‘Geo-IT: The ‘Enabler’ Ingredient in the Infrastructure Construction Project Life Cycle Mix’

25-29 May 2015lisbon congress center, portugal

Construction industry faces unique challenges not only with the design, construction and operations of new infrastructure, but, also, maintenance of existing assets. Whether it is about vertical or, horizontal construction that not includes over the ground infrastructure, but, also underground assets, the infrastructure construction eco-system is dynamic to the core.

Traditionally, the construction industry is organized in a segregated way, which unfortunately acts as a bane rather than being a boon when it comes to information handover from one phase to another in a typical project life cycle. To combat this lapse, many developed countries across the world are now making Building Information Modelling (BIM), a modern business process for construction as a policy mandate.

BIM is a process that involves creating and using an intelligent 3D model to inform and communicate project decisions. Design, visualization, simulation, and collaboration enabled by BIM solutions provide greater clarity for all stakeholders across the project lifecycle. BIM makes it easier to achieve project and business goals. This process of analysis gains its optimal potency when it gets integrated with Geospatial Information and Technology which facilitates the development and maintenance of infrastructure assets by eliminating data redundancy, miscommunication, and costly conversion when moving through the entire project life cycle of infrastructure construction process that follows - planning, design, construction, and operation. This integration gets further steam when allied technologies like mobile, cloud computing, etc., are thrown into the mix.

Through this exclusive track on modern infrastructure construction processes titled - ‘Geo-IT: The ‘Enabler’ Ingredient in the Infrastructure Construction Project Life Cycle Mix’, we will trace the enabler role of geospatial information and technology combining with supporting ICT tools and techniques that is integrated with BIM to create sustainable infrastructural assets with a greater control on the project life cycle of not only new projects, but, also, existing ones that demand renovation and re-modelling.