Mackley -- The Power of location for project and asset control

When GIS & BIM combine: Unlocking insights from your projects & assets with a next generation CDE

Watch Trevor Mossop, Technical Services Manager at J T Mackley & Co Ltd, explain how they have embraced a new way of working to deliver significant stakeholder value to their clients and fellow project team members.

As a main contractor specialising in flood defence and coastal maintenance projects, most of their work is for the Environment Agency and similar customers, and as such they needed a CDE to demonstrate BIM level 2 compliance in order to stay on the EA frameworks. Mackley also wanted to streamline their business operations and information management systems through a single solution in the cloud that would enable site workers to be able to access information in the field, rather than relying on network servers or email.

Trevor Mossop discusses the challenges Mackley faced, including his involvement with GroupBC, looking at how to make better, mobile use of geospatial data on the Shoreham Adur Tidal Wall project and how to engage site workers with minimal BIM knowledge or training.

He goes on to demonstrates on their own system how by uploading self-authored Google Earth KML files to the CDE, Mackley have enabled Field workers – using the map as the most natural, intuitive interface – to access the latest, approved, published information as simply as possible, via shapes and icons on a map.

By driving only appropriate information to workers, through links to pre-defined searches, Mackley can engage users in their BIM journey with minimal training. Information can also be shared with the supply chain and customer in the same manner, enabling them to collate and highlight Health and Safety information or O&M manuals for individual projects or assets via a single click on an icon on the map interface.

Information is also accessible via a QR code that can be printed and attached to an asset, so site workers can simply scan the QR code to access the latest linked information such as risk assessments, method statements etc on site from their mobile or tablet.

Trevor also demonstrates how that information is correctly structured and linked from the CDE to the asset, ensuring only the latest, trusted information is available.

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