Virtual Academy to Support the Agency in
Advancing Project and Road Asset Performance through BIM-enabled Asset
Management
November 10, 2014 – Bentley
Systems, the leading provider of software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, and the Highways Agency, responsible for operating,
maintaining, and improving England’s strategic road network, today announce plans for an AssetWise Academy. Bentley’s AssetWise
software is already being rolled out and further extended to serve as the
Highways Agency’s Integrated Asset Management Information System (IAM
IS). Now Bentley and the Highways Agency announce plans to provide a virtual
environment for introducing and propagating best practices for BIM-enabled
asset management, through the AssetWise
Academy.
David Robertson,
Bentley Director, BIM academies, said, “Building on the successful academy
development with Crossrail, the goal of the Highways Agency’s new AssetWise Academy is to drive industry best practices and standards, evolve solution templates,
capture and recycle lessons learned, and advance asset lifecycle information
management across the Highways Agency’s business. This will be achieved through
onboarding and awareness sessions, forums, and targeted seminars and working
groups within the AssetWise Academy,
all supported by project-specific course content created jointly by Bentley and
the Highways Agency.”
Robert Greaves,
Head of IT at the Highways Agency, said, “As the Highways Agency changes our
structural focus to become increasingly dynamic, forward thinking, and
commercially driven around asset management, the AssetWise Academy will play a key role in helping us propagate best
practices to take full advantage of AssetWise
IAM IS capabilities as they grow. Bentley’s work has already included rollout of
the solution to a significant proportion of our asset support contracts, and ongoing
development will next year include Network Events, and then Structures,
followed by Drainage, and Geotechnics implementation in 2016.”
In 2012, Bentley’s
AssetWise software platform became the Highways Agency’s comprehensive foundation (IAM
IS) for asset information management, and will replace 17 disparate systems. AssetWise provides management and
visibility of network and asset data using multiple linear referencing methods
within a single spatial and temporal-enabled database, furnishing a robust network database model to underpin and integrate
network-based applications. It also helps users control information and manage
change throughout the asset lifecycle, ensuring the delivery of accurate,
trusted information to operations and maintenance teams.
The AssetWise platform ensures that the Highways Agency and its supply
chain will share a single, integrated system for information management related
to roadway assets inventory, condition, defects, and repair works. The Highways
Agency is using this common data to support and measure, in an accurate and
consistent way, the ability of its service providers to complete roadworks that
improve the safety of roads and highways and reduce traffic congestion. Bentley’s
MANAGEservices is facilitating the
provisioning, expedited deployment, and operation of the Highways Agency’s AssetWise asset information
management services in a hybrid cloud-services environment.
Alan Kiraly,
Bentley Senior Vice President, server products, said, “The AssetWise software platform brings
together proven technologies (deriving from Exor,
eB, Bentley Map, and InspectTech,
among others) that offer new information mobility and comprehensive integration
on behalf of owner-operators such as the Highways Agency. With AssetWise, we are advancing our future
platform for all owner-operators. Significantly, this is enabling us to deliver
IAM IS to the Highways Agency as a commercial off-the-shelf software offering,
cloud-service provisioned through our MANAGEservices.
Our dedicated team is responsible also for the delivery of learning, operational
support, and change management for the Agency and its service providers. We are
currently discussing with the Agency how our AssetWise Academy can be deployed to support further innovation, addressed
towards people and processes, for fully achieving the benefits of technology
advances.”
About the
Highways Agency
The Highways
Agency operates, maintains and improves the strategic road network in England.
This road network is around 4,300 miles long and is made up of motorways and
trunk roads. While this road network represents only 2 per cent of all roads in
England by length, it carries a third of all traffic by mileage – and two
thirds of all heavy goods traffic, making it the economic backbone of the
country.
The Agency also manages and helps prevent incidents on
England’s motorways through its Traffic Officer service. For additional information about the
Highways Agency, visit http://www.highways.gov.uk/default.aspx.
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Systems is the global leader dedicated to providing architects, engineers,
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information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure
lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions
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for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to
deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve
intelligent infrastructure –
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