The Road to Smarter Asset Information Assurance

Transforming Infrastructure Performance

Transforming Infrastructure Performance (TIP) is the Infrastructure and Projects Authority’s flagship programme to lead system change in the built environment. Its purpose is to transform how the government and industry decide to intervene in the built environment, to drive a step change in infrastructure performance.

TIP’s Roadmap to 2030 describes a vision for the future in which we collectively prioritise the societal outcomes we need, and use modern digital approaches and technologies, alongside improved delivery models to achieve them. Achieving that vision requires a system for designing, constructing, and operating in the built environment that is more resilient, adaptive, and sustainable, and that can better withstand the inevitable shifts and changes we will see in the coming decades.

This vision means that organisations responsible for infrastructure need to be “data driven”. Being data driven requires managed asset information of a known quality that is appropriately accessible to the organisation and its supply chain. When this is achieved, organisations can understand what asset information they have and need, where it is located and who has access to it. People can work more efficiently and effectively, and organisations are better able to meet their regulatory, economic, environmental, and societal objectives.

The Asset Information Journey

Adopting standards to help with the Asset Information Journey helps in three important themes that play a role here to simplify and minimise data handling, allow for the separation of concerns in each interconnectivity service and also to make sure we design for testability and re-use as we build up the entire system from all these constituent parts.

During the journey of an asset, asset information is provided by many stakeholders, each playing an important part. There are many exchanges of information, and many technologies may be used. Asset information needs to be integrated from a supply chain or multiple data owners. Discrepancies in data formats, currency and granularity can lead to varying levels of accuracy, quality, and consistency. The complexity of asset information journeys in the built environment requires a standardised approach to interoperability and information management for specifying, procuring, delivering, assuring, storing, presenting and exploiting asset information derived from supply chains and data owners, over the lifecycle of an organisation’s built environment assets. We need confidence that data will meet a specific need.

Adopting digital approaches and a system for asset information management requires a combination of people, processes, and technologies.

Webinar: 'The Road to Smarter Asset Information Assurance'

On 6^th October 2022 1Spatial hosted a webinar titled 'The Road to Smarter Asset Information Assurance'. We explore what an Information Management Platform is, why it is needed and what it delivers with real life examples.

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• Nicola Pearson from the Government and Industry Interoperability Group presents about the asset information journey, setting the Government policy context, the need for asset information interoperability and evolving asset information management.
• Emma Walker from the Environment Agency presents the Environment Agency’s asset information management journey, with a specific focus on asset information assurance using 1Spatial’s 1Integrate product and Safe Software’s FME Server product.
• Adrian Porter from 1Spatial presents about his asset information assurance experiences, working with different organisations.

Over the past 18 months 1Spatial have collaborated with Environment Agency (EA) to deliver reliable digital data and information management for EA’s physical flood and coastal defence assets. Read the case study below.

Watch 'The Road to Smarter Asset Information Assurance' on demand webinar to find out more.