Delivering High Speed Two (HS2) with BIM

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“We’ve decided to bet the shop on building information modelling (BIM)” - Join Professor Andrew McNaughton, Technical Director of High Speed Two (HS2), for a look at how BIM is shaping the design, delivery, operation and maintenance of Britain’s latest high speed railway. Speaking at Digital Construction Week 2015 in London, United Kingdom (UK), Andrew first looks at the context for High Speed Two, before explaining how BIM is being used as the foundation for its development. He uses a powerful illustration to indicate the project’s approach, showing the old way of doing things and the virtual approach that will be taken. “It’s easy to do things the way we know how, that’s why somebody drew in the devil” he explains. “We want to build, operate and maintain a virtual railway. And only when we have proven that in a virtual environment will we go anywhere near a shovel”. At present the High Speed Two team are developing the BIM platform upon which the data for the new railway will be hosted. Every aspect of High Speed Two’s operation and maintenance is being built upon one common data environment. To prove that the team have ‘bet the shop on it’ (in Andrew’s words), that platform will host the safety critical control systems, train control, fleet management, human resource management, scheduling and consumer data. “We have this concept of total reliance on our data. It’s one integrated system. We’re building the BIM platform upon which every aspect of High Speed Two will

Published 2015-11-11 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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