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John McAslan + Partners Uses 3D Modeling to Facilitate Design of King?s Cross Station

John McAslan + Partners Uses 3D Modeling to Facilitate Design of King?s Cross Station
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CASE STUDY Project Summary Organization: John McAslan + Partners Solution: Buildings Location: London, United Kingdom Project Objective: • Redevelopment of King’s Cross Station • Retain the historic Grade 1 listed facade • Create an innovative 21st century transportation hub • Integrate with a major urban regeneration project Products Used: MicroStation, GenerativeComponents Fast Facts • Part of one of the largest regeneration schemes in Europe, with 67 acres of brownfield land redeveloped. • Revealed the Grade 1 listed façade for the first time in 150 years. • Innovative new western concourse single-span roof rises 20 meters, and spans 150 meters to cover 7,500 square meters. ROI • 3D visualization and prototyping facilitated the innovative roof design. • Integrated survey data directly into MicroStation supported the mix of 19th and 21st century design. • Effective collaboration during design, fabrication, and construction reduced costs. • MicroStation facilitated the collaborative process, enabling the project team to avoid disruption to London Underground passengers. John McAslan + Partners Uses 3D Modeling to Bentley InRoads of King’s Cross Station Facilitate Design ® Powerful tools for the Innovativecivil infrastructure Melds Grade 1 Listed MicroStation Enables design of Redevelopment that Building with State-of-the-Art Design Center of Urban Regeneration Built in 1852, King’s Cross railway station is one of the main transportation hubs in London. As with the rest of the United Kingdom’s rail network infrastructure, the station has struggled in recent years to manage not only increasing ridership but also providing the space and amenities commuters expect. “This is a really smart way to work. We can work in large teams and use 2D, 3D, and BIM to suit the state of the project, the type of project, and the skills of our team. The flexibility of MicroStation offers a real advantage and allows us to work to the best of our ability” – Cliff Green, project technology manager, John McAslan + Partners The GBP 547 million redevelopment of King’s Cross station is at the heart of one of the largest regeneration undertakings in Europe, with 67 acres of brownfield land being redeveloped to create 8 million square feet of offices, retail space, and housing. This complex urban regeneration project faced many technical challenges, including the potential impact on the mainline station, a number of underground transport connections, and the nearby St Pancras International railway station. The redevelopment also had to maintain the historic, Grade 1 listed building, which required continual verification from English Heritage and other statutory bodies. and modeling tools. MicroStation’s federated model structure allowed the large design team to easily and rapidly share common files between multiple disciplines. Using Bentley tools they were able to merge and organize numerous elements of the project including heritage and conservation work on current structures, as well as existing services and transportation infrastructure. Remaking King’s Cross Station The King’s Cross redevelopment project is operated by Network Rail and sponsored by the Department for Transport. The project required a new design and construction, reusing existing structures, and restoring historic building elements, including the train shed and the station’s previously obscured historic façade. Given the number of organizations involved in this complex project, from design through fabrication and construction, it was essential to enable efficient collaboration and information sharing. MicroStation’s flexible file referencing ensured everyone on this large design team had access to high-quality, consistent, validated data. The firm’s use of MicroStation facilitated the collaborative process, which enabled the project team to avoid disruption to London Underground passengers and allowed Network Rail to meet its pledge to Transport for London that no mainline train service would be cancelled due to the redevelopment. John McAslan + Partners Project Technology Manager Cliff Green explained, “King’s Cross station is not just a building; it is a major transportation node in a highly sensitive part of the city. The way the station connects with the city and supports the urban regeneration project is hugely complex.” For a project of this size and complexity, architects John McAslan + Partners needed equally sophisticated models The new semi-circle concourse covers 7,500 square meters and is the largest single-span structure in Western Europe.

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“Because our work with a range of Green explained: “The King’s Cross redevelopment has been a key project in John McAslan + Partner’s BIM evolution. With so much information to share with so many different parties, the speed and effectiveness of information capture and collaboration was a key aspect of this project.” extremely complex 3D Modeling Enables Successful Coordination issues we find that our models need to be correspondingly complex.” – Cliff Green, project technology manager, John McAslan + Partners Find out about Bentley at: www.bentley.com Contact Bentley 1-800-BENTLEY...

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