Built Environment Process Re-engineering (PRE)

The first research program of RYM Oy is the PRE (Built Environment Process Re-engineering) program to be implemented in 2010-2013. Its aim is to create totally new procedures and business models for the real estate, construction and infra sectors. They will be more user-centred and supported by product model-based data management over the entire life cycle of the real estate, infrastructures and communities in question. The adoption of new business processes allows a significant increase in productivity and quality.

The PRE program with 43 participants, 37 companies and 6 research institutes, has a budget of 21 million euros. The possibilities of exploiting building information modelling will be studied from many standpoints: the supply chains of industrialised building, real-estate life cycle management and urban planning. The requirements of knowledge work for space management is also a subject.

The program consists of six thematic work packages (driver company in parentheses):

1. Model Nova - Use of BIM during property´s life cycle from the owner´s perspective (Senate Properties)
2. NewWov - Changing nature and requirements of knowledge work and their impact on management of an organization and spaces (Rapal Oy)
3. BIMCON - BIM-based product data management in the delivery chain of industrialized building (Skanska Oy)
4. DRUM - Entity data models and standards (Tekla Oyj)
5. Infra FINBIM - Future innovation-based delivery chain of the infra sector (VR Track Oy)
6. BIMCity - Platform for dissemination, evaluation and development of community-level built environment digital models (FCG Oy)

The work package related to coordination of the PRE program is also the responsibility of FCG Oy.

Contacts:

Anssi Salonen
RYM Oy
anssi.salonen(at)rym.fi
phone +358 40 514 6181

Johanna Kuusisto (Program Manager)
VTT
johanna.kuusisto(at)vtt.fi
phone +358 40 7609 175

Ilkka Romo
puh. +358 20 719 2459
ilkka.romo(at)skanska.fi