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China Railway Sets Benchmark for Full-lifecycle BIM on Beijing-Zhangjiakou Rail Project

China Railway Sets Benchmark for Full-lifecycle BIM on Beijing-Zhangjiakou Rail Project
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CASE STUDY Bentley Advancing Infrastructure Project Summary Organization China Railway Engineering Consulting Group, Co., Ltd. Solution Rail and Transit Location Beijing, China Project Objectives • To implement 3D BIM to ensure coordinated design and data consistency to deliver the Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway. • To establish an open, connected data environment, save time, improve work efficiencies, and reduce construction costs. • To develop digital engineering standards setting an industry benchmark for BIM. Project Playbook LumenRT, MicroStation®, OpenBuildings™ Designer, Bentley® OpenRail™ Connected Data Environment®, OpenRoads, ProjectWise® China Railway Sets Benchmark for Full-lifecycle BIM on Beijing-Zhangjiakou Rail Project Bentley's Modeling Applications Facilitated Collaborative Design to Save CNY 3 Million Fast Facts • Beijing-Zhangjiakou railway is the world's first high-speed train with a design speed of 350 kilometers per hour. • CEC established an open, connected data environment, setting an industry benchmark for full lifecycle BIM by leveraging ProjectWise and Bentley's integrated BIM applications. ROI • Working on a coordinated platform unified data, streamlined workflows, and reduced rework to save CNY 3 million. • The flexibility of Bentley software facilitated the development of a standard component library to optimize and accelerate multidiscipline modeling. • Bentley's collaborative 3D BIM solution improved efficiencies and reduced overall design time by three months. A World-class High-speed Railway As part of China's national railway construction initiative, and in preparation for Beijing to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, the Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway is being constructed in the Hubei province of northeast China. The CNY 53.5 billion, 174-kilometer long railway will become the world's first high-speed rail line with a design speed of 350 kilometers per hour. It will reduce travel time between the two city venues for the Olympic Games from three hours to 50 minutes. With 71 subgrade sections, 64 bridges, 10 tunnels, and 10 stations, including the worlds deepest and China's largest underground station at Badaling, the new high-speed line will be the first in Chinas rail industry to adopt a full-lifecycle BIM strategy for all disciplines involved in the project. China Railway Engineering Consulting Group (CEC) was responsible for preliminary and detailed design and construction consulting. Setting a goal to establish a benchmark in the railway industry, the company committed to using innovative technology methods to optimize design and construction and achieve full-lifecycle BIM on the world-class high-speed rail project. With 23 main engineering disciplines and 56 design sections, the team faced many challenges on this complex project. The project presented significant and changing environmental conditions in a high-altitude area amid surrounding cultural infrastructure that required complicated structural solutions. To optimize design, efficiently coordinate the project, and implement effective 3D collaborative design and construction processes, CEC needed integrated digital design applications. Establishing a Connected Data Environment To facilitate coordinated design and engineering processes, CEC selected Bentley technology to establish an open, connected data environment (CDE). "We are facing big problems in collaboration, so we want to find an amazing platform that is easy to use, provides a uniform data storage format, and supports collaborative work," said Zhongliang Zhang, director of BIM at CEC. Based on ProjectWise and Bentley's integrated design applications, the team created The Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway project will be used as a benchmark for full-lifecycle BIM within Chinas rail industry. logical links between and within the different disciplines, providing real-time access to trusted information wherever and whenever required. CEC relied on ProjectWise as the common platform and implemented innovative BIM methodologies using MicroStation, OpenBuildings Designer, and OpenRoads Designer to optimize information exchange. The integrated software solution allowed the team to create a component library to standardize design and dynamic modeling that could be centrally managed at all stages, in the same digital collaboration environment, and in accordance with the same standards. Using Bentley's CDE with a unified underlying data structure optimized exchange and integration of the various data types across the different engineering specialties involved, resulting in rapid model development. The connected digital solution significantly improved work efficiencies for the teams involved, with CEC using Bentley software to create a coordinated environment to enable multidiscipline design and collaboration, as well as to improve the quality of generated deliverables. Advancing BIM for Optimal Design CEC utilized Bentley applications, advancing 3D BIM capabilities in a CDE for coordinated design solutions to overcome the numerous site constraints. Importing high-speed rail specifications into OpenRoads assisted

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"The Beijing-Zhangjiakou intercity railway is of great guiding significance to other BIM projects in the railway industry's future. By using Bentley's technology, China Railway Engineering Consulting Group is working toward realizing intelligent construction, equipment, and operation and is the start of a new era for the world's intelligent railway." - Zhang Zhongliang, Director of BIM, China Railway Engineering Consulting Group Co, Ltd. 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...

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