At the final dinner of its week-long Year in Infrastructure conference, Bentley Systems announced winners of the YII2018 Awards.
According to Bentley, the awards celebrate “the extraordinary work of Bentley users advancing design, construction, and operations of infrastructure throughout the world.” This year, 12 panels of industry experts narrowed down the 57 infrastructure finalists to 19 winners, along with several Special Recognition Awards winners.
The winners of the YII2018 awards are:
Advancements in Bridges
Indonesia’s PT. WIJAYA KARYA won an award for advancements in bridges with its Teluk Lamong Port Project bridge. The bridge, part of Indonesia’s program to reduce congestion around the Lamong Bay Terminal, is a standout for its unique curved contours, its one-year build deadline, and the degree of delicacy exercised by its designers to avoid disturbing nearby historical sites. The team saved approximately IDR 5 billion by using Bentley software like ProjectWise and OpenBridge to design and coordinate the project’s workflows.
Buildings and Campuses
Shalom Baranes Associates was recognized for its renewal work on Washington, D.C.’s Cannon House—the city’s oldest congressional office building outside the Capitol Building. The project’s biggest challenge was figuring out how to renovate the building without causing serious disruption to the politicians and other employees working there. To work around that, Shalom Baranes developed a complex four-stage renovation process that was timed around elections.
Communications Networks
Indonesian fiber-optic network operators iForte Solusi Infotek won the award in communications for its new fiber management system. Using Bentley software, the company developed a new platform to organize fiber-optic network data so that its sales department could easily find relevant information. According to iForte, its sales representatives have been able to save 90 percent of their time on tasks because information is far easier to find with the new system.
Construction
AAEngineering Group won an award for its modernization project on the Pustynnoe Gold Plant, Kazakhstan’s first BIM-modeled mining operation. Prior to this project, AAEngineering had organized projects using lower-tech methods like Excel spreadsheets and 2D drawings, but its newest client insisted on a BIM-modeled project. Working against a steep learning curve, the team developed plans using AECOsim Building Designer and ContextCapture, and used ProjectWise to coordinate team workflows. The company was able to complete the project two months ahead of schedule and hand over a full life-cycle asset management model when it did.
Digital Cities
China’s Yunnan Yunling Engineering Cost Consultation Co. netted a win for its part in a private-public partnership (PPP) road construction process in Kunming, Yunnan. The project, made up of 23 roads, bridges, tunnels and urban underground pipe corridors, required extensive contract tracking for the multiple teams involved, and Yunnan Yunling provided that service using ProjectWise.
Environmental Engineering
WIJAYA KARYA also won the Environmental Engineering award, this time for its emergency repair of a West Java road destroyed in a landslide. A temporary repair needed to be completed within two months, in time for the nation’s Homecoming Festival, and a more permanent repair needed to be finished in five months. The organization was able to meet the deadline using new Bentley acquisition PLAXIS to model the soil conditions and construct a retaining wall.
Manufacturing
The manufacturing award was won by consulting company Digital Engineering Center of Shenyang Aluminum & Magnesium Engineering & Research Institute for its BIM model of a complex alumina refinery project. The Institute developed a ProjectWise project management platform to coordinate between the 15 project divisions, and created a digital model with OpenPlant.
Mining and Offshore Engineering
Northern Engineering & Technology Incorporation received the Mining award for its Australian SINO Iron Ore Mine. The project was challenging because it was a joint operation between Chinese and Australian firms (which had different construction standards and management structures) and because the location was remote and the structure required serious precision.
Power Generation
Portugul's Foz Tua Dam netted Sacyr Somague a power generation win for its work designing infrastructure for the dam’s concrete production. Sacyr Somague had to work around the remote, inaccessible location, and coordinate a 5,500-person project team. To do that, the firm used MicroStation and OpenRoads to design element models that could be prefabricated off-site.
Project Delivery
AECOM’s UK branch took the award for Project Delivery for its use of ProjectWise Project Insights. The team used ProjectWise metadata on its individual projects to improve project performance, help automate certain project tasks, and reduce project costs and carbon emissions.
Rail and Transit
Skanska Costain STRABAG Joint Venture was awarded the Rail and Transit award for its work on the High Speed 2 (HS2) rail network. The company was asked to formulate and deliver a design scheme, a project that required collaboration between far-flung experts to design 26 kilometers of high-speed railway within 14 months. The team collaborated via ProjectBoard, used iModel technology to reduce design review time by 20 percent and automate otherwise manual data manipulation tasks, and used AssetWise to apply data from the design models toward operations and maintenance management.
Road and Rail Asset Performance
U.S.-based CSX Transportation received an award in Road and Rail Asset Performance for its Annual Patch Rail Capital Planning, which required the organization to monitor and allocate repair funding for over 20,000 miles of track. The organization brought together multiple independent data sources on patch requests using AssetWise Operational Analytics, allowing it to more quickly and efficiently make decisions about rail repairs.
Reality Modeling
Australia’s Skand Pty Ltd won an award for its machine learning-powered envelope inspection for client RMIT University Brunswick Campus. RMIT wanted a building envelope program that used drone imagery, but which also didn’t rely on human measurements. Skand turned drone footage of the campus into a ContextCapture mesh map, and used a machine learning model to evaluate defects, which allowed the team to deliver an inspection report and a 3D model of the campus in a week.
Roads and Highways
The Pan Borneo Highway Sarawak earned an award for design and construction company Lebuhraya Borneo Utara. The highway, a four-lane dual carriageway that will cross the Island of Borneo west to east, will be Malaysia’s first government initiative to meet BIM Level 2 standard. Lebuhraya Borneo Utara used Bentley software OpenBridge Modeler and OpenRoads for 3D modeling and clash detection, and AssetWise for asset maintenance and management.
Structural Engineering
Shilp Consulting Engineers won an award for its structural engineering work on the Alambagh Bus Terminal, located in the center of India’s Lucknow City. The project was to expand the facility to include more than twice as many bus platforms, more bus parking spaces, and a new mixed-use retail and hotel area. The project was difficult because of the intense restructuring work that needed to be performed on the preexisting structure, but the team was able to save over 5,000 hours on the project using Bentley structural engineering software.
Utilities and Industrial Asset Performance
Gas distribution company Oman Gas Company S.A.O.C. received an award for its new platform, meant as a database for reliability and maintenance information for the company’s widespread gas assets. It used Bentley’s AssetWise to create a digital system that boosted reliability performance by 9 percent.
Utilities Transmission and Distribution
Pestech International Ber had collected the Utilities Transmission and Distribution Award for its substation design and automation work on the Olak Lempit Substation Project. The Malaysia-based project is intended to boost power supply in the local Banting district, and required Pestech to create a design that could be constructed within a tight timeline and budget. The company used Bentley Substation to coordinate with other contractors, cut design time in half, and save approximately MYR 200,000. The innovative technology solution improves the entire substation lifecycle from design to construction and asset performance management.
Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater Networks
India’s DTK Hydronet Solutions, a three-person team, won the Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater Award for its plan to help deliver water to a million underserved villagers in Bengal’s hilly Bankura District. Not only did the small team develop a plan to bring water throughout the sparse district, but it also completed its plan in 1/10th of the time it had quoted, speeding up project delivery.
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