Sector: Private
Industry: Construction
Domain: Tunnels

Improve tunnel design: Preparation
Organization. The design and construction of a tunnel involves designers from seven different disciplines. In a tunnel engineering project, they produce seven partial designs of a tunnel, one for each discipline, together forming an integral design. When they find alignment conflicts in the integral design, they resolve them by modifying their partial designs.
Environmental factors. A tunnel engineering project is a tender project. In the preparation phase, the information needed for design is limited. During execution, time and money are limited.
Challenge. The more alignment conflicts in an integral tunnel design, the more effort, time, and money it takes to resolve them.
Goal. Increase performance.
Objective. Minimize the number of alignment conflicts in an integral tunnel design.
Benefit. Lower development costs.
Worthwhile.
Improve tunnel design: Execution
Identify
- Prepare a tunnel design
- Manage a meta-model of construction designs
- Manage a repository of construction designs
- Produce a tunnel design
- Produce a partial tunnel design
- Combine partial tunnel designs into an integral tunnel design
- Produce a partial tunnel design
- Bound a partial tunnel design space by a set of partial tunnel designs
- Produce a partial tunnel design within a partial tunnel design space
Analyze
- Knowledge:
- Bound a partial tunnel design space by a set of partial tunnel designs
- Experience:
- Produce a partial tunnel design within a partial tunnel design space
- Stakeholders needs:
- Bound a partial tunnel design space by a set of partial tunnel designs
- Produce a partial tunnel design within a partial tunnel design space
- Equal advantage:
- Bound a partial tunnel design space by a set of partial tunnel designs
- Produce a partial tunnel design within a partial tunnel design space
Make
- System. Manage a meta-model of tunnel designs:
- Develop an ontology of tunnel designs
- Transform an ontology of tunnel designs into a meta-model of tunnel designs
- System. Manage a repository of tunnel designs:
- Develop a repository of tunnel designs
- Implement a meta-model of tunnel designs in a repository of tunnel designs
- System. Update the standard operating procedure for:
- Manage a meta-model of tunnel designs
- Manage a repository of tunnel designs
- Produce a tunnel design
- Skills. Train staff in:
- Manage a meta-model of tunnel designs
- Manage a repository of tunnel designs
- Produce a tunnel design