Lead Your Firm into the Era of Digital Project Delivery

There’s a huge amount of infrastructure activity taking place globally. In fact, analysts project that USD 3.7 trillion of investment in economic infrastructure alone will be needed every year from now until 2035 to keep pace with growth.1 This situation represents major opportunities for engineering consulting firms like yours. Yet, productivity restraints and tight margins are likely making it difficult for you to fully participate in and profit from related projects.

Global labor-productivity in the design/construction industry lags behind manufacturing (3.6%) and the total world economy (2.8%).2

The world’s infrastructure investment has fallen short of investment needs. There is a USD 5.5 trillion spending

gap globally between now and 2035.

Opportunities Abound—When Your Capabilities Align

Most engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) firms have

pre-tax margins in the single digits.3

1 Bridging infrastructure gaps: Has the world made progress?, McKinsey, 20172 Reinventing Construction: A Route to Higher Productivity, McKinsey, 20173 Voices on Infrastructure: Transforming project delivery, McKinsey, 2017

per year over two decades1% USD 5.5 trillion 6-11% pretax

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You’re facing a combination of pressures on your firm’s projects and resources:

Increasing Project Complexity

Increasing Owner Expectations

Increasing Competition

A Changing Business Landscape

4 The Past and Present of Megaprojects, PMI, 2017

Countries like China, Korea, and India have sharpened their focus on targets outside their home economies to grow business and market share.

While you’re competing against these players, you also face threats from ongoing industry consolidation that puts your existing competitive advantage to the test.

Tougher contract models, such as lump-sum turnkey contracts, along with public-private partnerships, are shifting a greater burden of project risks and costs to your firm.

You’re also frequently being asked to demonstrate building information modeling (BIM) competency and digital innovation during the vetting process.

Megaprojects are expected to rapidly increase to 24% of global GDP in the next 10 years.4

Your project teams are typically larger and more distributed, too, and they’re generating large amounts of project data that must be shared, managed, and leveraged as a source of insights.

With increasingly complex projects, it’s vital that your team have access to the information that they need, when they need it. The delays that they may have been able to work around in the past can now have a more immediate and serious impact on your team’s productivity and project margins.

With the largest infrastructure projects requiring an average of 130 million emails, 55 million documents, and 12 million workflows5, relying on outdated processes to manage your information is simply not sustainable.

Information is scattered Projects routinely store design information in multiple, disparate locations, including your local/network drives, general file sharing systems, and organization- and application-specific data silos.

Information is not always current Sharing information often requires manual publishing workflows between your team members and software systems, which happens infrequently and without adequate traceability.

Your projects are wasting significant time Your project participants are spending hours searching for information and establishing its provenance. They also waste time transferring large files between systems, organizations, and global time zones. More delays occur when information is lost or your staff performs work against out-of-date records, and then must engage in rework to address inaccuracies.

These impacts most often occur when:

CHALLENGE:

An Outdated Approach to Information Management

5 Big Data = Big Questions for the Engineering and Construction Industry, FMI, 2018

SOLUTION:

Enable a Connected Data Environment

An open, connected data environment is a set of cloud-provisioned or on-premises services that support digital context, digital components, and digital workflows. By enabling this type of environment, you can better manage and access consistent, trusted, and accurate information. With ProjectWise’s engineering project collaboration software, you’ll have capabilities that are uniquely suited to enable your connected data environment.

Best-in-Class Design App Integration With tight multi-vendor integration, you’ll support seamless, automated, and CAD standards-compliant publishing from all leading design applications. You’ll be able to quickly and reliably share current, high-quality information through your connected data environment as a result.

Comprehensive Search, Audit, and Security With integrated Azure search and version control, your project participants will be able to find trusted, up-to-date information quickly. You’ll also help prevent lost data through configurable user permissions and cloud-based data recovery.

Purpose-built for Design of Complex Capital ProjectsYou’ll remove project size limits with scalability to petabytes of data and thousands of users. Support for delta file transfer, caching servers, and reference file management means that you’ll be able to efficiently share extremely large design files between offices and across globally distributed project teams.

How can you succeed in delivering complex designs under tight schedule requirements when:

• Communication gaps across various locations and among diverse design disciplines impede up-to-date information access and exchange?

• Related risks result from time wasted searching or waiting for needed information, or from performing rework because of out-of-date information?

Applying New Technologies and Practices for Greater Design SuccessMott MacDonald met these challenges by implementing a connected data environment to support the Thames Tideway East Project, part of the largest infrastructure project ever undertaken by the UK water industry. Using ProjectWise, the firm seamlessly brought together project participants and design content across the project to improve digital collaboration and information management while minimiz-ing design delivery time.

Mott MacDonald Accelerates Project Delivery

80%REDUCTION IN DELIVERY TIME

ProjectWise enabled the project to achieve control and clarity in our design delivery and, ultimately, deliver a better-quality product to our client.” Michael Gaunt, BIM Manager, Mott MacDonald

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As a result, Mott MacDonald achieved a six-month reduction in the design program and an 80% reduction in delivery time to the final client. The lessons learned are now being applied to other major UK projects to achieve similar outcomes.

As you take on added project cost and risk under new contract models, you need to know that you are doing everything possible to keep projects moving smoothly. Yet, the processes that you’re using to support design teamwork can often go sideways, with a negative impact on project costs, quality, and risk.

Manual workflows Your project teams remain too reliant on manual workflows for critical collaboration, such as deliverables exchanges and design reviews.

Disjointed IT systems An average project may employ 18 applications and systems that often lack data interoperability, creating significant IT complexity and promoting unmanaged copies of information. Decision-making suffers in this scenario because valuable information is partitioned across engineering and business operations repositories, so it’s largely inaccessible to your project team and organization. At the same time, when your IT stacks vary across projects, your project participants often have to relearn workflows, which wastes time and makes project outcomes less predictable.

Sub-par productivity and avoidable project risk Manual and disjointed workflows combine to erode your team’s productivity while increasing risks. In the end, it’s an untenable position with both project complexity and owner expectations soaring.

Here’s why:

CHALLENGE:

Inefficient Design Collaboration

SOLUTION:

Industrialize Project Workflows

When you industrialize your BIM workflows, you automate and standardize them, incorporating best practices so that they’re repeatable and scalable. This practice includes driving adoption of the right applications to enable simpler collaboration and more consistent project execution. By doing so, your firm can boost productivity and reduce risk for better project results. With ProjectWise, you’ll help your teams do their best work through the ability to effectively support workflows.

BIM Automation and EnforcementYou’ll automate configurable workflows to enable closed-loop reviews that accelerate collaboration and keep projects moving. With automated enforcement of standards, including PAS 1192 and ISO 19650, you’ll standardize on industry best practices to promote more predictable projects.

Expanded Digital CollaborationThrough ProjectWise 365 Services, you’ll deploy integrated cloud services to extend digital collaboration across your supply chain and stakeholders, automating workflows and managing information exchanges within your connected data environment. In the process, you’ll save time, eliminate risk, and improve project performance.

Faster, More Informed Decision-MakingThrough data federation, application integration, and workflow automation with your Microsoft 365 enterprise environment, you’ll break down data silos to broaden access to project information. As a result, you’ll increase the speed and quality of decisions, improve productivity, and deliver more predictable project outcomes.

BIM Collaboration Software Solution

ARC Advisory Group, August 2019

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How can you implement BIM workflows across a global organization, thousands of projects, and hundreds of clients when:

• Your firm relies on many different software applications worldwide?

• BIM implementation would involve reinventing the wheel for each new project?

Transforming Challenge to Opportunity with ProjectWise For Jacobs Engineering Group, an American international technical professional services firm, ProjectWise was an ideal solution. With it, the firm industrialized its project delivery practices by automating BIM workflows and facilitating the enforcement of project standards, such as BS 1192, and best practices—all in a repeatable and scalable manner.

Jacobs Implements BIM Workflows to Industrialize Project Delivery

$1m As a result, Jacobs reduced both new project start-up time and related labor costs. The firm also achieved overhead savings of USD 1 million per annum overall for a positive impact on the bottom line.

SAVINGS

Our use of Bentley applications is synonymous with successful project delivery.”Hinesh Mistry, Global Technology, Jacobs Engineering Group

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CHALLENGE:

Insufficient Visibility into PerformanceStaying competitive in a dynamic, increasingly global industry depends on superior project performance—even as project complexity spirals. You want to make proactive changes to improve performance, but with your current processes, it’s hard to tell what’s working and what’s not.

Time-consuming, manual reporting It takes significant time and effort for you to extract, combine, and analyze data when it’s managed and stored in disparate systems that are cumbersome to access.

Limited, outdated reports Since reports are difficult to create and update, you find that they are done too infrequently and with limited scope. As a result, you’re always evaluating performance using data from a past moment in time, so your analysis is outdated from the start.

Difficulty in risk management Without access to up-to-date data, you have a limited ability to track what’s happening to manage project risk and meet increasing stakeholder reporting requirements. Instead, you’re left reacting to issues after the fact. This situation keeps you focused on damage control when you’d rather be addressing ways to continuously improve project performance.

Typically, this lack of visibility stems from:

SOLUTION:

Enable On-demand Insights into Project Performance

Full Visibility into Performance Through automated, on-demand dashboards, you’ll gain insight into past, present, and future project performance so you can proactively manage and adjust project performance.

Best Practice Identification and Monitoring With similar dashboards across multiple projects, you’ll pinpoint and track best practices to improve your firm’s efficiency and competitive position.

Greater Flexibility and Control over Project Data You’ll more easily combine and analyze project data into KPIs that deliver performance insights for whatever point in time you need to evaluate.

When you know what’s happening to your projects at any time, you can take actions to improve performance with greater confidence and for better results. With ProjectWise Project Insights, you’ll leverage a unique cloud service to gain on-demand insights into project performance. This service includes tapping into insights within the growing volumes of big data that your projects now generate, to improve margins and competitiveness.

How can you support your digital strategy when your project management approach leads to:

• Difficulty leveraging and visualizing information across projects?

• Long-term reliance on rearward-looking, manual reporting?

• Decision-making hindered by a lack of real-time insights?

Removing Obstacles, Improving Project Management Outcomes

For AECOM, a global infrastructure firm, the answer was ProjectWise Project Insights. With this solution, AECOM established automated, near real-time dashboards on past, present, and future project performance, enabling consistent and up-to-date perspectives on the performance of infrastructure projects.

Now in production across more than 30 major infrastructure projects, ProjectWise Project Insights is delivering a new perspective and immediacy to the analysis of project performance. It has enabled the firm to manage projects more proactively and make better, insight-driven decisions.

AECOM Leverages Project Insights to Accelerate Digital Advancement

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ProjectWise Project Insights is delivering a new perspective to leadership and project management on the benefits of the connected data environment. It is promoting more informed conversations at meetings and encouraging collaborative behaviors from all project stakeholders.”

Norris Spencer, Highways Information Manager, AECOM

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