The AVA Footbridge was one of four Physical Asset Demonstrator projects in the TIES Living Lab. It was a collaboration among industry leaders in engineering, manufacturing and construction. The prototype has recently been completed by the AVA consortium – made up of Walker Construction UK,… Read More »AVA Footbridge and Lift System
Infrastructure intelligence at your fingertips The Intelligent Infrastructure Control Centre (IICC) is a cloud-based digital platform that connects real-time complex engineering data sources to business-level decision-making processes. It was estimated that the economic impacts of the IICC could be considerable and so Costain with the… Read More »The Intelligent Infrastructure Control Centre (IP11)
One of the main objectives of the TIES Living Lab programme was to develop the collaborative protocols and benchmarks that the TIES Partners and their supply chains needed, so they could deliver a substantial improvement in terms of cost, scheduling, productivity, quality, environmental performance, and… Read More »Measuring the social value of infrastructure assets (IP10)
Cooling panels for deep underground networks The Cooling Panels physical asset demonstrator project – one of four designed to prove the benefits of modern methods of construction in the TIES Living Lab programme – involved designing, manufacturing and testing novel cooling panels suitable for the… Read More »Cooling panels for deep underground networks (IP4)
Automated design for cable routing, using the digital twin method. Cable routing design currently takes months or even years if the task is particularly complex and requires numerous iterations. It is a laborious manual process that puts people in difficult, dangerous, inhospitable environments, often at… Read More »Automated design for cable routing, using the digital twin method (IP2)
Off-site construction for modular equipment rooms. There is a growing need for rapid replacement and improvement of the aged signalling environments of UK rail networks, including an imminent need for new signalling and communications equipment rooms (SERs and CERs, respectively). Using modern methods of construction… Read More »OFF-SITE CONSTRUCTION FOR MODULAR EQUIPMENT ROOMS (IP3)
Economies of scale through harmonising selected standards Offsite construction and a design-for-manufacture approach only become economically viable when there are economies of scale. Without common standards that is difficult to achieve. In the UK infrastructure sector, all the major clients – Transport for London (TfL),… Read More »Harmonising standards across UK transport infrastructure clients (IP13)
Automating logistics through a central platform If construction is to make the most of the opportunities offered by offsite construction, it needs to learn lessons from other sectors, such as food and drink, and get much better at logistics. This project aimed to help with… Read More »Advanced logistics for end-to-end collaboration and coordination (IP12)
Collaborating across people, process and technology will drive change This project looked at how and where the diverse members of the transport infrastructure sector must work together to ensure that good quality data is collected and used – so that positive change can be affected… Read More »Good data through collaboration (IP9)
Setting out exactly how benchmarking data should be collected and stored If the industry wants to improve its productivity it needs to benchmark; find a project that is similar to yours, find out what they did better than you, and then work out how you… Read More »Protocols and processes for improving performance (IP8)