Communication and reliability are at the heart of Digital Engineering, bringing together planning, detailed design and specification in one process.
Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Digital Engineering processes offer many benefits realised through improved communication between asset owners, designers, engineers, contractors and other stakeholders, as well as improved working efficiencies and reduced potential for errors.
We are committed to delivering a fully-coordinated service to our clients, unlocking the depth of knowledge from experts across our full range of services.
As part of our commitment, we are aligning our service delivery to be compliant with and accredited to ISO19650, the International Standard for built asset information management. This complements our existing ISO9001, ISO14001 and ISO45001 accreditations.
This state-of-the-art digital process brings together research, data and designs from each part of your project to create a virtual space where a development can be refined, developed, tested and issues mitigated before building costs are incurred. This process provides clear opportunities for cost and risk reduction, whilst improving quality and deliverability by identifying conflicts and clashes at the design stage.
The real world isn’t built in 2 dimensions, so instead of traditional 2D drawings, this smart process allows easier understanding of the whole lifecycle of a project and how it interacts with its environment, and can prove essential when securing planning permissions, as it allows decision makers to assess the impacts of your development.
Being able to provide clients with interoperable and increasingly data rich service is now an industry standard and is a requirement of any project which entails the spending of public money; ranging from colleges to roads.
At Wardell Armstrong we use various software tools such as Civil 3D, Revit, Navisworks, Tekla and GIS (ESRI and QGIS) to develop, create and accommodate this information rich model for each BIM project. We are also able to host, manage or input into a Common Data Environment (CDE).
It is intended that the benefits of BIM and the Digital Engineering process would be felt throughout the entire life cycle of a project, providing all the necessary information to operate, maintain and manage a scheme going forward.
