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Enhancing development with seamless data Erica Coulehan, enterprise product marketing manager, Bentley Systems, presents a case study on how digitising assets in education and healthcare across the region helps unify data and accelerates decision-making. HE UNIVERSITY OF Birmingham is undergoing a major redevelopment of US$1.18bn, across its campus in the UK and Dubai. The University looked for a solution that would enable it to carefully manage all project data and securely support delivery and transition from planning to operations.
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Fast facts • The University of Birmingham’s 10year redevelopment programme, begun in 2016, will create new facilities for students, staff, and the community. • Information for the wideranging project was scattered within various data silos, slowing access. • University officials customised Bentley’s Common Data Environment (BCDE) to accommodate the regulations, security requirements, and workflows. It would help combine all types of information, from drawings and historical data to compliance and health and safety information, to improve decisionmaking. Working closely with Bentley experts, university officials set up and customised BCDE to accommodate the university’s regulations, security requirements, and workflows. The teams also took care to ensure that the CDE meets ISO standards for both construction and data security.
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• Within BCDE, the university can store information on the history and current condition of more than 200 buildings of different ages, complexities, and uses. • The time to data handover for completed construction to operations was reduced from the average of six months to one month.
The time to handover data for completed construction to operations has greatly reduced, falling from the average of six months to one month.
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Erica Coulehan, enterprise product marketing manager, Bentley Systems.
“The university continues to migrate more information into the CDE each day, including legacy documentation that can be uploaded with appropriate metadata and hard copy information scanned in. All of this activity means we will always be in the best possible position to surface information about our assets quickly without the risk of single points of failure and information losses.” • Improved decisionmaking will help the university reduce costs while working toward the goal of generating 75% of power onsite and reducing their carbon footprint by 3,000 tons per year.
Seamless data access Additionally, university officials developed a trackable process within the CDE to clearly define and communicate what deliverables are needed, eliminating ambiguity and error. Through the use of the CDE, the university has achieved savings of approximately US$ 33,600. By establishing clear workflows, university officials have greatly improved visibility into the design and construction progress. Establishing a golden thread for all university assets provides the university with a record, or Golden Thread, of information when resolving faults or refurbishing buildings, as well as provide the key elements toward building a campuswide digital twin. "The university continues to migrate more information into the CDE each day, including legacy documentation that can be uploaded with appropriate metadata and hard copy information scanned in. All of this activity means we will always be in the best possible position to surface information about our assets quickly without the risk of single points of failure and information losses,” commented Rich Draper, head of BIM and digital assets, University of Birmingham Estates. ■ www.technicalreview.me
