The Year in Infrastructure 2008 - (Page 10) Att AttAining RetuRn on innovAtion – WinneR nnovAtion nnovA A Camp Dresser and McKee, Inc. CDM Arbennie Pritchett Water Reclamation Facility Fort Walton Beach, Florida, United States Okaloosa county teamed with camp Dresser and McKee (cDM) to design and build a state-of-the-art wastewater treatment facility. The Arbennie Pritchett water reclamation facility will serve a population of 181,000 in the Florida panhandle, treating 10 million gallons of wastewater per day to the stringent Florida Department of Environmental Protection standards. The high-quality effluent will be discharged to rapid infiltration basins for groundwater recharge, reclaiming a valuable water resource. The facility was designed using intelligent 3D across all disciplines – architectural, civil, electrical, HVAC, instrumentation, plumbing, process, and structural – for more than 20 buildings and structures. The program called for alternative design-build delivery to meet an aggressive schedule. Final design had to be completed within 5.5 months of notice to proceed. To meet this short timeframe, the client and engineering team needed to be able to quickly visualize the facility to agree on the form and function of the elements early in the design process. Bentley software allowed CDM to maximize staff skill sets and interact in a collaborative design environment to build the virtual facility. The project incorporated intelligent 4D design by integrating a living database into the 3D facility models, providing a lasting platform for efficient operations and maintenance. The 3D/4D approach allows for the 3D models and intelligent data to continue through the full lifecycle of the facility, from design through operations and maintenance. Beginning at the conceptual stage, the integrated 3D model and collaborative environment paid dividends. Among them were a 17 percent reduction in manhours for about 300 design drawings; a 30 percent compression in the design schedule by using a collaborative rather than an iterative approach; minimized construction conflicts with quality deliverables; reduced re-engineering and redesign; and more effective team and client reviews. ProjectWise helped CDM manage more than 5,000 documents, providing the latest information available to team members and leading to better decisions and less rework. bE AwARd wINNER ALSO NOMINATED IN INDuSTry CATEgOry: INNOvATION IN WATEr rESOurCES (WINNEr) I uSTry CATE ST ATEg I v WATE ATEr (WINNEr) r WinnEr 10
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