2 3 4 5 6
CC2007, St. Julians, Malta, 18 - 21 September 2007 State of the art in engineering collaboration and data management

InteliGrid experience
1 2 3 4 5 6
CC2007, St. Julians, Malta, 18 - 21 September 2007 State of the art in engineering collaboration and data management

InteliGrid experience
1 2 3 4 5 6
CC2007, St. Julians, Malta, 18 - 21 September 2007 State of the art in engineering collaboration and data management

InteliGrid experience
1 2 3 4 5 6
CC2007, St. Julians, Malta, 18 - 21 September 2007 State of the art in engineering collaboration and data management

InteliGrid experience
1 2 3 4 5 6
CC2007, St. Julians, Malta, 18 - 21 September 2007 State of the art in engineering collaboration and data management

InteliGrid experience
1 2 3 4 5 6
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Lessons learned / issues
□ User context is the key issue:
□ different roles depending on the project stage
□ multiple project at the time
□ integration of existing application
□ ...
□ Semantic description enables plug-and-play collaboration
environment
□ Registration of available VO resources – can we do
without it?
□ Is P2P more suited for dynamic virtual organisations?
CC2007, St. Julians, Malta, 18 - 21 September 2007 State of the art in engineering collaboration and data management

Grid technology adoption
Source:
Hyped technologies for 2006: Gartner tips Web 2.0 for the trough, http://www.out-law.com/page-7183
CC2007, St. Julians, Malta, 18 - 21 September 2007 State of the art in engineering collaboration and data management

BIM adoption barriers
□ The need for well-defined transactional business process
models
□ The requirement that digital design data be computable
□ The need for well-developed practical strategies for the
purposeful exchange of meaningful information between
the many tools applied to industry processes today.
Source:
Barriers to the Adoption of Building Information Modeling in the Building Industry,
Autodesk white paper, 2005, http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/bim_barriers_wp_mar05.pdf
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BIM trend on Google
Source:
http://www.google.com/trends, search for “BIM”
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