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Welcome to a new initiative from buildingSMART Australasia following the success of Xchange 2024.

Xchange more with Xchange {X} - a series of small, local, technical events.

Join us in Melbourne on 17th September at Arup Head Office to learn and Xchange about openBIM in Infrastructure...

Examples of openBIM in Infrastructure

Tuesday 17th September 2024

Arup Head office, Sky Park, 699 Collins St, Melbourne

5:00-7:30pm

The infrastructure industry is facing difficult challenges, from inefficiencies to cost overruns. At this local event, we’re bringing together key players — senior engineers, project managers, and industry leaders — to take a closer look at where we are today and what needs to change. Our focus will be on how innovation, new technology, and open BIM formats can streamline processes and enhance the quality of infrastructure projects.

This event is a chance to develop a shared understanding of the current state of affairs, build relationships, and set concrete goals for improving efficiency across the industry. By collaborating, we can identify practical solutions that make a difference in real-world projects.

If you're invested in the future of infrastructure and want to be part of the conversation, sign up today.

What you will hear:

buildingSMART: Jon Mirtschin & Scott Beazley (Geometry Gym)
Design: Arup - Oystein Ulvestad & John Legge Wilkinson
Construction: Laing O'Rourke - Chris Pynn
Supply Chain: Love Rebar -Micah Biggs
Client/Government: Daniel Lea - Level Crossing Removal Authority (LXRA) Government of Victoria
Moderated Panel Q&A
Networking: Arup

* Event commences with registration at 5pm and ends with networking (beverages and canapes) until 7:30pm

Speakers

Scott Beazley

OpenBIM Consultant at Geometry Gym

Scott has over 35 years of experience practicing in Architecture and 28 years in CAD-BIM teaching at university and technical colleges. For the past 12 years he has worked as a digital technology manager for Mitchell Brandtman Quantity Surveyors helping with validation of models for quantification to derive costs. In the last 5 years, he has worked as an openBIM Consultant at Geometry Gym mainly on infrastructure projects.

Jon Mirtschin

Director at Geometry Gym, Director, buildingSMART Australasia

Jon brings technical and practical openBIMexperience to the buildingSMARTAustralasia Board, that helps facilitate a stronger awareness and successful adoption of openBIMfor clients and projects in Australia. In 2018 Jon supported the buildingSMARTAustralasia board with organisationand execution of the “openBIM: Getting It Right” technical workshops.

Jon has a proven track record in achieving practical outcomes using openBIMstandards and technologies. He has open sourced his C# IFC toolkit for reading and writing IFC files (view on GitHub) and taken a leading role on prototyping technologies such as ifcjsonand applying version control such as git to an ifcrepository. He is a member of the Building Smart International Model Support Group, providing sample files for the technical documentation and testing proposals for IFC improvements.

Oystein Ulvestad

Digital Delivery Lead, Arup

Oystein specializes in model-based engineering, drawing-free design and parametric design of bridges. In 2017, his team designed the world's first concrete bridge designed and built without blueprints. In 2022, his team finished the Randselvabridge, which currently holds the record as the longest bridge in the world designed and built without drawings, based exclusively on BIM models. The team won Trimble Global BIM awards for best BIM model in the world for the Randselvabridge BIM model

John Legge-Wilkinson

Senior Structural Technician, Arup

John has 40+ years experience in the delivery of major building and infrastructure projects including rail, road and pedestrian bridges, and railway stations. John has always been passionate about taking advantage of digital tools and technology to help deliver our projects and has been instrumental in driving transition and change throughout his career to the use and adoption of current and evolving digital workflows and processes.

Chris Pynn

Australia Hub Lead for Digital Innovation at Laing O'Rourke

Chris is currently the Digital Lead on the Eastern Freeway Burke to Tram Alliance project. Chris has been with Laing O'Rourke for five years after previously spending 27 years working for Arup across the UK, SE Asia and Australia. At his time in Arup, Chris help lead the adoption and implementation of 3D and BIM across the firm and specialises in large project digital strategies having worked on and led initiatives on project such as Marina Bay Sands, Singapore Sports Hub, Perth Stadium as well as a number of major rail infrastructure projects. Chris has a passion to always challenge himself and others to continually improve and push the application of technology with a clear focus on improving the quality and safety through engineering in construction.

Daniel Lea

Senior Manager Digital Information for LXRP

Daniel Lea, EngTechMICE TIStructE, is Senior Manager Digital Information for LXRP. As project owner of technical requirements for digital assets his team manages verification of digital deliverables, ensuring alignment with State and project digital requirements.
Daniel has over 30 years experience covering Technical Director and Management roles within Engineering and Design in Australia and UK, managing teams delivering digital design information for large multi-disciplinary Civil Infrastructure and Building Structural projects.
He has a successful track record in strategy development and implementation of BIM processes, training and technology across international offices, teams and projects.

Micah Biggs

Director at Love Reinforcing

Love Reinforcing is Australia’s largest engineering & technical solutions team dedicated to reinforcing. Though young, the company has already demonstrated its ability to engineer and coordinate groundbreaking integrated models for some of the country’s largest infrastructure projects.

Speakers

Agenda

5:00 pm - Registration, 5:15 - Welcome & Introduction

Arup & buildingSMART

Event welcome

5:30 pm - buildingSMART Australasia and the new opportunities of infrastructure extensions within IFC 4.3

Scott Beazley & Jon Mirtschin

The role that buildingSMARTAustralasia plays in the local building and construction industry, and the new opportunities that the latest IFC 4.3 release enables for road, rail and utilities infrastructure projects. Examples from recent projects will be shown.

5:45 pm - DESIGN: Delivering projects without drawings – openBIM is paving the way

Oystein Ulvestad & John Legge Wilkinson

For centuries, 2D drawings have been the cornerstone of engineer and architect communication. While reliable, they demand significant manual work and have limitations in the information they can carry. But are there any alternatives?

In some markets, infrastructure projects have over the past decade successfully been executed solely based on BIM models, eliminating the need for drawings. The transition has unlocked some important benefits:

•Automated Workflows: BIM models streamline repetitive tasks, freeing engineers to focus on creativity and problem-solving.

•Enhanced Quality: 3D models provide a more comprehensive view, leading to fewer errors and improved build quality.

•Reduced Costs: Studies show drawingless projects can achieve roughly 10% cost savings compared to traditional methods.

•OpenBIM: The use of IFC ensures seamless data exchange between different software platforms, enhancing collaboration and reducing the risk of information loss throughout the project lifecycle.

6:00 pm - CONSTRUCTION: Driving Construction forwards with integration and openBIM

Chris Pynn

The Digital Strategy for the Eastern Freeway Burke to Tram Alliance project was set some two and half years back during the EOI. The vision was focused on driving digital enablement within construction by ensuring that the information created in design could be utilised for the purpose of digital survey and fabrication to drive efficiencies in delivery. Chris’s presentation will detail what was core to this strategy that has enabled the Alliance to deliver on its vision and keep true to its objectives up to the present day. Through a use of structured data and automated validation to drive a Model First approach EBTA is now able to realise the value of that thinking and implementation as the project moves into the construction phase.

6:15 pm - SUPPLY CHAIN: Eliminating The Hidden Cost: Impact of an Integrated (BIM) Approach on the Rebar Supply Chain

Micah Biggs

Integration is crucial in the infrastructure industry for fostering aligned, sustainable and cost-effective project delivery.

Despite efforts to effect change, material overruns, delayed milestones, labor downtime and other factors continue to push rebar onto the critical path. However, by enhancing supply chain coordination and effectiveness, a collective approach including BIM can reverse this and reduce associated hidden costs.

Using the Melbourne Metro Tunnel project as an example, it will be demonstrated how an integrated approach across the rebar supply chain can eliminate both obvious and less visible costs, while achieving extraordinary results in design, modelling, and construction methods.