The following is an excerpted press release from Exton, Pa.–based software company Bentley Systems announcing the building and digital cities winners of its Year in Infrastructure 2020 Awards.
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure engineering software company, has announced the winners of the Year in Infrastructure 2020 Awards. The annual awards program honors the extraordinary work of Bentley users advancing design, construction, and operations of infrastructure throughout the world.
Sixteen independent jury panels selected the 57 finalists from over 400 nominations submitted by more than 330 organizations from more than 60 countries.
Bentley Systems acknowledged 19 Year in Infrastructure 2020 Awards winners and 14 Special Recognition awardees on October 21 during the Year in Infrastructure 2020 Conference, held virtually for the first time. To see the Year in Infrastructure 2020 Awards finalists present their projects, click here.
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Building and Campuses Winner: Voyants Solutions Private Limited
Bangladesh Regional Waterway Transport Project 1 – Shasanghat (New Dhaka) IWT Terminal
Dhaka-Shashaghat, Narayanganj, Chandpur, and Barisal; Bangladesh
Project Playbook: OpenBuildings, ProjectWise, STAAD
While Bangladesh has seen a growth in passenger transport, the inland waterway transport (IWT) needed improvement to efficiently transport 157 million passengers annually. Therefore, Voyants Solutions was tasked with developing four major IWT terminals to provide a low-cost, eco-friendly transportation system. With major terminals in cities throughout the country, they needed to improve collaboration to meet the client’s 30-day design completion goal.
With ProjectWise, Voyants Solutions monitored survey information and transferred it into the design platform. OpenBuildings Designer and STAAD helped develop the architecture and structure design, respectively. They completed the initial design formulation in about a week, leaving only 21 days for the detailed design. By using Bentley applications, they submitted the completed design in 18 days, three days ahead of schedule, with a team of eight rather than the usual 15. The applications increased ROI by 50%. The models will be converted to 4D models to streamline construction.
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Building and Campuses Finalist: Beijing General Municipal Engineering Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd.
Innovative Application of BIM in Municipal Engineering Design of Ezhou Civil Airport
Ezhou, Hubei, China
Project Playbook: LumenRT, MicroStation, OpenBridge Modeler, OpenBuildings Designer, OpenRoads, ProjectWise
Set to be completed in December 2020, the CNY 1.49 billion Ezhou Civil Airport project includes municipal roads, water and sewage pumping stations, a 110-kilovolt substation, and a 10-kilovolt switching station. The project faced numerous challenges, including meeting various engineering design standards and managing many components. Collaboration was key, and 2D methods were not going to cut it. The design team was tasked with using BIM technology to manage the multidiscipline collaboration.
By using Bentley’s open design applications, the team established a BIM model of the entire building design, improving understanding and quality across the project. They identified 108 collisions before construction, saving design time and increasing efficiency. Construction simulation in the model helped discover 32 potential issues and shorten construction by 35 days, saving significant labor costs. The airport will improve the area’s economic development, and the project will set a precedent for the city’s digital asset delivery.
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Building and Campuses Finalist: PT Wijaya Karya (Persero) Tbk
COVID-19 Modular Hospital with NPI Room
South Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia
Project Playbook: ContextCapture, LumenRT, OpenBuildings, OpenRoads, ProjectWise, ProStructures,
SYNCHRO 4D
In Indonesia’s capital, PT. Wijaya Karya (WIKA) was tasked with providing one of 14 new hospitals for COVID-19 patients, this one built on a 22,700-square-meter soccer field. The USD 4 million hospital has a 300-bed capacity, 35 ICU rooms, and 10 emergency rooms, as well as state-of-the-art facilities. However, traditional methods would not allow them to complete the project in less than a month, all while following social distancing guidelines.
The team created a design model with OpenBuildings, and ContextCapture. With BIM methodology, they could collaborate with improved visualization and decision-making without needing to be in the same room. By working in the model, they delivered the design in 10 days and resolved 54 potential clashes before construction. SYNCHRO 4D helped them save significant time on the project’s construction to deliver the hospital by June 2020. Moving forward, PT. WIKA will develop a digital twin as the model for future developments.
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Digital Cities Winner: City of Helsinki
Digital City Synergy
Helsinki, Finland
Project Playbook: ContextCapture, LumenRT, MicroStation, OpenCities Map, OpenCities Planner, ProjectWise
The Helsinki Digital Synergy project will integrate and utilize city models to support internal processes and public services, as well as continue to support strategic goals for a sustainable, smart city. The project is helping them improve collaboration and get more value from their city models. To accomplish this, they realized they needed an open digital city platform to overcome any technology and collaboration challenges.
The city of Helsinki uses MicroStation, ContextCapture, and OpenCities Map to generate and update a reality mesh and information model of the 500-square mile city area for their digital twin, which includes CityGML. And they established a connected data environment using ProjectWise. With OpenCities Planner as the visualization and collaboration platform for all stakeholders, including the public. The open, digital solution enables better decision-making by connecting the right information to the right stakeholder and provides a reliable digitalized data infrastructure to support sustainable smart city initiatives.
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Digital Cities Finalist: Skanska-Costain-STRABAG Joint Venture
HS2 Main Works Civils Contract
London, England, United Kingdom
Project Playbook: iModelHub, OpenBuildings Designer, SYNCHRO 4D, SYNCHRO AWP
High Speed 2 (HS2) is the United Kingdom’s GBP 100 billion high-speed railway project. Skanska, Costain, STRABAG JV (SCS) was tasked with delivering civil elements including tunnels, ventilation shafts, portals, and bridges for the first 26 kilometers of the project. SCS realized that the complex scheme, combined with the amount of data and multiple organizations SCS realized that the amount of data created by the multiple organizations and team members involved on this complex project, required comprehensive technology to integrate team members and required comprehensive technology to automate and integrate the GIS and BIM domains.
Recognizing the interoperability issues involved, SCS selected OpenBuildings Designer for 3D model input, ProjectWise as the common platform for storing and extract models for conversion to a 3D GIS format including OGC CityGML, or Esri 3DCIM, along with iModelHub to provide a first step to bridging the gap between these two domains. This digital twin automates and links data from different sources helping to improve workflow efficiency up to eight times, and create the foundation for full lifecycle asset operations and maintenance management utilizing data from smart sensors and Internet of Things technology.
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Digital Cities Finalist: Systematica S.r.l.
MIND: Testbed of New Mobility Paradigms
Milan, Italy
Project Playbook: CUBE
The Milano Innovation District (MIND) is an urban regeneration project at the former Expo 15 site that focuses on sustainable mobility and overcoming traffic congestion and environmental pollution. Systematica was tasked with planning and designing all the project’s mobility and accessibility aspects. However, they realized that converting the former visitor-oriented space into a permanent community-based district would require exploring and testing future movement paradigms and developing a model, which would be difficult using traditional methods.
Systematica selected CUBE to evaluate the accessibility patterns and impact of the induced mobility demand on all available transport services and infrastructure, as well as model and simulate expected mobility pattern for both transport and pedestrian movement throughout the campus. They used CUBE to validate the effectiveness and sustainability of MIND mobility strategies, accelerating master plan approval by six months. Leveraging the flexibility of CUBE through advanced scripting helped them model walkability and a larger array of sustainable transport, creating a benchmark for planning and designing future urban developments.
Find the full list of Year in Infrastructure 2020 winners and finalists here.