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Tata Consulting Engineers Provides Scalable Terrain Models to Propel Land Development

Tata Consulting Engineers Provides Scalable Terrain Models to Propel Land Development
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CASE STUDY Project Summary Organization: Tata Consulting Engineers Solution: Land Development Location: Dharampur, Gujarat, India Project Objective: • Utilize innovative technologies to support conceptual design of an INR 1.8 billion ashram and surrounding infrastructure, ensuring ecological preservation for over a century. • Optimize project delivery, operations, and maintenance costs of site facilities. • Sync engineering and spirituality to ensure the completed development embraces the sanctity and principles of a religious culture. Products used: MicroStation®, Bentley Map®, GEOPAK, InRoads®, MXROAD®, Bentley PowerCivil for India, STAAD®, and Haestad Fast Facts • The digital terrain models produced using Bentley 3D technology facilitated optioneering and sustainable solutions for a site with signiﬁcant sloping terrain and topographical challenges. • Using Bentley’s interoperable software applications in a collaborative 3D environment ensured seamless information mobility among all stakeholders, enabling TCE to integrate engineering with the client’s spiritual aspirations. ROI • Collaborative modeling, as well as Bentley’s road and site design applications, enabled the team to create 3D presentations for the client contributing to almost 40 percent reduction in project costs. • Using Bentley’s civil design software to perform cost beneﬁt analysis to arrive at the best-ﬁt solutions signiﬁcantly minimized operation and maintenance costs of the facilities. • TCE delivered an optimal land development plan using Bentley technology to overcome terrain challenges, preserve ecology, and maximize energy efﬁciency and space utilization. Tata Consulting Engineers Provides Scalable Terrain Models to Propel Land Development and Infrastructure Plan for 223-acre Spiritual Center Bentley Software Delivers Cost-effective Solutions for an Integrated, Sustainable Ashram A Non-traditional Engineering Project 3D Visualization Facilitates Optioneering Shrimad Rahchandra Mission (SRM) Committee retained Tata Consulting Engineers (TCE), a leading Indian engineering and consulting ﬁrm, to design an ashram and surrounding infrastructure to serve as the mission’s international headquarters for a place of cultural activity and religious study. The INR 1.8 billion project required TCE to provide a master land development and infrastructure plan for a 223-acre spiritual complex that would be sustainable for over 100 years. To ensure an engineering and design approach consistent with the SRM movement, TCE had to understand the principles and practices of Jainism and the operations of its spiritual hermitage, the ashram. “We went over there, sat with them, meditated with them, and realized that this is not a traditional planning, engineering, or architectural project. They want something different—something that is alive and unique,” explained Sandeep Zade, assistant general manager at TCE. The land development site posed topographical limitations being hemmed in by valleys with slopes ranging between ﬁve and 35 percent, and an elevation difference of 80 meters. To determine the workable space of the site, TCE performed a slope analysis of the area using Bentley PowerCivil for India. Explained Zade, “We used Bentley PowerCivil to generate 3D digital terrain models and determined that only 30 percent of the area is workable.” Having identiﬁed a constructable area, TCE was now faced with effectively utilizing the terrain slope for the placement of the utilities, roads, and buildings. The ashram had to be designed to preserve the existing ecology, minimize noise, ensure zero water discharge, and provide effective solid waste management and eliminate construction waste. It also had to accommodate pedestrian trafﬁc of up to 8,000 visitors daily while considering constraints for elderly accessibility. Using Bentley’s 3D technology, TCE gathered data, produced The proposed spiritual complex included a temple, a meditation models, performed clash detection and analysis, and delivered center with seating capacity for 5,000 people, a lake and conceptual, schematic, and detailed designs to the SRM amphitheater, a museum, library, classrooms, a welcome center, Committee as 3D visualizations and a specially designated to determine cost-effective, area for large gatherings of organic options for development. over 15,000 people, in addition to a dining hall capable of Collaborative Modeling serving 6,000 guests at a time. Provides Sustainable On-site studio apartments and Site Solutions one-, two-, and three-BHK Creating 3D digital terrain models residences and villas serve as with Bentley PowerCivil for India accommodations at the ashram was essential to accommodate to suit every budget and need of the steep slopes for building, its guests. With a 5.57 million road, and utility placement. total square-foot build area to With Bentley site planning be designed on sloping terrain and analysis applications, Utility and infrastructure planning was challenging due to accommodate large visitor TCE utilized the sloping to the site’s steep and varying slopes and the need to capacities, and operate at terrain effectively, ﬁtting the preserve the existing ecology. maximum energy efﬁciency, buildings within the ridges of TCE relied on Bentley site the elevated site. The team analysis and design software to meet these challenges, the analyzed sun path, wind direction, and noise to maximize ecological constraints, and unique spiritual demands for this ventilation, optimize energy efﬁciency, and ensure a tranquil environm

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“Bentley provided the tools necessary for 3D detailed design of our project data, which was effective and well-coordinated.” — Sandeep Zade, Assistant General Manager, Tata Consulting Engineers, 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 www.bentley.com/contact Using MXROAD, TCE developed an intelligent model that considered access and connecting roads for travel to and within the region, vehicle, cyclist, and pedestrian trafﬁc and travel patterns within the ashram site—especially for...

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