BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - (Page 27) MARKET STORIES CIVIL The Lady of the Lake A different slant will be given to 'Nature Walks' following the completion of the Shotton surface mining project winner of a BE Award of Excellence at the Bentley User Conference designers, land surveyors, and environ- e yes, shor t-listing the project for the By David Chadwick, Editor, mental scientists. All must have access to award. From day one of the extraction CAD User AEC Magazine the same data as each other throughout process, work will begin on restoration of the life of the project, and as the data is the site, providing public access to a A surface mining project in the North of constantly being modified by one team or unique landscape encompassing natural England has won a BE Award of Excellence another, it has to be switched between the and historic aspects of the region, and, to at the Bentley User Conference in 2005. disciplines many times. the south of the area, creating a land- Yes, you did read that correctly! Gone are scaped park designed by world-renowned Before Bentley was installed as the the days when towering slag heaps blight- architect and designer Charles Jencks, fea- standard software for the project, data was ed the grey landscapes of the country's turing a massive reclining female figure constantly being digitized or translated Industrial North. In our current enlight- lying alongside a series of lakes reflecting for use on other systems, a slow and ened and environmentally aware climate, the local landscape. tedious process that increased the no one can set about hacking open large possibility of errors creeping in each time Besides creating an outstanding area of areas of the countryside without proving the data was digitized for another profes- interest, the restoration will assist in to the local populace their intention to sional discipline. screening the project's mining operations replace and even improve on the one they from all key viewpoints. Now, all disciplines can work to a com- are removing. mon data format i.e., applications spe- At the moment, the project cific to mining, sur veying, design, and has been submitted for plan- modelling all have a common core ning approval to Northumber- Bentley's DGN. For example, the above land County Council. If ground assessment is carried out using approved, the 845 acre site map data provided in DGN, geologists will supply 5 million tonnes of used scanned geological maps and mining coal, 3 million tonnes of shale, records in DGN and then use a Bentley and 1 million tonnes of fire- third-party software programme Prorok to clay minerals assessed at a model the coal reserves. Sur veyors use value of 200million and GEOPAK data collection modules on-site the project will employ about and create a survey model in GEOPAK 50 people on-site plus, of Site. This DGN model then goes to the course, all those involved in mine design engineers and landscape the local transport and other architects in DGN all contributing to an local amenities who will feel efficient workflow right through to the the benefit of the improved production of the final documents site. Whilst the obvious focus enhanced by the introduction by of the project must be to pro- Bentley in 2004 of the PDF creation vide fuel for Alcan whilst pro- tool to produce professional-looking ducing an acceptable return electronic documents. on invested capital, a project of this type and magnitude must also be Such is the case, therefore, for the undertaken with the full cooperation of About David Chadwick Shotton surface mining project in the local communities, and must meet Northumberland, under the management Editor of CAD User mag- str ingent environmental standards for of HJ Banks and Company, that will pro- azine www.cad-user.com noise, dust, visibility and effluence. for five years, David vide much needed fuel, in the form of high Chadwick has covered quality, low sulphur coal, to power a local computers since 1980, major industry Alcan.The ten-year proj- Bentley workFlow when he launched and ect will also provide fireclay and shale for The Shotton surface mining project edited the first dedicated local brickmakers as a by-product of the brings together a wide range of profes- computer magazine David Chadwick extraction of the coal. sional disciplines geologists, mining Windfall, focused on the Apple II and since The third object of the project, though, engineers, civil engineers, acoustic engi- renamed MacUser. is the one that caught the Bentley judges' neer s, landscape architects, graphic Volume 2, Issue 4 BE Magazine 27 http://www.cad-user.com Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 Bentley wins Enterprise Award LT. 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Strock adjusts USACEâs vision USACE teams up with Bentley Buying a 3D laser scanner BIM saves construction costs for General Motors auto plants BIM Roundtable Building News Lady of the Lake PowerCivil brings CAD back to civil engineering Civil News Better base mapping management helps City of Calgary share data citywide Guadalupe Valley Telecommunications streamlines engineering processes Geospatial News Bringing engineering disciplines together in Western Siberia InterGen uses ProjectWise to manage information needed for maintenance Boost from Bentley helps user group come together eTraining courses from the Bentley Institiute Six more years of âpatch and prayâ CEO Greg Bentley outlines CEO Greg Bentley outlines âIntegrated Engineeringâ strategy BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - (Page 1) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - (Page 2) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - (Page 3) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - (Page 4) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - (Page 5) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - (Page 6) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - (Page 7) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - (Page 8) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - (Page 9) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - Bentley wins Enterprise Award (Page 10) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - Bentley wins Enterprise Award (Page 11) BE Magzine - Volume 2, Issue 4 - LT. 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