{"id":83068,"date":"2020-09-28T09:05:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T08:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=83068"},"modified":"2020-09-28T09:05:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T08:05:35","slug":"cde-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/digital-construction-news\/bim-news\/cde-solution\/83068\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Robert McAlpine adopts new CDE solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.srm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sir Robert McAlpine<\/a> has adopted a common data environment (CDE) from SaaS provider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.groupbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Business Collaborator<\/a> (BC)<\/h2>\n<p>The CDE solution will drive end-to-end project and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/bim-news\/30326\/30326\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asset information management<\/a> across new projects, and enable a single, unique data source to be accessed by Sir Robert McAlpine and its supply chain partners.<\/p>\n<p>After a rigorous tender process, the contractor selected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/bim-news\/bentley-systems-acquires-groupbc\/73141\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Group BC\u2019s<\/a> CDE as its preferred solution and was impressed with the architecture, flexibility and usability of the solution.<\/p>\n<p>Working and steering groups were formed in order to enable decision-making and drive the process to its completion.<\/p>\n<p>Gareth Parkes, head of data &amp; analytics at Sir Robert McAlpine, said: \u201cIt was a collaborative effort all-round, between ourselves, BC and information management consultant, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.concentreconsulting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Concentre Consulting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a great team with the right support in place to make it a very straightforward process.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>\u2018A data-driven company\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>In implementing the new CDE Sir Robert McAlpine is also working with information management provider, <a href=\"https:\/\/amodal.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amodal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Barber, director and co-founder of Amodal, commented: \u201cI have been working with Sir Robert McAlpine for the past year defining the strategy on how to implement BC\u2019s platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been a real privilege supporting their move towards becoming a data-driven company and we look forward to continuing the relationship as Sir Robert McAlpine\u2019s implementation partner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BC\u2019s most advanced offering, BC Enterprise+, was tailored to Sir Robert McAlpine\u2019s exact requirements.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/bim-news\/groupbc-common-data-environment\/79907\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CDE solution<\/a> helps to manage the vast amount of built asset data, improving programme and asset control, and the delivery of new projects.<\/p>\n<p>Compatible with both Sir Robert McAlpine and its supply chain\u2019s existing systems, the solution is aligned with BIM standards PAS 1192 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/bim-news\/bs-en-iso-19650-2\/76964\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ISO 19650<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>BC Enterprise+ gives the company the edge when it comes to its project management \u2013 reducing costs and boosting the security of client and supply chain information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe structure of BC\u2019s solution is extremely flexible \u2013 it is modern and intuitive,\u201d continues Gareth Parkes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor our end-users, this really helps with usability and accessibility. Our users, for instance, have the opportunity to see everything they need to on a single window.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis degree of visibility is essential for all members of the project teams to make quick, informed decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Utilising flexible workflows<\/h3>\n<p>Sandra Popple, project systems manager at Sir Robert McAlpine, said: \u201cWith BC\u2019s CDE we feel empowered to make specific changes, which is a real benefit. This is particularly crucial as many of our clients have their own requirements that we need to accommodate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe flexibility of BC\u2019s workflows enables us to have more than one person accessing the information needed to make important decisions regarding the projects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As well as being flexible, the CDE solution also has a notable integration capability.<\/p>\n<p>Not only does it give Sir Robert McAlpine the ability to extract data from the system, it can reconcile the data to create links to other systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is quite a complex requirement,\u201d explained Gareth Parkes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYet the compatibility of BC\u2019s CDE gives us lots of opportunities to be more creative than we have previously been.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sanjeev Shah, partner and international development director for BC at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bentley.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bentley<\/a>, added: \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to be selected by Sir Robert McAlpine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe flexibility of our system, together with our customer focussed philosophy is proving attractive to main contractors that are finding their incumbent solutions increasingly unsuitable for their collaboration frameworks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe investment in our interface design and unrivalled functionality are proving attractive to the innovate leading across the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Robert McAlpine has adopted a common data environment (CDE) from SaaS provider Business Collaborator (BC), now part of Bentley Systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[305,141293],"tags":[724,428,172722,856,574,688,890],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[172452],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bim-news","7":"category-digital-construction-news","8":"tag-asset-management","9":"tag-bim","10":"tag-common-data-environment","11":"tag-construction-technology","12":"tag-data-management","13":"tag-digital-construction","14":"tag-sh-groupbc","15":"stakeholder_rel_tag-groupbc"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sir Robert McAlpine adopts new CDE solution<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sir Robert McAlpine has adopted a common data environment from SaaS provider Business Collaborator (BC), now part of Bentley Systems\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/digital-construction-news\/bim-news\/cde-solution\/83068\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sir Robert McAlpine adopts new CDE solution\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sir Robert McAlpine has adopted a common data environment (CDE) from SaaS provider Business Collaborator (BC), now part of Bentley Systems\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/digital-construction-news\/bim-news\/cde-solution\/83068\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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