Sean Kearney

This session will introduce Smart Infrastructure as a concept and the drivers behind its adoption for UK asset owner and operators. The role of BIM in the use of Smart Infrastructure applications for new and existing assets will be addressed and examples of Smart Infrastructure applications and outcomes will be showcased, alongside future uses. Smart Infrastructure allows asset owners to see the unseen, by gaining intelligent insights into their operations through analysis of asset specific data. The availability of such data is ever-increasing, but outputs based on the data are not yet commonplace. Sean will ask, how can the industry use this information to gain efficiencies and enable sustainable outcomes to be reached? And as the creation of data-rich BIM models facilitates Smart Infrastructure, by embedding structured information into asset models during the project lifecycle. Key to this is the formation of asset owner specific OIR’s (Organizational Information Requirements), AIR’s (Asset Information Requirements) and EIR’s (Employer’s Information Requirements) that determine why, what and how information will be developed and made available for use during the lifecycle of the asset. Over four years on from the publication of PAS1192-3, how can the scarcity of asset owner OIR’s and AIR’s be addressed? Sean will look at what are the current applications of Smart Infrastructure technology, and how are these impacting organisations and society, and what does the future hold for Smart Infrastructure, and who/what are the enablers and blockers to the progress of these future solutions?