Winner

CH2M HILL

Round Butte Dam Selective Water Withdrawal
Madras, Oregon

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. Modifications to current structures are often simple, requiring only installation of baffles and gates to prevent fish from entering the intakes. This project at Round Butte Hydroelectric Project in Oregon, however, required a far more complicated and innovative design to satisfy the regulatory requirements.

CH2M HILL’s selective water withdrawal system modifies the surface-current directions for migrating fish so they can more easily move into the fish handling area, provides a fish collection system, and ensures the released water complies with water-quality standards. MicroStation and TriForma visualized the design as it progressed, drove the engineering data, maintained the design, and unified the project team.

Finalist

DHV Building and Industry

ARISE Solar Cell Factory, Bischofswerda
Bisschofswerda, Germany

The goal of this German project was to enable a solar cell supplier to produce cells with the highest possible electrical efficiency and mechanical yield in an optimal sustainable manner. Sustainability is incorporated into not only the product itself, but also into the manner in which it is produced.

DHV used Bentley’s BIM solutions to realize significantly higher controllability of the multidisciplinary industrial projects. Bentley Architecture, Bentley Structural, and Bentley Building Mechanical Systems provided contractors with more information upfront, which reduced subsequent engineering costs. 3D design models can also now be reused for the next solar cell factory.

Finalist

Faber Maunsell

Lee Tunnel – Planning and Reference Design
London, United Kingdom

Due to shifting weather patterns and greater population, London’s excess sewage frequently overflows into the River Thames, which decreases oxygen in the water and causes overall health risks. The Lee Tunnel is part of a new 40-kilometer transfer network of tunnels below London that will halve the volume of untreated discharges into the river.

Bentley applications provided scalable technology that enabled potential downstream reuse of the data provided for the lifecycle management of the project. Faber Maunsell created a model of the pumping station, tunnels, and adjoining shaft that was subsequently used as the basis for creating high-definition visualization. ProjectWise controlled the flow of data across the project team and enabled potential reuse of the data for the lifecycle management of the project.

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