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Parsons Brinckerhoff and Arup Create Australia’s Largest Road Project

Parsons Brinckerhoff and Arup Create Australia’s Largest Road Project
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Case Study Project Summary Organization Parsons Brinckerhoff and Arup Joint Venture Solution Roads Location Brisbane, Australia Project Objectives • Reduce traffic congestion by 45 percent • Fix roadway bottlenecks • Reduce travel time to the airport for people living in northern suburbs while improving the overall connectivity with the city Products Used Bentley Rebar, InRoads, gINT, MicroStation, MicroStation Triforma, MXROAD, ProjectWise, RAM Concept, Structural Modeler Fast Facts • Joint team of Arup and Parsons Brinckerhoff employees designed and built a complex road infrastructure project involving multiple roads, tunnels, and bridges • ProjectWise hosted all technical, design, analysis, and CAD data (2 million documents) and enabled 2,000 staff to work remotely from a single data source • Integrated Bentley design software supported efficient, streamlined processes ROI • Substantially reduced the amount of time needed to design and build the entire project • Saved AUD 3.6 million every 18 months for each 100 people that worked remotely rather than travelled to the work site • Saved AUD 1 million by eliminating the need for five extra document controllers • Saved AUD 1.4 million by eliminating the need for five additional designers intermittent systems into 24x7 systems Parsons Brinckerhoff and Arup Use Bentley Software to Create Australia’s Largest Road Project ProjectWise Connects Project Teams and Bentley Design Software Enables Parallel Design Streams, Saving More Than AUD 6 Million Designing and Constructing Three Projects Concurrently When the city of Brisbane, Australia, and its suburbs needed to reduce heavy congestion going to, from and around Brisbane Airport, Brisbane City Council initiated development of a massive infrastructure project to solve the problem. The council’s goal was to reduce traffic congestion by 45 percent, “We had to create an integrated project team of 2,400 staff working in almost 50 different offices. To do this, we chose to deploy Bentley’s ProjectWise.” – Mark Patis, technical executive, Parsons Brinckerhoff fixing notorious roadway bottlenecks, minimizing travel time to the airport for people living in northern suburbs – all while improving the overall connectivity with the city. The project consisted of two tunnels and a new airport connection – 6.7 kilometers of a mainly underground Airport Link toll road, as well as the Windsor-to-Kedron section of Northern Busway and an upgraded interchange improving access to the Brisbane Airport precinct. Once built, these roadways would become a vital addition to Brisbane’s road network, providing a critical new link between the city’s northern suburbs and two of south-east Queensland’s most important economic centers – the airport and the city. Each of the three distinct projects had to be designed and constructed concurrently due to the tightly integrated nature of their alignment and surface connectivity. “We identified early on that we couldn’t deliver the entire project using conventional methods and a team located in a single office,” explained Andrew Lewis, an associate at Arup and structural modeling leader for the roadway project. “So we teamed up with Parsons Brinckerhoff in 2006 to form the Parsons Brinckerhoff–Arup Joint Venture (PBAJV).” Together, PBAJV bid and ultimately won the design and construction of all project phases. “We knew that in order for our global, distributed teams to work together efficiently, we had to create an integrated project team of 2,400 staff working in almost 50 different offices,” stated Mark Patis, technical executive at Parsons Brinckerhoff. “To do this, we chose to deploy Bentley’s ProjectWise to create an engineering collaboration tool and 24/7 data source. “We also used integrated Bentley software to support all design and documentation phases of the project, further enhancing team performance for a successful outcome.” Tackling Major Collaboration, Document Management, and Engineering Challenges The sheer size and complexity of the project brought huge collaboration challenges including coordination and management of the design teams; the number of drawings to be produced and reviewed; and ensuring people worked on the latest project information. “Our challenge was finding a way to manage the production of nearly 600 design packages that would involve more than 20,000 design drawings, and an estimated 2 million documents over the course of the project,” stated Patis. At the same time, the PBAJV team faced unique engineering challenges, as the Airport Link project involved the design and construction of underground roadway interchanges, multiple Each of the three distinct projects had to be designed and constructed concurrently.

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Parsons Brinckerhoff and Arup “The accessibility of ProjectWise allowed people from all over the world to access the latest documentation without the need to leave their local office and work remotely in parallel work streams. This increased efficiency and reduced total project costs for a massive roadway project.” – Andrew Lewis, Associate at Arup and Structural Modeling Leader for PBAJV bridges, a large jack‐box structure, and a connection to an existing interchange. For example, the Kedron Interchange involved construction of a unique, multi-level interchange that included a combination...

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Parsons Brinckerhoff and Arup “With ProjectWise, people were able to find documents much faster,” noted Lewis. “We did a very conservative estimate of the time savings we realized, taking just 1,000 of the 2,000 staff into account. Over a 12-month period, we saved at least 23,000 hours of employee time because people could find things more quickly. And this number doesn’t take into account savings gained because project teams consistently worked from the most up to date information, which minimized rework.” Efficient Design and 3D Modeling with Integrated Bentley Software “The Airport Link...

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