Digital Engineering (DE) is the convergence of design, innovation and collaboration.
The total cost of ownership of an infrastructure asset can run into the billions of dollars. Finding ways to design, construct, implement and maintain these assets more efficiently remains a key goal for infrastructure developers, owners and operators. Common areas of focus include:
- Improving efficiency through reduced errors, rework, and RFIs during construction
- Capturing data requirements linked to asset management and operations
- Minimising construction waste through accurate materials specifications and use of modular or prefabricated design
- Calculating carbon performance
We see DE as more than just a design tool, it is an avenue for collaboration and coordinated information management to improve decision-making throughout the entire asset lifecycle.
Our 90+ years of experience in the infrastructure space coupled with our digital capabilities provides us with unique insights into the operation of assets. This allows us to apply deep domain expertise from the physical and digital world to provide DE models that deliver business outcomes.
GHD Digital can provide organisations with three tiers of service to manage their total cost of ownership using DE:
- Strategic: Helping organisations understand DE and develop options and strategies to implement DE/Building Information Modelling (BIM). Includes capturing client data requirements and linking to asset management and operations.
- Management: Developing and managing the integration of DE/BIM into bids, projects and asset operations. Includes data protocols, planning, workflows, quality management, connected data systems, standards, legal/commercial considerations plus DE roles & training.
- Technical: Involves integrating digital technical services into workflows and federated models, automating processes, content/object libraries, template development, data capture/survey, 4D sequencing, cost/quantity analysis (5D), analytics, visualization, safety, geospatial, and many more.
We are unique in our ability to apply specific domain expertise from our design of asset infrastructure with our digital capabilities in order to provide DE which truly replicates the intended operations of the asset.
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We have recognised the main drivers within each market sector that are leading the need for DE:
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