Fort Carson Uses MicroStation and InRoads for Base Expansion

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Organization

Omaha District of USACE

Project Objectives

Provide living and working quarters for a U.S. Army Heavy Brigade Unit at Fort Carson, Colorado to support a 9,000 troop increase between fiscal years 2006 and 2009.
Build five barracks, a brigade headquarters, dining facility, a 230 acre motorpool complex, and widen two roads to increase traffic capacity.
The entire complex needed to be designed as eleven separate projects over a three-year period to support budgetary and contracting limitations.

Fast Facts

The motorpool complex included six total motorpools are 1-1/2 miles long encompassing a 230-acre area.
The project included a drainage-channel realignment required for mitigating existing wetlands. Also, gas, electrical power, communications, sanitary sewer, and water utilities had to be relocated from the site of the motorpool complex.
The team designed and constructed the project within seven months and moved approximately 1 million cubic yards of soil.

Bentley Products Used

The Omaha District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is providing master planning for a $370 million Brigade Combat Team-Heavy (BCT-H) complex at Fort Carson, Colorado, which will provide living and working quarters for a heavy brigade unit being relocated to the installation. The complex is one of several projects to support a 9,000-troop increase at Fort Carson between fiscal years 2006 and 2009.

The project workspace environment of MicroStation allowed drawing files to be shared between several projects, which eliminated the need to create several versions of a drawing file. It also allowed changes in one project to be reflected across several other projects. The DTMs created during the design process were also used to create a 3D triangulated surface of the final grades. Design visualization features included with MicroStation allowed renderings of the complex to be created for customer presentation.

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