Starting with the end in mind: Systems integration in future infrastructure projects

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Jennifer Whyte, Laing O’Rourke/Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Systems Engineering at Imperial College London

Whatever you picture when thinking about construction will soon be wrong, if it’s not already. A radical change is taking place. The use of digital asset information by infrastructure owners is transforming the sector, bringing different professions into contact, and altering how these owners manage infrastructure portfolios, maintain inter-dependent infrastructure systems and deliver new projects.

With terra-bytes of data, and millions of documents the major infrastructure projects such as the Heathrow Terminal 5, London 2012 Olympics and Crossrail have pioneered new approaches to project delivery.

In her inaugural lecture Professor Jennifer Whyte will explore how digital information is changing the delivery of these complex engineering projects, whilst itself becoming a deliverable to owners and operators. She will consider the challenge of systems integration in future infrastructure projects, and argue that practitioners need to “start with the end in mind” when delivering new infrastructure. Finally she will conclude by setting out her vision for a future generation of tools and methods to achieve systems integration in infrastructure delivery.

About the speaker

Professor Jennifer Whyte is the Laing O’Rourke/Royal Academy of Engineering Professor of Systems Integration in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London; and Director of the Centre of Systems Engineering and Innovation.

Rejoining Imperial in October 2015, she has also worked at Loughborough, Sussex and Reading Universities and has led a Centre funded through the EPSRC ‘Challenging Engineering’ programme. Her research is on tools for and approaches to systems integration in infrastructure. She has studied how digital information is transforming both project delivery and infrastructure ownership. This research has contributing insights on the organization of major projects, visualization and management of engineering data and hand-over of asset information to infrastructure owners.

A member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) information systems panel; and external BIM advisory panels for Crossrail and HS2, she has also worked with the Infrastructure UK Client Working Group collaborative project teams programme; and was Shimizu Visiting Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University from April to June 2015.