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"Sustaining Growth through Innovation in Infrastructure"
Be Seminar ME 2009
April 8th 2009 - The Ritz Carlton  Hotel- Kingdom of Bahrain

 

ISKI Genel Mudurlugu

Asset Management Information System of Istanbul Water and Sewerage Administration
Istanbul, Turkey

2008 BE Award Winner
Innovation in Cadastre and Land Development

ISKI needed accurate parcel data that contained both geospatial location and updated real-estate properties, requiring both CAD and GIS technology on the same platform. An asset management information system was designed to enable the management, querying, analyzing, and reporting of all data.

Project Highlights

Using MicroStation and other Bentley solutions, the system:

  • Provides ISKI professionals with quick access to accurate data through query applications
  • Produces time savings, calculated at a rate of 7.5 hours per document and nearly 2,250 documents
    per year, totaling about 16,845 man-hours
  • Recouped approximately 80 percent of its cost in time savings alone.

 

Arup

Melbourne Rectangular Stadium
Melbourne, Australia

2008 BE Award Winner
Innovation in Commercial or Residential Building

A world-class sporting event and administration complex, this new stadium for 31,000 fans will feature a sports campus, elite training center, and sports administration area. The stadium will have a cutting-edge bioframe design
that uses 50 percent less steel than a typical stadium roof of the same size.

Project Highlights

Using GenerativeComponents, the project team:

  • Performed optimization studies on the roof steelwork sizes and geometric configurations as well as efficiently coped with any changes to the roof geometry during the design process
  • Produced a set of tender documents that provided contractors with the size and length of all of the individual steelwork members in the roof so they could produce accurate cost estimates
  • Quickly regenerated different geometric configurations and exported the data in a format that could be linked to the analysis software

 

Giprotyumenneftegaz

Booster Pump Station With Preliminary Water Discharge Facility
Khanty-Mansi, Russia

2008 BE Award Winner
Innovation in Oil and Gas

Located in the Priobskoye field of the Yugansk oil region, this complex project involved the design of several connected facilities – process site, industrial zone, administrative and common buildings, and engineering facilities.

Specialists from many different disciplines took part in the design, including surveyors, technologists, architects, sanitary engineers, electrical engineers, and specialists in CAM and telecom.

Project Highlights

The 3D technologies of Bentley software for designing complex objects:

  • Reduced the number of mistakes during design documentation
  • Automated labor-intensive processes such as collision detection, specification, and estimate development
  • Reduced design time by 1.5 to two times and design costs by about 25 to 30 percent

 

Gautrain

Gautrain Rapid Rail Link
Gauteng Province, South Africa

2008 BE Award Winner
Innovation in Rail and Transit

The Gautrain Rapid Rail Link will be a modern railway that connects Tshwane to Johannesburg and Sandton to ORTIA International Airport with 11 stations linked by 80 kilometers of rail operating at speeds of up to 160 kilometers
per hour. An integrated solution consisting of train and bus services, Gautrain will ultimately transport more than 60,000 passengers per hour and take 20 percent of car users off parallel roads.

Project Highlights

As the document management system for all consortium members, ProjectWise:

  • Delivered a unique customized solution with five levels of security for the tendering process
  • Enabled all project team members and design reviewers (specialized engineers; architects; land-use planners; environmentalists; and safety, health, and quality practitioners) to work within the system
  • Provided redundancy planning and systems to address risks of disasters and errors

 

HDR Engineering, Inc.

Southwest Parkway Interchange
Fort Worth, Texas

2008 BE Award Winner
Innovation in Road and Bridge

Southwest Parkway is a proposed 8.2-mile, six-lane tollway to be built and maintained by the North Texas Tollway Authority (NTTA). HDR was selected to design a new five-level interchange for the parkway at SH-183 and IH-20,
requiring the design of two miles of new roadway, six-lane mainlines on Southwest Parkway with localized frontage roads, over one mile of SH-183 reconstruction with new frontage roads, and direct connectors to IH-20.

Project Highlights

ProjectWise mobilized a seamless design team comprised of 90 HDR engineers, CAD designers, and staff from 12 offices along with more than 40 team members from four subconsultants to:

  • Integrate a diversified design team across multiple locations
  • Install the framework for efficient work sharing and workload balancing
  • Provide the design team with a tool that increased productivity, improved quality, and delivered efficient collaboration

 

Maharashtra Jeevan Pradhikaran

Transforming Intermittent Water Supply of Developing Countries to 24x7 System
Badlapur, India

2008 BE Award Winner
Sustaining Society

After the water supply source was severely damaged during unprecedented rain in July 2005, construction of a new barrage gave occasion to optimize the distribution system for continuous water supply to the city’s more than
140,000 inhabitants. With district metering areas properly demarcated and set in operation, various improvement measures such as leakage control and throttling of valves for equitable water supply have been implemented.

Project Highlights

The project team used WaterGEMS to design a hydraulic model of existing and proposed pipelines by modeling the entire distribution system, calibrating network and consumer withdrawal patterns during system modifications, and
creating zones and district metering areas to further improve service, which:

  • Provides 24x7 water supply to 16 out of 34 wards
  • Transformed the intermittent system to 24x7 service
  • Reduced non-revenue water loss by 427 million liters per year, producing considerable cost savings

 

CH2M HILL

Round Butte Dam Selective Water Withdrawal
Madras, Oregon

2008 BE Award Winner
Sustaining the Environment

Protection of native fish has required modification of water intakes at major hydroelectric projects to comply with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and Clean Water Act water-quality permits. Although modifications to
current structures are often simple, a far more complicated and innovative design was required to satisfy regulatory requirements for this project.

Project Highlights

The design team developed a 3D model using MicroStation and TriForma to visualize the design as it progressed, drive the engineering data, and coordinate and construct the components. As a result:

  • Project files were shared among all team members, including five CH2M HILL offices and a multitude of consultants
  • Whenever a component changed, the model was quickly revised, and the data was extracted for quantities and materials
  • Fabricators then used the model to extract material quantities and construct specific components