Building The Future: Infrastructure & Airport Innovation

Real ROI from Perth’s Revizto Field Day

The numbers tell the story: 7.5 days saved per bridge pier. Zero operational disruptions during a $5 billion airport upgrade. These are real results from digital delivery experts who presented at Perth’s Revizto Field Day.

The event brought together digital delivery experts to share how technology is reshaping the way we design, build, and hand over complex projects. The speaker line-up included Raz Tavallaei (Women in BIM), Ian Mackinnon (Revizto), Adam Booth and David Williams (Laing O’Rourke / Fremantle Bridges Alliance), and Gabbie Kerrisk (Keyframe), each offering a practical view of where digital strategies deliver the greatest returns.

The message was consistent across every presentation: when digital delivery is embedded from day one, it improves safety, quality, and speed while reducing costs and risk.

Setting the Foundation: Women in BIM’s Long-Term ROI Perspective

Opening the event, Raz Tavallaei spoke about how Women in BIM is building capability across the global construction sector. With more than 4,000 members across 2,500 companies in 116 countries, WIB connects professionals through free mentoring, research, and skill-building events.

Raz emphasized that a broader mix of perspectives leads to better problem-solving, more innovation, and stronger retention. In a market where skilled people are hard to find and harder to keep, those advantages translate directly into project performance.

Revizto’s Product Roadmap: Automation & Infrastructure Support

Ian Mackinnon shared upcoming and newly released Revizto features designed to speed up workflows and improve accuracy.

Infrastructure project support will soon let teams import and align civil design data directly from Civil 3D, OpenRail and OpenRoads, or manually uploading IFC and LandXML files. The datasets will then provide chainage and offset tracking for linear works—helping reduce costly location errors and improve handover precision.

The newly launched issue workflow automation feature drew strong interest from attendees. Teams can now set up triggers and responses with “if-this-then-that” rules to automatically assign tasks, update priorities, or apply deadlines when certain conditions are met. This removes hours of repetitive admin, reduces errors, and keeps projects moving without bottlenecks—freeing teams to focus on delivery instead of chasing updates.

Fremantle Bridges Alliance: Bridging Digital to Delivery

Laing O’Rourke’s Adam Booth and David Williams shared how the Fremantle Bridges Alliance is working with Main Roads to deliver the Swan River Crossings project, replacing an 85-year old traffic bridge with Australia’s first extradosed bridge—all while keeping traffic flowing. Their approach: going digital-first from day one.

Every temporary works item was modeled in 3D, linked to a 4D schedule in P6, and reviewed in VR before construction began. Weekly federations ensured everyone worked from the latest data, and 4D sequencing gave crews a clear view of upcoming activities.

The ROI was clear. By rethinking and virtually trialling reinforcement installation methods, they saved 7.5 days per bridge pier—cutting labor costs, improving program certainty, and lowering safety risks.

The team also invested in upskilling Alliance staff and sub-contractors on Revizto and equipping them with high-spec devices. This meant no delays due to adoption challenges, ensuring the digital strategy delivered its full value from implementation.

Brisbane Airport: Zero Downtime in a $5 Billion Live Environment

Gabbie Kerrisk from Keyframe shared how her team managed a complex $5 billion security and retail upgrade at Brisbane International Airport—all while the terminal remained operational 24/7.

The project was staged into nine separable portions, each with its own handover requirements. Revizto zones and custom property tagging allowed precise tracking of design, construction, and data for each area, ensuring completed zones were handed over ready for use and protected from rework.

A targeted point cloud strategy kept the model fast and manageable. Instead of overloading the model with a full building scan, the team brought in targeted scans zone-by-zone. This kept the model lightweight, sped up coordination, and allowed scans to be removed once work was complete. The result: faster clash resolution, fewer site surprises, and zero operational disruption to one of Australia’s busiest airports.

Shared Lessons: The ROI of Early, Embedded Digital Strategy

During the closing panel discussion, a clear pattern emerged across all projects. While they varied in scope and sector, their success came from the same core principles:

• Start with digital strategy, not software: Every successful team began with a clear digital delivery strategy before choosing tools.
• Invest in your people: Teams that upskilled everyone and provided proper equipment saw immediate adoption and results.
• Break complexity into manageable pieces: Whether pier-by-pier bridge construction or zone-by-zone airport upgrades, successful teams divided complex projects into well-defined, trackable tasks.
• Make data drive decisions, not just track them: The most successful implementations used data to actively guide project decisions, not just report on progress.
• Keep communication visual and simple: When everyone from designers to site crews can see the same information clearly, alignment happens naturally.

Final Word

Our Perth Field Day showed that early digital adoption delivers measurable results across every project phase. Whether you’re building a bridge to last generations or upgrading an airport without stopping a single flight, the teams who plan digitally from day one see the returns multiply across every phase of project delivery.

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