Grant: Alliance Grants

The partnership between researchers at the École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) and the Société Québécoise des Infrastructures (SQI) aims to provide large public built asset owners with a structured and systematic approach enabling the identification, requirement, capture, management, processing and use of data and information at the enterprise, asset, and project levels, to support effective decision making across the lifecycle of their portfolio of built assets. The research project builds on emerging concepts relating to the digitalization of the built asset industry as it pertains to lifecycle information modeling and integration and aims to address the inconsistency in the development and formulation of information uses and their underlying requirements which significantly hinder the full development and use of information modeling and integration across built asset lifecycles as well as their management and processing by public owners. To do so, a modular, scalable, and extensible lifecycle information modeling and integration platform, and its underlying framework, will be developed to facilitate large-scale digitalization within the public built asset owner organization. The platform and framework will also allow the partner organization to account for the integration of multiple sources of data and information to support the delivery of these targeted information uses facilitating decision-making. The outcomes of this research project will help public owners streamline, automate, and centralize their built asset lifecycle information modeling and integration requirements, competencies, practices, guidelines, tools, and techniques to support value creation across their organization and supply chains. The impact of the research will be felt through a harmonized approach to the digitalization of built asset information across their lifecycles and a more consistent uptake of these innovative approaches across an owner organization's many departments.