OLUTIONS Moving to BIM for railway infrastructure BIM, A DIGITAL MIRROR FOR YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE AN INTEGRATED COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT THAT PROVIDES AN OVERVIEW OF YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE’S LIFECYCLE BIM is a set of working methods and collaborative software applications. It is used to build structured digital models containing data for the entire project, invaluable for the efficient coordination of contributors. BIM creates a virtual representation of the infrastructure and its assets. This digital mirror can be used alongside the physical infrastructure. BIM is applicable to all kinds of structure at every stage of the infrastructure’s lifecycle, from pre-project studies to building and operating. It accelerates and creates an infrastructure design that is robust, within budget and on time. It enhances your capacity to control schedules, despite major operating restrictions during construction. Combined with predictive maintenance solutions, BIM helps you deploy your asset management policies effectively. Model of 3D Model the structure’s lifecycle OPERATOR ARCHITECT LOCAL BIM COMMU- CONTRA- NITIES CTING Digital asset AUTHORITY components ENGINEERING with associated metadata Shared data: graphic and non-graphic documents THE 7 BENEFITS OF BIM 1 _QUALITY 3 _ RISK REDUCTION 6 _COMMUNICATIONS • Enriched, reliable, coherent data • Forewarning of clashes and • Seamless, open information • Simplified interface management defect detection sharing between all between institutional stakeholders, stakeholders the contracting authority, 4 _ BUDGET • Faster interaction between project managers, contractors and • Optimisation of lifecycle costs engineering specialists local communities • Availability of digital data • Improved discussion and • Robust design forsubsequent maintenance take-up by project staff • Dialogue between project engineers, • Reduction of operating costs _ design and construction specialists • Closer control of quantities 7 EASIER DECISION MAKING • Concurrent engineering, based on fast and budgets • Easier optioneering through turnaround and iterative modelling simulations of potential 5 _ SAFETY infrastructure sites, 2 _ DEADLINES • Anticipation of site work to examine the practical • Improved simulation and anticipation condition and economic advantages • Secure deadlines despite major and improve decision making operating restrictions • Help with choosing the best • Optimised construction phases construction methods 2 Créteil – Saint-Maur station, Grand Paris Express (France) TRUST THE WORLD’S LEADING RAILWAY ENGINEERING NETWORK Our most iconic projects around the world On all of the following projects, our clients collaborate with us using BIM. New lines for the Grand Paris Express and Toulouse Aérospace Express (France); Crossrail, London’s new East-West connection (UK); Ostlänken, first high speed railway (Sweden); metro lines in Bogota (Columbia); Singapore, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia); Jeddah and Makkah (Saudi Arabia); Light Rail Transit for Batna (Algeria); Chacao bridge (Chile). SWEDEN Ostlänken UK Crossrail Grand Paris FRANCE Toulouse Batna ALGERIA SAUDI ARABIA Jeddah Makkah MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur Bogota Singapore COLOMBIA CHILE Chacao bridge 3 DIGITAL Ostlänken HSR (Sweden) MODELLING AT DESIGN STAGE BIM ENSURES RESPONSIVE BIM optimises data sharing, To promote faster project CONCURRENT interaction and interfaces take-up by all stakeholders, ENGINEERING between all engineering such as project staff, specialists. It also clashes external project managers, detection between civil representatives of the We use BIM to transform and systems engineers, contracting authority the way we design, build, before the design summary. and institutional partners. operate and maintain Smooth transitions Ease cooperation via realistic your transport infrastructure. between design phases structures visualisation at ensure robust, reliable design any track alignment location. processes and coordinate external interfaces. SYSTRA’S As a result, construction SPECIFIC SKILLS remains on schedule. 3D visual displays portray the structure in its urban • Over 60 years’ experience environment and within of railway engineering the overall project. • Lessons learnt from international They facilitate exchanges requirements and best practices between the project • Maintenance engineers who manager and institutional anticipate the data required and economic stakeholders, for operations and maintenance urban project promoters, • BIM IN ONE CLICK, a unique local administrations or solution for linear railway authorities. infrastructure, including viaducts, tunnels and access ramps 4 DURING CONSTRUCTION Data provided by the model The model can stimulate daily of information and the can be used to control toolbox talks, to protect staff preparation of the Asset quantities and the progress on site. Information Model. of construction activities. As discussions of the model — Environmental impacts Contractors which are keen intensify, the project managers are better addressed at an to use BIM for railway use the BIM model to illustrate urban level through enhanced infrastructure can benefit their weekly project reviews capacity to analyse the project integration in very from the model to help them with contractors and monthly dense surroundings especially choose the best construction reviews with the contracting with regard to local heritage methods, and make best use authority. This helps keep (preserving listed buildings, of on-site tools and machinery. everyone aligned and on track. blending into the landscape). BIM is particularly effective — Operation & maintenance for managing cost and constraints and data are schedule on construction sites managed more efficiently with restricted access. thanks to the single source SYSTRA WINS THE “HYPERLOOP STATION DESIGN COMPETITION” Between 26th and 28th September Saif Al Aleeli, chief executive SYSTRA drew upon a wide range 2016, the competition organised of the Dubai Future Foundation of skills from architectural to BIM by the Dubai Future Foundation who organised the competition, management in order to create a and Virgin Hyperloop One attracted announced at the prize giving: coherent and comprehensive project. 67 teams from universities, transport “We chose the Möbius team We delivered a convincing technical engineering and architectural firms for the quality of their design solution at short notice, including: in 26 different countries. and technical skills, as well - architectural models of sustainable as their studies of the social Using a BIM collaborative designs for three stations, and economic consequences. platform, teams had two days to - simulated passenger flows, We were impressed by the design a 130km prototype - layouts for these three stations, quality of the presentations. Hyperloop for passengers and with elevated and underground Hyperloop technology is unique freight, serving three stations, profiles, and unprecedented, so we are and cutting the journey time - calibration studies for technical still in an exploratory phase, between Dubai and Fujairah from premises, but we are delighted to see two and a half hours to just ten contestants imagining how this - perspectives and visual displays minutes. For Dubai, the goal was technology will transform all of the project, to anticipate challenges and explore of our lives.“ - 3D modelling and a 4D project future investment opportunities. schedule. 5 A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO BIM MANAGEMENT 1 3. 5. Set the project’s BIM Define the BIM EXECUTION Choose the interactive working targets, based on PLAN, together with platform, data management the client’s requirements collaborative working and exchange, with methods. the associated workflows 2 Define the organisation, 4. 6. allocate the roles and Choose the best tools Check that objectives and responsibilities, set for the use cases deliverables are aligned the boundaries, establish and disciplines involved correlate perfectly throughout production standards the entire project lifecycle SILVER BIM 2017 TOULOUSE AÉROSPACE EXPRESS THE BIM MANAGER, A VITAL ROLE Working with BIM entails the creation of new between the project management consortium working methods that include processes, and civil engineering contractors, by creating production standards and shared protocols. BIM Execution Plans with the head of each work A protocol to encourage collaboration is required package, who as a result plays a key role, providing before starting to collect input data. The BIM and organising data for completed structures. manager plays a vital role in the creation of this Collaboration between project team members BIM Execution Plan (BEP). They set the process is underpinned by the production guide, rules for building the digital model, at each phase modelling guide, project templates, grid model of the project. file and geolocation data. At the start of design for a complex project, Practical collaboration between the project the BIM Execution Plan deals with all interfaces, management and contractors is covered identifies the responsibilities of each contributor, by a convention that defines model submittal and creates the decision process. During methods between participants. construction, they guarantee collaboration 6 BIM IN ONE CLICK GIVES YOU AN OVERVIEW OF INFRASTRUCTURE IN ITS ENVIRONMENT ALONG THE ENTIRE LINE, AND THEREBY SIMPLIFIES DESIGN. SYSTRA has developed a unique software solution, BIM IN ONE CLICK, which generates linear models faster and more simply than any other software on the market.