The Year in Infrastructure 2007 - (Page 74) ciVil distriButed enterprise Kennedy Interchange Reconstruction (Section 1 of the Louisville–Southern Indiana Ohio River Bridges Project) Kentucky transportation associates finalist The reconstruction of the Kennedy Interchange in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, is the largest of six sections of the Louisville– Southern Indiana Ohio River Bridges project. With a primary goal of improving cross-river mobility for the Louisville–Southern Indiana region, this reconstructed junction of I-65, I-64, and I-71 will serve 300,000 vehicles per day. All four major design firms standardized on Bentley’s MicroStation and InRoads, so the project was effectively coordinated. The modeling and rendering capabilities of the software enabled the creation of accurate, detailed flythrough and drivethrough 3D visualizations, providing the design team and public with a better visual representation of the project. ProjectWise was used to facilitate project collaboration among the multiple agencies and design firms involved in the project and allowed centralization and easy access to roughly 20,000 files. Introduction of a Data Management System movares nederland B.V. finalist With 1,200 employees, Movares is the market leader in railway engineering in the Netherlands. At one point, 350 signaling engineers, 200 construction engineers, and 650 other consultants, project managers, quality surveyors, and miscellaneous other professionals all used a variety of data management systems. As a large consulting and engineering operation, the structure had become complex and included 60 different disciplines involved in about 6,000 projects a year. By implementing Bentley’s ProjectWise collaboration system, Movares has seen five major results: accessibility to information is faster; data quality is better due to more uniform processes; communication between partners and among inside constituents has improved, document security now provides for a secure vault for proprietary information, and document handling is seamless and transparent to the user. 74 ThE YEAR IN INFRASTRUCTURE 2007
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