Tunnel Asset Management

Ben Swatton
BEng(Hons) MSc CEng MIMMM AMICE
What is asset management?

“The co-ordinated approach, planning and implementation of activities to realise

value from items, things or entities that have potential or actual value to an
organisation”

Adapted from ISO 55000 Asset Management – Overview, principles and terminology
 The challenge

83km structures 60+ Small civil

Beam operations
years engineering team

Maintenance by
Restricted access Use and re-use
design

Hazardous Separate to CERN

Staff turnover
Environments AMS
Policy & Strategy
Data-Driven Asset Management
Predictive
Structural surveys maintenance
plan

Existing data (e.g. Design guidance

beamline
movements,
for new
piezos, weather) infrastructure
GIS
Analysis and
evaluation
Emergency &
Geological data contingency
plans

Risk assessments Budget

Digitisation
&
Digitalisation
Roadmap Focused surveys & action Remedial works and/or
plans continual monitoring

Condition surveys & problem

Inspections
identification
Design Guidance

Fault trend analysis

Digital Tunnel Survey Tool Predictive Maintenance Plan

Policy & Strategy Definition

Sensor and other data e.g. PX56 Flooding Early

GIS Integration
automation Warning System
Tools and Technology
Development

Photogrammetry HL-LHC proof of concept

Automated crack mapping and

Advanced inspection methods Machine Learning
characterisation

Remote Inspection Techniques Remote inspections

Data-Driven Asset Management
Predictive
Structural surveys maintenance
plan

Existing data (e.g. Design guidance

beamline
movements, for new
piezos, weather) infrastructure
GIS
Analysis and
evaluation
Emergency &
Geological data contingency
plans

Risk assessments Budget

LS2 Tunnel Inspections
Tunnel Inspections

Assess

Triage

Act
Traditional Tunnel Inspections

Hand-written notes by Sketches and notes Uploaded to document server

engineer transcribed into Excel (never to be seen again…)
 The New Inspection Method

Faults recorded on a mobile Photos, details and location Automatically uploaded to

app (TIC) all recorded CERN GIS
TIC – Civil Engineering
Inspection Results
 PM54 Ingress &
Shaft Movements
Ad-hoc inspections

HiLumi P1 Existing TI12 Condition Report for

Condition Survey FASER
Monitoring Technologies Research &
Development
Future Technologies R&D

Digital

Remote Automated

Tunnel Asset
Management
Beamline Re-alignment Monitoring
Upgrading to Smart Infrastructure
Fibre Optic Measurement
Remote Inspections

Remote collection of photos and

data using robots for more regular
inspections and less risk to
inspectors
Automated Fault Classification
Future of Tunnel Asset Management

• On-going development
• Finalised Policy, Strategy & Plan
• Preparation for LS3 inspections (2024 – 2025)
• Research partnerships for new technologies