Make a Steel Building Sail: BIM and VDC Bring Church of the Resurrection to Life
When people think of churches, what often comes to mind is a square white building with a triangular roof and a steeple on top. When the congregation of The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection envisioned its new place of worship, they imagined something much different. With a growing community of more than 20,000 parishioners in the Kansas City area, the church was bursting out of its existing facilities. The congregation needed a new community space to physically accommodate its...
Autodesk Previews Enhancements for Advance Steel and Steel Connections for Revit at NASCC 2017
By Udo Haedicke and Michael Gustafson Autodesk Revit and Advance Steel better connect structural design and fabrication Since acquiring Advance Steel in 2013, Autodesk continues to work towards better support for BIM-centric workflows for structural steel design and detailing. For instance, we have been working to strengthen the interoperability between Autodesk Revit design software and Autodesk Advance Steel software. In advance of tomorrow’s opening day of the NASCC conference, we’re happ...
Sponsored Content: BIM Boost - Essential Techniques for Infrastructure
Everybody is talking about BIM, but how many have actually taken the time to learn the latest technologies and techniques? After all, continual learning is the key to keeping up—and staying ahead. Whether it’s aerial surveys by drone or point cloud extraction, technological advances in civil engineering keep marching right along. So if you’re still on the fence, it’s time to take your data to the next level. It’s time for a BIM breakthrough. Start with Surveys Let’s start at the begin...
2017 Infrastructure Industry Outlook
Each year, the Informed Infrastructure editorial team reaches out to members of its Editorial Advisory Board to take the pulse across civil and structural engineering practices. The board includes a diverse range of practitioners with a wealth of experience in project and technology development. For this year’s outlook, we asked the same questions of each board member to see how different people with different perspectives would respond to the same questions. Our goal is to help find common g...
Sponsored Content: Attend the IECA Environmental Connection Conference
Gain the Knowledge and Tools to Succeed! Join the industry’s most innovative minds at the IECA Environmental Connection Conference being held Feb. 21-24, 2017, in Atlanta. Learn and experience the latest knowledge, advancements and insight critical to your professional success. Don’t miss out on the following: Outstanding Keynote Speakers—Jim Cantore from The Weather Channel will discuss changes in weather patterns, predictions for the future and how it all affects our in...
Use the Cloud to ‘Make It Rain’
By Mark Scacco, P.E. Hybrid cloud solutions provide immediate access to project data regardless of internet connectivity Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock or locked in an abandoned MySpace chat room for the last several years, you’ve undoubtedly come across the buzz surrounding “the cloud” and how everything, including your toaster, soon will be connected to it and doing all sorts of wonderful magic. And although using the cloud to determine which bathroom stall is ava...
Engineered Solutions: Steep Slopes Require Trench Dam Security
When storing AquaBlok material onsite, it should be tarped and protected from the elements. Land to be used for a housing development in Silverthorne, Colo., was originally homesteaded in the 1860s as ranch land for hay production and grazing Scottish Highland cattle. Although the ranching tradition continues on the property, a portion was recently set aside for construction of a new housing development. The property is located on the slope of a mountain, with some sections of road travers...
Engineered Solutions: Campus Revitalization
Contra Costa College is revitalizing the central core of its campus to better meet the needs of today’s students. The new $52 million, 108,379-square-foot Contra Costa College Center consists of three new buildings that will define three outdoor campus spaces: an amphitheater, an eating area and a quad area for social activities. Project Summary Organization: Contra Costa Community College District Construction Manager: Critical Solutions Inc. Design Firm: tBP/Architecture In...
Collect Data Once, Use Whenever Needed: Mobile-Mapping Systems Create Quick and Detailed 3D Models of Infrastructure
European engineers have long been at the forefront of scanning and infrastructure technology, being much faster to adopt all-digital workflows than most of their American counterparts. One of these technologies is mobile mapping, which is typically a combined system that includes GNSS satellite positioning equipment, inertial measuring units, distance measuring, 3D laser scanning and some form of digital imaging. All of this is combined in a mobile platform such as a car or truck; rail c...
BIM Breakthrough: Historic Grand Paris Express Employs BIM on Monumental Scale
When the original Paris Metro system was built more than a century ago, it connected all the most vital parts of the city. But Paris has changed a lot in 116 years. Now outlying neighborhoods are home to Europe’s largest business district, the world’s largest produce market, several universities and areas with denser populations than Paris itself. The Grand Paris Express (GPE) aims to ease travel to and from these outlying neighborhoods by adding four new metro lines, extending two ex...
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