NCHRP 20-68A“US Domestic Scan Program”

Scan 13-02 Advances In Civil Integrated Management (CIM)

Scan Team Visits 2014

Presenter: Charles JahrenFrom Iowa State UniversitySubject Matter Expert for NCHRP Domestic Scan 13-02

Surveying

Information Modeling

Alt. Contracting/Partnering

Utilities

Legal Issues

Asset Management

Project Management System

Real Time Verification

Civil Integrated Management

InformationData Knowledge

Planning

Construction

Asset Management

Design

Federated Information Workflows

3D Model

ProjectsPrograms

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Goal:Better Decisions

Practices and Tools

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Strategy

Operation

HIGH LEVEL VIEW

StakeholdersAgency Staff Members

Content Contributorsand Users

Collect data once and use it many times

CoordinationCollaboration

Continuity

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Flexibility with regard totime and place of

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Communicating widely, efficientlyand accurately

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Solution Architecture View

Data, Information and Knowledge Collaboration & Management

Intelligent 3D Modeling

Applications

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Data Files Spatial Database Data Files with Geo Business Docs Ancillary Files

Civil Integrated Management

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The Importance of CIM

Examples of successful application• Endangered plants• Cost estimate for rehabilitation• Slide remediation survey• Public information during urban freeway rebuildExpected Benefits• more effective decisions• open data access• improve communication

• This scan is being conducted as a part of NCHRP Project 20-68A, the U.S. Domestic Scan program

• The program was requested by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), with funding provided through the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)

• Each scan is selected by AASHTO and the NCHRP 20-68A Project Panel

• Each scan addresses a single technical topic of broad interest to many state departments of transportation and other agencies

Scan 13-02 Advances in Civil Integrated Management (CIM)

AASHTO / NCHRPU.S. Domestic Scan Program

Scan 13-02 Advances in Civil Integrated Management (CIM)

• The purpose of each scan and Project 20-68A as a whole is to accelerate beneficial innovation by:• Learning about a state’s successes, challenges, steps to

overcome challenges• Facilitating information sharing and technology

exchange among the states and other transportation agencies

• Identifying actionable items of common interest

AASHTO / NCHRPU.S. Domestic Scan Program

Scan Team

John Adam – AASHTO Co-chairHighway Division directorIowa Department of Transportation

Katherine Petros – FHWA Co-chairTeam Leader, Infrastructure Analysis and Construction TeamFederal Highway AdministrationOffice of Infrastructure R&D

Rebecca BurnsBureau of Project DeliveryPennsylvania Department of Transportation

Duane BrautigamDirector, Office of DesignFlorida Department of Transportation

Julie Kliewer, PhD, P.E., Assistant State Engineer for ConstructionArizona DOT

John Lobbestael, PSSupervising Land Surveyor Michigan DOT

Stan Burns (Travel during week 1 in July)Director of Asset ManagementUtah Department of Transportation

Randall R. Park, P.E. (Travel during week 2 in August)Project Development DirectorUtah Department of Transportation

Charles T. Jahren, MBA, Ph.D, PE – SMEW. A. Klinger Teaching ProfessorAssistant Chair for Construction Engineering and Professor Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental EngineeringIowa State UniversityNote: Dr. Jahren is engaged in a personal consulting contract for this activity; Iowa State University is not involved with this effort.

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Specific Topics of Interest

The scan team hopes to document (panel guidance):

• Identified proven intelligent construction technologies • Construction project performance measures being used• Successful partnering techniques including virtual

meetings, wireless data sharing, and paperless communication as applicable.

Categories of Findings

• Technical considerations• Organizational considerations• Procedures for successful implementation• Philosophies for success• Ways to enlist support

Technical Considerations

• Interoperability• Developing a data format for an entire facility life cycle is

challenging.• Proper data governance can preserve current data so it can

become legacy data.• Improved accessibility of data is important.• Use of mobile devices in the field• CIM data should be geospatially located.• LIDAR seems to be an enabling technology.• Data storage and data management

Organizational Considerations

• Communication, i.e. the project team needs to build a culture of information sharing.

• Better communication requires a culture change.• Providing interoperability over the life cycle of a facility

requires considerable communication among entities.• Necessary to have management that encourages innovation

and provides some space for risk and failure.• Passionate people are needed.

Procedures for Successful Implementation

• Initial success is important.• Agencies need to find out where valuable data resides.• Start CIM with model-centric design to gain momentum at the

beginning of development.• Implementing CIM beyond the design and construction phases

is likely where bigger pay offs will occur.• Development of CIM should proceed in this order:

-identify tasks that need to be accomplished first-identify points where investment will be needed-design needs to move beyond the immediate need during implementation.

Procedures for Successful Implementation (cont’d)

• Cut the millennial generation loose to prove the value of the CIM concept and score some early wins (will likely be more effective than measuring ROI).

• Strategies to start implementation-convince team members of the added value-pilot test

• There would be much value for state agencies to share ideas with each other as CIM is developed.

Philosophies for Success

• Use data throughout the project life cycle.• CIM is a system of systems, do not define it too narrowly-

consider all 3D models, GIS, databases, even pdf files.• Engage partners such as contractors and utilities.• Business needs should drive IT activities.• Getting buy in from upper management.• Agencies need to be in the driver’s seat.• The devil is in the details including legal issues, data

interoperability, personnel issues, IT security.

Ways to Enlist Support

• Communicate benefits to other areas aside from design and construction in order to get buy in from upper management.

• Assert that CIM will change the way that we do business, e.g. microwave, remind about of how hard it is to get along without microwave ovens now we is used to them.

• Assert that innovative ways will be found to make data useful.

• Emphasize that a geospatial platforms can be provided.• Recognize the value of the data that transportation agencies

hold; point out that transportation agencies are data rich.

Summary of Findings

Findings• Foundational / Enabling concepts • Enabling technologies• Contributing technologies• Benefits / Business drivers• Next steps

Foundational / Enabling concepts

• Data Warehouse• Promotion of innovation• Business drives IT• Enable users• Employ model based design• Think beyond next customer• Strong geospatial foundation / investments in NSRS• Common exchange language• Information modeling• Large IT Investment• Collaboration with AGC

Enabling technologies

• GIS• 3D Engineered Models• GPS• AMG/AMC• Mobile devices / mobile computing• Cloud computing

• ICS• Crowd sourced data collection• Connected site• 4D/5D

Contributing technologies

Benefits / Business Drivers

• Single source of truth elevates transparency• Promote synergistic collaboration• Faster project execution• Reduction of change orders• Duplicate data collection reduced• Legacy system enabled• Better O&M

Next Steps

• Scan Team will develop a report:• Document “Findings” and “Conclusions”• Include a Dissemination Plan• Provide recommended next steps• Host states will review and approve their state’s info prior to

finalizing and publishing.

• The results of this scan will provide input to a new research project approved by the AASHTO Standing Committee on Research, NCHRP 10-96, “Guide for Civil Integrated Management (CIM) in Departments of Transportation”

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