Winner

The $3.3 billion Phase 1 program at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport calls for construction of the first new runway since 1971, the extension of an existing runway, and a new north airfield air traffic control tower. To accomplish this, a railroad, creek, major airport guard post, lighting control vaults, and high-pressure water main had to be relocated. The program is scheduled to be completed in six years without an interruption of current service.

Design began on all major and enabling projects simultaneously, although phasing and constructability were not complete. This precipitated the transfer of portions of design packages to other teams while maintaining delivery dates. The project involved 600-plus people working in more than 30 offices. Using MicroStation as the program platform and ProjectWise to distribute files to multiple sites kept everyone up-to-date.

Finalist

This $78.5 million project revitalized a decommissioned military facility at Moffett Field in Mountain View, California. After abandoned military housing was demolished, the site was developed for a new Army Reserve Center and Regional Sustainment Command Headquarters. The facility also serves as an Emergency Management Center for the California National Guard.

The project included three buildings totaling 270,000 square feet and associated site improvements. Barge Waggoner Sumner & Cannon used Bentley building, civil, and structural solutions to produce three design packages. The distributed design capabilities inherent in Bentley’s building information modeling software enabled a design team of more than 70 people to work in parallel on all aspects of the project, saving design time and shortening the project duration. The ability to seamlessly incorporate non-native file formats also resulted in savings over previous workflows.

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Finalist

The master plan for the construction of 20 food production and processing plants in Tuticorin, India, provides for more than 60 buildings, including a hospital, training center, retail center, housing, power house, warehouses, and manufacturing facilities. To visualize the self-contained, $1.6 billion community, the designers incorporated all major amenities, roads, utilities, and landscaping in a virtual 3D walkthrough for the entire 300-acre site.

The project plan demonstrated workflow between civil, architecture, and engineering. MicroStation was used as the main platform for file organization and interoperability. The master model included more than 100 references to building and civil models. The vast campus required 9 minutes of animation with 9,000 frames. By splitting the animation into four segments and using the new MicroStation V8i release with its distributed rendering functionality, the team rendered the model in one weekend.

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