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A three year, $12M agreement has been signed between Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, and 3D design and engineering software company, Autodesk. One of the first of its type and size in the infrastructure industry, the agreement will aid Balfour Beatty in expanding its adoption of Building Information Modelling (BIM), an intelligent model- based process that provides insight for creating and managing building and infrastructure projects faster, more economically and with less environmental impact. This is an important move given that the UK government will mandate the use of BIM on public building projects beginning in 2016. Balfour Beatty has already used Autodesk BIM on a number of high- profile projects including the San Francisco Bay Bridge, the widening of the M25 outside London and design and construction for the replacement of Terminal 2 at London Heathrow International Airport. For the new Terminal 2B, the largest ever airside
The San Fransisco Bay Bridge retrofit was aided by Autodesk BIM
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Balfour Beatty expands use of Building Information Modelling
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CST System Integrity Workshop Series 2012 Manchester, United Kingdom
15-17 May
Americas HyperWorks Technology Conference 2012 Detroit, MI, USA
21-23 May
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project at Heathrow, the use of BIM helped the company coordinate more than 30 active stakeholders through 13 interfacing projects and enabled a peak workforce of 1,600 to complete work ahead of schedule. ‘Moving to BIM is about more than implementing new technology; to fully realise its benefits requires a process change. Through this comprehensive agreement, Balfour Beatty is demonstrating their commitment to this change and Autodesk is excited to work with them and help extend the value of BIM to
their clients around the world,’ said Roland Zelles, VP, Worldwide Sales, Autodesk Architecture Engineering and Construction. Through the agreement, Balfour Beatty users across international operations will have access to a range of Autodesk BIM solutions including Autodesk Revit software products, AutoCAD Civil 3D software, Autodesk Navisworks software products and Autodesk 3ds Max Design software. Autodesk will provide training, support and strategic consultancy through Autodesk Consulting.
WORLD’S FIRST SMALL FORM FACTOR CAVE DESIGNED
The world’s first Small Form Factor Computer Aided Virtual Environment (SFF CAVE) system for commercial and educational visualisation has been successfully designed. In addition to using new active
stereo screen segments that dramatically reduce the footprint associated with conventional CAVE systems, the solution requires significantly less space for deployment. A facility space four to five times larger than the usable workspace has previously
been necessary for projection CAVE environments, however Mechdyne’s SFF design compacts the overall system footprint significantly, allowing a 10’ x 10’ usable workspace to be incorporated within 14’ x 18’. Though the required space is reduced, the high resolution and brightness of traditional immersive environments is maintained. ‘A standard projection CAVE
typically requires 800‐1,000 square feet to result in 100 square feet
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of usable CAVE workspace. The SFF CAVE design shrinks that requirement to approximately 300 square feet,’ explained Doug Betts, Mechdyne manager of Research Engineering. ‘This innovative design also allows clients the option to place CAVE technology closer to end users within their current work environments. This improves work‐ flow, increases utilisation, as well as decreasing the system’s cost of ownership by minimising facility modification costs.’
31 May-1 June
SciMeeting2012: Applied Molecular Simulations for Product and Process Design Paris, France
2-4 July
ASME 2012 11th Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis (ESDA2012)
Nantes International Convention Centre, France
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IN BRIEF
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