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8th International CICA Conference http://www.roadcon.org Slide 1 - ROADCON / Alain Zarli 15th October 2003

ICT Roadmap for ConstructionROADCON

Strategic Roadmap towardsKnowledge-Driven Sustainable Construction

EU project, IST-2001-37278June 2002 July 2003

8th International CICA Conference - 15 October 2003

Alain ZARLI


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The ROADCON strategic roadmap

IST Accompanying Measure

Action Line IST 2002: II.1.2Strategic roadmaps for applied

research

http://www.roadcon.org

32.2 person-monthsEffort

June 2002 July 2003Duration

France, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, UKPartners

Strategic Roadmap towards Knowledge-DrivenSustainable Construction

Title

ROADCONAcronym

ROADCON

ROADCON Support Group

~300 stakeholders, 30 countries


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Positioning of ROADCON

1.1.2.i Applied IST forwork, business, etc.(~IST KA2)

FP6ROADCON

Constructionsector

1.1.3.iii Newproductionprocesses(~GROWTH KA1)

Prepare future large-scale

RTD activities, based oninformation & experience fromvarious parts of theConstruction community

Develop consensus on RTDchallenges, their roadmaps,

constituencies &implementation models

Bring together key actors

(ICT-oriented) Moto:

Open, Model-based andObject Oriented

Domain Information &Company Knowledge &

Project Information

Reuse and Sharing

over the Web


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ROADCON Map & main outcome

ROADCON

Opportuni-ties by ICT

Industry

requirements

Roadmap

IP mgtprocedures

Actions in FP6

Vision

Impacts

The ROADCON Roadmap Integration of views from different

target groups

Consensus on bridging "what todo" with "what to obtain"

Prioritised list of RTD actions

Assessment of anticipated impacts

Measures / tools for implementingthe roadmap: Instruments: European projects (IP,

NoE, SSA & CA), National RTDprojects (Sara in Finland, EPSRC inUK, etc.), International activities(standardisation, IMS, etc.)

Identification of key actors /participants (profile) in future RTD

Organisation & management forfuture RTD integrated activities


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Construction Industry in Europe

One of the most geographically dispersed sectors with markedregional differences.

Highly project oriented. Any ICT used within a project must bedeployable and profitable to all / several partners.

Each construction project is a one-of-a-kindprototype.

Highly regulated. Regulations & standards are more rigorous inconstruction than in most other sectors of economy, with theinvolvement of several levels of governments (local, provincial,national).

Relatively low entry-level for new companies

Very labour intensive, with high mobility of the workforce andgrowing skills needs as construction technology becomes moresophisticated. The duration of contracts is often linked to the lengthof the site construction phase.

Business relationships are temporary & often short-term,bringing together partners who may never work together again.


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Wide use and adoption of office automation tools.

ICT tend to be application centric, dedicated to specializedengineering functions.

Limited knowledge sharing: project best practices andknow-how reside in the mind of individuals, and areavailable, at best, in the form of documents stored /archived on company intranets.

Access to project and company information is enabled viaLocal and Wide area networks as well as the Internet.

Information is usually conveyed using documents, whichpromote the creation and sharing of human-interpretableinformation.

Current ICT Situation (1/3)


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Data exchange between different applications andcompanies is available at file level based mainly onproprietary formats at low semantic level.

Business process is driven by lowest cost. There is agrowing awareness of customer perceived value, which isnot yet supported by prevailing business models.

The support for teamwork between distributed experts inparticipating companies is, at best, limited to the use of

web-enabled document management systems(projectweb sites).

Construction products and components provide littleadded-value.

Current Situation (2/3)


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Current ICT

inconstruction

Experience

and previous solutions are availablein personal and departmenal archives

but new solutions are regularlyre-invented in every

project.

Business process

is driven by lowest cost. There isa growing awareness of customerperceived value which is not yet

supported by prevailingbusiness models.

Applications

are dedicated to specificengineering functions and

project / buildinglife cycle stages.

Data exchange

between different applications andcompanies is available at file level based

mainly on proprietary formats

at low semantic level.

Document based ICTaugments the creation and sharing ofhuman-interpretable information.

Information access

to company and project data isavailable via LANs and web.

Teamwork

between distributed experts inparticipating companies is supported

by web-enabled documentmanagement systems(project web sites).

Customised ICTto meet varying needs of users

is tailor-made for new situationsand requires manual maintenance,

configuration and support.

Products & Componentshave little added value

Current ICT Situation (3/3)

Invasive Technology

users constantly to adapt proven

and emerging technologies


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ICT meeting industry priorities

HOW 2 ?

Enablers:

ICT standards

& technologies

HOW 1 ?

Requiredsupport:

ICT appli-cations &systems

WHAT ?

Evolvingbusinessprocesses

Ambientaccess &

services

Collaborationsupport

Virtualteams

Flexible &secure inter-operability

Simulation,Visualisation &

Databases

Model& object

based ICT

Standards,Web, Mobility,

Wireless

Knowledgere-use

Performancedriven process

Whole LifeCycle support

Applicationfunctionality &

intelligence

Decisionsupport

Projectcost

Deliverytime

Productquality

Value tocustomer Sustainability

WHY ?

Industrypriorities


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S o l u t i o n s

E n a b l e r s

Requirements

V i s i o n

The ROADCON Cube

Industrial &societal impacts

Technologies& standards

Businessprocesses

ICT applications

ICT infra-structures

Strategic goals

EnvironmentalEconomic Social & cultural

Evolving sustainable values

in the Knowledge Society

Take-up

Development

Research

Emerging

WHY

WHAT

HOW Roadmap

Constructionsector view

EU

policyview

Researchview

Industry

ICTdeveloper

view



Strgy level TrendsValues~ Expectedimpacts

Values:Shift towards intangible values like customer & society perceived value andenvironmental sustainability beyond the tangible economic values like cost, quality andtime.

Businessprocesses~ Processsupport

Knowledge re-use: Enhanced use of past experience and best practice.

Performance driven: Systematic compliance of technical solutions to whole liferequirements.

Collaboration: Distributed virtual teams combine best competences

Applications~ User support

Functionality: Applications really targeting and supporting the end-user in the workcontext.

Intelligence:Integration of Processes & Information in Objects with behaviour.

Generic tools: Robust sector-independent (generic) solutions.

Infrastructure

~ Ambientaccess

Information sharing: All building info available, over the whole life cycle, accessible

via the most appropriate device, anywhere, anytime in the latest version from one logicalsource.

Web: The Internet will be the information infrastructure backbone for all communication.

Embedded ICT: Intelligent products, buildings and infrastructures. Chips everywhere.

Technologies& standards~ Enablers

Model based: smarter software, less manual interpretation and re-entry.

Open integration: Rapidly integrated ICT solutions built up from multi-vendorcomponents.

Adaptive systems:Self-learning" from their own use and user behaviour.

Trends in Business & ICT



ICT-based Framework

Change Level ImpactsWhy ?

Business ProcessesWhat ?

Life-cycle (eBusiness)

Supply-chain (eCommerce)

ICT SolutionsHow ? ICT Architecture

ICT Applications

ICT Infrastructure

Middleware

WWW Intra-, Extra-, Internet

ICT EnablersWith What ?

Standards and Technologies

(Value-Chain)}

ICT Architecture

ICT Applications ICT Infrastructure

blueprint

glue



ICT Opportunities

Impacts Sustainability

Coverage

Globalisation

Business Processes Industrialisation (Prefab, IFD, Building Factories)

Service Orientation

Knowledge Reuse (over/beyond project or even company boundaries)

Performance Driven

ICT Solutions

ICT Architecture Collaboration: Web Places, Workflow Mgnt, Document Mgnt, Transaction Mngt

ICT Applications Enhanced Functionality:Model-based 3D CAD, 4/5/nD Modelling, Simulation,Virtual Reality (VR), ...

ICT Infrastructure Middleware (Data/Application Services, APIs)

Intra-, Extra-, Internet (Base Infrastructure: Ethernet, TCP/IPv4/6, SMTP, FTP, HTTP(s), URI, (X)HTML)

Model-based: Semantic Web,

Information Sharing: Application Programming Interfaces (SDAI, XPath, IFC API), smart merging Object Orientation: Web Services

Flexibility:UML, Java,Ontologies, Adaptive Systems, Embedded ICT

ICT Enablers Open Standards:ISO STEP, ISO/DIS PAS 16739 IFC 2x Platform specification, IAI IFC 2x 2nd Edition, ISO/DIS

PAS 12006-3, IAI XM7 Project, eConstruct/eCognos bcXML

Web-based: XML, XSD, XSL(T), SOAP, WSDL, SVG/X3D, UDDI, RDF(S)/OWL, BPEL4WS

Ambient Access: GPRS, UMTS, Bluetooth, WiFi, Satellite, Gigabit Ethernet, ADSL, Cable, Firewire-800, GPS

Generic Tools: EAN-UCC, ebXML, RDIF, GDL, OpenDWG

Key TrendsKey Opportunities



Inter-enterprisecommunicationstandards

Inter-enterpriseservices

Acces control,

inter-enterprisecoordination

Shared data &knowledge

repositories

Examples of services: Best practices Collaboration support Document mgt e-Commerce Learning support Legal support:

authentication,authorisation ...

Model checking Negotiation Partnering Product data libraries Workflow support

Outlining the future ICT:

Target ICT ref.architecture

Product/project

model

Docu-ments &

files

Modelserver

Docu-ment

server

API

Basicinter-enterprise

collaborationplatform

Evidence+ rights

Trustservice

API

Trustedthirdparty

Intelligentre-usable

objects

Example:Productcatalog

O

ptionalwebservices

e.g:

API

bcXML, IFC, Internet, SOAP, ...

Applications,systems &data repositories

Humaninterface

Extra-enterpriselinks & interfaces Company Y

Company X

Project ~VirtualEnterprise

Transaction management

In-housemodel

DB

Company Z

Examples: Bidding CAD, CAE CRM

Decisionsupport ERP Facility mgt MIS

Model basedapplications

In-houseknow-ledge

DB

User interfaces:

2D 3D 4D nD Context awareness Mobile & ubiquitous access Visualisation / simulation



Current ICT

inconstruction

Invasive Technology

users constantly to adapt proven

and emerging technologies

Experience

and previous solutions are availablein personal and departmenal archives

but new solutions are regularlyre-invented in every

project.

Business process

is driven by lowest cost. There isa growing awareness of customerperceived value which is not yet

supported by prevailingbusiness models.

Applications

are dedicated to specificengineering functions and

project / buildinglife cycle stages.

Data exchange

between different applications andcompanies is available at file level based

mainly on proprietary formatsat low semantic level.

Document based ICT

augments the creation and sharing ofhuman-interpretable information.

Information access

to company and project data isavailable via LANs and web.

Teamwork

between distributed experts inparticipating companies is supported

by web-enabled documentmanagement systems(project web sites).

Customised ICTto meet varying needs of users

is tailor-made for new situationsand requires manual maintenance,

configuration and support.

Performance driven process

assures compliance to clientsrequirements and emphasis on

customer perceived value

Knowledge re-use

relies on industry-wide sharing ofexperiences and fundamental under-

standing of complex systeminteractions at all levels

Total Life Cycle

is supported by user-friendly,functional applications and persistent

data ensuring holistic decisionmaking

Flexible interoperability

between heterogenous ICT systemswill enable seamless interaction

between all stakeholders

Model based ICT

enables context-awareness,

automation, simulation andvisualisation based on computerinterpretable data

Ambient access

anytime, anywhere is provided byindustry-wide communications infra-structure, distributed and embedded

systems, ambient intelligence andmobile computing

Virtual teams

combine distributed competencesvia global collaboration environments

that support cultural, linguistic,social and legal transparency

Adaptive systems

learn from their own use anduser behaviour, and are able to adapt

to new situations without manualmaintenance, configuration

and support.

Products & Componentshave little added value

Intelligent Products &

Buildingsfrom low to high value components

Human-Centered

new design and build paradigms

promoted by ICT that enhance the

social condition of individuals in

the society

Vision forICT in

construction

Towards an ICT VisionService

performance, reliability,

quality, new and existing

stock

Societal responsibility

transparency, explicit,

corporate responsibility,

safety and health

Sustainability

24 criteria,

life cycle engineering



Example: Model-based ICT

Semantic Richness

Paper noD Fax 0D Document 1D Time 1D Cost 1D Shape Representation (Drawings) 2D & 3D + Time 4D + Cost 5DModel-based nD

reducing human interpretation

improving information sharing

S i RTD d f



Strategic RTD roadmap forICT in construction

StrategiesEmerging

R&D

Take-up

Roadmap

Vision &Mission

Use

Work



ROADCON Innovation phases

Emerging concepts, technologiesResearch

Vision, Mission & Roadmap

Trends

Requirements (Problems & Needs)

Opportunities & Barriers

Strategies (The Roads chosen)

Development & Integration

Take-up

Dissemination & Marketing

Deployment (roll-out, decision to use)

Consolidation (i.e. standardization)

Use, Maintenance & Exploitation

R d f C t ti ICT



Research6-10 years

Develop3-5 years

Emerging> 10 years

Take-up0-2 years

Roadmap for Construction ICT:notations

Use

Targetstate

The vision. Not fullyachievable in theforeseeable future.

Explore opportunities andRTD needs for potentialsolutions.

Research and prototypingis required to find theoptimum way forward.

Development of clearlydefinable and directly

usable results.

Adopt, demonstrate &deploy existingtechnologies.

Solutions are alreadycommercially available andused by industry leaders.

Alternative paths (roads

towards different parts ofthe vision. All roads willneed to be traversed toaddress the full vision). Different routes tend

to merge when thetechnologies mature.

R d f C t ti ICT



Currentstate

Cost drivenprocess

Performancedriven process

Projectweb sites

Collaborativevirtual teams

CustomisedICT solutions

Adaptivesystems

Stand-aloneapplications

Total LifeCycle support

File baseddata exchange

Flexibleinteroperability

Re-inventionin every project

Knowledgere-use

Documentbased ICT

Modelbased ICT

LAN and web

Ambientaccess

Vision forICT in

construction

RTD

Roadmap for Construction ICT:Top-level roadmap (partial)

R d f C t ti ICT



Research

Develop

Emerging

Take-up

Advancedidentity

management

LAN, Web (Internet), Mobile phones & PDAs, GPSUse

use ofwirelessnetwork

Seamless

inter-connec-tivity

Networkreconfigur-

ability

Secure

mobileappli-cations

NaturalLanguage

use of remotecontrolled

devices

Intelligentproducts &

devices

Product

tagging

Logisticsmanagement

Integration ofhigh

precisionlocalising

technologies

Semanticbased content

integration

Ambientaccess

Use ofNetwork

Integrateddevices

Contextaware

systems

GPS-basedservices

Secureaccess to

distributedinformatio

n

Smartbuildings

Digital

Site

Integratio

n ofadvancedinterfaces

AdaptiveMulti-ModalInterfaces

Ubiquitous& realtimenetwork

Self organisingsemantic based &

context awaresystems

Use of wearableappliances

use ofmultimediainterfaces /

devices

Roadmap for Construction ICT:Example of Ambient Access



ROADCON: main public results

1.1.2.i Applied IST forwork, business, etc.(~IST KA2)

FP6ROADCON

Constructionsector

1.1.3.iii Newproductionprocesses(~GROWTH KA1)

D3

D52

D2

D4

Management Procedures foran Integrated Project

ICT Requirements ofthe EuropeanConstruction

Industry: theROADCON Vision

ROADCON Construction

ICT Roadmap

ICT-Related Trends &Opportunities for the

Construction Industry Sector

Conclusion: some expected


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Conclusion: some expectedbenefits to stakeholders

Buildingowners

Designers

ContractorsSuppliers

ICT

vendors

Improved whole lifecycle performanceof buildings(improved durability,adaptability andrecycling)

Improvedinteroperability& functionality

Larger market andhigher value ofsoftware products

Improvedproduct quality

Enhanced & adapted ISfor maintenance and FM(typically based on Productlife cycle data)

Improved value tocustomers(e.g. enhanced buildingflexibility, smarthomes...)

WinWinWin

Reduced costs

Improvedprocessefficiency(e.g. supply

chainmanagement)

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