Integrated Framework for Lifecycle Infrastructure Management Systems


    There is much information needed to manage the activities and events that occur throughout the lifecycle of an infrastructure system, such as a bridge, including construction, inspection, and maintenance activities, environmental effects, etc. Conventional infrastructure management systems provide only limited support for representing and visualizing this information. Using a 4D product model to visualize information related to different stages of the lifecycle of structures is a powerful method to understand the spatial and non-spatial relationships between the components of the structure and the changes over time of the attributes of these components. This paper discusses an integrated framework for lifecycle infrastructure management systems. This framework integrates information from different sources and links it to the 4D model of the product. A prototype system is developed in Java language to demonstrate the proposed approach using the data of Jacques Cartier Bridge in Montreal.