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.