Presentation by Nick Boyle & Declan Grogan (Balfour Beatty & NDL Ltd) at COMIT 2016: Digitally Building Britain, September 2016 More information: http://www.comit.org.uk/liveblog

1. Balfour Beatty - Digital Project Delivery
BIM - Better Information Management

2. About Challenge Solution
Implementation The Tech Results
Implications NDL Questions
Agenda

4. Communication is key – a common language
• In your mind or on a blank piece of paper
• X marks the spot
• Travel 1 mile South
• Travel 1 mile East
• Travel 1 mile North
• Back where you started?
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9. Blackfriars Station – a common language?
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10. Common
Data
Environm
ent
Client EIR
BIM
Execution
Plan
Informatio
n
Managem
ent Plan
Site
Mobilisatio
n
IT Model
Office
Digital
Site
Survey
Designers
Using BIM
Digital
Planning
Digital
Cost
Estimation
Digital
Safety
Health
Environm
ent and
Wellbeing
Digital
Temporar
y Works
Integration
Digital
Supply
Chain
Integration
Tier 2.3
Digital
Procurem
ent –
Tracking
Deliveries
Digital
Site
Setting
Out i.e.
Machine
Control
Digital
Progress
Recording
Digital
Quality /
Form
Collection
Digital
Asset
Data
Collection
Digital
Asset
Managem
ent
GIS/
Handover
Knowledg
e Sharing
Digital Project Delivery – Processes

11. Dartford HD GPR – Working with Supply Chain 2014 onwards
450 Design
Clashes
400 Existing Service
Clashes

12. Mobile digital technology on Site – 500No+ devices
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13. Safer Dig

14. The Objective: To be safe
 Want to be Lean and efficient
– Reduce errors
– Improve accuracy
– Save time and money
 Minimise disruption
– S74’s
– Lane Rentals

15. Safety First!
 Does not replace onsite protocols or discovery
 Better planned
– Fewer surprises
– The more efficient the job
 Helps with reduced notice jobs
Safer Dig

16. The Challenge:
Can we automate this?

17. The Challenge
300+
Information
providers
 Manual production
of map packs
 Human error
(Eastings &
Northings)
 Reduce Cost
 Scale
 Different
 Systems
 Formats
 Scales

18. Solution – NDL SX
 Found it from work with councils in planning and highways
– Read & Write to any system
– Non invasive
– Workforce automation robotics engine
– Transaction queuing and management
 Balfour Beatty Wrapper / Front-End for Staff

19. Implementation
 Started with Gas and Water
 Implemented a dev and test
environment on windows servers
 Fully Virtualised Environment
 Developed Balfour Beatty portal
 Implemented queuing
 Developed scripts for the NDL
robot to drive the common systems
– Replace the human operator
– Work the way they work
– Work at the speed they work
 Security Layer
 Transaction monitoring dash board

20. The Tech
Portal
Dashboard
Manager
Map Pack
Document Room
User / Contract
Credentials
Queue - SQL
target systems
Gas Electric WaterTelecoms
SQL
Server

21. Implementation Challenges
 Target Systems do change
– 1st and 2nd line support
– .Net Developers - Rarely needed
– ITIL Change Management processes
 Care to be a ‘well behaved user’
 Back office availability
– Queue
 Now asynchronous queuing / load balancing

22.  Eastings and Northings entered once
 No more manual intervention
 25 – 30 minutes saved per job
 Now have a bulk import option
– Plan tasks – direct
 Full Audit Trail
The results
55 target systems
8000 jobs
120,000 maps

23. The results
 Maps delivered consistently and to scale
 Jobs are planned more easily
 Crews are better informed and safer
 Moved from just Gas & Water to Power
Transmission
 Future wider use across Balfour Beatty

24. COMPUTER SAYS NO?

25. Wider implications
 B.I.M.
– Interact with sub contractor systems
– Bulk Data Migration into/out of BIM
 Automate the supply chain / network
 Take data from the field
 Get it to the right place

26. About NDL
 Tools Supplier
– Integration and Automation
– Cross platform mobile
 Serving
– LG
– Health
– Social Housing
 Find out more at www.ndl.co.uk Join a webinar:- 9th November?

27. Thank you for your time