Alex Gkiokas
Alex is a chartered civil engineer with a master's degree in water resource management. He has worked on water sector projects worldwide, including the UK, the Middle East, and South East Europe. Currently, he leads the asset information management function of the Strategic Pipeline Alliance, one of the UK's largest clean water infrastructure project. Alex's main focus is delivering high-quality information to the asset owner-operator, Anglian Water, using advanced digital technology and ISO19650-compliant applications. He also chairs the BIM4Water standard libraries group, coordinating a team of 18 water industry professionals who develop and maintain asset information requirements and standards for data exchange.
What to expect during the event
The UK Water Industry has already embraced BIM to achieve outcomes through better collaboration of stakeholders in common data environment setups. To spearhead digital transformation, BIM4Water was born as a cross-industry group open to all organisations involved in managing and delivering water and wastewater assets in the UK. This first part of the session will give an overview of how BIM4Water is working on developing and implementing standard processes for collecting and exchanging product data associated with water industry assets. In the second part of the session, the speaker will present real-life examples from an ongoing water sector project in the UK that uses the principles set out by BIM4Water. Through those real-life examples, the attendees will be able to see how the upfront development of asset information requirements and product data templates is driving efficiencies across the lifecycle (design, procurement, manufacturing, installation, commissioning and handover).
Asset Information Requirements and Product Data Templates: Insights from the UK Water Industry
