[Scott Durno]

• Who are you? Scott Durno, I have been working in Infrastructure and the Built Environment for just over a decade, initially as a CAD Technician, before moving into BIM, first as a BIM Coordinator, then a BIM Manager and lastly a BIM Consultant, before making the move to High Speed 1 to work on the operational client side of Engineering, having always been in Design Consultancy and Construction roles prior.  Now, I’m the Information Manager at HS1 which covers a few things, including Asset Information Maturity Improvement, BIM Implementation, and Common Data Environment reconfiguration.  The cherry on the cake is that I get to lead our Research and Development and Innovation Portfolio, a £2m fund over 5 years with 3 years left to run, where we’ve so far spent around £1m and made operational efficiencies of £2.1m.  
• What is your industry and profession? Infrastructure, Transport, Rail and I’m an Information Manager and R&D/Innovation Lead.  
• Where do you plan to use your new Digital Twin Knowledge? Personally/professionally? Both! I have a dream of a Digital Twin of my own assets, but professionally, we have big plans at High Speed 1 for a system-wide Digital Twin that not only looks at our assets, but powers our decisions around our commercial decisions such as our retail offering at the iconic St. Pancras International Station.  We also want to use our Digital Twin to plan our climate resilience and understand demographics better in order to ensure we’re providing a high-class, high-speed rail experience for our customers and passengers! 
• Why have you decided to join the DTHub? I’ve been fortunate enough to present during a Gemini Call about what we’re doing at High Speed 1 and it’s given me the desire to get more involved so we can share and learn.  
• Have you participated in any of our meetups, or events? The Gemini Calls
• Do you have any examples of work that you have done using Digital Twins? Yes! Check out the High Speed 1 5G Augmented Reality Digital Twin in the press and on the DTHub! 

[Scott Durno]

Hi Simon! 

Your Name (or Company Name): Scott Durno / High Speed 1 
Your Project Title: 5G Integrated Railway AR Digital Twin
Gateway to Research Link: GtR (ukri.org)
Project Description: The rail industry has seen reduced passengers and revenue and due to COVID-19, the challenge is now to attract passengers back to a more reliable railway through diagnosing faults quickly and efficiently, and giving our frontline staff access to information that can allow them to proactively improve the customer and passenger experience.  HS1 has had to deal with increased maintenance costs in relation to network assets for several reasons, but in particular the increased difficulty of getting personnel to our assets in a socially distanced manner.  Our current data infrastructure isn’t capable of reporting vast amounts of information in real-time and doesn’t allow personnel to quickly isolate the location and reason for faults and failures.  This R&D project is to implement remote condition monitoring to diagnose faults remotely.  Using 5G technology, real-time data can be fed into an augmented reality Digital Twin (ARDT) allowing for monitoring of our assets and live data feeds to engineers at the point of need.  The benefits include reduced costs, time and CO2 emissions as a result of maintenance activities being monitored and inspected remotely, and the reduced time of in-person maintenance due to the higher level of pre-attendance information.  The ARDT has also replicated assets to provide a training aid to our teams, allowing engineers to train on equipment in a safe, virtual environment, and then progressing to site equipped with better practical training and knowledge to allow them to more safely carry out maintenance and repairs.  

Website / Press Links: 

HS1 complete UK’s first 5G-enabled augmented reality digital twin trial (globalrailwayreview.com)

PAULEY leads UK-first ‘augmented reality digital twin’ railway project with HS1 | RailBusinessDaily

HS1’s digital twin trial gives a glimpse of the future of railway (globalrailwayreview.com)

I believe we’re also in the physical copy of the next Global Railway Review issue also.  

Thanks,

Scott