Focus on enabling the creation of 3D digital twins for utility infrastructure
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) releases the Standard Guideline for Recording and Exchanging Utility Infrastructure Data, ASCE/UESI/CI 75-22. Prepared by the Standard Guideline for Recording and Exchanging Utility Infrastructure Data Committee of the Utility Engineering and Surveying Institute and the Construction Institute of the ASCE, “75-22” specifies essential elements for documenting the location, geometry, and feature attributes of underground and aboveground utility infrastructure, with a particular focus on enabling the creation of 3D digital twins for newly installed and/or exposed utility infrastructure.
“This standard provides guidance about collecting and exchanging utility infrastructure data to support a wide range of uses, including digital software applications that facilitate design and damage prevention activities. Use of the standard will ultimately lead to consistently reliable and user-friendly utility data that will facilitate better accommodation and safeguarding of utility infrastructure while expediting construction delivery with reduced risk. It supports the larger civil engineering task discipline called utility engineering (UE), which incorporates the elements affecting civil engineering projects of any kind as they relate to utilities.”
“Utility engineering optimizes planning, design, and construction activities to control costs and mitigate risks to the project and to the public. Because the standard is not overly prescriptive, it supports both current and emerging digital project delivery standards and practices. This valuable resource will assist professional engineers and surveyors in coordinating with the utility owner or operator during all construction or installation phases and in constructing or installing utility features in accordance with the project datum, plans, and specifications.”
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Initiatives of the ASCE IRD Risk and Resilience Measurements Committee include: research projects to develop theory and technology; working groups to solve specific challenges; industrial collaborations and show cases; working with authorities towards regulatory documents; contributions to codes and workshops; contributions to conferences; and, publications as technical reports and books. Further, special issues focus on the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems.
During the international committee meeting, Emin Aktan and Hiba Baroud review the Workshop on Resilience Research with NIST (U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology). Further, Michael Beer and Yongbo Peng provide an update on conference activities, including ISRERM: International Symposium on Reliability Engineering and Risk Management and ICVRAM: International Conference on Vulnerability and Risk Analysis and Management.
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Infrastructure Resilience Division (IRD) develops resources for improving the resilience of civil infrastructure and lifeline systems to all hazards. The IRD was established in 2014 to develop a unified approach to advancing the concepts of resilience within lifeline and infrastructure systems. Technical committee membership carries with it an obligation to participate actively in committee work through contribution of technical information.
Initiatives of the ASCE IRD Risk and Resilience Measurements Committee include: research projects to develop theory and technology; working groups to solve specific challenges; industrial collaborations and show cases; working with authorities towards regulatory documents; contributions to codes and workshops; contributions to conferences; and, publications as technical reports and books. Further, special issues focus on the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems.
During the international committee meeting, Emin Aktan and Hiba Baroud review the Workshop on Resilience Research with NIST (U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology). Further, Michael Beer and Yongbo Peng provide an update on conference activities, including ISRERM: International Symposium on Reliability Engineering and Risk Management and ICVRAM: International Conference on Vulnerability and Risk Analysis and Management.
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Infrastructure Resilience Division (IRD) develops resources for improving the resilience of civil infrastructure and lifeline systems to all hazards. The IRD was established in 2014 to develop a unified approach to advancing the concepts of resilience within lifeline and infrastructure systems. Technical committee membership carries with it an obligation to participate actively in committee work through contribution of technical information.
In order to confront our current climate crisis, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Board of Direction encourages all ASCE standards committees to review current versions of industry standards, such as ASCE/SEI 7-22 – Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures, with respect to climate readiness and resilience. The ASCE Board of Direction is comprised of three Presidential Officers and fifteen Directors. Further, the Board suggests that the ASCE Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) take the following actions:
Supplement ASCE 7* to update the flood information;
Develop an interim guideline to address climate impacts on environmental hazards, before the publication of ASCE 7-28;
Conduct outreach to federal agencies to ensure new grant programs under IIJA include standards with criteria or eligibility;
And, identify ways to standardize, codify, and address embodied cardon reductions and climate change impacts.
* ASCE 7 is the Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures (ASCE/SEI 7-22). An integral part of building codes in the United States, ASCE/SEI 7, Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures describes the means for determining design loads including dead, live, soil, flood, tsunami, snow, rain, atmospheric ice, seismic, and wind loads and combinations for general structural design. Structural engineers, architects, and building code officials find the structural load requirements essential to professional practice.
About ASCE
The American Society of Civil Engineers represents more than 150,000 members of the civil engineering profession in 177 countries. Founded in 1852, ASCE is the nation’s oldest engineering society. ASCE stands at the forefront of a profession that plans, designs, constructs, and operates society’s economic and social engine – the built environment – while protecting and restoring the natural environment.
