Setting and meeting expectations continually challenges all facets of the capital projects industry. In spite of our industry being surrounded by a broad spectrum of extremely powerful and compelling technologies performance improvement remains stagnate.
Things must change!
This Owner session will identify likely core causes, describe a new consolidated framework to provide focus driven by economic purpose, and describe how Owner organizations are rethinking their internal practices to facilitate and stimulate performance improvement.
Presenters: Dow Chemical, Southern Company and Exxon
Megaprojects depend on clear and constant communication between client and contractor - any asymmetry in communications will lead to project delivery problems and then disputes with a major impact on project performance and ongoing relationships at team and corporate level. Shell will present a case study of the use of dedicated contract management software ensures even and consistent communications and reduces the risk of delivery problems and disputes significantly - this presentation summarizes the issues and the specific solution which has been used to excellent effect in the field with several high-profile megaprojects.
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BIM-Based Cost Management, Preconstruction Services Study There is an ever-expanding interest in leveraging technology to improve project productivity. From early design and planning to estimating, scheduling, & project controls BIM related activities are emerging due to technologies that enable ease of use, data integration and broader access to model information for analysis and quality control. This session highlights BIM based activities Hoar Construction used on an award winning project including model-based estimation, quantity extraction, model progression and trending analysis, design change management and value engineering to successfully deliver a project on time and on budget. Innovative and automated BIM workflows on Major Capital Projects Recent global trends and government initiatives are forcing the construction and manufacturing industries to consider new ways of delivering large, multi-disciplinary capital projects. The success of these projects hinges on how the BIM “project environment” and sharing of information is created and managed to deliver the required LOD500 outcome.
This session will provide examples utilized in the implementation of LOD500 BIM on Australia’s premier commercial construction projects, focusing on automated processes to pool various stakeholders’ information, process the data and report visually in BIM, on material and as built status. The combination of site logistic movements provides a real world snap shot of construction progress, while sitting in your office.
Transforming Industry Practices from the Inside Widespread improvements in efficiency, quality and safety are hard to achieve amidst prevailing traditional practices. But, by combining methods – like automated manufacturing, BIM, modularity, and innovative workflows – systematic change is possible. Learn from the experience of a company transforming the way structural steel is designed, fabricated and assembled for industrial, commercial and high density residential structures. This presentation will demonstrate how process improvements in one sub-trade can have positive impacts for the whole project, the owner and other trades. Barriers to technology and process adoption can be overcome with long-term determination, attention to detail and consideration of the whole stakeholder ecosystem.
Theory to practice
The application of AWP is essential in the construction industry, a Best Practice and game changer. Offering a mutual benefit to the client and the contractor, allowing better coordination and an integrate project execution throughout the project life-cycle until handover. This presentation will detail a use-case scenario of an existing implementation in an Oil and Gas project in Oman where a full workflow for AWP has been established, learn of the challenges and how the AWP model was used to improve field productivity and reducing cost.
Technology & AWP Success
The use of technology to support and grow productivity improvements in the construction industry has demonstrated success! The use of ConstructSim showcases the ability to work package pipe for field execution and then as technology was adopted and refined other disciplines have followed suit. Best practice shows that integrating data to support design, interactive project planning, material deliveries and progress supports Advanced Work Packaging. This capability has given way to client successes, productivity improvements in Engineering and Construction and a Global agreement embraced by the Owners.
Restructuring Civil Engineering with BIM
Global GDP is forecasted to double between in the next 15 years with the resultant global infrastructure investment across land transport, telecoms, electricity, and water sectors amounting to around $53 trillion. Many public and private sector clients are seeking to achieve the required infrastructure investment at a time of resource reduction by investing in Building Information Modelling (BIM) for Infrastructure. A key area is improved asset data, with many demanding structured information transfer throughout project delivery.
Lean Resources Management using Emerging Technologies and Analytics Managing resources in mega projects can be costly and out of control if not managed properly. Mega construction projects involve multiple stakeholders and high number of workforce and assets to manage, which requires a well streamlined process in order to increase resources’ productivity and reduce cost. This presentation takes Riyadh Metro Project, an $11 Billion project, as a case study to reveal the emerging technologies and change management process that helped project to succeed in managing a workforce of 30,000 and total equipment of 2,500 in a geographically wide spread challenging construction environment. Human Innovation This presentation will share lessons learned and strategies around our ‘people first’ approach to project planning and execution. This approach starts by building trust and transparency between the different project stakeholders by enabling open dialogue about individual motives, biases, and concerns; especially if individual motives are not contractually aligned. By enabling project teams to get ‘comfortable with uncomfortable’, they can begin to solve the systemic and behavioral roadblocks that have kept the latest in process and technology advancements from reaching their true potential. Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Costs Advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and significant changes to the business aspect of LiDAR industry have created new methods to register, process and extract geospatial features from large datasets in a remarkably short period of time and with substantial cost savings. These changes will allow for the reduction in traditional survey costs and schedule impact, a deferring of traditional survey until later in a project schedule, and in some cases, eliminating some survey work all together. In this session we will present the impact these new technologies and project methodologies had on an in-flight pipeline project. Specifically, on the cost and schedule savings. We will also demonstrate the opportunities this technology has for all types of capital project and asset management programs.
Adopting and implementing advanced technologies in the global construction industry is an opportunity to increase productivity and profits. Learn how to prevent lost opportunities because of a fragmented value chain, which relies on traditional approaches to project design and delivery.
Take aways:
Steve will share his findings with us about the main obstacles and barriers to technology adoption and how can we overcome to benefit the entire industry.
How to Increase Adoption and Gain ROI from Change Initiatives As a leader in the development and adoption of innovative practices and technologies in your organization, you have probably been involved with more failed or under-realized change initiatives than you want to admit. Innovations leveraging new (and old) processes and technologies hold the promise to transform our lagging industry. But the pressure is on: budgets are tight, we must act quickly, and there is no room for failure. The initiatives we take on must achieve their promise. This panel will share proven and practical methods that help make transformational change stick.
Accelerating Data and Document Hand Over Cloud technology is gaining widespread acceptance which also enables the distribution of information and creates opportunities for information sharing. Owner/Operators are recognizing that a significant volume of the engineering data and documents that are handed over can be recycled across major capital projects. This presentation outlines an approach adopted on two of the World's largest projects and highlights areas of commonality to accelerate delivery on your next project. Facility Sustainment management system automated population from BIM BIM (Building Information Modeling/Model) has demonstrated its return on investment in design and construction. As a result, the AECO (Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Operations) industry has expressed great interest in the use of BIM for facility management. In reality different stakeholders in the AECO industry are still working in their own silos and are hesitant to collaborate with each other. A case study of an administrative building is conducted for this database automation process as well as comparison costs of BIM supported facility verses the traditional assessment method. Organizational Development Strategy Achieving successful and sustainable owner-side BIM implementation for facilities maintenance and operations depends on the careful alignment between technology implementation and organizational development. This presentation discusses the strategies, challenges, and successes of this continuing effort and elaborates with detailed examples on key technology interventions resulting from the stakeholder engagement process. We will also address issues at the enterprise information technology level related to the coexistence of normalized and denormalized database.
Due to the lack of interoperability between CAE systems companies today face high efforts in engineering data exchange while working together to execute projects for planning, construction and operation of process plants. Steered by the owner / operators BASF S.E., Bayer AG and Evonik Industries AG, supported by research partners and major CAE vendors to discuss the concepts and implement the results as interfaces. This presentation is an outlook of the next milestones beyond the P&ID in the plant lifecycle.
Integrated Lifecycle Asset Planning The Integrated Lifecycle Asset planning project (ILAP) cut cost and increase value creation by develop a standard to transfer planning data. In this presentation we will update you on the progress.
Value through Standards Based Interoperability The session will inform attendees about how they can shift from fragile and expensive systems integration methods to standards-based interoperability, using the industry owned and supplier neutral Enterprise Solutions Architecture which defines the Open Industrial Interoperability Ecosystem, as well as identifying the associated business value. It will also discuss the Industry Standard Datasheet Definitions, including what they are, why they are useful and how they are used to add business value to the OIIE.
Presented by: Alan Johnston, MIMOSA – How Does The Open Industrial Interoperability Ecosystem Work and What is the Business Value Ken Dunn, BP – Owner/Operator Perspective Ron Montgomery, SME – Industry Standard Datasheet Definitions-What, Why and How
This workshop provides a highly interactive environment that subjects the Fiatech Productivity Advancement Targets to critical review by leaders in the industry. The purpose is to ensure that the design and implementation vision is as pragmatic an effective as possible to provide the foundation for realizing holistic high-value and sustainable productivity improvements across the industry.
In preparation for this workshop, it is recommended that participants read this ENR article and watch this Voice of the Owner discussion video Linking the World of Worlds.
Click Linking the World of Worlds to review the presentation slides.
Leapfrog the Curve: Unlock the Engineering Data value through Lifecycle Management The paper explores the evolution of Engineering Data Management in Oil and Gas. Shift from ‘local’ to ‘global’ systems, and from ‘functional’ to ‘lifecycle’ view of engineering data brings in both business benefits, and adoption challenges. Paper further discusses ways to accelerate adoption of global unified EDM systems.
Communications, protocols and information modeling: The fundamentals of IoT, IIoT, Industrie 4.0 The connecting of devices and services is easy in the modern world but does it really solve any of the related challenges? Lots of IoT solutions are good at delivering data quickly but in no way help to reduce costs. This session explains differences and similarities between IoT and Industrie 4.0 and explains why defining the meaning (semantics) of data and exposing it in a fully IT secured way, is key. - How does the Architecture play a key role in the IoT? - How collaboration is transforming information integration between industrial automation and related domains. - Examples of “From Sensor to Cloud” - Examples of the benefits being realized from implementing this Architecture.
The Application of Open Architecture Standards Methodology to Industrial Automation Control Systems The author will discuss the benefits and challenges of the application of the Open Architecture Standards methodology adopted in the Aerospace and Defense industry to Industrial Automation Standards development. The A&D industry addressed similar issues facing the industrial automation control system users and suppliers. This presentation will provide insight into the consortium methodology for the creation of the FACE Open Architectural standards that were developed in the A&D. The presentation will address the application of Selected Open Architecture concepts, processes, and procedures for consideration in the next generation industrial automation control systems.
More than 50% of industry project delays and cost overruns are attributed to materials not being in the right place at the right time. Harmonizing supply networks and effectively embracing technologies to streamline workflows is critical to realizing the visibility, predictability and control needed. An Integrated Materials Management Performance Advancement Target has been developed that will deliver a 15% reduction in construction costs. This detailed strategy, is in concert with Fiatech’s Value Driven Approach to Productivity Improvement Planning, which breaks down the entire supply network purpose and function, provides the framework for dramatically improving the flow if materials in our industry. Driving Productivity in Fabrication, Manufacturing & Construction Learn how Industrial Piping, Inc. (IPI) is a U.S.-based fabrication company is digitizing their data collection through RFID tags and barcodes, with mobile hardware, and providing a unique services to their clients through real-time status reports and downstream material tracking. IPI's goal of improving efficiency, productivity, and accuracy in their management of material fabrication for industrial construction, including pipe spools and modules through the use of new world technologies to keep from missing the beat, pipe manufacturing is joining the world of digitized fabrication to add value to the construction industry. This presentation is led by Kevin Walsh, Chief Operating Officer of IPI, who is charged with continuous improvement and setting operational metrics for the company, which has been serving construction clients for over 70 years. Materials Management & Control Learn how the DOW Chemical Company is aligning business practices and perspectives to harmonize goals and behaviors and in so doing, integrate and strengthen materials management performance to significantly improve product delivery. Converging Perspectives & Practices The dramatic interplay of all the activities necessary to drive a capital project is complex and overwhelming. Learn how Southern Company is systematically evaluating and restructuring their practices and mindsets to streamline information, materials and work flows to increase productivity.
During this conference everyone will be exposed to many new and exciting perspectives, practices and technologies, all of which have the potential for dramatically boosting productivity in the capital projects industry.
The Driving Industry Solution Roundtable Discussion will provide an environment where we share our views and make pragmatic recommendations that will drive the industry forward. Included in these discussions will be topics such as;
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This is a breakout session for construction practitioners, material manufacturers and technology providers to make a concerted effort to identify, develop, deploy and evaluate the impact of the components, for successful Intelligent and Automated Construction Job Sites.
These advances will reduce construction time to a fraction of today's averages by more effectively orchestrating and closely monitoring the use of labor, equipment and materials on the job site, and will thus provide significant savings through schedule compression, material and work package optimization and labor reduction, with less rework for construction operations.
Reducing The Cost of Regulatory Compliance
How much does compliance with Federal, state or local regulations cost your company? What savings can be achieved through regulatory streamlining? This panel session on “Reducing the Costs of Regulatory Compliance” builds upon the discussions on this topic at the last fall’s Fiatech Leadership Forum and the subsequent creation of the Fiatech challenge goal and now Productivity Advancement Target of reducing regulatory review times by 80%. Attendees will receive an overview of how companies are successfully identifying such regulatory costs and then taking steps to work with their colleagues in industry and governmental agencies to reduce them.
Bringing Cognitive Computing to the Construction Industry – A Discussion to establish a Fiatech Project This 45 minute session brings together output form the Fiatech-Black and Veatch October, 2015 forum which identified some 45 areas where Cognitive Computing can be applied to address problems facing the construction and capital facilities industries and IBM-Watson experts to share advances being made in the application of Cognitive Computing aka Artificial Intelligence, to various segments of the global economy. Attendees will have the opportunity to provide input to help Fiatech select from five major potential construction problem areas the area where Fiatech will create an Exploratory Project to ascertain the applicability of cognitive computing to the construction industry. Among the areas being considered are: Library of Project Knowledge, Project Safety, Diagnostics & Standards, Successful Team Analysis, Reducing Change Orders.
As we’ve seen in other industries, data analytical be transformative, enabling organizations to reduce costs, make better decisions, and improve productivity. While the benefits are appealing to construction organizations, many aren’t sure where to begin. It’s all about the data and this industry has many islands of technology that keeps on growing. How do we break all these silos?
Our Fiatech Conference marks a turning point in our drive to introduce and facilitate the adoption of Fiatech Productivity Advancement Targets (PATs) as a new means for achieving significant and sustainable improvements in our industry.
We have now moved past talking about the PATs economic motivation, reducing costs by over 30% and project cycle time by 10%, to refining holistic nature, structural characteristics and reduction-to-practice approach.
This post conference interactive roundup will provide a free form environment where we will deliver the following:
1) How to express your expertise, product offerings, technologies, procedure, practices, etc. in terms that align with a PAT to ensure relevance is considered in developing the performance improvement. 2) How to recognize PAT touch points to enable capabilities 3) How to get your organization engaged and participate on PAT Teams 4) How productivity improvement benefits will be shared and harvested
Enjoy nibbles and nosh during this interactive session...
Combo Meeting (Roadmap, SDC & Membership) Time: 8 – 9:30 a.m.
Project Committee Time: 8 – 9:30 a.m.
Roadmap Committee Time 9:45 – 11:30 a.m.
Board Meeting Time: 9:45 a.m. – 3 p.m.
