BIM World Munich with a focus on connecting with stakeholders

Since 2016, BIM World MUNICH has been the leading networking platform in D-A-CH for national and international players in the digitization of the construction, real estate and infrastructure sectors. With speeches from 150 experts around the world about topics surrounding sustainability and innovations for the future our focus was on direct contact with customers, colleagues and partners.

“We are always delighted to be part of the Finnish Pavilion at BIM World Munich for the opportunity to talk to BIM Managers, students, fellow software companies as well as our customers and partners. As an open technology platform our goal is to collaborate – with customers, machine control systems, surveying companies, integration partners and universities. BIM World has all that in a very familiar setting. We were able to discuss industry workflows and ways to improve efficiency and sustainability in infra projects while learning how to refine our products even more. ” Nils Spannuth Sales Manager Infrakit Deutschland GmbH recalls.

Teemu Kivimäki Founder and CEO of Infrakit Group Oy said, “The highlight for me this time was having the opportunity to meet and talk to our stakeholders face to face to discuss further cooperation in the future and gain more insight into their needs and wants”.

National road 4 is scheduled to open 8 months ahead of schedule

Project Manager Jarmo Niskanen from Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency reveals that they are hoping to be move traffic to the new road on December 20th or 21st . (YLE 7.12.2021)

According to Niskanen the move to the new stretch of road has been carefully planned of time with dozens of people communicating with each other while the obstacles are being removed.

“We will have a car leading the line from both ends of the road to start the traffic. Neither Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency nor the contractor will organize a special opening for the road.” says Niskanen.

“The low temperatures are causing some delays so we can’t say for sure when the road will be opened. We are in the middle of installing important railings, without them the road can’t be used. All other aspects of the road have been completed,” Niskanen describes.

The opening day will be confirmed on December 15th according to Niskanen. At the latest the road is set to be opened in January, up to 8 months ahead of schedule.

Main contractor on the project is Destia.

Read about the projects background at Destia.fi

Read the original article at YLE in Finnish (published 7.12.2021)

Autodesk and Infrakit Connect Civil Infrastructure Project Design and Construction

For a better information flow during their project lifecycle, stakeholders require open formats that improve collaboration and reduce the risk of losing and recompiling data. Autodesk and Infrakit established a partnership to bridge gaps between project phases with open data exchange formats. Infrakit will now enable the use of 3D designs from Autodesk’s civil engineering design tools, Autodesk® Civil 3D® and Autodesk® InfraWorks®. Users can exploit and validate the 3D Designs in construction work through the Infrakit cloud platform.

This integration with Autodesk leading technologies will allow customers to forward checked designs to field solutions like Machine Control systems (MC) through Infrakit to create and ensure common understanding among stakeholders. MC uses data from sources such as 3D models to guide construction equipment during earth works. Users can ensure the improvement of safety, efficiency and quality while also reducing environmental impacts, schedule, and costs.

This partnership together, along with progress in open data exchange formats, enables more connected data and information workflows from design to construction. Enhancing our customers’ ability to collaborate and ensuring seamless flow of information regardless of vendors and service providers is crucial for accuracy and timeliness of project outcomes.

“The buildingSMART Infrastructure Room has been working with industry stakeholders and the Railway Room to develop IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) extensions for infrastructure to include roads, bridges, marine and rail entities. There is a clear need to improve information exchange between disciplines and across the project lifecycle into asset operations in order to leverage improving technology capabilities without a need to recreate data at each stage” said Marek Suchocki, Chair of the buildingSMART International Infrastructure Room Project Steering Committee and Autodesk Global Business Development Executive. “Technology providers have been fully engaged in the developing, testing and implementation of this international standard to better demonstrate seamless data exchanges that will improve the adoption of open formats resulting in better project outcomes and fewer errors or rework. This will ultimately make the whole infrastructure industry more productive and sustainable and bodes well for the future.”

Connecting the communication gaps between project phases helps stakeholders avoid wasted resources and expensive errors, providing them with the latest plans and schedules. Customers using Infrakit can now benefit from syncing design models from Civil 3D and InfraWorks with machine control systems. This seamless approach will enhance quality and monitor as-built progress reported from the field in real-time.  Additionally, when quality documentation builds up into the system, it can be easily handed over to asset information management – digitally.

“We are excited to partner with Autodesk, a technology leader in our industry, to provide our mutual customers with enhanced data flow from design phase to the construction phase.” – Teemu Kivimäki Founder and CEO of Infrakit Group Oy. “Many customers are using products from both companies and are looking to build a workflow that requires fluid data transfer between them.”

“The convergence of design and construction workflows coupled with the digital transformation of the AEC industry is delivering great value to infrastructure projects. We are pleased to be in a position to help our customers realize this value through our partnership with Infrakit” – Eric DesRoche, Sr. Manager AEC Design Strategy at Autodesk.

About Autodesk

Autodesk is changing how the world is designed and made. Our technology spans architecture, engineering, construction, product design, manufacturing, media, and entertainment, empowering innovators everywhere to solve challenges big and small. From greener buildings to smarter products to more mesmerizing blockbusters, Autodesk software helps our customers to design and make a better world for all. Learn more at www.autodesk.com

About Infrakit

Infrakit is an industry-disrupting digital platform to increase infrastructure construction productivity. We are driven by the goal of a sustainable infra industry – while offering 20% savings in total project costs. Our customers include the most advanced construction companies and infrastructure owners in the world. We have been helping our customers to digitalize their infra projects since 2010 – over 30 billion euros of infra-assets has been built with Infrakit in more than 2000 projects in 11 countries.

Highways UK – exciting encounters and possibilities

With a focus on innovation, sustainability and investment, Highways UK has come to an end after two full days of excellent conversations and speeches by some of the industry’s leading experts. We want to thank you all for the interest you showed in us during our first Highways UK event as an exhibitor. Our demos were well received, and the stand lighting certainly got some attention, we’ll be sure to keep that in the future.

“My experience in Highways was very positive. I didn’t have many expectations due to Covid-19 and the fact that this was our very first exhibition on Highways. I was just hoping that we would get something out of it. This was met, and much more. We had the right people at stand, right people visiting, we received encouraging feedback from visitors, and we had plenty of different, but interesting discussions that will take us further in the UK – hopefully soon.” recalls our VP of Business Development Pasi Joensuu.

Demos were held for Colas, Skanska UK and Leica Geosystems

Sebastien Cailliau, General Manager of Infrakit SARL in France says that “Highways UK exhibition was a real success, not only was it good to meet customers and users in person after the long COVID period, but the interest shown by visitors and exhibitors towards Infrakit proves that the UK market is ready to implement and deploy digital solutions for construction of infrastructures locally”

“We met a lot of current and new potential customers at the Highways UK seminar. We got a clear message that customers and the market are ready to implement model-based construction and data and quality management processes to infra projects in the UK with Infrakit. With support from Infrakit Services team UK infra projects can get a great boost for construction efficiency and quality control.” Says Olli Planting, Development Manager.

We’ll see you soon at BIM World Munich and in Geo Business in London!