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Executive Roundtables
On the second day of Be Inspired, attendees had the opportunity to participate in a series of interactive roundtable discussions about key business and IT issues for the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure assets.
These intimate discussion groups included leaders from design and engineering firms and owner-operators, as well as Bentley’s senior management and subject matter experts, with the goal of fostering an in-depth understanding of relevant issues facing the infrastructure professions and of strategies for employing IT to create new value and new business opportunities.
2011 Topics
Descriptions
ProjectWise for Project Team Collaboration
Bentley Sponsors: Harry Vitelli, VP MicroStation and ProjectWise Collaboration Products, Al Gray, VP ProjectWise Services, and Stephen Jolley, Director Construction Products
This roundtable was structured as a panel discussion on three primary topics related to current best practices and future uses of ProjectWise for project team collaboration. Discussion topics focused on 1) scaling ProjectWise to the enterprise, 2) mobile applications, and 3) leveraging cloud computing to add value to ProjectWise implementations.
Determining the ROI of Deploying Intelligent City Models
Moderator: Pat McCrory, former Mayor of Charlotte (1995-2009), North Carolina, USA
Introduction Speaker: Ferry Broersen, Head of Information (CIO), City of The Hague
Bentley Sponsor: Ton de Vries, Solutions Executive, Government
3D city technology is available and affordable. There is a strong trend toward deploying intelligent 3D city models in support of creating more livable, sustainable, and competitively attractive cities. However, decision makers in city management need to understand the ROI from intelligent 3D city models. This roundtable discussed the dimensions of ROI and how best to communicate the ROI to non-technical decision makers. Ferry Broersen, from the city of The Hague, kicked off the roundtable with an overview of how the city of the Hague handles ROI calculation for new technologies and 3D city in particular. Former Mayor of Charlotte and likely candidate for Governor of North Carolina in the 2012 election, Pat McCrory, moderated the discussion and added his view as a former mayor and legislator to the discussion.
Renewable Energy and the Smart Grid
Moderator: Mike Marullo, Editor, Electric Energy T&D Magazine, and Chairman - Smart Grid RoadShow Conferences
Co-moderator: Michiel Müller, Unit Manager Wind Energy, Ecofys Netherlands BV
Bentley Sponsors: Cyndi Smith, Solutions Executive, Communications and Utilities, and Mark Biagi, Solutions Executive, Power Generation
An unprecedented era of grid transformation is underway globally, with Smart Grid initiatives in place in virtually every utility. At the same time, green power from renewable energy sources represents a growing share of the electricity market. Power generated by renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, biomass, and tidal power represent unique opportunities and challenges for generation, transmission, and distribution - particularly in the era of Smart Grid. This roundtable discussed the impact of renewable energy on Smart Grid initiatives and the corresponding technology required to ensure optimal grid infrastructure design and configuration, reliability, and effective operations and maintenance workflows.
Engineering Modeling + Information Modeling = Hypermodels
Bentley Sponsors: Ted Blackmon, Solutions Executive, Construction
In many of today's civil projects, the 3D information models generated in design are not used in construction, where the 2D engineering documents are the documents of record as "paper rules" in the construction contract. Forward-thinking constructors often re-create a 3D model for construction purposes. A new innovation, called a hypermodel, integrates and hyperlinks the 2D engineering documentation (including design details, specs, construction drawings, photos, and video) to their exact location within the 3D model. Hypermodels are bridging the gap between design and construction models so that the design team's full and best work can be delivered and relied upon by contractors and owners. This roundtable explored how this new paradigm can legitimize and accelerate adoption of virtual design and construction (VDC), yielding integrated-project benefits regardless of the project delivery method, and offer the potential of making the digital model the "sealed" model of engineering record.
The Next Dimension in Managing Mine Assets
Bentley Sponsors: Salvatore Caronna, Solutions Executive, Environmental, and Dave Body, Solutions Architect
Recovery from the global financial crisis toward the next resources boom means that efficient engineering collaboration is the key to effectively managing mineral assets and planning mining operations. This roundtable brought together owners and engineering firms involved in the mining and minerals processing industry to discuss how to collaboratively achieve and maintain trustworthy information throughout the project and mine lifecycle and provide the cornerstone to improving project efficiency, reducing project risk, and ensuring contract and regulatory compliance. Lessons learned from other industries and current best practices in the use of information technology, standards, and information management were shared, with discussion on how best to apply these to the mining and minerals processing industry.
Operational Integrity Management
Moderator: Jim Porter, the former Head of Engineering for DuPont and frequent speaker and consultant on Construction and Operations Safety
Bentley Sponsor: John Sanins, Solutions Executive, Process Manufacturing
This roundtable discussed best practices during engineering, commissioning, and handover to design and deliver safer plant, while meeting project deadlines and capital cost constraints and reducing operational risks. Building on last year's workshop, where input was sought regarding developments areas for Bentley, the focus was on sharing progress with EPCs and owners. Critical operational data requirements were explored, along with best practice workflows and supporting software tools that enable the most effective transfer of information.
Asset Lifecycle Management for Transportation
Bentley Sponsor: Ted Stephens, Solutions Executive, Rail and Transit
Design and construction represent only the beginning of the transportation asset. The asset lifetime spans decades of maintenance and management. Discussions centered on configuration and information management, how the relationships of various assets impact operations and maintenance, and how change resulting from new build, enhancement, or renewal can be captured during design and construction. Experience gained through delivering major rail projects in London provided the catalyst for discussion. Attendees to this roundtable gained valuable insight into the impacts and benefits of Asset Lifecycle Information Management. This roundtable, while focusing on the rail industry, certainly addressed issues relevant to all of transportation.
Information Sustainability and Achieving Operational Integrity and Reliability for Asset Management of Water Utilities
Bentley Sponsor: Jack Cook, Solutions Executive, Water, and Zheng Wu, Director, Applied Research
During this roundtable, we explored the information and data challenges that are faced by water utilities, discussed how to overcome obstacles commonly encountered when trying to leverage data and information for better decision-making purposes, identified ways to leverage existing infrastructure and workflow of the water and wastewater solution, and demonstrated ways that Bentley Systems technologies may help to manage against impediments to efficiency.
Interdisciplinary BIM – from Simulation Through Operations
Bentley Sponsor: Andy Smith, AIA, Solutions Executive
Panelists: Bill Case, Director, Computer and Information Systems, SSOE Group; Kit Miyamoto, Ph. D., S.E., President and CEO, Miyamoto International; John Jurewicz, Integration Manager, Lend Lease Americas; and Mark Welbourne, Head of Programme Office, Barclays Group Property Services
BIM and integrated project delivery methods for design and construction are being embraced by project teams, and the benefits are becoming recognized. BIM adoption will likely continue to accelerate based on these benefits. However, as the process of sharing information between design teams and construction companies is increasingly becoming the norm, owners are shifting their attention to realizing BIM benefits for operations. A key industry challenge is to appropriately define a process for BIM use throughout the entire building lifecycle - design, build, and operate - that captures relevant data, over many project phases and from many project participants, and leverages accurate and valuable simulation of designs to ensure that operational performance matches design expectations. Owners seek to achieve business benefits derived from high reuse of quality design and construction phase data. To do so, managing the "I" in BIM requires that many traditional data management principles be applied - including data schema definitions, checking algorithms, reporting, and exchange services with other enterprise business systems - and will require the interoperable use of design, simulation, management, and operational tools. Attendees of this roundtable explored how new technologies, methodologies, and BIM data management principles can be applied for building owners' operational business benefits.
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