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Digital Airport Project Showcase

Digital Airport Project Showcase
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THE DIGITAL AIRPORT PROJECT SHOWCASE Extraordinary Infrastructure of the Be Inspired Awards

Bentley’s mission is to provide innovative software and services for the enterprises and professionals who design, build, and operate the world’s infrastructure — sustaining the global economy and environment for improved quality of life. The Digital Airport Project Showcase andThe Year in Infrastructure series of publications are project yearbooks published by Bentley Systems, Incorporated that showcase the extraordinary work of Bentley users sustaining the world’s infrastructure. For information about how to enter your innovative project for consideration in the next Be Inspired Awards...

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INSPIRATION ACROSS THE DIGITAL AIRPORT LIFECYCLE The projects presented here were each nominated for Bentley’s Be Inspired Awards, an annual global competition that recognizes outstanding achievement in the design and delivery of infrastructure. They represent tremendous innovation in the use of Bentley software and the information mobility it empowers to leverage information modeling through integrated projects for intelligent infrastructure. Intelligent, higher-performing infrastructure assets feature enhanced constructability and safety, consume less energy, and set new benchmarks in...

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Dallas-Fort Worth Airport Capital Development Project Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, United States Expansion Gets Off the Ground Putting ProjectWise To Work The world’s third-busiest airport needed to grow fast. But the massive expansion plan for Dallas-Fort Worth International (DFW) got off to a slow start. Consultants were working with out-of-sync information and wasting time with collaboration delays as they shared information across disciplines and distributed teams. For the project to succeed, DFW needed effective collaboration and information exchange throughout the project team. A year...

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Greater Toronto Airports Authority Pearson International Airport Toronto, Canada GIS Works Directly With Oracle Spatial Spatial and Non-spatial Analyses and Reporting The Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) is a not-for-profit corporation with a mandate to provide the Greater Toronto Area with a regional system of airports that meets the current and future demands for air services. Toronto’s Pearson International Airport is Canada’s busiest airport, handling 31 million passengers in 2006. Established in 1939, Pearson Airport currently handles more than 1,200 arrivals and departures...

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George Bush Intercontinental Airport I.A. Naman + Associates, Inc. Houston, Texas, United States Runway to Future Projects A New Design Plan In today’s global environment, airlines and airport operators face the challenge of finding a balance between the need for stricter airport and aircraft security and the need to maintain operational efficiencies and minimize passenger inconvenience. Airports like George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, are busy working on expansion plans to accommodate the global travel community. “By modeling in AutoPLANT, we were able to save...

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L&T RAMBOLL Consulting Engineers Limited New Bangalore International Airport Bangalore, India Greenfield Airport Takes Flight Single Terrain Model for Design Team For L&T-RAMBØLL Consulting Engineers, designing the civil infrastructure for a new airport to be built on a greenfield would have been enough of a challenge. The challenge became a Herculean task with the client revising the scope substantially halfway through the project without extending the project commissioning date. This revision of scope came about to make the airport fit for phenomenally large increase in the traffic...

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Sydney Airport Corporation Limited Enterprise Engineering Document Management System Sydney, Australia Enterprisewide Collaboration System Manages Work Requests Nearly 50 percent of Australia’s airline passengers travel through the Sydney Airport, which is projected to handle 20 million international travelers annually by 2024. That is double the number in 2004 when the Australian Government approved a 20-year master plan to upgrade and expand the airport infrastructure. Opened in the 1920s and privatized in 2002, the Sydney Airport serves 43 airlines and connects to 50 international, 23...

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Bentel Associates International New Central Terminal Building at OR Tambo International Airport Gauteng, South Africa The OR Tambo International Airport, Africa’s busiest airport, is expecting passenger throughput to increase by as much as 28 percent by 2010 when the country is expecting an influx of tourists for the soccer World Cup. In preparation, this project integrated the international terminal building and the domestic terminal building into a single terminal. The primary challenge of the conceptual design was the dual function for the atrium. The 3D geometry required in properly...

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CH2M HILL Buckley AFB Army Aviation Support Facility Aurora, Colorado, United States The Colorado Army National Guard needed to expand its campus on Buckley Air Force Base. CH2M HILL designed a functionally efficient, low-maintenance, energy-efficient helicopter operations and maintenance facility that serves as the architectural centerpiece for the Army’s expanding campus. The entire project, which includes two aircraft storage buildings and airfield improvements, totaled approximately $37 million. Bentley’s building information modeling solutions offered the project teams the opportunity...

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City of Chicago O’Hare Modernization Program Chicago, Illinois, United States The O’Hare Modernization Program includes constructing a new runway, relocating and extending existing runways, and a creating a terminal and gate facility on the west side of the airport. The program will reduce delays from an average of 24 minutes per flight to less than six minutes per flight. The improvements will save air passengers and the airlines $750 million a year in reduced delays, create 195,000 jobs, and generate an additional $18 billion in economic activity annually. Project challenges include an...

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