Transportation + infrastructure
Technology to Revolutionize America’s Transportation Infrastructure ADCMS Grants Create a Tipping Point for Digital Transformation
By Chris Bell, Vice President, Industry Strategy and Marketing, Owner & Public Sector, Trimble
Creating Impact Beyond Construction Advantages of digital construction technologies extend beyond the construction process. Once a construction project is completed, the asset owner can carry forward all the data collected during the planning, design, and construction of the asset, setting the owner up to manage, operate, and maintain the asset more efficiently for years or even decades into the future. But owners cannot achieve these benefits with the methods and tools used in the past. Antiquated technology, legacy proprietary data formats, and analog processes have created silos of “dark data” that are inaccessible (digitally or timely) to teams across the asset lifecycle. According to Deloitte Consulting research, these bottlenecks lead to an incremental 8 percent in incurred CAPEX costs and 15 percent overrun in operational costs. The ideal solution is to digitally transform how assets are designed, built, operated, and maintained through an asset lifecycle management platform. Asset owners will reduce data and productivity loss by connecting digital workflows across their design, project delivery, and
The Federal Highway Administration recently announced the allocation of $34 million in grant funding for state DOTs in 2023 to accelerate the use and deployment of Advanced Digital Construction Management Systems (ADCMS). ADCMS includes digital technologies and business processes that modernize how government agencies, engineering and construction firms, and other private companies work together to deliver infrastructure projects more efficiently and cost-effectively. The federal government’s commitment to construction technology with this funding, via FHWA’s Technology and Innovation Deployment Program, is creating a tipping point for widespread digital transformation among public transportation asset owners. Digital project delivery—the process of digitizing all aspects of a construction project, from planning and design through completed construction and asset handover—creates numerous benefits for transportation asset owners. Examples of digital construction technologies range from a project management system to integrated hardware and software solutions such as GPS-enabled land surveying tools, machine-operated construction equipment, 3D models of construction projects, and centralized databases that allow everyone involved in a project to see asset data as it evolves in real time. Implementing digital technologies helps boost productivity, improve collaboration and interoperability, and reduce project delays and overruns throughout the construction process. Reducing reliance on paper documents also helps increase the timeliness and effectiveness of information sharing, so projects are much more likely to be completed on time and within budget, with much less waste and rework.
asset management systems of record. Benefits of Digital Innovation
Today’s challenging environment is driving change. Public agencies are sharing with us that they want to take a more holistic and proactive approach to asset management. They need a platform that can be used across all asset lifecycle phases—from planning and design to construction, operations, and maintenance.
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