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Data is ever-present in the built environment, from initial planning, via design specifications and BIM (Building Information Modelling) models, to the control systems that operate the built world. The challenge has always been to connect volume and variety of data, to learn from them, in order to generate new insights, services and benefits for users. At Arup data is both fuel and inspiration, an endlessly creative resource that informs and sharpens our thinking. We help clients to turn all kinds of operational and built environment data into valuable outcomes.
Whatever the organisational goal, data is increasingly at the centre of the relationship between users, assets, services and investors. As partners to organisations or businesses, our clients gain the benefit of our strengths in data analytics, backed by deep domain knowledge across every element of the built and natural world , from structures to acoustics to lighting and everything in between. Our members are experts in data infrastructure and science, data enabled innovation and user centred approaches to changing knowledge, culture and practices. Whatever the goal, our clients benefit from this creativity with data at scale.
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许多组织可以通过其运营或经常生产资产的数据做更多的事情。我们帮助从运输到制造业的许多不同领域的客户，探索其数据的潜力并开发新服务。找出我们如何构建一个分析工具来解释实时全球飞行数据以帮助所有者Heathrow Airport optimise terminal usage，并改善乘客体验。
Data and the battle against climate change
Data is becoming increasingly vital as we attempt to address the major systemic changes in the built and natural environment required by climate change. Data will drive the performance changes we need, the design choices we make, and provide the transparency in reporting that builds support for the radical change that must be achieved. Data underpins the solutions we are developing for clients across every sector, form energy and utility companies to residential developers and transport network operators.
Data-enabled engineering and design
在ARUP，我们认为数据分析是缩小设计目标和资产在现实世界中的差距的最佳方法。数据使我们能够在拟议的设计中构建性能潜力的复杂模型。We used a sophisticated data-driven energy model to optimise the design of MIT’s new student residences, calculating the optimum angle of its fin-shaped exterior to minimise the effects of solar radiation, enabling the new building to plug directly into the campus’s existing heating and water system.
At a larger scale, approaches like agent-based modelling, are helping our城市建模实验室to develop new public transport and other urban services in ways that reflect and anticipate human needs. The team’s approach is to ‘simulate everyone’s day’, using data in harmony with a user-centred design ethos, to inform policy and help city planners and authorities to make better long-term decisions.
自动化也正在改变我们的执行方式design and engineering tasks, accelerating the development and validation of potential ideas and solutions, allowing clients to explore alternative options in detail. We develop our own automation tools in response to the project in front of us, sharing models between teams to build on each other’s knowledge and learning. Network Rail has used ourArup Fuse platformto bring new visibility and efficiency to the complex data underpinning delivery of its Greater West infrastructure upgrade programme.
Shaping the data infrastructure and ecosystem
Data infrastructure is now central to the success of major projects, fromBIM models项目管理资产文档和handover, every stage relies on efficient data infrastructure being set up at the start. We are experts in setting up the data architecture on projects, producing uniform definitions, formats and standards so that the entire supply chain can work from a shared version of the truth. For our clients, this approach saves time, money and reduces the amount of abortive work during a project.
As the UK’s open-banking initiative has clearly demonstrated, when an industry converges on common standards, incredible innovation and value creation becomes possible – new market entrants, new products and services and better user experiences are the result. Arup is taking aleading role in developing data ecosystems for the built environment, to pioneer this same level of innovation and increased sustainability, something the sector has lagged behind on for too long.
Arup is also part of the leadership ofIcebreakerOne– which is helping develop an energy data ecosystem to support net zero outcomes. This is an exciting and significant project, aiming to set standards that allow the use of data as a continuous flow of evidence to inform actions and enable climate-friendly investments.
Developing data ethics
Anonymised user data is increasingly valuable in design and planning processes – it brings us closer to users and communities. But there are ethical dimensions to the sharing of that information, the level of privacy maintained, and there must be equity of benefits when personal data is used to shape commercial outcomes. We have conducted workshops with Gartner and the Open Data Institute on a data ethics approach for our industry. This ongoing work will inform our own thinking, including how we train our people, and shape the way we deliver projects for clients, communities and cities alike.
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