Hydropower Plant in China, Highway Exchange in Washington State and
Mixed-Use Academic Center in New York Take Top Honors in New Competition
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 3, 2012--
Autodesk,
Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK), a leader in 3D
design, engineering and entertainment software, and CGarchitect,
a leading online magazine and end-user community for visualization and
design professionals, have presented the first awards in the new Autodesk The new annual competition
presents awards to projects that demonstrate an exemplary use of Building
Information Modeling (BIM) for civil infrastructure. HYDROCHINA
Kunming Engineering Corp. (KHIDI), Clark
County Public Works, and Stantec
Consulting are the competition’s inaugural first, second and third
place winners for their projects: a hydropower plant in China, complex
interstate highway exchange in Washington State, and a large-scale,
mixed-use academic center in a former manufacturing zone in New York
City.
“Each of the winning projects offers a model for the application of
forward-thinking Building Information Modeling workflows and
technologies,” said Lisa Campbell, Autodesk vice president of
engineering and infrastructure. “We’re especially excited about KHIDI’s
first place hydropower station project as it employs a wide range of
interoperable technologies, including Autodesk, a solution that helps project engineers and
planning professionals create, evaluate, and communicate visually rich
infrastructure proposals for more informed decision-making.”
Managed by CGarchitect, and co-sponsored by Autodesk and HP,
the competition’s jury
of industry experts selected the winners from a total of 44
submissions covering a wide range of transportation, land development,
urban planning, water/wastewater and energy related projects. Entries
were judged based on complexity, innovative use of technology,
sustainability factors and the overall value Autodesk software and BIM
for Infrastructure provided to the project outcome, whether used to
plan, design, build or manage infrastructure projects. The winners will
be honored at the upcoming Autodesk
University conference this November in Las Vegas, where HP will
be demonstrating their latest technology and awarding first place winner
KHIDI an HP
EliteBook 8560w Mobile Workstation.
Kunming, China-based KHIDI was awarded the first place prize for the HD
hydropower station project located in southwestern China. In addition to
generating much needed power, the station will help with flood control,
irrigation, increased water supply, soil and water conservation and
tourism. The project includes a concrete gravity dam with a maximum
height of 203 meters, with a total capacity of 1.5 billion cubic meters
and an installed capacity of 1,900 megawatts. For this massive project
covering an area of approximately 20 square kilometers, the KHIDI team
used software in the Autodesk Design
and Creation suites to enable BIM workflows for the design of
hydraulic structures, design and the composition of metal structures,
surveying, hydrological design, construction, clash detection, virtual
walkthroughs, 4D simulation and support for planning and design,
multi-program comparison and selections, and presentations for
stakeholders.
“The application of Autodesk software for BIM has greatly improved our
design quality,” said Xuelei Wu, BIM project team member, KHIDI.
“Employing BIM workflows has helped us in many ways, including:
collaborative design and planning across disciplines, BIM-based
estimation of construction volumes, detection of conflicts between
design models, multi-schematic conceptual design and application,
virtual interactive walkthroughs and better presentation of blueprints,
as well as a dramatic enhancement in design quality and efficiency.”
The second place prize was awarded to the Clark County Public Works
Department for work on the Salmon Creek Interchange Project, a joint
effort between the county and the Washington State Department of
Transportation. The goal of the Salmon Creek Interchange Project is to
reduce traffic congestion and improve safety by constructing a new
interchange over Interstate 5 and Interstate 205, two major freeways in
southwest Washington State. Using BIM processes and software contained
in the Autodesk Design and Creation suites, the Clark County Public
Works Department was able to quickly react and completely redesign
county roads on both sides of the interchange when a problem with
groundwater caused the project's original design to be abandoned.
The New York City office of Stantec Consulting received the third place
prize for their work on the Columbia
University project, a 17-acre, mixed-use academic
center in the former Manhattanville manufacturing zone of West Harlem in
New York City. The goal of the project is to spur civic, cultural and
commercial activity with more than 6.8 million square feet of space for
education, research, recreation, and underground parking. The project
will also provide improved, pedestrian-friendly streets and new publicly
accessible open spaces to reconnect West Harlem to the Hudson River
waterfront. An aggressive application of BIM methodologies, enabled by
the Autodesk Design and Creation Suites, were employed to coordinate a
highly complex and multidiscipline effort involving the coordination and
continuous collaboration between models generated by structural, MEP and
civil engineering designers.
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Noah Cole, 503-707-3872
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