Partnership Offers Advanced Process Data Management and Visualisation Solutions

Leading safety and risk management consultancy GexCon has formed a collaboration with specialist geomatic surveyors and BIM experts Severn Partnership to offer customers advanced data management and visualisation solutions for industrial and commercial asset / risk reporting.

Under a memorandum of understanding, customers will benefit from the enhanced and potentially highly visual information that can be created using the detailed scans and models produced by Severn’s Building Information Modelling (BIM) experts.

This will be used in GexCon’s ignition hazard analysis and combustion science models. Also enhancing health and safety training across all types of organisations facing the constant challenge of maintaining high levels of site safety and risk mitigation.

Under the UK Government’s BIM initiative, new technologies and ways of working have been identified to make each stage of an infrastructure’s lifecycle more efficient, from initial build, through maintenance to decommissioning, at many levels.

GexCon, a leading international expert in the field of explosions and consequence prediction uses bespoke laboratories and test facilities to understand complex phenomenon such as explosions to allow better understanding of how to achieve robust safety systems and processes.

Severn Partnership have been early adopters of the latest surveying technologies and BIM, using this with many of the UKs leading construction and engineering companies.  As one of the leading exponents in this area they are now bringing a whole new dimension to these models in terms of risk tagging, training and simulation through games engine based technology.

Dave Price, CEO of GexCon, said: “BIM is changing the face of how large-scale construction and engineering projects are planned and managed, and the data generated in these models is highly detailed and useful for helping cost efficiencies and forward planning.”

“Working with Severn Partnership as part of a strategic sales alliance we can offer modelling which moves BIM on a step, to provide customers with invaluable risk recording and regulation reporting clearly demonstrating hazards and allowing pragmatic solutions to be found.”

Mark Combes, managing director of Severn Partnership, said: “This close collaboration means we can deliver cost efficient benefits to both of our client portfolios, in a way that BIM set out to achieve.

“The expertise offered by combining our skills and knowledge ensures we can offer something of high value to customers who need advanced information upon which to make judgements and predictions where health and safety risks are involved.”

The UK Government has embarked with industry on a four year programme for sector modernisation with the key objective of reducing capital cost and the carbon burden from the construction and operation of the built environment by 20 per cent.