ToBe Builder™ is changing how major infrastructure, resources and industrial services projects are planned and delivered – with an immersive 4D collaboration environment.
The solution better equips multidisciplinary teams to maximise their design, planning and delivery capabilities, embed value and safe productivity throughout the asset lifecycle. As a result, clients and communities reap the benefits of improved asset performance and sustainability.
Industry’s take-up of ToBe Builder is enthusiastic. Use in diverse sectors is achieving positive measurable results – for transport and sustainable mobility infrastructure in Australasia (road, rail and tunnelling projects), digital infrastructure in Asia (data centres), and resources infrastructure in Australia and the North Americas (including iron ore, gold and lithium facilities). Driving growth, experienced users are taking ToBe Builder forward to the next project as part of their standard tool kit.
Industry-led development
ToBe Builder is a proprietary product developed in-house by CIMIC Group and its commercial software company IDD Tech – which focuses on delivering integrated digital delivery (IDD) solutions, built by industry for industry.
Development by an industry leader and rigorous testing on diverse major projects, has shaped ToBe Builder to meet industry’s requirements.
A game-changing solution
ToBe Builder enables users to integrate complex 3D scenes from Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Building Information Modelling (BIM). Overlaying geographical data with physical infrastructure models provides a comprehensive understanding of the project site.
Further integrating time and complex rigged resources (dimensionally accurate moveable models of equipment and people) creates an immersive 4D collaboration environment. It is in this digital space that multidisciplined users create detailed construction sequences and visualise the project’s progression over time.
Users produce robust, constructable, synchronised sub-plans to deliver every work package, including temporary works, before deploying to site. As the design and plan develop, package solutions can be iterated to proactively manage safety, resource efficiency, clash detection and project outcomes. Work pack visualisation videos further support stakeholder and sub-contractor alignment and work crew preparation and induction throughout the delivery and operations phases.
Advancing industry digitalisation
ToBe Builder’s developers intentionally delivered the new solution on a framework which integrates Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Building Information Modelling (BIM), Critical Path Schedule (CPM) tools, and an extensive resource library (Keyframe Animation).
By leveraging industry standard technologies, the solution builds on industry participants’ existing technology investment and skillset. This significantly improves accessibility, value, and connectivity for clients, contractors and stakeholders.
ToBe Builder has been created by integrating select Commercial Authoring Tools with state-of-the-art simulation and visualisation technologies. These include direct integration with Autodesk Construction Cloud, full support for Esri image, vector and scene services from ArcGIS Enterprise and ArcGIS Online for GIS context. Oracle Primavera (XER), Microsoft Project (MPP), Asta Powerproject (PP) and Excel schedule (TSV) are leveraged to bookend the key schedule constraints for each simulation. ToBe Builder combines these platforms, with Unity Gaming Engine to produce stunning visual fidelity, and ultra-fast real time rendering.
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IDD Tech’s products and services are at work across the asset lifecycle on more than 200 projects throughout Australasia.