Winner

HDR Engineering, Inc.

Southwest Parkway Interchange
Fort Worth, Texas

Southwest Parkway is a proposed 8.2-mile, six-lane tollway to be built and maintained by the North Texas Tollway Authority. Extending from Fort Worth's central business district at IH-30 to southwest Fort Worth, it eventually connects to the 13-mile Chisholm Trail project in Johnson County. Southwest Parkway will improve regional mobility by relieving the growing traffic congestion in the greater Fort Worth area.

To integrate such a diversified design team across multiple locations, ProjectWise was selected as the DMS for all project files, which included not only CAD files, but also engineering calculations, spreadsheets, word documents, and all email correspondence. Having used ProjectWise on previous large-scale collaborations, the project management team easily installed the framework for efficient work sharing and workload balancing.

Finalist

Arup

Stonecutters Bridge
Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Stonecutters Bridge will be a distinctive landmark on the Hong Kong skyline as its towers approach a height of 298 meters and their slender decks cantilever from each side over the Rambler Channel. When completed in 2009, the bridge will provide service to travelers on their way to or from Hong Kong’s International Airport.

As the world’s second longest spanning cable-stayed bridge, the project required extensive design studies. Strong winds, for instance, needed to be accounted for in all stages of construction. Bentley Bridge RM provided wind-buffeting analysis and construction stage modeling. Also, the new erection control module in Bentley Bridge RM was extensively used to allow for accurate non-linear analysis of the large deformations that can occur during construction of relatively flexible structures.

Finalist

Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick India Pvt. Ltd

Feasibility and DPR For 4 Laning of National Highway—1A from Jammu to Udhampur
Jammu, India and Kashmir, India

The challenge of the project was to develop design parameters and carry out a detailed engineering design to add two lanes to the existing two lanes between Jammu and Udhampur through treacherous terrain in India. In addition to mountainous terrain, the project corridor has 35 bridges and 21 viaducts.

MXROAD eliminated errors in survey data and provided dynamic accessibility to the survey data. The difficult terrain conditions of the project corridor hindered decisions for realignments and new alignment options at certain locations, but by importing the topographical survey data through MicroStation into the Google map environment, alignment options for these stretches could be finalized effectively.

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