Victorian Digital Asset Strategy (VDAS) Dr. Collette Burke

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OPV and the Victorian Chief Engineer

• Office of Projects Victoria (OPV) provides quality advice to the Victorian Government on developing and building major infrastructure projects

• The Victorian Chief Engineer provides key engineering and technical advice

• Key feedback from over 200 interviews highlighted the need for:• elevating the engineering profession;• engineers to take a more prominent role in policy

development and decision making;• immediate policy development on future cities, digital

twins, building information modelling, (BIM), better information management processes, and implementing digital engineering

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Engineering and Economic Development……?

• Engineering is a pivotal part of our built environment and how Victorians interact with the world

• Who generate more than 600,000 jobs – 22 percent of the workforce

• That 22 percent of the workforce contributes to nearly 25 percent of Victoria’s State Product (GSP)

• The majority of Victorian engineers do not work in the field of engineering – they work in finance, insurance, government, etc.

• Less than 14 percent of career engineers are women. Effectively half the community is under-represented in engineering and engineers are missing half a workforce

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Why Change?

• Office of Projects Victoria (OPV) provides quality advice to the Victorian Government on developing and building major infrastructure projects

• The Victorian Chief Engineer provides key engineering and technical advice

• Key feedback from over 200 interviews highlighted the need for digital twins, building information modelling, better information management processes, and use of digital engineering

• VDAS initiated in August 2018.

Digital EngineeringWhy Change?

• We’ve been designing, building, operating our assets the same way for the last 50 years.

• Shergold-Weir report:• Rec. 12: collecting and sharing building

information and intelligence• Rec. 13-17: adequacy of documentation and

record keeping• Rec. 20: post-construction information

management

• Doing things the same way will be unsustainable, unrealistic, and potentially unsafe.

• The time for change is now.

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Progression of Engineering in Victoria

Paper mapping, slide and rules

CAD, GIS and databases

3D towards BIMBIM and digital asset strategy

Smart assetsConnected

environments

PAST FUTURENOW

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What Do We Care About?

Victorian Government Departments and agencies achieving best practice in asset and project performance - aligning with existing mandates, policies, and acts.

Financial Management Act

Accountability and financial-asset planning through the Standing Directions 2018.

Asset Management Accountability Framework

Capture the understanding and condition of assets in delivering a service

DTF Investment Lifecycle Guidelines on government investments.

High Value High Risk Framework

Monitoring of projects for value capture and delivery performance.

Value Capture and CreationBetter value for Victorian taxpayers' money from all future infrastructure projects.

Victorian Digital Asset Strategy

Tools

Systems

Processes

Templates

Accountability

Benefits Realisation

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What Scope Does VDAS Apply to?

Linear

Multi-model transport,roads,

rail, and crossings

Place-based

Precinct, hospitals, police stations, schools, etc.

System-based

Telecommunications, waste water and water networks,

traffic lights, etc.

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The VDAS Roadmap

VDAS’s Vision is to:

Which will be achieved through Strategic Priorities

Which will be measured by Key Success Criteria Comprehensive and

considered DE support material

Unified and consistent approach

Enhanced perception on the value of digital

information

1 2 3

Empower Support Enable

Victorian assets with data and information

for high-value delivery and whole-of-life-management

Victorian Government

agencies, industry and

practitioners on key aspects of DE

The maximised utilisation of digital

information across the whole life cycle of

Victorian Government physical assets

Create, deliver, and enhance assets that inform the delivery and whole-life management of world-class

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VDAS Goals

Short-term goals Medium-term goals Long-term goals

1-2 years 2-5 years 5+ years

• Feb 2019 - VDAS Strategic Framework

• Nov 2019 - VDAS Guidance• Feb 2020 - VDAS technical guides• Requires:

• Collaboration

• Support

• Stakeholder Consultation

• Industry Consultation

• Education & Upskilling

Units

• Implementation Plan

• Assistance for organisation

• Ongoing updates to VDAS technical guides

• VDAS Education Map• VDAS lessons learned• Collaboration with supply chain• Roadmap to integration with

asset management systems

• Implement the VDAS Competency Framework

• Refresh VDAS with new good practice

• Decision making framework using VDAS

• Integration of innovative technologies, such as real-time sensors, Internet of Things (IOT), augmented reality, virtual reality, and predictive maintenance.

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VDAS Application

Public GovernmentIndustry and Practitioners

• Enhanced delivery and value of assets

• Greater confidence and enhanced integrated information and modelling.

• Step change in life long asset leveraging and sustainability

• Public confidence and demonstrated value-for-money outcomes

• Assist Victorian Government departments and agencies to implement and leverage

• Goal - DE alleviating a range of challenges during project delivery and asset management and operations, and operability

• Provide a map to data compliance, governance and security.

• Enhanced clarity for industry on DE planned, designed, engineered, constructed, operated and maintained.

• Optimised decision-making frameworks using technology

• Consistency of approach

• Enhanced construction practice

Victorian Chief Engineer’s Initiative Timeline

“The work required to bring positive change cannot be done by governments alone.”

Peter Shergold and Bronwyn WeirFebruary 2018

What can we do together?