Digital Cities Forum

The Year in Infrastructure Conference
October 10-12, 2017 | Sands Expo and Convention Centre | Marina Bay Sands, Singapore

DIGITAL CITIES FORUM

As urban populations continue to grow, and governments struggle to deal with aging infrastructure, digital cities are emerging as the solution to manage and mitigate risks associated with changing environments. By connecting and converging technology, data, people, and processes, city planners are adopting a going-digital strategy, and this is becoming part of the infrastructure lexicon. Digital cities are taking advantage of new and exciting technology and leveraging the proliferation of reality modeling – the process of capturing existing site conditions with the use of digital photographs or point-cloud data.

The Digital Cities Forum examines how reality modeling helps users understand existing conditions, clearly communicate these conditions, and better manage risks during design, construction, and operation workflows within their environmental context. The forum will also focus on BIM advancements in environmental engineering and municipal operations as urban systems develop new and innovative ways to contribute toward digital cities. Best practices from user presentations and industry experts will cover topics from 3D modeling, geospatial, land development, BIM processes, asset performance, mapping, and much more!

Forum Host: Francois Valois, Senior Director, Software Development, Reality Modeling

Tuesday, October 10

Keynote: Towards a Geo-enabled Smart Nation
12:30 - 13:15

Tan Boon Khai | Chief Executive | Singapore Land Authority

As the national mapping, cadastral, and geospatial agency, Singapore Land Authority (SLA) captures, manages fundamental geodata, and shares with whole-of-government. SLA has evolved into capturing 3D geodata to meet an increasing need of multi-layered development in Singapore. SLA also manages the National Positioning Infrastructure and the National Spatial Data Infrastructure. These are geo-infrastructures that ensure the quality and reliability of geodata that underpin our smart nation. This presentation highlights SLA’s roles in supporting a geo-enabled smart nation.

Innovative use of Reality Modeling to Speed Up the Exchange of Information and Data to Telecom Stakeholders
13:15 - 14: 00

Cristiano De Leonardis
Partner and CEO
Seikey srl
Enterprise Drone Solutions
Claudio Bencivengo
Partner
Seikey srl
Enterprise Drone Solutions

Seikey Srl, technological partner of Telecom Italia, is a company that specializes in providing solutions for data collecting, processing, certifying, and sharing through the use of civilian drones for high-precision aerial capturing. Join Seikey to learn how to leverage reality modeling for the inspection of operating parameters of radio base stations for the maintenance and development of the 3, 4, 4.5 and 5G networks in Italy. Key takeaways include:

• Learn the benefits of using reality modeling for the inspection of communication assets.

• Learn how to manage and overcome challenges during the inspection process.

Be Inspired Finalist Presentations: BIM Advancements in Environmental Engineering
14:30 - 16:00

• NJS Engineers India Pvt. Ltd. – JICA Assisted Ganga Action Plan-II – (Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India)

• Raymond Vogel Landschaften AG – New Landscape for New Hydropower Plant in Hagneck – (Hagneck, Canton Bern, Switzerland)

• Stream Environment Sdn. Bhd. – Automated Waste Collection System for Changi Airport Terminal 4 – (Singapore)

Be Inspired Finalist Presentations: BIM Advancements in Reality Modeling
16:30 - 18:00

• CEDD-AECOM-The Earth Solutions – Development of Anderson Road Quarry Site – (Hong Kong)

• The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Architectural Engineering – Virtual Penn State Campus – (University Park, Pennsylvania, United States)

• The Sanborn Map Company, Inc. – Sanborn3D HD Maps for Autonomous Driving: Santa Clara – (Santa Clara County, California, United States)

Wednesday, October 11

What's Next for Reality Modeling?
12:30 - 13:15

Jackie Wong | Marketing Manager | The Earth Solutions Limited

Reality modeling is an exciting innovation for civil industry that delivers high quality 3D models with rich geospatial information. Join BIM and reality modeling expert Jackie Wong as she discusses the benefits The Earth Solution clients seek when they are leveraging reality modeling technology in their large scale civil projects. Jackie will demonstrate how reality modeling goes beyond just a visually appealing 3D model for attracting client and she will discuss the future of reality modeling for the civil industry. Key takeaways include:

• The features, advantages, and benefits of reality modeling to clients.

• Applications of reality modeling with BIM technology.

• Extendable functions of reality modeling.

Road and Roadside Feature Extraction Using Combined Mobile & Aerial LiDAR Data for Transportation Operation
13:15 - 14:00

John R. Copple
President & CEO
The Sanborn Map Company
Sharad V. Oberoi, Ph.D.
Director of IT and Software Engineering
The Sanborn Map Company

This session will be a discussion about how Sanborn has developed feature extraction technology that extracts transportation objects from combined aerial and mobile data sets in a semi-automated manner. Sanborn collected airborne and Mobile LiDAR over a known project area with existing control and check data sets. The mobile and aerial data sets meet the accuracy and information content required for geospatial information for mapping applications as well as the additional information that can be mined for potential asset inventory and infrastructure information content. The mobile technology allows for the low-risk, rapid collection of geospatial information, limiting safety impacts to workers; however, there are limitations as to the range of the sensor and occlusions, or shadowing, affecting potential information content. The aerial LiDAR acts similarly to traditional aerial imagery, allowing for the swift collection of elevation information for detailed surface modeling as well as feature extraction using “LiDARgrammetry.” Both technologies collect enormous amounts of point-cloud data that were merged together using TerraScan in Bentley MicroStation. Then, this data set was passed through automated feature extraction modules to identify transportation objects. Key takeaways include:

• Merging point clouds collected from different sensor platforms can fill the gaps for each individual technology.

• Before being combined, the input point clouds should be in the same projection transformation, validated with control points, geometrically corrected, geo-coded, and processed or filtered into the desired classes.

• Extracting stationary physical assets related to roadways, such as road lanes, road edges, shoulders, dividers, traffic signals, signage, paint markings, poles, etc., leads to a scalable approach for maintaining highly detailed inventories.

Be Inspired Finalist Presentations: BIM Advancements in Municipal Operations
14:30 - 16:00

• AAM Group – Creating Singapore's National 3D Map Using Mobile Mapping – (Singapore)

• Huadong Engineering Corporation Limited, PowerChina – Application of BIM Strategy for Shenzhen Qianhai Municipal Infrastructure – (Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, China)

• Tianjin Municipal Engineering Design & Research Institute – Construction and Design General Contracting of Retrofit Project at Haiyu East Line Municipal Road – (Sanya, Hainan Province, China)

Site Plan Considerations for the Construction of Industrial Plant Facilities
16:30 - 17:15

Fred Thaete, PE | Independent Real Estate Development Consultant | Former Area Manager, Manhard Consulting

In December 2012, Chobani opened the world’s largest yogurt production facility. The 1 million-square-foot facility was completed in an unprecedented 326 days. Site development plans had to consider the time and effort it would take to develop the design and prepare construction documents as well as how the design would impact the time and effort of the physical construction. In order to meet the aggressive timeline, Manhard Consulting, Ltd. implemented the cutting-edge technology of SITEOPS to streamline the design process and optimize the earth movement necessary to develop the 200-acre site. In this session:

• Attendees will gain an understanding of how utilizing SITEOPS during the design process can shorten the duration of project delivery.

• Attendees will learn how the site layout capabilities of SITEOPS allowed stakeholders to participate in design charrettes and provide instant feedback, accelerating the site design process.

• Attendees will learn how the grading optimization capabilities of SITEOPS allowed designers to develop a grading plan that minimized the volume of earth movement, thereby shortening the duration of site grading activities.

Reality Modeling Technology Update
17:15 - 18:00

Francois Valois
Senior Director, Software Development
Reality Modeling
Bentley Systems
Zheng Wu
Bentley Fellow
Bentley Systems

Reality modeling covers all infrastructure asset types, from entire cities, to small independent projects, and is being used by many infrastructure professionals, including owner-operators and teams working on project delivery. Join us as we discuss advancements in Bentley’s reality modeling solution, ContextCapture, and how it covers the full workflow from acquisition to consumption across multiple disciplines.
Our Bentley Fellow will explore semantic reality modeling and how artificial intelligence (AI) goes mainstream across the board in every industry. Learn the latest outcomes of Bentley applied research in developing various AI technologies, including deep machine learning, computer vision, and optimization for advancing infrastructure. He will demonstrate use cases of segmenting 3D reality meshes for smart cities, classifying images and videos for semantic 3D models, and detecting and quantifying defects for infrastructure condition assessment. Key takeaways include:

• Learn about the latest advancements of Bentley’s reality modeling solution, ContextCapture, including cloud services, thermal imagery support, resolution maps, and much more.

• Learn about the future of reality modeling technology as you explore Bentley’s ContextCapture roadmap.

• Learn about AI applications for reality modeling and how to leverage this technology to maximize the value of reality modeling and improve productivity.