Webinar: Austroads Guide to Digital Engineering

Date: Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Location: Online, 1:00 – 2:00pm AEDT
Organiser: Austroads
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Following extensive engagement with industry, representative specialist groups and transport agency stakeholders across Australia and New Zealand, Austroads has developed a guide to digital engineering.

The purpose of the guide is to assist transport agencies in Australia and New Zealand to deliver and operate their assets more effectively through obtaining better value and consistency in the application of digital engineering capability.

The guide communicates the need for a strategic approach to digital engineering alongside careful consideration and planning, clear engagement and support for its implementation.

This webinar will provide an overview of the guide, including why it is needed, the structure of the guide, approaches to developing a strategy, roadmap, implementation planning, learning and development framework, and case studies.

The webinar will be presented by Will Hackney and David Heins.

There will be question and answer opportunities during the session.

Will Hackney is a strategic advisor to government and supply chain with a Civil Engineering background and more than 20 years’ experience in developing new digital services and capabilities across the built asset lifecycle. Will contributed to key UK Government pilot projects, which led to PAS1192 and ISO 19650 standards, leading Transport for London’s (TfL) digital engineering strategy and program. Will continues to contribute to the development of research and best practice for the improvement of digital capability for organisations and industry via active participation with Standards Australia, Engineers Australia Digital Engineering Working Group, buildingSMART and the Sustainable Built Environment National Research Centre (SBEnrc). Will has led the authoring of the Austroads Digital Engineering Guide to completion in close collaboration with the project team and Austroads stakeholders.

David Heins has been consulting, developing and specifying digital engineering for roads since 2016. This work commenced with consultation with the design team carrying out BIM on the massive Pacific Complete project. In 2017 he managed the delivery of the first digital engineering specification for TfNSW, authored by Harry Batt. In the following years he managed the consultation and action groups of: (i) the Digital Engineering Roads Design Industry Group (2018-21) and (ii) the Digital Engineering National States Share Forum (2019-21). These groups involved Austroads and other key practitioners and stakeholders. A key outcome from these groups was a recommendation for a national digital engineering guide for roads. David managed the scope and tender process for the Austroads Digital Engineering Guide.

No charge but registration is essential. Can’t make the live session? Register and we’ll send you a link to the recording.

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