Slides presented at the COMIT Projects Ltd Mobile IT Conference in London on 7th November 2013.

1. COMIT 2013 ‘Information
Mobility’ Conference
Introductions and Welcome

2. COMIT 2013 ‘Information
Mobility’ Conference
Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Duncan Evans – Head of Business Systems, Crossrail

3. COMIT 2013 ‘Information
Mobility’ Conference
Keynote Speech
Phil Jackson – Institute of Civil Engineers

4. INFORMATION MOBILITY
COMIT Conference 2013
Phil Jackson

5. What is Information?

6. Smart Market Report (USA)
• Better Collaboration 76%
• Improved Productivity 68%
• Shorter schedules 9%
• Cost decreases 10%
• ROI 2%
• Only 51% tracking information flow
• Only 20% tracking outside company
• Only 37% can access outside site office
• Mostly PDF or electronic paper
• Two important needs
– Gathering real-time data from job site
– Analysing that data

7. Data over the Internet
Cisco 2013

9. Information Mobility?

10. MOVING FROM

11. From Documents to Data to Information to Intelligence
From Drawing & Writing to Publication of Information

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DATA BURIED IN DELIVERED REPORTS SPECIFICATIONS & DRAWINGS
Word Processed or Handwritten
DUMB CAD or Paper
Deliverables Tick Box
&
Document
Management

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DATA CREATED, MODELLED, STORED, PUBLISHED, VIEWED or QUERIED
Clever People
Clever
Software
Stored
Federated
Data
Clever Technology

16. People ProcessTechnology
Information
Contract
&
Commercial
Standards

18. Information Management Components
• IM Strategy
• Business Intelligence and
Performance Management
• Enterprise Data Management
• Information Asset Management
• Enterprise Content Management
• Content Delivery
• Architecture and Technology
Enablement
Data Management Components
• Data Governance
• Data Quality
• Master Data Management
• Metadata Management
• Data Architecture
• Privacy/Security
• Data Retention and Archiving

19. People 1st
&
Throughout the Process

20. We Don’t do CHANGE!

21. What Makes Information Mobile?
• Accessibility
– Connected
– Capture Anywhere
– Consume Anywhere
– Usability
– Timeliness
– Relevance
• Standards
– Content & Structure
– Schema
– Open Data
– Linked Data
– Semantic Data
• Analytics
• Apps

22. Connected
• The Cloud
– Connects 3G, 4G, Wi Fi
– Synchronises (Dropbox)
– Provides analytical
computing power
• Does not make
information mobile
– Works on my Apple devices
but not universally
– Important it does not
become a ‘Lock in’ of data
– Relies on the size of the
‘Pipe’

23. Capture
• Ubiquitous Connected
Smart Devices
• Power of Position
– GPS
– Movement
• Sensors
– Everywhere (internet of
Things)
– Masses of Data

24. Autodesk 123D Catch
iPad Photographs to 3D Models

25. Location & Movement Tracking
• Mobile device locates via
GPS
• Apple M7 Chip gives a clue
• Tracks movement
• Tracks movement from a
recorded position
• Always on and recording

26. Sensor Examples
• Rolls Royce Engine
Health Management
(Enterprise)
• Boston Street Bump
(Crowd Sourced)

27. FUJISTU WisReed

29. Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee's Open Linked Data
Standards
★ make your stuff available on the web
(whatever format)
★★ make it available as structured data (e.g. excel
instead of image scan of a table) [editors note] excel
is now more or less an open format, so this is not a
great example!
★★★non-proprietary format (e.g. csv instead of
excel)
★★★★ use URLs to identify things, so that
people can point at your stuff
★★★★★ link your data to other people’s data to
provide context

30. The Open Data Institute
Knowledge for Everyone

31. ALL DATA
OPEN DATA
LINKED
DATA

33. Government Open
Data Movement
Openly available data with open APIs

34. Transport API is based on open data
feeds from key industry sources at
Traveline, Network Rail and TfL,

35. Linking Data

36. Researchers are collecting high frequency
physiological data, including heart rate and
respiration rate, to create algorithms that can
predict when a baby is at risk of infection and
other health complications.
Big Linked Data & Analytics

37. The Evolution of the Web
Web 1.0
Links Documents
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Web2.0
Tags & Links Documents
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Web 3.0 (The Semantic Web)
Links data in documents and
adds meaning

38. Liberated Data

39. Information
locked in
proprietary BIM,
reports and
drawings
Captured
Life
Cycle Data
Models
Drawings
Views
Specs
BoQ
Schedules
Sequences
WBS
FROM TO PUBLISHED

42. Life
Cycle Data
Models
Drawings
Views
Specs
BoQ
Schedules
Sequences
WBS
ANALYSED
CREATE
MODIFY
USE
PUBLISHED

44. INFORMATION MOBILTY
Business Architecture

45. COMIT 2013 ‘Information
Mobility’ Conference
Communication
Darren Oates – Timico Ltd

46. Information
Mobility
DarrenOates
7th November2013

47. • The lifecycle
• The issues
• The solutions
Agenda

48. • Not just from design to handover but conception to demolition
• Historically design based on blueprints – now BIM
• Now information is not just 3D modelling
– Time
– Cost
– Light Analysis
– Geographic Information
– Quantities
– Manufacturer details
– Change etc.
• Information flow and collaboration between design / main
contractor/subcontractors/owners/operators/demolition
• Single shared model in one place, accessible any time reduces
information loss and ensures the “single source of truth”
The Lifecycle of an Asset and it’s information

49. • The amount of information
• The storage of the information
• The security of the information
• Collaboration of the information
• Timeliness of the information (voice)
• The mobility of the information
• The accessibility and availability of
the information
The issues

50. • Site may not have adequate coverage on 3/4G
• Slow DSL speeds
• Cabins need moving
• Connectivity needs to be in place quickly
• Site is too short term to invest in infrastructure
• Site is a refurbishment
• Importance of a site back-up connection
• Site has no initial electricity
• Multiple users
• Excess construction charges
Bandwidth & site issues

51. Ways to solve site and bandwidthissues
Numberof people
on site
Time
Wireless

52. 4G connectivity as example

53. Security of the information

54. Fullymanaged,privateAPNservice
Control/restrict/blockinternetaccess
MobileAccess Management
Ensurepolicy compliance formobileusers
NoVPNclientneededon thedevices
SimpleWAN integrationofmobile devices

55. Storage of the information
Can be anywhere, however a data centre with diverse
links, redundant power, controlled environment, 99.999
uptime would reduce the risk of location consolidation.

56. Collaborationtools

57. • No regeneration of information
• Current up to date information
• Reduced travel costs
• Reduce risk
• Ease of handover
Collaborating,sharing & centralising

58. Thank you

59. COMIT 2013 ‘Information
Mobility’ Conference
BIM for Mobility
Harrison O’Hara – Costain PLC

60. BIM for Mobility
7th November 2013
Harrison O’Hara – Mobile BIM Technician

61. Agenda
61
• Engineering Doctorate – Mobilising Building Information Modelling
• Challenges we face
• Health and safety concerns
• Industry examples
• Health and safety benefits
• Summary
• Q & A

62. Mobile Generation
62

63. Engineering Doctorate
63
Mobile BIM Technician
Shared Learning
Head of BIM for Mobility
Research Engineer

64. Challenges we Face

65. Challenges
65
 Culture change
 User adoption
 Re engineering
processes
 Maintaining best
practice
 Interoperability
 Simple interfaces
Health & Safety
People Process Technology

66. Health & Safety
66
 Company Health and Safety Policies
 Safe Use of Mobile Phones & Personal Electronic Equipment updated
June 2013
 Task specific briefings and Risk Assessments
 Educate the workforce on their use
 Chose the appropriate hardware
 PPE to accommodate mobile devices
 Simple and intuitive applications
It is NOT a mobile
phone!
Source: www.theguardian.com

67. Providing Training
67
“Tell me and I forget,
teach me and I may remember,
involve me and I learn.”
― Benjamin Franklin
 A simple poster or signage will NOT be enough
 Interactive and hands on training
 Continuous and regular refresher training

68. Health and Safety
68
Source: www.theguardian.com Source: www.golime.co
How are they different?

69. • She was "driving with monitor
visible to driver (Google
Glass)".
Recent News
69
Covered by exceptions in the
27602 code

70. Industry Wide Standards
70
• Company wide guidance is essential
• Clearly indentify the protocols
• Progress will not wait!
• End users will indentify loop holes to increase efficiency
• Not necessarily the safest method of working

71. Industry Examples

72. Health and Safety
72
iPad Safe Zones
 Case Study – Costain Skanska, C412 Crossrail Bond Street
 Restrict the use of iPads to within
clearly demarcated safe zones.
 Clear signage is used along with
bright green pedestrian barriers.
The task briefing also covers the
use of carry cases and straps.
 Future vision to gradually extend
the boundaries

73. Health and Safety
73
Mobile devices for maintenance operations
 Case Study – All Wales Routine Maintenance Contract (RMC), Costain
Transient workers at multiple locations
Risk assessed as a place away from the face of work
 One day training for all end users
All staff signed to confirm receipt of training

74. Health and Safety
74
Water Sector
 Case Study – Wanlip Waste Water Treatment Works, Costain
How are the iPads used?
Site Diary application
Swipe in and out of site
SHE inspections
Risk mitigations
Inclusion of iPads in Risk Assessment
Users are restricted from walking when using the iPads
Must be in a safe place of work (This is not a defined safe zone)
iPad stylus pens

75. • Context aware applications
– Ensure the mobile device is used as a TOOL and less of a distraction
– Pre-filled data
– Reducing the number of interactions
– Context enables the apps to become smarter and easier to use
Simple and Intuitive Applications
75
> Advance Ergonomics
> User friendly and intuitive design
> Works in tandem with the users process and workflow

76. The Health and Safety Benefits

77. Health and Safety Benefits
77
 Minimising movement around construction sites
 Reducing the amount of equipment required
 Access to project information during safety critical operations
 Increasing the accuracy of work carried out
 Instant and live reporting on safety issues

78. Health and Safety Benefits
78
Instant and live reporting on safety issues
 Case Study – New Doha International Airport, Bechtel Civil
Safety Observation Reports
800 Obs
per Week
Source: www.fas.org
1,000 Obs
per Week
Source: abcnewsradioonline.com
1,400 Obs
per Week
Source: blog.modspace.com
Traditional method
First week of use
Peak usage

79. Future Vision
79
Guidance and protocols from the HSE
 Mobile IT module introduced into the CSCS test
Location based control and management of future
devices
Consideration for the mobile devices of the future

80. Summary
80
 Introducing mobile devices will always add risk
 Use appropriate risk mitigation tools to implement the devices
safely
 Educate the workforce on how they are being used
 Understand and promote the potential benefits
 Embrace the mobile generation

81. Thank you for listening!
81
Any Questions?
Contact: Harrison O’Hara
Email: Harrison.ohara@comitprojects.com
Mobile: 07881108741

82. COMIT 2013 ‘Information
Mobility’ Conference
Break
Down Stairs at Eric’s

83. COMIT 2013 ‘Information
Mobility’ Conference
Making Crossrail Mobile
Neill Pawsey & Tom O’Keefe - Crossrail

84. Making Crossrail Mobile
Neill Pawsey
Crossrail BIM in Delivery Working Group (BiDWG) Co-Chair
Tom O’Keefe
Crossrail BiDWG Mobility Task Group Leader

85. • Crossrail – Moving London Forward
• A Review of 2012
• Where are we now in 2013?
• What are our future plans?
• Some 2013 Mobile Project Examples
• The Business Case for Mobility
85
Agenda

87. 28 surface Station upgrades
8 major sub-surface stations
90km surface network upgraded
21km twin-bore tunnels
Crossrail: Delivering scale

89. Crossrail Scope Map

90. Where we got to with Mobile IT
A Review of 2012

91. Crossrail
Maps
Asset
Information
Risk Mgt.Cost Mgt. Design
Control
Schedule
Mgt.
Health &
Safety
Document
Control
Contract
Admin.
Data Integration and validation
Crystal Cube
Data
Warehouse
Finance
Area
Directors
Report
Programme
Directors
Report
Sponsors
Dashboard
Electronic
Dashboards
Programme-wide
Feeder Systems

92. View documents from
our EDMS in the field
A Review of 2012
Capture Field Operative
Tasks lists and record
progress

93. • Things that we struggled with
93
• Things that we like
A Review of 2012
Connection to core
business applications –
they were not built with a
mobile first approach.
iOS5Our Managed
Service
Providers ability
in this area
Installing SSL Certificates
– Trusted Devices
Connections surviving the
open / close cover use
case
Specialist Third Party
Applications
Things that worked .. But were
clunky
SSL Reverse
Proxy

94. Highlights from the year
Where we are now in 2013?

95. Mobility Task Group Aim
To research, develop, trial, adopt, and promote appropriate mobility tools, applications, and
communication technologies for all sites on the Crossrail project in order to equip Site Based
Personnel with adequate information to make informed, accurate and timely decisions.
Delivery
Development and roll-out of a
solution for Crossrail team (and
shared processes)
Knowledge Share
With the wider industry and
Contractors working on the
Crossrail Project
Project Information
IT
Engineering
Field Engineering
Construction
Technical Information
Contractors
Technical Partners
Mobility Task Group

96. Identify
Need
Select
Projects
Understand
Business
Value
Conduct
Proof of
Concept
Measure
Business
Value
Drive
Adoption
Core Solution
Process
Software
Hardware
Health and Safety
Future Applications
Business Case for
Mobility
2014?
1. Document Retrieval
2. Data Capture (Forms)
Mobility Task Group

97. • Business Problem:
– Disconnect: Digital repository vs. Paper on site
– Time: eB ‘black hole’
– Encourages poor practice = project risk
• Solution:
– Bentley Field Supervisor App
– Package based Virtual Item Groups
• Status:
– Field Supervisor App released 16th May 2013
– Backend server work – complete?
– Virtual Item Groups set up for BOS and WHI test sites
• Future:
– Site testing at BOS and WHI to measure business value
– Allow more localised control of VIGs?
– Assist Bentley in the development of the App (PTR info, usability etc.)
Identify
Need
Select
Projects
Understand
Business
Value
Conduct
Proof of
Concept
Measure
Business
Value
Drive
Adoption
App 1: Document Retrieval

98. • Problem Process Improvement:
– Improve data quality by reducing latency
– Increase sample size
– Realise time savings through automation
• Solution:
– Phase 1: Formotus based Observation Report
– Phase 2: Generic forms solution
• Status:
– Formotus site testing complete at BOS and WHI sites
– Extension of forms capability within the Field Supervisor application
• Future:
– Complete Field Supervisor application forms component and begin site testing
Identify
Need
Select
Projects
Understand
Business
Value
Conduct
Proof of
Concept
Measure
Business
Value
Drive
Adoption
App 2: Data Capture (Forms)

99. • Hardware
– Device type and keeping current – requirements
– Size – bigger isn’t always better
– Ruggardisation – a good idea?
• Applications and Operating Systems
– Operating System
– Generic 3rd party vs bespoke
• User Acceptance
– Understanding the process and business requirement
– Form design has a big impact
– Replication
– The importance of core applications – the tipping point
• Health and Safety
– Critical for successful implementation
– Tool for a specific activity
– Changing culture
Lesson’s Learned to Date

100. • Drawing Validation
– Co-developed with the Field Supervisor application
– Field validation of drawing status using off the shelf data
matrix reader
– Status: Awaiting completion of server work
• Mobile GIS
– Crossrail Maps exposed through a bespoke application
– Status: Testing underway
• iModels in Navigator
– Can be accessed through the virtual item groups in the Field
Supervisor Application
– Status: Awaiting completion of server work and working with
modelling task group to implement
Future Mobile Tech and Apps

101. • 4D Augmented Reality
– Crossrail have assisted in the field trials of Bechtel's 4D
Augmented Reality software
– Status: Initial field trials complete
• Asset Tagging
– Asset Information stored in eB – could be exposed for field
activities through the Field Supervisor application
– Status: Opportunities to be explored
• Bluetooth Low Energy
– Health and Safety: coupled with positional MDM software
– Contextual Information: based on your location
– Visualisation: Benefits to AR?
– Status: Proof of concept to be performed
Future Mobile Tech and Apps

102. • White Paper for Mobile IT on Crossrail
Wrap up document that sets out the plan for the project-wide Mobile IT solution:
– Hardware and Operating System
– Software developments, opportunities and testing
– IT Infrastructure requirements
– Health and Safety implications and best practice
– IT support requirements
– Contractor considerations
– Communication tools (Innovate18, video guides, BIM Academy etc.)
– High level business case
Using findings from Crossrail site trials, previous project experiences and COMIT
• Roll out solution!
Mobile Strategy and 2014 Plan

103. Our View of the Benefits
The Business Case for Mobility?

104. Worksite business requirements stem from the need for:
• Collaborative information
• In the right place at the right time
• Directly supporting safer working
Business Drivers

105. Derived from analysis conducted at C411 Bond Street Project
Quantitative:
• Reduced printing costs - £9,600 per annum
• Reduced travel around the worksite - £3,300 per annum
• Reduced double-entry of data - £1,700 per annum
Business Benefits

106. Derived from analysis conducted at C411 Bond Street Project
Qualitative:
• Enables Field Engineers and Site Managers to spend more time on site whilst
staying connected to colleagues and issues in the office
• Paper tends to loose all integrity in wet weather whereas a cased tablet allows the
user to view and annotate drawings in all weather conditions.
• The majority of drawings are produce in A1 but for practical reasons are often
printed in A3. This makes viewing some of the more detailed elements difficult. A
tablet device allows the user to zoom in and view drawings as intended.
• The ability to access emails and outlook at the site offices and during meetings.
Business Benefits

107. • The total quantitative benefits are estimated at £14,583 per annum, giving a Total
Quantitative Benefit (over 5 years) of £72,915.
• Using these benefits as the basis for extrapolation across all the CRL worksites is too
subjective for business case purposes
• A conservative approach assumes that these benefits would apply to 12 (of the 24)
main worksites (ie the Stations, Portals, Shafts and Tunnel Drives) across the
Programme.
• This approach would yield an estimated quantitative benefit of £175,000 per annum
or £875,000 Total Benefit (over five years) averaged over 12 of 24 main worksites.
• It is assumed that the qualitative benefits will apply universally across all of the 24
main worksites.
Business Benefits

108. Thank You

109. COMIT 2013 ‘Information
Mobility’ Conference
The Bigger Picture
Richard Lane – BIM Task Group

110. 7 November 2013
COMIT Conference 2013
The Bigger Picture
Richard Lane
Departmental Support / Training Development Officer, BIM Task Group

111. Introduction

112. The Current State
• Lack of Clear Communication of Client Needs
• Incorrect Assumptions or Miscommunication within
the Supply Chain
• Rework / Recreation of Data
• Inability for Project Participants to ‘Speak the Same
Language’
• Poor or No Information Management
• Limited Reuse or Standardisation
35%

113. Objective
Government Construction Strategy
2.32 Government will require fully
collaborative 3D BIM (with all project
and asset information, documentation and
data being electronic) as a minimum by
2016
15-20% cost and carbon reduction on
all centrally procured government construction
projects within the current parliament

114. What is BIM?Building a consistent, collaborative industry, with
clear and open communication
Information of high-quality is procured to support
business outcomes
Modelling the design increases efficiency,
enabling simulation & analysis

115. 2012 2013 2014 2015
Data – Manual Checking Data – Digital Checking
Discovery, Mobilise
& Test L2 Model
Embedding
BIM/GSL in Depts
MOJ 100%BIM &
2# Pilots / Dept
All Govt departments
have published
BIM/GSL
Strategies and
Roadmaps and
forward pipelines
All
Government
Departments 100%
Level 2
BIM / GSL Enabled
Accelerate Dept
Pilot Delivery
BIM/GSL ,
Benefits Realisation
2016Legacy–DigitalBuiltBritain
Outcomes
Departmental
Summary
Roadmap
Rollout

116. The Challenge
1.3 The industry is highly fragmented, with over 300,000 businesses
(of which 99.7% are SMEs) and over 2 million workers
Capacity & Capability

117. "Civilization advances by extending the
number of important operations which
we can perform without thinking of
them."
Alfred North Whitehead

118. Considerations
• Data Creation, Review, Analysis & Maintenance
• Location, Time, Format, Device, Accuracy,
Security, Connectivity, Version Control
• Simplicity, User Experience, Training
• Formats, Interoperability,
• Standards, Policies, Process
• Automation
• Cost

120. Thanks
For more information
www.bimtaskgroup.org
@BIMgcs
richard@creonova.co.uk
@richardlane

121. COMIT 2013 ‘Information
Mobility’ Conference
Lunch
Downstairs at Eric’s

122. COMIT 2013 ‘Information
Mobility’ Conference
COMIT Projects Ltd
Jason Scott & Gerry Samuelsson- Brown - COMIT

123. A bit about COMIT
Gerry Samuelsson-Brown
Jason Scott

124. 10 years ago a baby was born…
DTI Project
Community
Company
COMIT Projects Ltd

125. Members

126. Community Days…

127. Projects…
Incite Cajole
Enable
Push
Manage
Promote
Encourage
Help
Consult
Identify
Assess
Measure
Disseminate!
Broker Lead Communicate

128. Demonstration projects…
Identify
Need
Select
Projects
Understand
Business
Value
Conduct
Proof of
Concept
Measure
Business
Value
Drive
Adoption

129. Rapid Site Setup

130. Augmented Reality…
• Google Earth
• Fixed point
• Video overlay
• Real time location

131. Safety Alert Systems
• Known Hazard
• Alerts Proximity solutions

132. A New Project…
Martin Wing

133. COMIT’s Aim:
To be the centre of excellence
for Mobile IT in Construction

134. The directors…
Iain Miskimmin
Neill Pawsey
Gerry
Samuelsson-Brown

135. COMIT 2013 ‘Information
Mobility’ Conference
Transforming Efficiency with Supply
Chain Collaboration in the Cloud
Stuart Young - COMIT Projects , Lead for COMIT in EMT
Sandeep Jain – Mobibiz CEO, Lead PM for EMT

136. Motivation to change
• Materials and Equipment can control 80% of the
project schedule
• Construction Industry invests < 0.15 % of its costs in
Materials Management and control
• Poor visibility of the supply chain is often a
contributor to poor performance
• Major drain on the specialist resource at critical
times

137. What is the Project about?
What is Enable My Team?
• Cloud based collaboration platform.
• It’s a new approach to the integration and use of
information to create Big Data.
• Full view of information throughout asset
lifecycle
• Will help bridge the information gap and lead to
more informed decision making

138. Construction History and Procurement of
Goods and Services
• Neolithic Period
• Romans
• Egyptian
• Mesopotamia
• Ancient Greece
• Medieval
• Renaissance
• 17th and 18th century
• 19th Century - Industrial Revolution
• 20th Century – 2nd Industrial Revolution
• 21st Century – The Digital Revolution

139. Construction Industry Today
• Has £90 billion gross value to the UK economy
• 280,000 businesses
• It accounts for 3million jobs
• Wide and far reaching significance
• Historically it has been a bellwether to the economy
Recent times
• Was hit by Economic downturn
Source: ONS ABS

140. What do we Want?

141. Why Supply Chain Intelligence?
• How well do you know your Supply Chain?
• Can you easily see who is financially weak and
therefore more likely to have difficulty performing?
• How prone is the supplier to natural disasters?
• Monitored performance
• Contract specification compliance
• Health and Safety and Environmental record
• Quality of finished product

142. Why Supply Chain Intelligence?

143. What role will Big Data play?
• What is big Data?
• What are the current perceptions?
• What are the benefits?
• The Big Data revolution.
• What will it mean to Business?
• Who will access it?
– Source: MGI/ Sunday Times
Source: MGI

144. Industry Benefit
• Up to the minute information sharing
• A more knowledgeable team
• Greater buying gain opportunities
• Improved relations with Supply Chain, Client and other stakeholders
• Greater schedule certainty
• The location and identification of manufactured materials progress
• Much better control of costs
• Improved quality performance
• Timely matching of invoices
• Matching build schedule with available materials and services
• Improved commercial valuation.
• Faster processing of supply chain application
• Improved cash flow
• Reduced waste
• Reduced risk improved safety
Greater Overall Project Control
•

145. The Future of Construction
Gov Initiative Construction 2025
The Vision
• People
• Smart
• Sustainable
• Growth
• Leadership

146. What's Coming?
• Infrastructure
– Gov. Capital Spending plan increase £3Bn by 2015/16.
Total additional investment of £18Bn by 2020.
– £9.4Bn Rail investment
– UK Guarantee Support for Northern Line Extension

147. What happens when we don’t have
what is required and it all goes wrong?

148. TSB Funded Project
An Endorsement
of Our Vision
EnableMyTeam
Supply Chain Collaboration
In The Cloud
A project by Costain, MobiBiz and COMIT

149. Collaboration
Resilience &
Scalability
Security&
Identity
Assurance
Interoperability &
Cloud SLA

150. Insight: detect patterns and identify
potential risks to the supply chain Better supplier relationship management
End-end ubiquitous visibility into the
supply chain
Better use of assets and resources
Purcha
sed
Used
100%
1
2
3
4

151. Changing order specification and design lead to a lot of rework
and costs money
Design changes & approvals can be communicated via
integration between contractor and supplier systems via the
cloud.
Contractors make better decisions based on complete order
visibility and suppliers can sense demand with a view on the
order pipeline
Supply Chain Visibility

152. Business Case for
more Collaboration
Real-time data means agility and quicker
response

153. Different sets of Architectural Glass can be of varying design
attributes and specification. Each set presents a lot of
uniqueness
Post-build maintenance requires history of when and which plant
a set of glass of made in.
Tagging and relaying the tag to manufacturer, contractor &
designer enables capturing asset information against the tag
which can be used from design, build through to maintenance &
operation phase.
Asset lifecycle Tracking

154. KPI: Waste Reduction
Bad Logistics
Track Materials/Plant Ordered, Delivered, Used, Lost, Damaged and Returned. Cost of
Muck away
15 %
Construction Material Wasted
?From where..

155. Intelligence System
Actionable
Intelligence
Turn Big Data into
actionable information

156. www.enablemyteam.com
http://www.comit.org.uk
sjain@enablemyteam.com
s.young@comitproject.org.uk

157. MobiCloud : Building the
Enterprise Appstore for
Construction
Martin Wilson

158. MobiCloud - Project Overview
Founding partners

159. Enterprise Mobility Timeline
1996 1999 2003
2013 - 20202006-2011

160. Construction Appstore
• Site Procedures and Checklists
• Project Processes, including
work assignment sign-off and
quality auditing
• Business
• Processes
• Incident Management and
Reporting
• Automation and Management
of Safety Permits
• Management of Assets

161. Corporate Appstore Benefits
Manage corporate
mobile applications
across their entire
lifecycle, from
development to
deployment and
support
Integration
Deployment
Use
ManagementTroubleshooting
Analytics
App
Development
IT Mgr
Users
Developers
Support
Diagnostics
Managers

162. Corporate Appstore Infrastructure
Employee Appstore

163. • Platform vs Silos – taking control
– Early trial silos will grow and become full
production silos, so adopt a platform
approach
– It’s good to let your business units run wild
with new application ideas, but it will be
costly to let them do so without guidance
– A failed trial could set back significantly your
mobility strategy: you only have one chance
to impress your end-users, get it right from
the start!
Key Technology Challenges

164. • How to ensure robust and cost-effective
integration with legacy systems? rich SDK
– About 50% of a new enterprise mobile
application’s code is related to the back end
integration connector
– Poorly designed connectors are a major
point of failure of the overall system
– The connector needs to support the current back-
end configuration (and any subsequent upgrade
that the back-end vendor will implement without
letting you know!)
Key Technology Challenges

165. • Re-using existing code base: ready made
apps vs custom developments
– Forget about “there is already an app for
everything in public appstores”
– But don’t try to reinvent the wheel every
time a new business request comes and
spend 6 months building a new app from
scratch
– Best of both worlds: ready-made enterprise
app templates that can be easily customized
to your needs
Key Technology Challenges

166. • Involving end-users as early as possible in
design phase : agile development
• Keeping flexibility during deployment phase:
continuous integration and testing
• Ensuring end-user adoption and compliance:
change management
Key Process Challenges

167. MobiCloud Architecture
Back End ERP
Systems
Operations
IT Support
Team Leader
Field
Employees
Connecting Back-End
Systems
To Field Service
Employees

168. Context – Enhanced Workflow, Ergonomics
GPS: N 59°38.304’ E 17°56.368'
ID: Certified Engineer #42
Current Task: Airframe Check
External Temperature: -10⁰C
Asset Number: LN-RRB
Closest Mechanic: Larsson, Ulf
Right
Information
Right User
Right Place
Right Time

169. Cross Platform – Native vs HTML5
• Native, Hybrid or Web?
• Show of Hands
– How many type of OS are you planning to support: 1,2,3, more?
– Have you selected an architecture: none yet, native, web, hybrid, other?
• Mobile Development Myths

170. • Developing a series of user cases to help drive
efficiencies in time and cost into current
processes both on site and in other areas of the
business
• Identifying key user cases and develop these into
working mobile applications for trial and release
across the business
• Creating a full suite of apps to replace inefficient
paper based and disjointed processes on site,
whilst backing up data in a cloud based system
• Offering these apps to Costain employees and
subcontractors in an corporate app store set up
Costain's experience deploying tablet-based
solutions in the field.

171. Current Challenges
• Considerable amount of paperwork associated with site
activities
• Engineers and supervisors – most time spent on site
• Inefficient time spent between site and office
• Long working days
• Health and Safety (S.H.E.), quality, asset management,
quantity surveying, material/plant, site diaries
• Lack of real-time data leading to inaccuracies in records

172. Site Diary
Demonstration

173. Building the Ecosystem
Membership
Type
Acceptance Criteria
Community
Membership
This will be open all individuals or companies that express an interest and provide a valid
email address. They will be added to the ecosystem@mobicloudproject.eu list and receive all
public notifications about the project
Early Adopter
Program
This will be open to developers or customers that express an interest and fill a simple survey
form to describe their goals in joining the program. Upon joining they will receive an account
in the MobiCloud Showroom where they can test specific demo applications. They will also
receive access to the MobiCloud SDK and documentation, without any dedicated support.
Associate
Member
Program
This will be open to individuals or companies that express an interest in using the MobiCloud
infrastructure to run their own pilots and pay a yearly fee. Upon joining they will receive
access to the MobiCloud SDK and the MobiCloud certification training. Upon successfully
completing the training, they will be listed as certified developers or certified system
integrators in the MobiCloud Store website.

174. Join the MobiCloud Community:
www.mobicloudproject.eu

175. COMIT 2013 ‘Information
Mobility’ Conference
Tomorrows World
Francis Rabuck – Technology Research Analyst , Futurist
and Communicator

176. COMIT 2013 ‘Information
Mobility’ Conference
Panel Discussion

177. COMIT 2013 ‘Information
Mobility’ Conference
Chairman’s Closing Remarks
Duncan Evans – Head of Business Systems, Crossrail

178. Thank you to the Sponsors of the
Conference

179. Pub & Networking