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BUILDING portfolio, it also inherited the headache of how to get them all to talk each other and share data efﬁciently. Data sharing is the foundation of building information modeling (BIM). The industry usually talks about BIM in the context of the architect sharing information with the building services engineering sharing information with the structural engineer. But BIM is also about sharing information within disciplines, and using a master 3D model to drive the generation of GAs, sections, and Bills of Materials (BOMs). A last-minute change to the design used to mean that the associated drawings and BOMs would have to be completely reworked. With BIM, an alteration can be made to the master model and the changes will be automatically reﬂected in the drawings and BOMs. With the many facets of Bentley’s structural software portfolio—from analysis in RAM and STAAD to modeling and documentation in Bentley Structural—the task of sharing and coordinating data is much more complex. You have a lot of independent products that are tailored for different aspects of the structural design process and, as such, there is potential for a lot of duplication of data. The same design can often be recreated from scratch for design, analysis, and documentation and any changes to the design are made manually inside each application So how do you take all of the knowledge inside these applications and actually share it? The simple answer would be import/export to and from each product. There are already a number of links in place for this and one of these is round trip import/export between Bentley Structural and RAM or STAAD. Here, an engineer some changes made, and then fed back into the Bentley Structural model to create the GAs and schedules. Conversely, the model to recreate it from scratch, it is a manual process that needs to be carefully monitored. Plus, depending on the quality of MURRIETA MESA HIGH SCHOOL Murrieta Mesa High School, a $120 million project located on a 62-acre site in Murrieta, California, designed by KNA Consulting Engineers, Inc, will have a capacity of approximately 2,300 students. There will be 82 classrooms in the 249,000-square-foot school, which will also include a stadium, pool complex, athletic ﬁelds, tennis courts, basketball courts, sand volleyball courts, and handball courts. The school’s architectural requirements dictated the use of a range of materials and structural systems, including concrete, masonry, and steel in buildings with masonry shear walls, steelbraced frames, and cantilevered column structures. A seismic fault on the site required careful design with close attention to how the buildings will perform in an earthquake, since seismic activity is likely. Despite this complexity, the four-person structural design team took construction documents from design development status to a level appropriate for submittal to California’s Division of the State Architect in less than four weeks. The use of Bentley’s suite of integrated RAM products allowed KNA to develop design documents that were completely coordinated with the calculations, all within the extremely aggressive timeframe. The time savings were on the order of four to six weeks, and the two days of training and additional RAM software purchases more than paid for themselves on this one project. —BE Magazine BE Award Finalist could be started in the RAM Structural System and then taken in to Bentley Structural to automatically create the drawings from the analysis and design model. the links between the applications, model intelligence, annotations, or markups can be lost along the way. Bentley’s ISM The ISM is used as a central repository for all structural data, serving up select data as required by each application. creates a model in Bentley Structural and exports it to the RAM Structural System. The model is analyzed in RAM Structural System, While data-centric workﬂows such as this mean that data can be reused and the engineer or CAD technician doesn’t have In order to tie these applications together much more efﬁciently, Bentley is currently laying the foundations for a new databasecentric technology, which it calls the Integrated Structural Model, or ISM for short. In essence, the ISM acts a BIM for structural engineers. Instead of everybody sharing point-to-point integration data, the ISM is used as a central repository for all structural data, serving up select data as required by each application. Volume 4, Issue 4 | BE MAGAZINE 23

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BE Magazine - Volume 4, issue 4 Contents The Drive To Innovate News BE Newsletter Highlights Converging on the Market Bytes and Bricks Generative Components Building Courting Success Remodeling an Icon Structural Integration Building News From Bentley Civil Greenfield Airport Takes Flight Good Neighbors Collaborative Innovation Civil News From Bentley Advertisers Index Geospatial Ring of Fiber Revolutionizing Integrity Management Port City Transformation In Conversation With Greg Bentley Geospatial News From Bentley Plant Single-Source Service Committed to Cleaner Air Expediting Expansion Plant News From Bentley Strength in Numbers The Art of Visualization A Winning Legacy Zero Change Culture: Further Definition A Remarkable Collaboration With a Forward-Thinking Community

BE Magazine - Volume 4, Issue 4

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