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Voyants Implements Integrated Digital Workflows to Design Sustainable IT Campuses across 12 Districts

Voyants Implements Integrated Digital Workflows to Design Sustainable IT Campuses across 12 Districts
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CASE STUDY Bentley Advancing Infrastructure Project Summary Organization: Voyants Solutions Private Limited Solution: Buildings and Campuses Location: Bangladesh Project Objectives: • To create an iconic design for 12 smart IT campuses across Bangladesh, promoting social, technological, and economic development. • To deliver a 3D model of a sustainable conceptual design prototype amid limited parameters and a tight timeline. Project Playbook: LumenRT, OpenBuildings™ Designer, OpenRoads™, STAAD® Voyants Implements Integrated Digital Workflows to lesign Sustainable IT Campuses across 12 Districts Bentley's Open Modeling Applications Helped Overcome Project Constraints to Achieve ROI Five Times Initial Investment Fast Facts • Voyants implemented a coordinated 3D digital approach to deliver an iconic, one-size-fits-all design. • The team generated a master infrastructure plan to meet all design and construction requirements. • STAAD and OpenBuildings Designer helped optimize conceptual design and overcome site constraints on a short timeline. Working in Bentley's open digital platform saved 50% in design time and reduced resources by 60% to achieve a return on investment five times the initial investment. Bentley's interoperable applications industrialized BIM workflows to timely deliver a high-quality, cohesive, and sustainable design. Voyants' zero-carbon design solution reduced the negative impact of existing environmental hazards and optimized energy efficiency to achieve 100% sustainability. Developing Bangladesh As An IT Destination As part of the Digital Bangladesh 2020 government initiative to establish world-class communication and information technology (IT) in the country, high-tech IT parks are being set up across 12 different districts. The project is a strategic investment to develop smart and green campuses, expanding cutting-edge research and development in the information, technology, and communications sectors. Open to local and foreign investors, the campuses are to be fully sustainable, Wi-Fi enabled, and all-inclusive operations. Voyants Solutions was responsible for conceptual design of the project prototype, through to commissioning and client handover. The USD 193 million project required that the parks feature segregated pedestrian and vehicular traffic areas and be designed to reduce the carbon footprint, utilizing existing waterways for microclimate development, relying on natural energy, and facilitating recycling. In addition, the design had to reflect traditional Bangladesh values while emanating the modernity and innovation of a state-of-the-art structure, branding all 12 parks as unique facilities identified by design as part of the Digital Bangladesh campaign. Faced with topography, space, and climate variations across the multiple locations, Voyants required an integrated digital modeling solution to create an iconic design that was suitable to the different environments within limited design parameters and a tight timeline. Optimizing Conceptual Design Based on the minimal project brief, Voyants used Bentley's flexible modeling and analysis applications to design a conceptual prototype. With fixed parameters presenting little flexibility in the built area, as well as a constricted schedule, the team relied on OpenBuildings Designer and STAAD for their interoperability and open modeling while automated features also helped develop an iconic design concept. Voyants proposed a design concept based on the water lily, the national flower of Bangladesh, with a curvilinear building structure and specific zones for well-defined uses connected through covered walkways, skywalks, and plazas. The flower and its leaves were conceived as the building, and the surrounding water was converted into the connecting infrastructure. This structure helped create a collaborative environment featuring flexible interior workspaces, health facilities, conference rooms, atriums and dedicated parking, and pedestrian zones. The overall concept facilitated an amalgamation of spaces, including indoor and outdoor areas with a programmatic interplay of light and building connections. All 12 sites had to be conceptualized simultaneously within a 30-day time period from 2D sketches of each project site, reflecting no indication of site boundaries or demarcations. Voyants surveyed the 12 locations to establish approximate boundaries and created digital survey maps that were then overlapped with GIS maps for geo-referencing with 3D models developed using third-party software. Importing the models into OpenBuildings Designer and STAAD helped optimize conceptual design, facilitating modeling and visualization of the proposed complex curvilinear geometry for the atypical sites. Bentleys integrated applications helped standardize design features so that the team could reuse the main building components, modifying them to accommodate the different footprints, and then develop the skywalks around the buildings during detailed design. The interoperability of Bentley's applications with third-party technology helped automate conceptioneering and facilitated digital delivery of a cohesive design concept within the 30-day deadline. "[Using Bentley technology], we could derive an iconic campus with an artistic vision of nature and technology, and the client was happy about it," stated Swati Agarwal, vice president and head of architecture and project management at Voyants. Overcoming Site Constraints The approved conceptual design had to be further developed for schematic and detailed design to find solutions for each location among all design disciplines. Not only did the 12 sites vary in footprint—ranging between 3.5 and 10 acres—but they also were subject to varying climate and environmental conditions. Located on waterlogged and wasteland grounds across three different earthquake zones, the sites each presented geotechnical challenges and issues affecting structural integrity. Having established a digital workflow

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