ICE Information Systems Panel (ISP)
The ISP was driven to ensure effective communication between IT professionals and Construction Industry professionals. It acts as a channel to provide the backbone to support the industry’s work through information and knowledge transfer within and across projects and organisations.
Aim and Objectives
- To engender an understanding within the ICE membership that ICT is an enabler not a solution and hence people, process and technology factors will require their input for successful solution deployment.
- To create and maintain access to a breadth and depth of expertise drawn from the ICT and Construction Industries.
- To endeavour to reduce duplication of activities within this area in the industry whilst ensuring the ICE membership’s views and requirements are well represented.
Mission Statement
“To ensure the delivery of a valuable service to the ICE membership through the provision and development of Information Systems Knowledge to help address relevant, contemporary issues”.
Key Activities (including outputs produced to date)
- A number of briefing sheets each year (e.g. Background Guide to GPS and GNSS, value of asset information to the asset owner, gaining ICE membership based on IT experience).
- Representation on, and input to, relevant industry bodies/working parties (e.g. the BS Committee for BS 1192 part 5; guide for structuring and exchange of CAD data).
- Touring presentation; “From Brunel to Broadband” to regional ICE groups primarily to aid graduates and students meet development objectives D1 and D2.
- Management of a working party; “Information management for major projects” which brought together representatives from previous major projects (e.g. CTRL and T5) with current major project representatives (e.g. Crossrail and London 2012) to ensure knowledge is grown rather than reinvented.
- Instigation of a working party; “Uniting Construction Information Technology (UCI)” which brings together representatives from all of the IT in construction bodies (e.g. Construct IT, Information Technology Construction Forum (ITCF), Construction Industry Computing Association (CICA) and others to ensure collaboration and avoid duplication.
Programme of work for 07/08
- Developing a community of experts and informing and piloting associated tools to support their input to the learned society to produce yellow pages of expertise and interests to enable networking.
- Best practice awareness reporting tool.
- JBM Guidelines for Information Systems.
- Create a framework for providing industry review of academic research programmes.
- Peer reviews
- Editorial panel representation
- Brunel to Broadband presentation.
- Influencing ICE conference content
- Briefing sheets and proceedings
- Information management for major projects
- Update of BS 1192 Part 5
- Uniting Construction IT (UCI)
- Classification for infrastructure projects
- Annual networking event
The Business Model
- Business Operational Model: ISP will be formed of at least six people; one representative from each stakeholder group (academia, client, consultant, contractor, ICT supplier and government). The six stakeholder groups represent the community of experts. The ISP works as a conduit between the community of experts and the communities of interest. The later one includes input from seven groups (ICE members, knowledge panels, MBEKTN, UCI member base, Emap IT Directors Club, Constructing Excellence Regional Clubs and National platform) that can feed take their requirements and needs to the ISP who will get the expertise required from the Community of experts.
- Funding Mechanisms: There is a contribution through the ICE membership as the engineering budget is filtered to all the ICE groups; however the ISP members contribute in kind.
Principal Contact(s)
Chairman: Dr. Sarah Bowden
Ove Arup & Partners Ltd
13 Fitzroy Street, London, W1T 4BQ @ Goodge Street station
Tel: +44 (0)207 636 1531, F +44 (0)207 755 4375
Email: Sarah.Bowden@arup.com
Technical Support Manager: Richard Armstrong
Address: Institution of Civil Engineers
Tel: +44 (0)207 665 2411 F +44 (0)207 233 1743
Email: richard.armstrong@ice.org.uk
