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Bentley Civil Design Software Powers Denmark’s First High-speed Rail Project

Bentley Civil Design Software Powers Denmark’s First High-speed Rail Project
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CASE STUDY Project Summary Organization: Banedanmark Solution: Rail and Transit Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Project Objective: • Complete the DKK 9 billion high-speed rail project by December 2018 as part of Denmark's One Hour Target plan. • Use best-in-class purchasing in competing markets and implement state-of-the-art technology to achieve on-time, in-budget delivery. Products Used: Bentley Rail Track, Bentley Descartes, Bentley Map®, MicroStation, Bentley Navigator, Bentley Pointools, PowerCivil for Demark, ProjectWise Bentley Civil Design Software Powers i Denmark's First High-speed Rail Project Banedanmark Delivers Buildable, Traceable Design and Achieves 9.3 Percent Lower Tenders Using Bentley's Comprehensive 3D Modeling Applications Fast Facts • ProjectWise provided a connected data environment for exchange and delivery of project data, and automated quality assurance. • Banedanmark leveraged intelligent 3D models to enable multi-discipline clash detection, consistency control, documentation of quantities, and visualization of the whole project. ROI • Using 3D models for contract tenders provided clarity in the tender documents and reduced risk for the contractors. • Contract bids were closer and more competitive, with 95 percent of signed contracts coming in 9.3 percent lower than expected. • On-time performance allowed Banedanmark to extend its own reserve budget from 10-15 percent. • Collaboration among major players in the railway industry set the standard for future projects, which will fully implement a BIM methodology. Railway of the Future As part of its vision to create the railway of the future, Banedanmark is building Denmark's first high-speed railway between Copenhagen and Ringsted. The 60-kilometer new line crosses 88 bridges and passes through four tunnels to connect 10 municipalities, with a new station at Kege Nord and new platforms at Ny Ellebjerg Station for regional and long-distance connections. Banedanmark's goal was to use best-in-class purchasing practices, economies of scale, and state-of-the-art technology to deliver the DKK 9 billion design-build project within budget by 2018. Using Bentley Rail Track and other Bentley civil design applications enabled Banedanmark to provide contractors with intelligent 3D models throughout the project lifecycle, resulting in tender packages that were 9.3 percent lower than estimated. Making It Buildable A state-owned enterprise under the Ministry of Transport and Building, Banedanmark provides 24/7 train service throughout Denmark, with 3,000 trains running on 3,102 kilometers of railway track each day. The network transports more than 197 million passengers and 8 million tons of freight annually. In 2010, the Danish parliament authorized the development of a DKK 9 billion, dual-track electrified railway from Copenhagen to Ringsted via Kege. Banedanmark was tasked with building the high-speed railway, which will handle passenger trains traveling at 250 kilometers per hour. Scheduled for completion in 2018, the new line is one of the largest rail projects in recent years. In the 60-kilometer corridor, the railway required four tunnels totaling 1,750 meters as well as 88 bridges. The track passes through 10 municipalities, where Banedanmark had to expropriate 290 hectares of land with approximately 200 buildings, and relocate more than 600 utilities. The earthworks alone were massive, moving an estimated 3.3 million cubic meters of dug earth. Given the scope, Banedanmark was challenged to ensure the buildability of the line. The project was divided into 20 tender packages, which made it imperative to have traceable engineering content and collaborative data sharing. Interface coordination between contracts would depend upon the handover of necessary data from one contract to another. These and other design processes needed to be resolved in innovative ways for the project to proceed on schedule and within budget. Comprehensive Modeling Environment ProjectWise®, Bentley's design coordination and content management workhorse, served as the collaboration platform for contractors working on different aspects of the project. The platform allowed relevant CAD data to be shared with various parties at pre-tender, post-tender, and as-built stages while maintaining a connected data environment (CDE). With ProjectWise, team members knew that they were always using up-to-date data. Early in the project, Banedanmark issued a CAD manual that defined standards and procedures for producing documentation, structuring CAD files, creating 3D models, exchanging files, and preparing deliverables. Using intelligent 3D models as the basis for design and construction ensured that all documentation had the information required for quality assurance and accountability. ProjectWise design check routines automatically verified that models conformed to standards at each stage of the project.

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"Bentley's commitment to providing the tools necessary to support the whole lifecycle of assets and interoperability with other design and construction software means that Banedanmark's CAD data is usable, well coordinated, and well documented." - Gita Mohshizadeh, CAD Manager, Banedanmark Find out about Bentley at: www.bentley.com Contact Bentley 1-800-BENTLEY (1-800-236-8539) Outside the US +1 610-458-5000 Global Office Listings www.bentley.com/contact Standardizing on Bentley's civil design software ensured powerful interoperability among applications. Within the CDE, data from project...

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