Bentley Year in Infrastructure 2018 Conference Features Year in Infrastructure Finalists’ Best Practices, Real-World Implementations, and State-of-the-Art Technologies

Every year the Bentley Systems’ Year in Infrastructure conference showcases finalists in their Year in Infrastructure competition. The event highlights the company’s prestigious Year in Infrastructure Awards, where finalists in 19 categories present their most innovative projects of the past year and describe how they were able to solve real-world challenges using Bentley applications. The winners will be announced at a special ceremony and gala on Oct. 18.

Image courtesy of CCCC Water Transportation Consultants, Ltd.

An impressive array of finalists from all over the globe, with projects represented in categories such as Communications Networks, Digital Cities, Reality Modeling, Roads and Bridges, Building and Campuses, Manufacturing, and Environmental Engineering, will gather at the Hilton Metropole in London for the annual celebration of technology implementation and research.

There are numerous opportunities to speak with the finalists at this event and to see their presentations. Industry Forums also provide a thorough view of best practices and real-world applications of technologies.

One of the events I’m particularly interested in is Tuesday’s Geotechnical Roundtable with JanWillem Koutstaal, former managing director of Plaxis, and Santanu Das, senior vice president of design engineering. Roundtables generally lead to lively discussions and networking. This year, the recent additions of Plaxis and SoilVision have expanded Bentley’s geotechnical footprint from gINT to offer a more comprehensive geotechnical solution.

I do want to find out about the new civil design application, OpenSite Designer. On Tuesday, we will learn how this application enables rapid site modeling and analysis, earthwork optimization and quantification, drainage and underground utility design, automated project deliverables, and more from Dustin Parkman and David Settlemyer.

Wednesday’s lunch presentation promises a look at Bentley’s vision for structural engineering with host Santanu Das, senior vice president of design engineering, who will be joined by Chief Revenue Officer Gus Bergsma, Senior Vice President of Reality Modeling Phil Christensen, and General Director of Portfolio Development for Plaxis JanWillem Koutstaal – the executives who brought STAAD, RAM, FormSys, SACs, Plaxis, and other structural software brands to Bentley.

Image courtesy of PT. WIJARA KARYA (Persero) Tbk

Finalists in the The Year in Infrastructure Awards Digital Advancements in Structural Engineering category will then speak about their projects:

• Arab Engineering Bureau – Burj Alfardan – Lusail, Qatar
• Shilp Consulting Engineers – Alambagh Bus Terminal – Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
• VYOM Consultants – K10 Grand Commercial High Rise – Vadodara, Gujarat, India

I chose to showcase just a few finalist presentations, but you can look at all the finalists here.

Digital Cities

Tianjin City is the fourth largest city in China. CCCC Water Transportations Consultants Co., Ltd.’s entry is BIM Technology Application in the Municipal Infrastructure Phase 1 of Zhong-Guan-Cun Science and Technology for Baodi District, Tianjin City.

Their goal is to build a science and technology city, integrating resources of Beijing, Tianjin, and Zhong-Guan-Cun. The CNY 2.2 billion project faces a vast geographic and wide construction area under tight construction deadline. The organization is tasked with the design and construction of roads, utility pipelines, a 174,000-square-meter park, and green roadsides spanning 477,000 square meters. To achieve this, the overall project consultant CCCC Water Transportation Consultants Co., Ltd. coordinated the many engineering disciplines using Bentley’s integrated BIM applications to generate a comprehensive 3D model of the entire city.

CCCC shortened the construction period by 64 days, saving CNY 6.6 million in costs by performing construction simulation that facilitated construction management. Collaborative efforts were made possible with ProjectWise, which provided the connected data environment to streamline workflows and improve design efficiency. Finally, ContextCapture was used to generate a reality mesh from UAV terrain data collected on site. This made it easier for the team to do earthworks planning and ultimately saved approximately CNY 40 million.

Products Used: ContextCapture, LumenRT, MicroStation, Navigator, OpenBridge Modeler, OpenRoads, ProjectWise, ProStructures

Environmental Engineering

The Digital Advancements in Environmental Engineering is also a competitive category. One finalist, PT. WIJAYA KARYA (Persero) Tbk of Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia, was retained by the Ministry of Public Works for a landslide disaster protection project on the National Road Network.

Two months before the annual Indonesian Homecoming Festival in West Java, a huge landslide blocked the main road between Bogor and Cianjur, making the congested traffic situation even worse. PT. WIJAYA KARYA generated a feasibility study while executing preventative measures on site. The road is a major thoroughfare that requires that it be available to an open flow of traffic. Therefore, the estimated IDR 50 billion project was given a strict deadline of five months to complete.

Using a BIM process comprised of Bentley applications, WIJAYA KARYA was able to investigate the site and capture images to create a digital terrain model with ContextCapture. OpenRoads and AECOsim Building Designer were used to design the site, corridor, and other structures, while simultaneously receiving automatic values for concrete volumes. The team saved up to 20 percent in construction costs by using these methods. ProjectWise was employed to streamline the process and reduce the project design time by up to 20 percent. Now, WIJAYA KARYA is expecting to increase their infrastructure project output by up to 50 percent by 2020.

Products Used: AECOsim Building Designer, ContextCapture, gINT, LumenRT, Navigator, OpenRoads, ProjectWise, ProStructures

Reality Modeling

While reality modeling is a part of many of the project categories, it does have a category of its own.

Rail provides the arteries that connect neighborhoods within cities and cities to cities all over the world. This year’s Reality Modeling category entry from London is a massive improvement project for the London Underground.

Transport for London’s entry is Major Projects Directorate, Deep Tube Upgrade Programme – Piccadilly Line Upgrade. Transport for London sought to improve their railway infrastructure, reliability, and accessibility along the London Underground. The engineering team assigned to the approximately GBP 5 billion project was to design, analyze, and deliver drawings to support the platform train interface along the Piccadilly Line.

With this type of project, the team had to model unique platform sections and perform analysis and simulation to identify potential problems during migration stages. They used a collaborative BIM and reality modeling approach including Descartes, MicroStation, and ProjectWise. This approach allowed the team to coordinate more than 11,600 documents and generate detailed 3D models and animated renderings from over 1.1 terabytes of point cloud data. The foundation created by this implementation for asset management, as well as the elimination of rework, saved up to 75 percent in design time, diminishing overall costs. Additionally, ProjectWise provided a connected data environment for collaborative management of all digital engineering data among the entire team and stakeholders.

Products Used: Descartes, MicroStation, ProjectWise

Overall, London will be an exciting place to be this week as we get a glimpse of the finalists’ projects with real-world applications of Bentley software and see the new technologies developed by Bentley.

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