GeoSS Session
| GeoSS Session on | Digitalization of Civil Engineering |
| Date / Time | Friday, June 1, 2018 / Time: 15:20 - 16:50 hrs |
| Venue | Coriander Room @ Shaw Foundation Alumni House |
| Chairs | Sundararaju Chandrasegaran, Hector Jensen |
| BIM-Centered Project Management |
| Philippe Vancopernolle, Managing Director, Sixense, Singapore |
Construction industry is struggling to improve its productivity in the challenging context of increasing demand, depletion of resources and necessary reduction of its environmental impact. The development of digital tools and services, with BIM/VDC as most tangible expression and support, generates opportunities through the complete lifecycle of built assets, from design to construction, delivery and operation & maintenance. Like for any other industry, the opportunities offered by the digitalization might challenge the repartition of tasks and liabilities between all the parties of the industry (regulators, developers, designers, main contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, operators, etc.), and consequently lead to progressive re-organization of the sector.
| Operational Structural Health Monitoring |
| David Le Goff, General Manager, Sixense Ltd (HK) |
Construction industry is struggling to improve its productivity in the challenging context of increasing demand, depletion of resources and necessary reduction of its environmental impact. The development of digital tools and services, with BIM/VDC as most tangible expression and support, generates opportunities through the complete lifecycle of built assets, from design to construction, delivery and operation & maintenance. Like for any other industry, the opportunities offered by the digitalization might challenge the repartition of tasks and liabilities between all the parties of the industry (regulators, developers, designers, main contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, operators, etc.), and consequently lead to progressive re-organization of the sector.
| Web-based Tunneling and Excavation Monitoring System (TEMS) |
| Cai Jun Gang and Gao Jiansheng, Tritech Engineering & Testing (Singapore) Pte Ltd |
Underground construction projects require a great number of geotechnical & structure instrumentation to monitor the performance of the excavation and tunnelling works. The purpose is to assess the impacts on the adjacent environment and mitigate the risks of construction. The Tunnelling and Excavation Monitoring System (TEMS) is an integrated, robust and smart all-in-one solution to enable instrumentation monitoring data,TBM operating parameters, soil information, and construction activities to be uploaded into a single digital platform.The authorised users are able to view and analyse the information, and assess the impacts and risk on a real time basis over the internet and mobile devices.
As a one-stop system, the TEMS is able to send automated alarms and reports to authorised users when any instrument breached their review levels, and also generate customized reports for risk management reporting.
The TEMS allows users to correlate various sources of information for analysis, operational monitoring, information dissemination, reporting and construction planning on an integrated platform, thereby achieving improved productivity, efficiency and effectiveness in construction management.This is a vast improvement from the existing practice where all the information is manually compiled from various sources for analysis.
The TEMS offers users a mobile platform to upload and view construction data. Users having their smart phones would be able to use the TEMS for decision making and monitoring on-the-go, including creating site observations by uploading photographs and comments and viewing / analyzing instrumentation data.
| Digitalization of Singapore Soils and Measurements in Ground Engineering |
| SK KONG, Technical Director, Ryobi Geotechnique International Pte Ltd |
Accuracy and reliability are recognized to be essential in ensuring safe and economical design in the current civil and geotechnical engineering practice, especially Ground Engineering Works. One of the useful approach for achieving this goal is to improve the efficiency and to prevent human error, hence the minimization of and uncertainty and risk via digitalization of measurements and data management in the work process.This talk will focus in the latest methods of digitalization adopted in the laboratory tests and field measurements including its advantages and benefit to the ground engineering works.