Digital Project of the Year
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Construction Technology Awards 2023 announces Digital Project of the Year shortlist
The Construction Technology Awards is the region's only dedicated ConTech awards.
The Digital Project of the Year award is designed to recognize the best implementation of digital tools in AEC projects or organizations. The category focuses on projects that have successfully implemented digital tools to optimize business-related processes or tasks. The initiative should have been adopted and operationalized within the last 24 months.
Examples include but are not limited to implementation of ERP or Project Management software, IoT, Machine Learning, RFID, Robotic Process Automation, Mixed Reality, or Laser Scanning
Here are the projects that made it to the cut:
Ashghal Portfolio Management System
Ashghal is in charge of designing, building, operating, maintaining, and managing infrastructure, including roads, drainage, and buildings across Qatar. It is a massive program, and with it comes a huge requirement to consider how we are communicating among various stakeholders and authorities, and how we are collecting and managing data for optimum efficiency.
Due to the complexity and the magnitude of the program, Ashghal needed to create a unified integrated system that brings together people, processes, and data to speed up operations and reduce errors.
This was achieved by adopting the Ashghal Portfolio Management System (APMS) across programs, functional areas, and processes. APMS is an in-house program that aims to bring all Ashghal’ s stakeholders within a single platform to manage and monitor large infrastructure projects within Qatar and bring transparency and efficiency right from planning to hand-over.
APMS is a G2B eGovernment integrated, online and electronic platform to manage entire Project Lifecyle with conformity to Construction, Engineering, Quality, Safety & Security standards.
Digital Twin in City Operations’ Integrated Asset Management
Emaar, The Economic City (KAEC)
This digital project transformed KAEC’s City Operations to become a Centre of Excellence for Integrated Asset Management in the region.
Dubai Hills Mall & Indoor Storm Coaster
ALEC Engineering & Contracting
Dubai Hills Mall and the Indoor Coaster project is a testament to ALEC's unwavering dedication to achieving the highest levels of execution accuracy through the use of innovative tools available in the market.
This digital project was initiated by a business trigger to improve the efficiency of construction processes and minimise waste.
The project was carefully studied, and key areas where digital technologies could benefit the project were identified. The project leads fully embraced the implementation of digital tools to achieve the highest standard. The project has seen the implementation of multiple digital tools to date, researched from the best practices in construction from around the world.?
The digital tools were aimed at streamlining the workflow, improving issue management, and storing all graphical and non-graphical data related to the project. A digital construction team was involved to establish, support, and maintain the tools' implementation throughout the project. The project was continuously reviewed and updated by the team to ensure the procedures were alive and meaningful for the team.
Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi is a world-class museum designed by Frank Gehry and his architectural firm Gehry Partners. The museum is renowned for global contemporary art which will collect, and display works from the Middle East, Africa, and Asia along-side modern and contemporary Western art.
It will speak to the art histories of those regions in a respectful, intelligent, and elucidating way. The museum is designed to showcase the cross-cultural dialogue that has existed between artists from different regions for decades and to encourage new conversations through the arts.
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The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi sits just off the coast of Saadiyat Island. It comprises nine indoor/outdoor sculpture galleries called the “Cones”, which are arranged asymmetrically in concert with the formal gallery spaces, around a central atrium. The Cones were inspired by the traditional wind towers found throughout the region and their unique funnel shape facilitates the movement of hot air, passively cooling the space.
The architecture of the building is truly outstanding and unique. The curvilinear shapes and sheer volume are a challenge to construct, and the latest and most advanced digital tools are essential in assuring successful completion.??
Magdi Yacoub Global Heart Center
Magdi Yacoub Global Heart Center (MYGHC) is an innovative healthcare project being carried out in Sixth of October Gardens, Giza, Egypt. The distinctive architecture of the building designed by Foster and Partners features enormous concrete shells atop the patient rooms. Due to the uniqueness of the project's structure and the complexity of its systems, it was decided to construct the project using digital tools.
By using digital tools, the aim is to reduce costs, enhance communication and collaboration between teams, and provide greater control over the flow of information between various project entities.
A number of digital solutions, including the creation of workflows to organise the flow of information using Common Data Environment were adopted to achieve these objectives. A second instrument was the creation of a construction validation method using mixed reality to verify the activities performed on-site. In addition, digital tools were used to analyse the complex shell structure and aid in the preparation of shop drawings for rebar.
Program 5 QHSSE Digitalisation Project
Program 5 comprises three unique entertainment destinations across the Eastern region of Saudi Arabia, located in Tabuk, Yanbu and Madina. Saudi Entertainment Ventures (Seven) licensed Autodesk Construction Cloud with a mission to support its supply chain in digitising paper-based field management forms.
The QHSSE Digitalisation is part of the more significant Automation project within Seven. Overall, 13 paper-based forms were selected to be digitised on all three projects of Program 5, nine Quality Management Processes and four Health and Safety Management processes were configured and implemented using Autodesk Construction Cloud as the platform of choice.?
SABB Headquarter
SABB Headquarters Tower in Riyadh is a 30-story building that is 142 meters high in addition to one basement floor of parking which can accommodate 1,500 cars. A supporting podium is integrated and connected to the tower housing 7,013sqm of banking services, food and beverage areas, and employee training facilities.
The tower will include executive offices, an executive lounge, meeting rooms, private banking and retails, administrative offices for executives, offices for technical employees, and administration offices. The contract included the engineering, procurement, and construction of the tower with all site development and earthworks, concrete and structural elements, electrical and mechanical installations, plumbing, architectural, interior and exterior finishing, equipment fixing, and testing & commissioning.
Smart & Safe Site by IoT
Do?u? Construction increasingly applies innovative technology solutions to get a real-time data flow in its projects and is using this data to estimate and prevent occupational safety risks on construction sites. One of these technologies is the Internet of Things (IoT). Before Smart & Safe Site by IoT, the system's data was entered by computer operators manually. A human can process hundreds of images every day. But at some point, concentration wears off. IoT Technology, however, does not get tired.?
The Smart & Safe Site by IoT project enables us to automatically collect, interpret and integrate the employee, construction equipment and subcontractor data. To prevent potential accidents in CSS Metro Project, occupational health and safety risks are estimated using Machine Learning methods.?
Predictions are made by Do?u? Construction's OHS accident dataset, and factors that may cause an accident are examined. Parallel to these estimation models, computer vision and image processing technologies called “Image Processing” were used to monitor and detect the real-time OHS risks. The AI model detects risky behaviours or misplaced equipment that result in a safety hazard related to HSE by visually capturing worker actions, processes, and physical spaces.