The Year in Infrastructure 2007 - (Page 19) 3D Building Warehouse with HVAC, Electrical, and Piping for Pharmaceutical Company CAD-Phil finalist CAD-Phil completed a storage and warehouse site in Belgium for a well-known pharmaceutical company. Requiring highlevel security and good manufacturing procedures, these projects are quality-controlled and constraint-driven by regulatory authorities. Specific attention in this project was given to the HVAC system, because pressure specifications can vary room to room. Bentley Building Mechanical Systems software was beneficial in handling the complexity of this building’s design because it could generate a bill of materials and automatically populate the quantity specifications for a request for proposal. Since constructors base their quoting on these quantities, accuracy is more ensured, and less time and money is lost rectifying quotes and costs. In addition, the use of 3D modeling and visualizations provided by Bentley’s BIM solutions, along with tools to generate 3D PDFs, made it easy to communicate the design to all parties involved in the project. Sauda Hydro Power Project Norconsult AS finalist The Sauda Hydro Power Project is the largest hydro power project currently under construction in Norway. Reconstruction and enlargement of the existing power plant will increase the energy production from the Sauda catchment by approximately 500 GWh per year. Challenges included the geography — the power plant is built inside a narrow rock cavern — and a short construction period. In addition, it encompassed multiple disciplines and involved late decisions that required rapid design changes. Norconsult used Bentley BIM solutions because it needed powerful software to support collaboration among disciplines. BIM also automated the creation of more than 450 drawings, with repeated recreation of all drawings — resulting in time savings of approximately 30 percent. Overall, the use of 3D modeling increased efficiency, quality, and safety of the project. BE AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE 19
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