Moving from Analogue to Digital
How Offsite Needs to Evolve to Compete
Graham Cleland and Peter Foster
The Offsite Construction Show
21st November 2018 - ExCel, London
Sense of the Opportunity
“Innovation and digitisation through offsite housing manufacture
will be part of the solution to delivering housing in a digital built
Britain, but there is currently little in terms of an evidence base”
Offsite construction providers possess varying capability in the context of BIM, but despite the generally healthy adoption of virtual modelling technologies the information used to actually create a physical product is largely provided in analogue format
An Analogue vs Digital Conundrum
Offsite manufacture (as opposed to offsite construction) is a concept that needs digitisation to help create highly productive, scalable factory environments that can deliver high quality, high performing products via efficient creation / sharing of data and information
Much of the extant capability / capacity of the offsite sector can be characterised as construction under controlled conditions
A Construction vs Manufacture Conundrum
“Whilst much has been written about offsite construction generally,
there is little information about how digital technologies are used
in offsite manufacture”
Analogue biased providers – Whilst some use might be made of BIM the
reality is that much of the information / data flow is subject to manual
manipulation, interpretation and communication
Digital biased providers – Whilst some reliance might be placed on
manual interventions the reality is that much of the information / data
flow is made directly between inter-operating / integrated systems
Information Modelling Challenge…
Many providers across the offsite
construction and traditional
construction sectors use BIM as a
means of improving visualisation
and co-ordination of building
structure, fabric and services.
This is commendable but these
approaches do not really address
the real challenge associated with
leveraging overall productivity. Such
approaches reflect a lack of lean
thinking
Limited extent of digital data flow
…is about dealing with the How as well as the What
Extending digital data flow
1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0
Therefore Data is Key…
The efficiency of the process of
converting virtual intent to physical
objects can be considered as a true
measure of how lean a business is,
and hence a digitally enabled agile
manufacturing platform to control
data flow is fundamental to
leveraging enterprise productivity
DATA
MANAGEMENT
…as is How, Where and When it flows
An efficient approach to offsite manufacture must be founded on single sources
of structured product data which flows between inter-operating and integrated
systems across the product life-cycle
For Offsite to Compete…
How do we get data on the efficiency of a baton pass?
Analogue biased – Offsite 75-80%
Digital biased – Offsite 90-95% ?
A Shift from Modelling to Intelligence
The Golden Thread of Information
Product Data Report – Key Learnings
“…work towards separate but connected data and objects…”
“…objects are optional, but information is not…”
“…information should be structured by common standards…”
Helping Manufacturers Understand BIM
The Need for Standardisation
The Big BIM Picture
Information exchange
[BEP] [ISO 19650]
STAKEHOLDERS [IDM]
M2M [IFC] [BCF]
TERMINOLOGY [DICTIONARIES] [CLASSIFICATIONS]
[CITY GML]
[PLC
S]
[CO
NTE
NEU
RS]
[Linked data]
STANDARDIZATION BIM “BIG PICTURE” © Frederic Grand, Philip Ridgway, Souheil Soubra
The Big BIM Picture
Strategy ISO TC59/SC13/TF2 CEN TC442/WG1 bSI
[BEP] [ISO 19650]
[IDM]
[IFC] [BCF]
[DICTIONARIES]
[CLASSIFICATIONS]
[CITY GML]
[PLC
S]
[CO
NTE
NEU
RS]
[Linked data]
ISO/TC59/SC13/WG13 CEN/TC442/WG3
bSI ISO/TC59/SC13/JWG12 CEN/TC442/WG2
bSI / bSDD ISO/TC59/SC13/WG6 CEN/TC442/WG4
ISO/TC59/SC13/JWG12 CEN/TC442/WG2
ISO/TC211 OGC
ISO/TC59/SC13/WG11 CEN/TC442/WG4 CEN/TC442/WG2
ISO/TC59/SC13/JWG12 ISO/TC211 bSI OGC W3C
ISO/TC59/SC13/WG8 ISO/TC59/SC13/WG13 CEN/TC442/WG3
ISO/TC59/SC13/WG8
ISO/TC184/SC4
STANDARDIZATION BIM “BIG PICTURE” © Frederic Grand, Philip Ridgway, Souheil Soubra
Product Data Templates (PDT)
Product Data Sheets (PDS)
Data Management
Facilitating a Digital Built Environment
Thank You
Graham Cleland and Peter Foster
The Offsite Construction Show
21st November 2018 - ExCel, London