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INNOVATING to DESIGN the FUTURE WHITE PAPER ON BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING 2019 EDITION INNOVATING to DESIGN the FUTURE WHITE PAPER ON BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING 2019 EDITION TABLE OF CONTENTS THE STRATEGIC VALUE OF INNOVATION: BIM IN DESIGNING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE MOBILITY OF PASSENGERS AND GOODS 4 Gianfranco Battisti CEO AND GENERAL MANAGER, FERROVIE DELLO STATO ITALIANE GROUP INTRODUCTION - BIM: PROJECTING THE COMPANY INTO THE FUTURE 6 Aldo Isi CEO AND GENERAL MANAGER, ITALFERR CHAPTER 1 Italferr: Building Information Modeling 8 1.1 A new way of thinking and of designing 9 1.2 BIM from the university’s point of view: new challenges and new models of collaboration 11 1.3 Digital Clients between conservation and innovation 14 1.4 Rail BIM: an international outlook 17 1.5 The need of a specific approach to BIM for infrastructures 26 1.6 Building Information Modeling: new relations and new contractual models 31 1.7 Information management, project management and BIM 38 1.8 Industry 4.0. BIM and InfraBIM: education and research at Politecnico di Torino 46 CHAPTER 2 Italferr and BIM: an example of excellence 54 2.1 An evolving Process 55 2.2 Procurement 59 2.3 A new corporate vision 66 2.4 Italferr’s BIM Management System: a feature of distinction and of excellence 69 CHAPTER 3 Italferr and the use of BIM for rail infrastructure design 72 3.1 Integrated Design: Interdisciplinary Synergy 73 3.2 Challenges and developments 76 3.3 Applications 78 3.3.1 In Italy: the Napoli-Bari route, railway sections between Apice and Bovino 78 3.3.2 Rail link with the Venice airport 132 3.3.3 Reconversion of industrial buildings for office use in Firenze Romito 162 3.3.4 Extension of the DT depot and of the LV depot shed inside the Routine Maintenance Facility (IMC) of Bologna Centrale 190 3.3.5 In the world: the Doha Metro 202 CHAPTER 4 Italferr: future developments 208 4.1 BIM at the construction site 209 4.2 BIM as a competitiveness factor on International Markets 215 4.3 Evolution strategies 218 4.4 Technologies: hardware and software 224 CHAPTER 5 The BIM challenge of reconstructing the viaduct over the Polcevera River 228 CONCLUSIONS 241 Mario Serio CHAIRMAN OF ITALFERR Attachment: USB card with the following audio-video clips: – The Contribution of Gianfranco Battisti – CEO and General Manager, Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane Group – The Contribution of Aldo Isi – CEO and General Manager, Italferr – Italferr, Great Italian Engineering THE STRATEGIC VALUE OF INNOVATION: BIM IN DESIGNING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE MOBILITY OF PASSENGERS AND GOODS Gianfranco Battisti CEO AND GENERAL MANAGER, FERROVIE DELLO STATO ITALIANE GROUP The designing of strategic infrastructure with the aim of improving the mobility of passengers and of goods, thereby providing the highest standards of quality, safety and sustainability, is one of the objectives of the new Industrial Plan of FS Italiane Group. It is an ambitious challenge, a challenge we are focusing on with a view to contributing in increas- ing Italy’s competitiveness in Europe and across the world. We are, indeed, a fundamental lever for the economic development of this country. In this scenario, knowing how to produce innovation is a determining factor in achieving the goals that have been set, because this generates a whole set of new skills, a multi-disciplinary wealth of knowledge that becomes a core asset for a company that, like FS Italiane, is present in the markets of over 60 countries worldwide. For us, innovation is that strategic, cultural, technical and scientific value that allows us to quickly react to change and sometimes anticipate it. This value is born, is augmented and evolves thanks to the ideas, the passion, the will to accept challenges of all those in our Group who strive to provide, every day, good travel ex- perience to millions of people and the circulation of goods on our railway network, even beyond our borders. Italferr, the engineering company of FS Italiane Group, has been one of the first companies in the world to use the innovative methodology known as Building Information Modeling (BIM) to build railway infrastructure and to select the highly qualified companies required to support its design. Our engineering company, that for over thirty years has been working at the design and works supervision of railway lines, stations, metropolitan systems and bridges, comprehended from the start the great potential of this methodology, using it to complete many of its projects in Italy and abroad. 4 This course of study, training and practical application has allowed us to become one of the most au- thoritative and competent points of reference in this sector. We have therefore been the promoters of the use of BIM for the design of complex infrastructure projects, thereby increasing our competitiveness at international level. BIM, in fact, is a reliable and fast methodology that significantly reduces costs and reduces to a minimum the risk of error, thanks to a more precise and coherent control of the project. BIM has achieved permanent status among the multidisciplinary skills of the FS Italiane Group because it is a completely new way of designing and especially of maintaining over time the infrastruc- ture works of any size, from the smallest to the most complex, in a sustainable and efficient way. In the following pages, by means of the updated description of our past and ongoing projects, and thanks to the contribution of experts, of eminent scholars and of our field-operating technicians, we want to tell you about Itaferr’s experience with BIM. The ultimate aim of all this is to create a tool that can be used by all those who wish to discover and learn more about this extraordinary innovation applied to the engineering sector. GIANFRANCO BATTISTI Appointed Chief Executive Officer of Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane S.p.A. on 31 July 2018. Holds a degree in Political Science and one in International Economy and Man- agement. From February 2017 to October 2018 he held the position of CEO of FS Sistemi Urbani, the Company for the Enhancement of the Real Estate Properties of the Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane S.p.A. Group. From 2009 to 2017 he was the Director of the National and International and High Speed Passengers Division of Trenitalia, during which time he contributed to placing Italian High Speed among the major players in the European railway transportation market. During his direc- torship he also improved the economic growth and industrial efficiency of the passenger traffic business and especially that involved by high speed rail travel, by completing an important and ex- traordinary corporate turnaround phase in which he achieved significant positive and consolidated margins of profit in all of the years of his office. In 1998 he started working for Ferrovie dello Stato Group as Marketing and Yield Management Manager for the Night Service, and was subsequently assigned to progressisvely higher positions, including that of Marketing/Commercial Director. He has been a member of the National Task-Force of the Management and Incoming Committee for the 2000 Jubilee. From May 2009 to 2011 he worked as member of the Board of Directors of the company Artesia S.p.A. regarding the Italy-France rail connections. He has been the Contact Person for the Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane Group both for EXPO 2015 and for the 2016 Jubilee. From 1988 to 1997 he worked with Gruppo Fiat Auto S.p.A. in managerial positions in the Marketing/Commer- cial Management division. Since June 2016 he has been the National President of Federturismo, the federation of Confindustria that brings together the sector companies both at National and Interna- tional level with institutional, governance and representation tasks. Among his activities linked to the business world, he is also a member of the Governing Board of Confindustria Nazionale. From June 2011 to May 2017 he held the position of President of the Transportation Section of Unindus- tria Lazio. He works with many charity associations and Italian universities. 5 INTRODUCTION BIM: PROJECTING THE COMPANY INTO THE FUTURE Aldo Isi CEO AND GENERAL MANAGER, ITALFERR BIM means Innovation, and innovation means projecting the company into the future. This is a challenge Italferr will be called to tackle in the next several years, and it will do so firstly by considering the expectations of its clients, so as to envision BIM not only as an epochal evolution in design processes but also as an extraordinary lever for the development of business opportunities. Our major client is Rete Ferroviaria Italiana, and it is precisely towards RFI that our commitment and our expertise in Building Information Modeling is directed. Italferr wants to ensure that this client receives excellence in the construction of the works that will become Italy’s strategic infrastructure in the years to come. With Trenitalia, another important client in what we have called a ‘captive’ market, we are work- ing in total synergy for the creation of the most important maintenance systems of the future. Special focus will be laid on the services for the new fleet of Pop and Rock trains and on the infrastructure ded- icated to regional transportation, a priority for this country and one of the pillars of the new industrial plan of the FS Italiane Group. The activities connected to BIM will not be limited to the so-called ‘domestic’ market only, however. The know-how acquired in this subject now allows us – and progressively more so in the future – to compete alongside the great international players in all global markets. The demand for BIM, in fact, is becoming ever more a qualifying factor that influences the choice of clients, and at the same time a key requisite in the tendering for important projects.