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Going underground CAE and FEA for the Bond Street Vectorworks Cloud Station upgrade Services Synchronising data files Building it twice for mobile apps How HS2 will push BIM to the limit MassMotion Flow Lumen marvellous Pedestrian analysis ArchiCAD integrates with for architects LumenRT 2015
INDUSTRY NEWS • CASE STUDIES • HARDWARE & SOFTWARE FOCUS • PRODUCT REVIEWS • FEATURES
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CONTENTS
LUMEN MARVELLOUS 12 Graphisoft ArchiCAD is now fully integrated with LumenRT 2015 on both Mac and PC, enabling architects and landscape designers to present their designs with the utmost realism
CONSTRUCTIVE PRAISE! 15 Find out more about the winners of the 2014 Construction Computing Awards, held in London in November, in our round-up of The Hammers IX!
GOING UNDERGROUND 24 Dassault Systèmes’ CAE and FEA is being used for the Bond Street Station Upgrade, demonstrating the amazing complexity of tunnelling beneath the heart of London JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2015 JANUARY/FEBRUARY
THE BENEFITS OF BUILDING TWICE 26 CONTENTS For a project as complex as HS2, with its political, environmental and public issues being of paramount importance, it is imperative to build a virtual model to test every aspect before the final designs are established
I NEWS...... INDUSTRY NEWS...... 6
• A CUNNING PLAN FOR BUILDING SURVEYORS • NEW REVU FOR 2015 FROM BLUEBEAM
SOFTWARE REVIEW...... TOP PRIORITY...... 10
• PRIORITY1 FROM MCS JOINS THE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS LINEUP AT VIEWPOINT
SOFTWARE REVIEW...... THE SKY’S THE LIMIT!...... 14 • Vectorworks Cloud Services keeps drawings synchronised on and off-site
HARDWARE REVIEW...... AHEAD IN THE CLOUD...... 28
• CONJECT TOOLS SUPPORT PROJECT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND THE ASSET INFORMATION MODEL
CASE STUDY...... GO WITH THE FLOW...... 30
• OASYS’ MASSMOTION FLOW SIMULATES PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENT FOR SMALLER, MORE DEDICATED PROJECTS
TRAINING MAP...... AUTODESK TRAINING...... 32
• YOUR GUIDE TO AUTODESK TRAINING
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COMMENT
Editor: David Chadwick ([email protected]) News Editor: Mark Lyward On the right track? ([email protected]) On the right Advertising Sales: by David Chadwick Josh Boulton ([email protected]) Production Manager: f you are a frequent traveller on the coal-fired), bypasses and so on. Abby Penn Underground and have to go through I must admit I was not fully convinced by ([email protected]) Design/Layout: IBond Street you will have noted that the HS2 till I saw the presentation. Does it all Ian Collis station is currently closed, exuding an air of really boil down to the presentation skills of [email protected] Circulation/Subscriptions: complete abandonment and lack of activity. the proposers of the project? Christina Willis It's all a front though, and you will be Part of the proposal relates to the rapid ([email protected]) astonished at the scale and complexity of movement of passengers through the Publisher: John Jageurs the work going on behind the boarded up network, with trains arriving and departing in [email protected] platforms - as you will see in the Dassault very rapid progression, disgorging and Published by Barrow & Systèmes article in this issue. In face we picking up passengers at an unbelievable Thompkins Connexion Ltd. have two other railway related articles in this rate for anyone - certainly for anyone who 35 Station Square, Petts Wood, Kent BR5 1LZ edition, dealing with the political hot potato has had to travel back home from Tel: +44 (0) 1689 616 000 of HS2 and the mass pedestrian analysis of Paddington between 4 and 7pm on a Fax: +44 (0) 1689 82 66 22 visitors to major railway stations respectively. weekday evening! SUBSCRIPTIONS: The article on HS2 follows a brilliant The HS2 revolution, aimed at meeting the UK £35/year, £60/two years, presentation on the scope and rationale of needs of passengers before anything else, £80/three years; Europe: the project by Professor Andrew envisages a complete modernisation of £48/year, £85 two years, McNaughton, the Technical Director of HS2, booking and seat allocations using all of the £127/three years; given at Bentley's Infrastructure Conference most up to date social networking tools, R.O.W. £62/year £115/two years, £168/three years. last November. The cost is colossal, the guaranteeing passengers a seat when they Single copies can be bought for £8.50 disruption to people's lives - the ones who need one and directing them precisely to the (includes postage & packaging). point of embarkation. Published 6 times a year. live on the proposed route - will be unbearable, yet the unthinkable has to be Such a feat cannot be achieved without an considered. analysis of expected passenger flows within © 2015 Barrow & Thompkins Connexion Ltd. The density of housing in this country has the main rail terminals and the surrounding All rights reserved. reached such a level that any long term areas, using solutions like MassMotion from No part of the magazine may be improvements to road or rail networks are Oasys, also the subject of an article in this reproduced, without prior consent in writing, from the publisher going to disadvantage some members of issue. Actually, the figures quoted for the community. Not to do so, however, passenger numbers and the frequency of blights future generations, who will be faced trains are an order of magnitude above with exactly the same problems but at far current passenger levels - HS2 obviously higher cost, and with disruption to even expects the service to be popular. more deeply established and committed And some more rail facts! Apparently the populations. early days of travel by steam railways were a For more magazines from BTC, please visit: As Professor McNaughton says, there are factor in the development of Impressionism, www.btc.co.uk legions of protesters, representing every bit allowing artists to get out more and explore of human, flora and fauna interest, who are the countryside, taking their easels and articulate, organised and adept at attracting paints with them. It provided them with an the attentions of the media. HS2 advocates, extra stimulus from nature, allowing them to Articles published reflect the opinions of representing the 'establishment' line, have a create rapid 'impressions' of what they had the authors and are not necessarily those hard struggle putting across their views in an seen before they caught the last train back, of the publisher or his employees. While environment that currently favours the according to Philip Hook, a Senior every reasonable effort is made to ensure protesters. International Specialist at Sothebys. that the contents of editorial and advertis- The phenomenon is not just the preserve of With railways having such a cultural impact ing are accurate, no responsibility can be HS2, but rears its head against many large at the beginning of the twentieth century, accepted by the publisher for errors, mis- scale infrastructure projects; Heathrow who is to say that the arrival of HS2 will not representations or any resulting effects expansion, power stations (both nuclear and prove equally propitious?
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INDUSTRY news
INTEGRITY SOFTWARE JOINS JDM GROUP ntegrity Software is joining • General Construction Ithe JDM Technology Group. • Civils/Rail JDM, the parent company of • Housebuilders RedSky IT, is a worldwide • Specialist Subcontractors provider of Software solely to • Electrical/Mechanical the Construction Industry, • Service Management with nearly 5,000 customers • Utilities on 6 continents and employ- • Architects, Engineers, ing almost 300 staff. Consultants Integrity Software Systems • Builders Merchants Ltd. will be run as a separate company with dedicated JDM grows by acquiring A CUNNING PLAN FOR BUILDING SURVEYORS resources, delivering their Construction Software D Laser Mapping has distributors of the ZEB1 hand- construction software solu- providers, it then continues 3launched a powerful solu- held mapper, and PointCab, a tions to their 800 plus clients to support and enhance the tion that, the company says, German software company in the United Kingdom and lead products of those busi- will revolutionise the produc- specialising in the processing Ireland. The acquisition of nesses, whilst also bringing tion of highly accurate building of laser scanned data. Integrity Software Systems to those Customers tech- floor plans. Combining the “The combination of ZEB1 significantly bolsters JDM nologies that will comple- easy to use ZEB1 handheld and PointCab creates a truly Technology Group’s global ment the current software, laser mapping system with powerful solution for building position. JDM’s portfolio of through its set of web based intuitive point cloud processing surveyors,” commented Char- software solutions cover the and mobile tools. software, the end to end solu- lie Whyman, Global Sales and following sectors: www.redskyit.com tion will allow users to scan Marketing Manager, 3D Laser and produce detailed floor Mapping. “Both are easy to TAKENAKA ADOPTS GRAPHISOFT BIMX DOCS plans in a matter of minutes. use with little or no training, large-scale purchase op the use of BIM in the field The combination of scanner both are fast and effective and Aagreement has been final- of design and construction. and software is set to trans- both are well supported. Trials ized between Graphisoft and "We adopted BIMx Docs as form building surveys, deliver- of the combined solution have Takenaka Corporation, one of a tool to facilitate communi- ing both operational and finan- shown that a multi room facility Japan's largest AEC firms, cation with models, as well as cial savings for survey compa- can be scanned, the point that will equip thousands of for reviewing models in con- nies and end clients. The cloud data processed and a Takenaka field technicians junction with drawing smooth- announcement follows an vector model produced, all in with Graphisoft BIMx Docs. ly in a mobile environment. agreement between UK based less than twenty minutes.” Takenaka Corporation will We would like to promote the 3D Laser Mapping, worldwide www.3dlasermapping.com adopt BIMx to make the BIM transformation of our work project presentation app style by spreading the use of BENTLEY ACQUIRES UK-BASED C3GLOBAL available to thousands of field BIM models in various sce- entley Systems has technology, facilitating more technicians, further ensuring narios," said Kozo Nose, Bacquired C3global, a U.K.- effective decision making. Our on-site construction quality Senior Manager of ICT, based provider of web-based research shows that the use of and management efficiency. Design Planning, Design Amulet software for opera- advanced analytics can Development of "Takenaka Department, Takenaka Corpo- tional analytics. Bentley's reduce costs, increase effi- Smart Work" will improve pro- ration. AssetWise platform is now ciency, and drive higher per- ductivity and communications "Takenaka's decision indi- extended, through AssetWise formance. The acquisition of by revolutionising workflows cates that BIMx is on the way Amulet, for asset performance C3global by Bentley Systems through the use of iPads and to becoming the mobile soft- modeling. Commenting on the is a leading indicator of indus- mobile devices. As a result of ware of choice for the con- acquisition, Paula Hollywood, trial-scale progress being this agreement, Takenaka will struction industry in Japan. senior analyst, ARC Advisory made to help organisations be authorised to install and We share a common vision: Group, said, "Advanced ana- optimise asset performance use Graphisoft BIMx Docs on bringing BIM data to con- lytics helps break down the and achieve business goals." all Takenaka-owned tablet struction sites," said Bence barriers between operational www.bentley.com/ computers in Japan. With this Kovacs, Vice President of technology and information AssetWiseAmulet agreement, Takenaka Corpo- Asia, Graphisoft. ration hopes to further devel- www.graphisoft.com
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INDUSTRY news
NEW REVU FOR 2015 FROM BLUEBEAM luebeam Software has to exacting measurements Breleased Bluebeam Revu based on a PDF's calibrated 2015, which introduces new scale. The tools give users features to enable project real-time length and angle teams to keep complex docu- feedback as they sketch ment sets organised and up to details with their mouse or date, ensuring all team mem- enter dimensions using their bers are on the same page. keyboard. "To meet the demands of Also added in the new complex projects and con- release is the Dynamic Tool Set densed timelines, project Scaler, which enables markups teams need technology to sim- to automatically resize precise- plify communication between ly and proportionately when project stakeholders and used on documents of different A VISIONARY ADVANCE IN VIRTUAL REALITY remove workflow redundan- scales. Grouped markups in a irtalis is now shipping the verify assembly and manufac- cies," says Richard Lee, Blue- drawing can also resize pro- Vfirst new version of its turing processes. beam Software President and portionately, regardless of Visionary Render software Technical Director, Andrew CEO. "Revu 2015 presents and scale setting. since it was launched last year. Connell, said: "I am exception- polishes features that make Using Revu's Camera tool, Visionary Render allows users ally proud of what the Virtalis marking up and managing Capture 2.0 now allows users to access and experience a R&D Team have managed to document sets easier with to embed videos into markups. real-time, interactive and pack into Version 1.1. From greater markup tool functionali- Users can scroll through immersive Virtual Reality (VR) floating licences to capped ty and batch automation, as images and play back videos environment created from huge sectioning, Version 1.1 repre- well as more flexibility with how directly from each markup's 3D datasets. Users can work sents an enormous advance in project information is shared." Capture viewer. Markups con- alone, in small groups, or col- 3D rendering technology." One of Bluebeam's most taining Capture media can be laborate with distant colleagues Key features in the new ver- highly anticipated markup fea- tracked and viewed in Revu's in a common virtual environ- sion include new controls for tures is now available in Revu Markups list and exported as a ment to perform detailed scene management, deferred 2015. Sketch Tools allow users PDF Summary. design reviews, rehearse in- render, infinite streaming terrain to quickly create new shapes www.revu2015.com depth training tasks, validate and Logarithmic Z support. maintenance procedures or www.virtalis.com DETAILED COMPONENTS FOR SKETCHUP nature and have been NO NEED TO WASTE TIME IN THE OFFFICE uploaded alongside their sim- new in-cab waste manage- plified counterparts. The new Ament system from Yotta is detailed components are typi- set to transform the delivery of cally more "geometry heavy" refuse collection services. (have a higher polygon count) Mayrise In-Cab uses a vehicle and can be accessed by mounted mini-PC to integrate browsing the 3D Warehouse with the Mayrise Waste back ith the release of Detailed Collections via office system, giving frontline WSketchUp 2015, SketchUp SketchUp's 3D Warehouse win- staff access to the latest ser- has greatly expanded and dow or a web browser. vice and reference information. and logged events displayed improved its standard compo- In addition to visual improve- Utilising GPS, mobile and in real time against a map nent collections, with more than ments, the components also WiFi technology the Yotta solu- backdrop. This latest addition 2,800 individual detailed pieces include useful information tion further supports crews in to the Mayrise Waste product of new SketchUp-authored con- such as IFC attributes, which the field with real time messag- portfolio has been designed to tent now available on 3D Ware- can be exported to solutions ing, reporting and event log- help increase operational effi- house. such as Tekla BIMsight or ging. The integrated mobile ciencies, improve customer Similar to their predecessors, Trimble Connect. and back office system also service and reduce unneces- the updated and improved https://3dwarehouse. allows office based staff to sary paperwork and adminis- components are generic in sketchup.com monitor the progress of crews tration. in the field with their location www.yotta.co.uk
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Top Priority
Priority1 from MCS becomes part of the Information Management Solutions line-up at Viewpoint, as the company evaluates mobile computing issues and opportunities
t's pretty obvious the way things are management and control systems, and gather information in real-time, make moving. The whole world appears to be particularly those in the construction decisions, assign tasks, communicate with Igoing mobile, wanting instant access to industry, where managers and their other team members and, subsequently, friends, colleagues, information, and workforces are spread over a multitude of when inspections have been carried out entertainment on a multitude of platforms. construction sites. Hence the decision by and all tasks completed, to update the Phones, tablets and laptops enable people Viewpoint (the new owners of 4Projects) to project model. Managers can keep an eye to be constantly in touch with their work acquire another UK company, MCS, to on ongoing operations and check on the colleagues, enabling information to be enhance its mobile capabilities. performance of their teams across the shared more widely and instantaneously, entire project, allocating additional decisions made sooner, and work PRIORITY1 resources where necessary and generally processes to be made more efficiently. MCS (Mobile Computing Systems) is a improving the quality and safety of the The construction industry is shaking off its leading provider of mobile enabled working environment. image as a hidebound, somewhat construction project administration, Priority1 has been designed to be as reactionary group of people, reluctant to enabling plans and forms to be used intuitive as possible. Schedules of activity take on new technologies until they are tried interactively on construction sites. Its outline work locations and activities. Once and tested. Now, as some of the older leading product, Priority1, handles the on-site, 2D plans are downloaded, together members move upstairs or retire and the paper-based work processes for things like with associated forms and checklists, more dynamic workforce get to grips with defect management, snagging lists, quality pinpointing items to be inspected the advantages of having construction control, auditing, compliance, health and categorised by type and status. Details of information at their fingertips, the ability to safety and environmental issues. defects, H&S violations or any other interface directly with the building model Priority1 is a cloud-based task notifiable conditions are appended to the and collaborators and make critical management, forms and process control inspection report, which is then used to decisions in the field is becoming apparent. system, which allows any paper-based update the project model or sent as ‘action Software developers have to reflect operation to be quickly reengineered for required emails’ to the relevant current trends as well, especially those use on a tablet or other mobile system via subcontractor, attaching photos and concerned with supplying information the web. Site-based personnel are able to drawings to the textual annotations to
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highlight issues wherever necessary. looks at the mobile computing main contactors informed of every aspect The workflow can be configured to suit phenomenon. It covers the phenomenal right, through from design to any on-site working process, and can success of Apple's iPads and iPhones, the commissioning, handover, operation and include snagging, variations, incomplete growth of Android as a valid alternative, and maintenance of the built asset, which is the works, clean-up notices, NCR's and other the hard fought inclusion of Microsoft's true goal of BIM after all. With that in mind, housekeeping activities. Additional forms Windows 8 devices in the final line-up of Viewpoint adds another M to the acronym - can be devised easily and quickly, adding platforms supported by Priority1. Building Information Modelling and fields that need to be filled out on-site, for The latter, used on touchscreen devices Management (BIMM). example if further sub-contractors need to and Windows tablets, fits in easily with be brought in and issued with a form Microsoft-based back office applications, THE FUTURE OF MOBILE contributor request. potentially making them more appealing to The Viewpoint White Paper also looks Customising tasks to increase workflow site managers used to working in a ahead to other technologies that it sees involves using the Process Control features Windows environment. It also makes it enhancing the building site: GPS, QR for constructing activities and checklists for easier for Windows-based developers to (Quick Response) codes, augmented repetitive inspection processes. These create standalone applications, or for reality, RFID, NFC and iBeacons. GPS is control the rules that dictate the types of standalone applications to be modified for already known and understood, locating an forms to be used and when, which require mobile devices. event not just in time but in exact location. signatures, or which will probably need This is particularly relevant in the QR codes, similar to barcodes, are photos to accompany them. Process construction industry, where far-flung, machine readable images that open up Control reports, usually in Excel format with condensed building or underground sites other applications such as website pages colour coded matrixes, keep site managers are often out of range of broadband or on-site instructions for dealing with a up to date with progress, with predefined networks. Priority1 enables tasks and the complex repair issue, the code being read formats that include ITPs, Progress Activity, data models associated with them to be by the mobile device camera. Quality Check-sheets or Commissioning downloaded prior to being used on-site, Augmented reality harnesses GPS and Checks. and subsequently uploaded once the user cameras, adding digital data to real-time As there are a seemingly infinite variety of comes within range of a transmitter. This is images - showing interior HVAC, for paper-based forms, Priority1 offers a similar always something worth keeping in mind instance, on a building frontage. RFID tags variety of electronic forms for use on tablets when selecting mobile-based services - (radio instead of barcodes) can be used to or the web, covering health & safety, whatever the application. track construction tools and plant, accident reports, permits to work, site The other issue explored in the White enhancing site security. NFC (Near Field diaries and any other construction related Paper is 'what do you do with the data once Communication) is a set of standards activity. Quite apart from the real-time you have it?' Point solutions merely send an providing functions similar to walkie-talkies, recording, distribution and access to email notification of a defect to the person for close, or touching contact for information, there is the incalculable benefit required to fix it. Current technology allows exchanging data. Finally, iBeacon is an of cutting out back office paperwork - the us to go so much further though, capturing Apple trademarked technology, similar to onerous task of transferring paper-based the information as part of the document NFC. It is a low powered, low cost reports to computer-based spreadsheets in covering the design and construction Bluetooth technology that transmits the office. records of the entire build asset - creating 'wearable' data to inform wearers of their Updating in Priority1 is instantaneous, and a 'whole of life approach' to the information. proximity to on-site hazards. it also eliminates any inaccuracies that The integration and interoperability of data might have previously crept in because the is growing apace. Recording and alerting THE INTERNET OF THINGS staff in the office couldn't read your someone to a defect is fine, but being able This is all part of the 'Internet of Things' - the handwriting! Tasks are accurately located, to integrate the information with similar growing number of building components, critical data is checked for errors when instances throughout a project assists systems and equipment that transmit their inputted, photos and drawings are used to greatly in ERP (Enterprise Resource own data. This is something that Viewpoint identify problems, and the right people Planning) shifting resources to analyse and has recognised, and has possibly acted as informed of progress or otherwise. The end resolve recurring problems, ECM an additional catalyst for them to add MCS result is a more efficient information (Enterprise Content Management) and to their line-up of Information Management workflow that helps contractors stick to even CRM (Customer Relationship applications. The mobile computing world budgets and timescales. Management). raises numerous issues, but also enormous This links the data into the whole of a opportunities for companies that recognise MOBILE COMPUTING ISSUES project’s information interactions and its true value. Viewpoint has put out a White Paper that management functions, keeping clients and www.4projects.com
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SOFTWARE focus
Lumen marvellous
Graphisoft ArchiCAD is now fully integrated with LumenRT 2015 aving exhausted your creative talents designing that ultra- on both Mac and PC, enabling architects and landscape Hmodern office complex, there designers to present their designs with the utmost realism can be few things more therapeutic than adorning your masterpiece with plants, vehicles and other embellishments. And now you can plant your virtual gardens in more applications, as Graphisoft has announced the full integration of e-on software’s LumenRT 2015 application within ArchiCAD, following requests from the software’s users. The ability to use LumenRT's large library of plants, vehicles and characters to populate rendered 3D ArchiCAD created models, and to build up rich, immersive scenery that comes complete with wind-blown trees, moving vehicles, animated characters, wavy water, clouds and atmospheres, provides the sort of effects that are needed to bring any visual presentations or videos to life.
LUMENRT2015 LumenRT is available in two versions: Studio and GeoDesign. Studio is aimed at architects and designers and enables them to add landscape content to their designs, created via architectural applications. GeoDesign provides additional capabilities for landscape designers and urban developers, traditionally using software like MicroStation Traffic and VISSIM, who can use the software to display real-time pedestrian and traffic animations, or to create custom terrains and objects. LumenRT features a Dynamic Immersive Visualisation Engine (DIVE) which combines 3D atmospheres, sculptable terrains, and PlantFactory vegetation to form a powerful solution that delivers higher levels of natural realism with cutting-edge, real-time rendering. The company also has an interest in environmental issues, and
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SOFTWARE focus
includes analytical tools in its line-up, Graphisoft’s mobile app for BIM ADDING CONTENT the titles of which speak eloquently for visualisation. Vegetation, vehicles, characters and themselves - Vue, Ozone and Carbon animals are available from LumenRT's Scatter! STUDIO VERSUS GEODESIGN extensive library, with different plant Bearing in mind the complexity of the variations available. Unless you’re BENEFITS OF LUMENRT software and the tasks required of the creating a mini Kew Gardens they Besides content rich scenes that feature processors, e-on software recommends should be quite sufficient for any additional static objects in a number of that preprocessing task and the purpose! The vegetation variations common formats, LumenRT can create navigation and viewing tasks be reflect the way that plants look at super HD hi-fidelity images and videos performed on separate processors, the different times of the year, and even up to 3840 x 2160 in resolution, which former with enhanced processing factor in tree health. can be used to produce walkthroughs capabilities; Core i5 or higher, at least Plant Factory technology, one of the that incorporate layering and 2Gb of free RAM and 10Gb or more of industry's leading plant simulation sectioning, or to perform lighting and free hard disk space. Navigation and applications, actually allows users to time-of-day studies. In addition to Viewing can be performed on standard move a slider bar and watch foliage which, developers can use the new 32 or 64bit workstations with at least change throughout the seasons. If animation path painter and waypoints to 1Gb of RAM, 500Mb of free hard disk that’s not enough, a Plant Factory Add- give characters and vehicles defined space and a Shader model 4 compliant on also allows users to create custom paths or routes through scenes. video board. plants and trees. Scenarios can be set up as 3D When you tick off the differences Other enhancements include vehicles immersive LiveCubes that can be between Studio and GeoDesign you will with movable wheels and operational shared via any web browser, enabling discover that it mainly boils down to lights, adding further realism to them to be interactively explored on any custom-built objects and the creation of animations and scenes. To provide a final web connected device (e.g. PC or complex animation paths and routes for 'atmospheric' touch, you can add fully tablet) with performances that rival high- traffic simulation, and the creation of animated 3D skies with adjustable cloud end gaming PC's. You can edit scenes terrain data. All other features are densities and patterns. The 2015 version inside LiveCubes in real time, adding available in both levels of the of the software also includes a more life- plants, vehicles and characters as application. like sea water generator with adjustable easily as painting with a brush. Five render modes are available - wave patterns and shore foam. You can also edit individual material draft, standard, full lighting, superior properties or load pre-made materials and extreme - and I would love to EXPORTING CONTENT from the LumenRT material library, analyse the difference between the Still images can be exported up to the including artificial lights. There is also a latter two of those! It also includes a latest 4K Ultra HD technology - 3840 x tool for sculpting and painting terrain - technique called Baked GI, which is 2160 - and video to full HD standard at an alternative to using an imported used to create faked global illuminance 1920 x 1080 resolution (GeoDesign can digital terrain with the building model. for a given scene. The software can use actually export 4K Ultra HD video, as LumenRT's advanced vehicle traffic content created in CAD, GIS and BIM well). Export quality offers draft, animation support includes the import applications to add sunlight, artificial standard and superfine modes. The of MicroStation Traffic and VISSIM lights and other BIM information, and to software also includes standard video animation paths for large scale traffic convert camera animations (rather than editing and multi-clip compositing tools, simulations, with the bonus enhanced the more complex custom character and you can even add a soundtrack. support for jitter-free pavement and object animations only available in LumenRT 2015 is described by e-on markings (a problem that occurs with GeoDesign). software as a "3D immersive some similar applications). There is a whole ream of tools that can communication platform for architects" As one of the leading proponents of be employed to enhance the realism of and it’s an apt description, as BIM, Graphisoft has emphasised the visualisations, and which can all be visualisation and animation tools are software's relevance to the BIM modified on the fly with interactive used purely to convey design collaboration process - the ability to editing such as adjusting the time of information to clients and potential export LumenRT content and day, changing the weather - and therein customers. The same software is used information together with the model lies a lot of interesting content and throughout the film, television, geometry for use within Graphisoft's related questions - cloud movement entertainment, education and gaming BIMcloud and EcoDesigner, and seasonality. Individual scene industries, as well as in construction - Graphisoft’s advanced BIM-integrated objects can also be moved about, all dedicated to digitally replicating Green design solution. The LumenRT materials adjusted and camera scenes with the utmost realism. content can also be used with BIMx, animation paths created. www.graphisoft.co.uk
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The sky’s the limit!
Vectorworks Cloud Services keeps drawings synchronised on and off-site
t's not just construction site workers, budgets more accurately. textures, a lot of line or area lights in a inspection teams and site managers who Vectorworks Service Select is the only scene, lots of light objects and shadows, Iare taking advantage of mobile devices route for access to the software's web and and, of course, render settings set at the and the greater mobility of information they mobile solutions, Vectorworks Cloud highest level. can bring to the job at hand. Architects and Services and the Vectorworks Nomad app, When you synchronise the files engineers can now download their a view and markup application available for Vectorworks Cloud Services uploads them drawings to iPads, iPhones, laptop and iOS, Android, and Kindle. It gives the user in the specified Vectorworks Cloud Services other handheld devices, and use them for VIP access to new libraries, textures and folder to the Amazon cloud servers and on-site planning meetings dealing with other components, and you can even get a then 'processes' them. You get a PDF practical issues on the spot. discount on training courses and other containing the sheet layers from the The process has to be easy, though, with services along with access to a growing Vectorworks file and a .VWX scene file for automatic synchronisation and updating of library of on demand learning tutorials. 3D viewing in Nomad. The PDF file is for files between the workstation and mobile sharing and markup through Nomad, or devices. Hence the introduction of VECTORWORKS CLOUD SERVICES sharing through the Vectorworks Cloud Vectorworks Cloud Services, part of the Besides providing an alternative computing Services web portal. Markups are saved as company’s Service Select subscription resource, which lets users transfer resource additional PDFs and are not merged back program that handles all processes in a intensive processes to the cloud, freeing up into the VWX file, but are strictly a PDF very straightforward and simple manner. the desktop for more immediate tasks, the based communication. Vectorworks Cloud Services web portal The Vectorworks user who receives the SERVICE SELECT SUBSCRIPTION allows users to view, share files and marked up PDF would then of course Vectorworks Service Select maximizes a organise files from a web browser. It can make revisions to their Vectorworks file. company’s investment in Vectorworks also be used to download Vectorwork When those changes are made the file will software. It is about more than maintaining folders and files to mobile and web be synchronised again in Vectorworks customer loyalty though. Besides keeping devices, synchronising them for use on Cloud Services and the new version of the customers up to date with application site, and, after marking them up, annotating PDF and the VWX file will be viewable in developments, it focuses the minds of and otherwise commenting on them, Nomad. Additionally, the version history for software developers wonderfully well on uploading them automatically to the the PDF file is kept and is viewable by the their actual needs. The mere fact of originating folder as a revised version. user on the Vectorworks Cloud Services developing a customer related programme Vectorworks files can contain several Web portal. fosters a mutually beneficial environment, sheet layers and viewports. To make this with direct input from customers balanced available on a mobile device, users log into LIMITS AND DROPBOX against more focused support and training. their Vectorworks Service Select account, Users are limited to 5Gb of total storage on Cost comes into it as well, with access Cloud Services, and open the Vectorworks Cloud Services. If that's not programmes designed to optimise a Cloud Service Synchronisation folder. enough you can always use Dropbox, customer’s actual requirements at the best Files of folders are merely dragged from which is integrated with the service, possible price. The range of services one folder, together with all sheet layers or enabling users to view and open Dropbox available with the Vectorworks Service viewports, to the Synchronisation folder, files in Vectorworks Nomad and the Cloud Select programme is quite extensive, and where you can create sub-folders, if Services portal, and annotate PDF files includes free software updates, upgrades necessary, on the fly. stored in your Dropbox account using the of Vectorworks software as well as You can check on the status of uploads Nomad mobile app. incremental product enhancements, and the synchronisation process in the It's all about maximising the opportunities additional learning resources and training Recent File Synchronisation window, a provided by the latest mobile devices - and and priority technical support. process that could take some time it’s wise to get onboard now as the Working to a scheduled programme also depending on a number of factors: large technology is evolving fast! allows users to plan software and training file sizes, high sheet layer DPIs, complex www.vectorworks.net/service-sselect
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he ninth Construction Computing well, with Crossrail just one amongst a UK and beyond being put forward for awards were held on November number of stations up for refurbishment, consideration for the 2015 awards. T20th at the Hotel Russell in as I am sure anyone living and working Until then we’d like to wish our current London and, as with the previous in London knows. crop of worthy winners a hearty ceremonies, they seem to have grown Does the South East have a congratulations and thank everyone once again. Over the following pages disproportionate amount of investments who took part in the 2014 awards for we’ve invited our winners to give us a in construction? Without question! making them such a success - from the quick overview of their trophy-worthy There are lots of prestigious projects in readers of the magazine for voting products, projects and teams, a the rest of the country but, being spread through to our sponsors and everyone testament to the success of the out a bit, they lack the impact and scale who attended the ceremony itself. industry as a whole as we move further of London’s ongoing work. One of the Oh, and be sure to keep an eye on the into 2015. biggest, HS2, is explored in this issue of links below for the latest news on the The Construction industry is currently the magazine, but as we are concerned 2015 Construction Computing Awards going from strength to strength in the at The Hammers with celebrating the and to see photos and video highlights UK, reflected in the plethora of cranes achievements of companies within the from the 2014 ceremony! gracing the London skyline. There is industry as a whole, we look forward to www.constructioncomputingawards.co.uk just as much going on underground as plenty more projects from around the Twitter: @CCMagAndAwards
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One to Watch Company WINNER: Sypro Management Ltd RUNNER-UP: BIMobject 2014 was a great year for Sypro Management Ltd. We have experienced success and growth both nationally and internationally. Securing the award of One To Watch Company 2014 at The Hammers ceremony in November, was a great boost for our team and evidence we are doing the right things, in the right sectors. With the addition of newly released products into new sectors we are confident that come November 2015 we will be competing for more awards against large, credible businesses at The HammerS 2015
Best Use of IT in a Construction Project 2014 WINNER: Conject with conjectFC for Connect Plus RUNNER-UP: RedSky IT with Xcipio for Portview Implementation "Implementing robust financial control, effective quality management and collaborative working across teams are outcomes we strive to provide all our clients. The fact that one of our clients (Connect Plus), has been recognised by Construction Computing for utilising Conject to achieve measurable and sustainable business improvement on the M25 works programme, is a hugely rewarding signal. It confirms that our team's focus on improving outcomes for our clients is considered best-in-class." - Steve Cooper, Managing Director, Conject Ltd.
Best Use of IT in an Infrastructure Project 2014 WINNER: Arup with MassMotion for Union Station, Toronto RUNNER-UP: ComplyServe with ComplyPro for Qatar Rail Integrated Rail Programme Everyone values recognition from their peers, so winning was a great boost for the MassMotion team around the world; especially as it came at a time when putting the finishing touches to MassMotion Flow. This makes our 3D crowd simulation technology available to a much wider audience working on projects of any size. Following our success at Union Street Station, Toronto, MassMotion continues to be chosen for major projects around the world including Rail, Stadia, Airports and Theme parks; and have the ability to try new designs, plan for evacuation procedures or simply provide invaluable information about the efficiency a building.
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BIM Project 2014 WINNER: Mott MacDonald Ltd with Autodesk Revit for Multi-discipline Station Design on The Klang Valley Metro, Malaysia RUNNER-UP: Jonathan Reeves Architecture with Vectorworks Architect 14 for Lee Bay, North Devon It is a great honour to have won "the Hammers" BIM Project of the Year award. It has been a real boost to the multinational team who have worked so hard on the project over the past 4 years. The project has been something of a game changer in many ways. Our multidiscipline teams collaborated across continents for the first time, through the use of BIM: we were instrumental in introducing our client to the benefits of the BIM environment. Our teams built on their BIM experience and developed innovative ways of working together and extracting data from the models. We are continuing to build on the experiences of this project.
Best use of Visualisation 2014 WINNER: Solius with Autodesk 3ds Max, Adobe AfterEffects, PhotoShop, Vray, Unity 3D for Radisson RED RUNNER-UP: Peregrine Mears Architects with Vectorworks Architect 14, Artlantis, SketchUp, Adobe for Petroc Further Education College Soluis were absolutely delighted to win a Hammers award for our work on Radisson RED, and would naturally like to extend a very sincere thanks to everyone who voted for us! Our approach to the Radisson project centred on being involved early in the design process, and returning maximum engagement and value by transforming high-quality CGI content into exciting, bespoke, interactive software. This end-to-end 'content to engagement' approach is something we have developed over recent years, and to see it recognised in this manner was very exciting indeed.
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Building Performance Simulation Project 2014 WINNER: IES with Apache HVAC tool for John Lewis York RUNNER-UP: Sefaira/Sheppard Robson - Sefaira PlugIn - Bechtel House Facade We are delighted to have received the trophy for Building Simulation Project 2014 in the Construction Computing Awards for the use of the IES ApacheHVAC tool on the John Lewis York store. It's terrific to have our software recognised for its unique and in-depth capabilities and on such a fantastic project. Special recognition must go to Building Design Consultants, Lateral Technologies and Controls company, Next Controls. The collaboration between the designer, controls specialist and us (the technology company) is what makes the project so special. Since the stores opening in April 2014, the companies have undertaken a unique integrated data acquisition process with Next Controls monitoring and collecting real operational data from the store for Lateral Technologies to analyse using our state of the art technology, IES-SCAN. This process has proved to be a very worthwhile exercise and we are extremely proud to be part of this very successful project.
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Collaboration Project 2014 WINNER: LSI Architects with Graphisoft ArchiCAD for UEA Crome Court Student Residences RUNNER-UP: Tekla (UK) Ltd / Waldeck - Tekla BIMsight - London Bridge Station This £10.1million project was the first on the UEA’s estate to implement BIM Level 2 with a specific focus on delivering a complete 6D Asset Information Model (AIM) and comprehensive COBie Data Drop 4 for use by the estates management team in CAFM software concept evolution. We were incredibly fortunate that everybody involved in the project bought into the BIM process and fulfilled their role and supported others to fulfill theirs. We believe that when teams work collaboratively, they become better than the sum of their parts. The practice and collaborating parties are delighted to have received recognition for their work with this award and will be explaining more on the process at BIM Show Live in April.
Team of 2014 WINNER: Dome Technology - iSnag Team RUNNER-UP: URS Infrastructure & Environment Ltd - Technology & Data Solutions Group Dome Consulting is a consultancy practice providing commissioning management, operation & maintenance and other building services-related roles for the construction and property development industry. Dome Technology provides innovative software solutions such as Dome Connect, the powerful project collaboration and O&M platform, and iSnag the pioneering mobile snagging and defect management application that took the accolade of Team of the Year at the recent Construction Computing Awards. 2015 will also see Dome Technology launch its new software platform, Gravity - the next generation in BIM coordination and delivery, project collaboration, commissioning management, asset management and CAFM. www.domegroup.co.uk Email: [email protected], Tel: +44 (0) 20 7440 9320
Cloud Based Technology of 2014 WINNER: Comply Serve - ComplyPro - Comply Serve Cloud Based Technology RUNNER-UP: Safetybank and Higgins Group - Safetybank - The Future of Health & Safety Management We were thrilled that our collaborative progressive assurance software, ComplyPro, received the Cloud based Technology of the Year award. We were also a runner up in two other categories: Infrastructure Project Of The Year, for our partnership with Qatar Rail, and Product Of The Year. ComplyPro is deployed on many of the world’s largest infrastructure projects and is fast becoming the de facto standard for delivering progressive assurance. These projects include the Doha Metro programme in Qatar, Etihad Rail and Riyadh Metro in Saudi Arabia, London’s Crossrail programme, Banedanmark Signalling and Electrification in Denmark and Adelaide Electrification in Australia. Our engagement enables collaborative working between client and supply chain, from design through build assurance, whilst demonstrating evidence and visualisation of progress to key stakeholders. This progressive approach to assurance de-risks project gateways, timescales and budgets.
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BIM Product of 2014 WINNER: Graphisoft for ArchiCAD 18 RUNNER-UP: Autodesk - Revit We are delighted that for the fourth year running, Graphisoft ArchiCAD has won the prized 'BIM Product of the Year' award at the Hammers. Four years, WOW! ArchiCAD continues to lead the BIM sector for design and modelling - realising the collaborative promise of BIM with IFC data exchange and COBie. We work hard to ensure that ArchiCAD supports the wider OpenBIM strategy whilst maintaining its leading BIM position. Huge thanks go to the readership of Construction Computing for taking the time to vote for ArchiCAD as the BIM Product of the Year. Receiving this recognition from users of BIM solutions, and from our peers, makes it all the more special. To contact Graphisoft about ArchiCAD please email [email protected] or call: +44 (0)1895 876222.
Structural Design Software of 2014 WINNER: Tekla (UK) Ltd for Tekla Structures 20 RUNNER-UP: Autodesk - Robot Structural Analysis Professional Tekla UK Ltd is delighted and proud to win the Structural Design Software of the Year 2014. We see this as recognition for the work we have done promoting the fact that Tekla is much more than a tool used just in the structural steelwork industry. It has become an established and well-rounded BIM solution aimed at the entire construction industry. We would like to thank everyone who voted for us on this occasion and to pass on our congratulations to all those customers who use Tekla to design amazing innovative structures. Many of the projects our customers create push the software to its limits and in fact many of the landmark projects in the UK and around the world involve Tekla software at some stage, be it design, detailing, manufacturing or during the construction phase. As a market leader, we aim to continue to work with our customers to help them achieve their goals, creating accurately detailed and highly constructible building information models and delivering world class building projects.
Collaboration Product of 2014 WINNER: Viewpoint for 4Projects by Viewpoint RUNNER-UP: Asite - Adoddle 17 "We greatly appreciate the recognition by Construction Computing and are equally proud that the construction industry at large recognises our products are making a difference in how projects are delivered. The Viewpoint team is a dedicated crew and consistently looks to improve construction software technology for the betterment of our customers and the construction industry at large." - Rob Humphreys, Vice President Product Management, Viewpoint Construction Software
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Document and Content Management Product of 2014 WINNER: Asite - Adoddle 17 RUNNER-UP: Bentley Systems Inc - ProjectWise This is the third year in a row that Asite's Ateam have won this respected award. The Adoddle platform is a mature and full-featured content management system which is designed to handle a wide range of content from intelligent forms to multimedia supplier catalogues running into the millions of line items, video, complex BIM and product models, and files of all types, stored in one central, secure repository. Asite are market leaders and educators in Collaborative BIM assisting property owners and the AEC supply chain to achieve level 2 BIM by 2016 in Line with the UK government's Construction Strategy. Asite in collaboration with Comit IT and BIM4SME invite you and your teams to take part in this year's biggest BIM competition for SME's, Build Newcastle Live: www.buildearthlive.com/newcastle We would like to thank everyone that voted for Adoddle and to the Construction Computing Awards team for putting on a great awards ceremony event.
Estimating and Valuation Product of 2014 WINNER: RedSky IT for Summit Estimating Valuations RUNNER-UP: ConQuest - ConQuest Q Series A big thank you to our customers for voting for us across the categories and for making Summit the best Estimating and Valuations Software product of the year 2014. This is a key module in the range of software that RedSky offers and has become an essential part of many of the businesses in managing their contracts. More and more companies are opting to integrate all their key processes in integrated system as the benefits of using a single database for storing data are immediately realised when accessing for management information. Single Subcontractor and material database allows both estimators and surveyors access to the data in one place for easy production of budgets and valuation of work against them For more details contact us on 020 30028600 or access our website for case studies and testimonials www.redskyit.com
Construction Accounting Product of 2014 WINNER: Eque2 for EVision RUNNER-UP: Access Group - Access Dimensions Eque2 are absolutely delighted to receive the 'Accounting Product of 2014' award for the third consecutive year for EVision at the Construction Computing Awards. Powered by the latest Microsoft Dynamics NAV platform, EVision is our contract management software which is specifically developed for construction. EVision provides companies with full control of their commercial, financial and operational processes, helping to ensure that construction projects reach completion on time and to budget. We would like to thank everyone who voted for us, our lovely customers, and our team at Eque2! For more information on EVision or Eque2, please call 0845 080 4940 or alternatively you can email us at [email protected]
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Project Management / Planning Product of 2014 WINNER: Asta Development for Powerproject RUNNER-UP: Trimble - Vico Asta is pleased to have won the award for Project Management/Planning Product as recognition for the contribution that Asta Powerproject makes to the construction industry, and wish to thank all those who voted for their support. Available in stand-alone and enterprise versions, it has evolved over the years with input from our users and is the preferred software of thousands of construction professionals throughout the world who tell us they like it because it combines easy to use drag and drop functionality with powerful feature rich capability. The product continues to evolve with recent releases of Asta Powerproject BIM and Site Progress Mobile adding to the functionality available. Asta Powerproject: The power behind successful projects. For more information see www.astadev.com
Hardware Product of 2014 WINNER: Faro - Focus x330 3D Laser Scanner RUNNER-UP: NVIDIA for QUADRO K6000 Graphics Card The FARO Laser Scanner Focus3D was able to prevail in the hardware product of the year category of the renowned Construction Computing award contest. The Focus3D impressed due to its extremely powerful and accurate three-dimensional measurement method, which offers numerous advantages compared with conventional measurement systems. By means of three-dimensional scanning of surfaces, the laser scanner can record all spatial and surface geometry with millimetre accuracy with approximately one million measurement points per second. Much less time is spent in data recording, compared with other measurement methods. The resulting colour image of 3D measurement points shows an exact digital reproduction of existing conditions. Detailed 2D and 3D plans and complete 3D models can be created in a very short time with the precise data. We would like to thank you for voting for our product.
Editors Choice WINNER: Nemetschek Vectorworks Inc - Vectorworks
We were delighted to receive the Editor's Choice award, one of the most prestigious awards, at this year's Construction Computing Awards. It is wonderful that Vectorworks is now recognised as a major diverse BIM solution for all types of construction projects from small to large and for all types of architectural practices no matter what their size. For over 25 years, Nemetschek Vectorworks Inc has been a global leader in design technologies providing elegant architectural and landscape software that offers BIM capabilities in a flexible, hybrid-design environment.For more information on Vectorworks visit www.bimvectorworks.com or Tel: 020 8358 6668.
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Channel Partner of 2014 WINNER: Excitech RUNNER-UP: Graphisoft Connect As a channel partner, Excitech aim to provide individualised solutions to our customer's needs, whether they are software, training, consultative or support related. The "Channel Partner of the Year" award is voted for by customers and is therefore testament to our continued hard work. Adrian Atkinson, Excitech Managing Director, said: "I am proud to receive this award on behalf of Excitech for the eighth year running but refuse to become complacent. As industry innovations are developed, Excitech will continue to remain at the forefront, bringing the most up-to-date and relevant solutions to our customers whilst maintaining the same high quality of service."
Product of the Year WINNER: Asite - Adoddle 17 RUNNER-UP: Graphisoft - ArchiCAD 18 2014 truly was the year of Adoddle, officially launched on March 17th in London's tech city. Adoddle 17 is already raking in accolades this year; finalist in the UK IT Awards for the Most Innovative Mobile App and now winner of the prestigious Construction Computing Product of the Year Award. Asite are set to change the face of Collaborative Software in the Cloud; with 360° clarity, Adoddle users are no more than two clicks away from their data. Asite's CEO, Tony Ryan said, "Adoddle is delivering on my vision of simple but powerful Corporate Social Networking, or 'Cocial' Networking as we call IT at Asite. Our team are very proud to have won these two highly sought after awards." Want to be part of the Adoddle revolution? Get in touch with the Ateam for a free demo or attend one of our global events. https://www.asite.com/newsroom/events
Company of the Year WINNER: Viewpoint Construction Software RUNNER-UP: Trimble "Being recognised for not only the Collaboration Product of the Year award, but also for Company of the Year is remarkable,and a testament to the hard work the Viewpoint team has put into making a great product that makes available the right data, to the right people, at the right time. The construction industry's adoption of our solutions continues to grow rapidly, as evidenced by the use of Viewpoint on recent projects with customers such as The Ministry of Justice, Hitachi Rail and Jaguar Land Rover amongst others. Contractors and capital project owners are looking for new ways to manage their projects and we are poised to offer the products to make them more productive by refining the way entire project teams collaborate on the right data, when they need it." - Jay Haladay, CEO, Viewpoint Construction Software
One to Watch Product WINNER: Bentley Systems Inc - ProjectWise Construction Work Package Server RUNNER-UP: Comply Serve - ComplyPro
Architectural Design Software of 2014 WINNER: Autodesk - Building Design Suite Premium RUNNER-UP: Bentley Systems Inc. - AECOsim Building Designer
Best Mobile Technology of 2014 WINNER: Bentley Systems Inc. for Bentley Navigator Mobile RUNNER-UP: Graphisoft - BIMx
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Going Underground
Dassault Systèmes' CAE and FEA is being used for the Bond Street Station Upgrade, demonstrating the amazing complexity of tunnelling anywhere underneath the heart of London
s population pressures in lines. "The new tunnels are located in close experience with CAD was immediately put metropolitan areas rise, major world proximity to so many existing ones," says to work. "In such projects as the London A cities often respond with expanding Dr. Ali Nasekhian, senior Underground, where large tube systems networks of trains to promote more efficient tunnel/geotechnical engineer with Dr. are already in place and the impact of new travel. The London Underground is no Sauer and Partners, London, the firm structures on existing ones has to be exception: it now serves Greater London providing tunnelling expertise to the carefully considered, comprehensive 3D and surrounding counties with 270 stations project. "As a result, the design challenges analysis benefits both client and designer," and 250 miles of track. Some 1.23 billion we faced included complex tunnel he says. "In addition to 2D analyses, passengers were carried in and out of the geometry and alignment, limited clearance where time and budgets allow, 3D models region in 2012/2013. to existing building foundation, restricted can greatly assist in identifying the At the geographic heart of this system are worksite and strict settlement criteria." optimum design." the world's first underground railway Dr. Sauer and Partners have been The Dr. Sauer design team of eight tunnels, opened in 1863 and built just designing railway and road tunnels for over engineers used Dassault Systèmes' below the surface of metropolitan London 30 years. In 2010 the company was SIMULIA, Abaqus finite element analysis using the cut and cover method. Later, subcontracted to a joint venture of Halcrow (FEA) software to perform all 3D numerical circular tunnels - giving rise to the and Atkins (the main contractor is a analyses ahead of the main tunnelling nickname 'The Tube' - were dug through Costain Laing O'Rourke JV), and has works. (Tunnel excavation began in the the London Clay at a deeper level. responsibility for preliminary-to-detailed summer of 2013, with completion design and construction on all BSSU scheduled for 2015.) Dr. Sauer & Partners COMPLEXITY SOLVED sprayed concrete lined (SCL) tunnels. have employed Abaqus since the 1990s. Now celebrating 150 years of operations, These include two access shafts, one lift "We find SIMULIA's Abaqus solver to be the Underground is still growing: The shaft, four construction adits (entrance very powerful, stable and speedy for current Bond Street Station Upgrade passages), two binocular cross passage plastic analysis of models with large (BSSU) project, slated for completion in tunnels, four large concourse and numbers of elements," says Dr. Nasekhian, 2018, has been dubbed "one of the most connection chambers, three underpass who led the FEA modeling effort. "It is well complex tunneling projects in the U.K." tunnels, two over-bridge tunnels cutting recognised that the quality of FE models is As London's future Crossrail line through existing platform tunnels, two largely dependent on the quality of the intersects with the Bond Street Station, niches for electrical and mechanical mesh. Of course, finer meshes require a passenger numbers in the expanded equipment and four inclined tunnels for larger number of elements. I myself had interchange are expected to rise from escalator barrels. The total length of not used Abaqus before joining the Dr. 155,000 to 225,000 daily. tunnels, at widths varying between four and Sauer team, and I found that pre- and What makes the BSSU so complex is all 10 meters, amounts to some 450 meters. post-processing, and creating and the construction that is already there, manipulating large, complex geometries, is located in London's busiest shopping OPTIMUM DESIGN amazing with this software." district, the West End, and comprising a Dr. Nasekhian came on board at Dr. Sauer "If any changes need to be made in the complex web of train tunnels, pedestrian in 2011 after finishing his Ph.D. in geometry, which often happens when you walkways and escalators that include geotechnics at Graz University of are creating the most efficient design, connections to the Jubilee and Central Technology, Austria, and his eight years' Abaqus lets you modify them fairly rapidly.
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CASE study
Such handy tools available in Abaqus/CAE excavation sequences; after each trigger values beyond which a ground- reduce the risk of delay in delivering large sequence, sprayed steel-fiber-reinforced movement management plan would be 3D FE models." concrete (primary lining) is applied to the implemented. exposed ground with robotic sprayers, An evaluation of the stress being GEOMETRY MODIFICATION rapidly stabilising it. When excavation of induced in the adjacent existing For the geometric foundation of their FEA the whole tunnel is completed and structures while tunnelling was taking models, the team first considered deformations of the primary lining become place. Deformations in the FE model importing existing CAD models of the stable, a sprayed waterproofing membrane were initially set at zero and then station complex from another type of is applied, followed by a final secondary propagated with ongoing excavation software. But conversion and meshing lining of steel-fiber-reinforced concrete for a steps. issues would have added extra work. "We fully watertight tunnel. At tunnel junctions, Dimensioning the new SCL tunnels and preferred to create our own working steel rebar reinforcement is employed as a basis for calculation of necessary geometries right within Abaqus/CAE," says needed to further support areas under reinforcements, especially at locations Dr. Nasekhian. "This enabled us to modify severe flexure and tensile stresses. of stress concentration, particularly the geometries easily if we had meshing helpful for optimising SCL design at issues." REALISTIC VALUES tunnel junctions, which helped avoid a In the preliminary design stage, the team The major construction sequences (i.e., great deal of rebar installation. conducted a series of 2D analyses to step-by-step excavation and lining Assurance of face stability during establish the varying dimensions of tunnels installation) were incorporated into the excavation. required along the different structures. Abaqus FEA models to provide the Once the tunnel geometries were "frozen" engineers with insights into the influence of The Sauer design team found that realistic in final form, the creation of the 3D models each construction stage on the new tunnel simulation with 3D modeling gave them a could begin. linings and the adjacent assets. deeper understanding of the many BSSU For a realistic assessment of the stresses To improve their computational efficiency, tunnelling challenges and helped them and strains imposed by the surrounding the team divided the labyrinth of existing reach the best design and construction soil layers, the ground through which the and proposed BSSU structures into three solutions. tunnels are being dug was simulated separate models that varied in number of "In this very complex project, our Abaqus alongside the tunnel structures. Including elements from about 450,000 up to one models helped improve our preliminary the subsurface geology of the London million. "We selected the limit between two design, which was based on series of 2D basin-layers of Chalk, Thanet Sand, adjacent models in places where the analyses and the design team's London Clay, River Terrace deposits and distance between the closest two tunnels experience, and led us to an extremely "made ground" from hundreds of years of on either side of the models is more than well-detailed final design," says Dr. human occupation-provided for soil- three times the diameter of the larger Nasekhian. "The ease of working with structure interaction analysis. tunnel," says Dr. Nasekhian. "In very Abaqus allowed us to develop a number of The majority of the new BSSU tunnels are congested tunnelling areas where this techniques that improved simulation fidelity located within the London Clay stratum, condition couldn't be met, we modelled a and saved time when running such large which has a very low permeability. The couple of tunnels by overlapping two of the models. The confidence we have gained conventional method of tunnelling known models." from our analyses has helped us push internationally as NATM (the New Austrian Dr. Sauer and Partner's Abaqus analyses forward the approval process more Tunnelling Method), is being used. Known provided them with: vigorously and is providing the highest in the UK as the SCL (Sprayed Concrete A good estimate of ground movement quality of robust design to our clients." Lining) method. and volume loss during tunnel www.3ds.com/products- The tunnel is divided into several construction, including identifying services/simulia/overview/
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The benefits of building twice
For a project as complex as HS2, with its political, environmental and public issues being of paramount importance, there is no alternative to building a virtual model to test every aspect before the final designs are established
was pretty ambivalent about HS2 until I Network Rail are spending large sums of mooted as UK City Central, a new attended the keynote speech about it at money in an attempt to bring the current sustainable city only half an hour IBentley's Infrastructure conference last network up to date - akin to performing from London. November. Living in Somerset we weren't "open heart surgery" as Andrew described really going to see much benefit from it, it. This is exacerbated by the growth of IT STARTS WITH PEOPLE as it would take three hours to reach the our population - faster than anywhere else With the UK being one of the most nearest station and it is going to cost a in Europe - and the migration to cities. densely populated countries on the good deal of money, as everybody Obviously, he said, we can't have all of planet, with a lot of existing infrastructure, reminds us. them living in the South East. Instead we one of the biggest problems is the impact A very convincing argument, though, have to improve access between London, on people along the route - and, Andrew was put forward by Professor Andrew the Midlands and northern cities, so it’s as added, just about every tree, plant, and McNaughton, Technical Director of HS2, easy to attend a meeting in Manchester animal has an articulate group of who, besides outlining the long term as it is cross London. committed people who represent their benefits for the whole country, explained He pointed to the benefits that high- interests. that the whole project both relied on and speed rail has brought to France. "It The starting point therefore has to be the was going to test BIM to the absolute brings people together - not just people affected, before any technical limits. The Professor has been advising businessmen, but families and friends," he issues and final route are decided. The on major rail projects worldwide - said. And, to give an idea of the time underlying philosophy of HS2 is, he said, Australia, Japan, the US and Europe - for savings involved, he quoted some that "We want people to travel and many years, and has spent time as interesting figures; London to Birmingham connect. In doing so, we will be able to technical Director at Crossrail before down from 1 hour 24 minutes to just 49 rebuild and rebalance the UK economy, taking on his current role at the most minutes, and to Manchester in just over with the Midlands and Northern Cities prestigious, important and possibly an hour. becoming part of the UK 'Powerhouse' litigious rail project since the inauguration Birmingham, the main hub, will be just and not just London." It should support of the current network a couple of 42 minutes away from Manchester and 57 the creation of up to 400,000 jobs and, he hundred years ago. minutes from Leeds. The West Midlands added, HS2 has already seen Therein lies one of the problems. Interchange, close to NEC, has been regeneration worth £10 billion since 2003!
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TOTAL BIM SOLUTION which will still be running in 200 year’s sub-contractors into the BIM fold. A recent HS2 has been designed to run with time, and as Andrew said "we want our study showed that only 60% of such maximum capacity, connectivity, great grandchildren to say that we got it companies are making provisions to work availability and reliability. The Passenger right!" The only way to do that is to "Build it with BIM, and only 43% have worked out Operation Concept has to cope with a Twice" so that everything has been how they are going to train their staff. The high density of trains operating at speed thoroughly evaluated before the physical education baton is being picked up from with absolute safety and a minimum of railway is built. Crossrail and being used to upskill the stress for passengers. It also has to HS2 supply chain. persuade the vast number of A COMPLEX SYSTEM stakeholders that the project is necessary, Building a high-speed rail system is a A NEW CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE viable and achievable. complex business covering many fields, Without BIM, Professor Andrew The only way to demonstrate this in real all of which tend to have their own McNaughton said, we would have given time to everyone, right down to a property constraints and language, from control up already. It allows us to use lessons owner adjacent to the route who wants to systems, power supply, communications, learned on other projects, integrate BIM see what it will look and sound like from the track itself, structures, foundations platforms, inculcate a collaborative his bedroom window, is to build a virtual and earthworks, tunnels and bridges and approach to design, standardise data model of the entire route and show them, even noise mitigation. It is going to cut creation, optimise information flow and using a GIS connected gViewer on a across numerous waterways and existing provide absolute quality assurance. mobile device, what it will be like. infrastructure, which has to be But, harking back to first principals, it's HS2 are building a virtual model of the circumvented or rerouted. the customer experience that will matter. entire project - a digital railway - which will The only way that all of these areas can We all use trains. How would you like to ensure people who don't normally get be combined is to create a single use a system that allows you to book a involved will be able to part in the encompassing digital model using BIM. seat at any time right up to minutes before process. The data has to be viable for the whole life you board the train and be guaranteed a The vast amount of data required, of the project, from construction, seat? Or be able to change your plans on already running into terabytes of commissioning, operation, maintenance, the hoof if your meeting overruns or you information, will cover every element of renewal and adaptation through a life that get caught in the (road) traffic and yet, the project, fielding constraints and issues will extend for the next 200 years. when you get to the station, be directed to that arise from trains running every 2 and BIM, though, goes beyond the physical the exact spot where your carriage and a half minutes at 200 metres a second, aspect of the railway, and gets involved in your most convenient door will stop? And the establishment of maintenance the political and environmental issues all this from a system designed to load a schedules, and the need to keep up to associated with the project. It becomes a 1000 seat train in a couple of minutes and date with individual train and passenger business transformation tool, altering the which will run every 3 minutes. status. How will it cope, for instance, with way such projects are run in the future. It can work - but it can only be a Birmingham Football match running into Without BIM there is no means of getting accurately assessed if you build it twice, extra time and disgorging thousands of planning permission for the myriads of first with a digital model that’s used to extra passengers half an hour later than elements along the route, no way of check every possible aspect. Not a bad scheduled? talking to local people. It is also a means plug for BIM, is it? A 21st Century Railway is being created of upskilling the supply chain, bringing www.bentley.com
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Ahead in the cloud
Conject tools support PIM (Project Information Management) and the AIM (Asset Information Model) - from Project Control to Defect Inspections and Operations & Maintenance
hat's the difference between CDE (common data environment), is members instant access to up-to-date Project Control and Project PAS1192 compliant and supports the documents and models, available using WManagement in the built handovers of data in the correct document movement requests from the environment? At first glance one might formats; from the PIM and then the AIM project Dashboard, which can be assume they are one and the same for asset users. configured to suit the requirements of thing, but they really are quite different. Nowhere is this more evident than in individual project members. Also Project Management is the hands-on the range of applications available from configurable are the project workflows, management of building resources and Conject. The company has based its the routes and means for the construction process, keeping collaboration tools on the ability to communicating with other team individual projects on track and on manage and integrate individual data members, the ability to assign and budget. Project Control, on the other components in a project, and to then control tasks, the sending and receiving hand, delivers all this plus the flow of interpret that data and use it to create of RFIs and other information. information and documentation; change units of work - a principal component of For Operations and Maintenance management, the control of risk and COBie and PAS1192 compliance - (O&M) purposes the data can be compliance and the capture and facilitating the preparation of data for 'distilled', analysing asset structures into analysis of data for all projects, tenders managing the whole lifecycle of a built their component parts. Much of this and contracts across projects and asset. asset data is still viewed in 2D, but there programmes. The unique view of Conject is that its is sufficient information alongside each Both are concerned with ensuring that heritage in the construction and real asset to form an Asset Information projects are successfully completed, estate industries, as well as in building Model (AIM), enabling users to view it in but a good Project Control platform is a software, gives the company a uniquely 3D, produce an IFC file and enable central resource that provides a single holistic view of the life of built assets. COBie reports to be configured out of view of project performance - and this is Conject software may be better the box. what is uniquely provided by conjectPC, appreciated by looking at two conjectPC provides a Contract the collaboration platform for the applications that embody the Management module, enabling teams construction industry from Woking- component data approach: conjectPC to efficiently execute change based Conject. It provides management for Project Control and conjectMI for requirements, manage communications with a clear oversight of project Defect Management. and follow workflows for all contract duration, costs incurred and all aspects types, such as those found in JCT or the relating to quality and project scope. CONJECTPC ubiquitous NEC3 (for which Conject is a The aim of BIM and Government Soft conjectPC is all about data capture. It is licenced content partner). Commercial Landings is to improve outcomes for a cloud-based application that Management looks at the financial side any built asset owner/user. The adoption captures, collates and analyses data, of things, allowing managers to handle of BIM methods requires increased presenting it in easily digested formats their budgets, costs, forecasts and cash collaboration between different stages so that decisions can be made in a flows - the costs of projects versus of the construction process - the full timely manner, based on the very latest actual costs. supply chain as well as asset owners and most detailed information. It Supporting all modules is Project and users - to ensure that outcomes are comprises a range of configurable, Workflows, a toolset that maps project fit for purpose and deliver cost savings. integrated modules that are capable of processes, monitors progress and This requires the consideration of the assessing the impact of interrelated ensures compliance with quality, health, whole life of a built asset, and as the activities and showing how each of safety and environmental standards. infrastructure, construction and real these has an effect on the key drivers of Project Workflows can be chosen from a estate industries ramp up their a project, namely time, money, quality set of preconfigured common industry readiness for the UK Government's BIM and scope. processes such as query management, deadline of 2016, a critical enabler is a A fundamental module is Document approvals and team communication, or software platform that can perform as a Management, which gives project easily configured based on the needs of
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Recording a defect using ConjectMI Defect management reports include images and 2D space or room plans
the project. drawings and other information can be be carried out and subsequently The Business Intelligence module downloaded to a tablet. This is useful rechecked, and the results uploaded. provides managers with the means to when working on construction sites All of this is handled in a simple design and deploy a bespoke report without internet access, or when spreadsheet format within ConjectMI, dashboard, providing instant access to underground. Snagging work can be ashowing items that need to be real-time information within the conducted offline and, when internet checked within different phases and conjectPC collaboration platform. access is again available, the new data building zones, along with the Report frequency and layout is user can be synched to the web platform, responsibilities of the contractors, driven, helping project members to thereby updating all team members with colour-coded to show whether they control risk, manage processes and the latest information. have started, are in progress or have change more effectively. An instant view of completed and completed. outstanding defects items is available at Clicking on elements allows the CONJECTMI any time, showing the status of each. relevant 2D drawing to be brought up conjectMI is a cloud-based mobile This can be customised to produce that display the snagged components, application running on iPad or Windows individual work phases, defect types using sliders to optimise small scale tablets, enabling on-site teams to and acceptance stages, so that drawings within areas that contain a visually inspect work carried out and resources can be allocated more large number of defects. After the report on it in real time. By getting rid of effectively and trade teams (carpenters, inspection process, reports can be paperwork and the trek back to the electricians) assigned to dedicated compiled, together with relevant images office to hand in snagging reports - not snagging tasks. This effectively enables and videos for transmittal to all relevant to mention the errors arising from third a complete snagging workflow parties. parties keying in data from grubby management process to be record sheets - it has been estimated implemented through the life of a ABOUT CONJECT that conjectMI can reduce data capture project. Conject is a leading international times by 40%, report editing by 90% The snagging operation is quite software company, providing SaaS and preparation time by 60%. In fact a straightforward. Users can bring up the solutions to support BIM and manage major contractor, ISG, has recently appropriate room plan in 2D, select the key processes throughout the plan- reported that it resolved defects in component to be checked, and fill in a build-operate lifecycle for the AEC 200% less time than it took before using report - adding text, photo or audio industries. The Conject mission is to the tool. comments as required to fully describe help its clients increase quality, reduce Snagging has become a real-time the problem. Access to the project costs and better manage risks across process, with defects immediately space also provides other benefits, their property and infrastructure updating the drawings and alerting such as the ability to search for similar portfolios. responsible parties for action, thereby defects on associated products. Conject operates in 14 international improving construction quality and To inspect, find and allocate the cities; the UK office is in Woking. efficiency and contributing to on-time resolution of a snagging defect to a Conject applications are used by more project completion. sub-contractor requires the setting up of than 40,000 businesses worldwide, and Defects management work can be a simple workflow, highlighting and every month more than 3,000 new users carried out offline with conjectMI. Before informing the team responsible for its of Conject software. leaving the office, inspection schedules, solution, the timescale in which it has to www.conject.com
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Go with the flow
Oasys' Pedestrian Modelling Software, MassMotion Flow, is now available for simulating movement in smaller and more dedicated projects
ou would be forgiven for thinking that ships are like small, crowded and enclosed predefined route through a 3D model, each the analysis of the flow of people towns, with some serious access issues. is endowed with a task and sufficient Ythrough a building required a Recognising the wider appeal of the intelligence to enable it to make simple specialist application and the input from software, Oasys has now introduced a choices - for instance if an elevator is busy, professionals who specialise in that area. scaled down version of MassMotion, to head for the stairs instead. In fact the Certainly, the case studies tend to focus on MassMotion Flow, which is suitable for use software looks at all of the idiosyncrasies of the mostly on large scale users of these by architects and fire engineers on smaller human behaviour, and as they pass applications, including a recent case study projects. It enables them to analyse through defined locations on their route - in this magazine on the redevelopment of specific pedestrian flow situations, and to check-in desks, ticket barriers, baggage Toronto's Union Square Station, which subsequently modify their designs to carousels - they can be issued with a utilised MassMotion, a crowd analysis provide better space optimisation and 'token' that redirects them straight to the application developed by Oasys, Arup's improved access. departure lounge or platform, or towards a software division. In fact Arup won the best MassMotion Flow is based on exactly the café, a retail outfit or the loo! use of IT in an Infrastructure Project 2014 same analytical engine as the full version of The creation of security gates and agent for their Union Station work at the MassMotion, with all of the real-time 3D tokens demands considerably more time Construction Computing Awards in visualisations and reporting capabilities in and processing capability, time which an November (see the rather large Awards place. It does have limited capability to architect would wish to devote to more section in this issue for more details!). analyse complex events - such as the simple movement analysis tasks, and they However there are many other, smaller arrival and departure of trains at a mainline will find more than sufficient functionality in projects that could usefully employ traffic station, or security at an airport - and allows MassMotion Flow. analysis to hone their designs. Designers of architects to single out specific events and Vision maps are another useful reporting sports stadiums need to understand the to analyse human traffic flow around them. function available in MassMotion, tracking rate at which they could be emptied at the It also lacks the ability to create Agent track where agents look (cumulative end of a game; hospitals and other public Actions for the thousands of human 'agents' eyeball time!) whilst they are proceeding buildings need to plan for rapid evacuation that populate a typical MassMotion model. through a concourse. The software in the event of an emergency; and even assesses the information and presents it cruise ships need to plan for pedestrians! MASSMOTION within a colour-coded 3D model to show It's an obvious use for such an application What, you may ask, are Agent Actions? the best positions to place adverts and when you think about it, as the latest cruise Rather than having agents sticking to a other signage.
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MassMotion Flow can obviously be used as part of a suite, and has been real-time walkthroughs. for space planning, which determines the superseded by 3ds Max, Oasys is weaning Reports can be presented as video flow of traffic and, surprisingly enough, it MassMotion away from its reliance on the displays, in graph format, showing can use agents whose tasks have software, preferring instead to use densities through given location over a previously been created within proprietary software tools that do the period, with a timeline running through the MassMotion, as both levels of the software same. MassMotion Flow only uses the graph. Both the graph and the video can use the same simulation engine. This proprietary version, whilst MassMotion be run simultaneously on the same screen. would enable architects to extract portions uses either Softimage or the proprietary Other output includes the Vision Map, of the main model and run them for version. outlined above, Count Maps, which show specific situations - a collaborative function 3D models can be imported from all the numbers of agents passing through a that fulfils the software's BIM credentials. To leading 3D architectural applications, Revit point at a given point in time, a number of be more specific, MassMotion models can perhaps being the most popular at the tools for exploring agent egress in different already be used in MassMotion Flow, and moment. Revit models can be quite large situations, and various Density Maps for the reverse will be available by the end of though, and a typical project can include showing congestion levels. the year. individual models for station buildings, Movies, images and data files can be platforms, underground trains, elevators, extracted and used for many purposes, MASSMOTION FLOW and so on, which have to be integrated as showing how buildings work or don't work: Rather than being used to calculate a single model. Fortunately, much of the an important aspect of all modern complex interactions within an airport, then, detailing can be stripped out to reduce the construction. Measurements can also be MassMotion Flow is more directly overall size of the model required, leaving taken out of the software as well, to be concerned with space planning. For only the spaces and relevant features for used by the emergency services for their instance, it analyses flow rates through a the analysis - essentially a MassMotion planning and training purposes. given area, say from the time that problem for expert users. Even then, a passengers step off a train or a plane to simulation on a typical project for a MASSMOTION FLOW TRAINING when they reach the station exit, or prominent London station (which uses five Because MassMotion Flow is aimed mainly evaluates whether the capacity of a Revit models stitched together) could take at architects and fire engineers for more stadium section and its doors comply with two hours to run a four-hour PM peak specific and smaller projects, it comes at a the Green Book (the guide to safety at simulation. lower price than MassMotion. Users who sports grounds). may not have analysed pedestrian MassMotion, by comparison, would link MASSMOTION OUTPUT movement before can be provided with a train or flight timetables to its analysis, and The results you can achieve are similar for couple of days training, enabling them to simulate all actions from passengers both MassMotion and MassMotion Flow. adapt to the concept and processes switching trains, exiting, buying tickets, The 3D models can be viewed in any involved. With the emphasis on building being processed by security, or just format and orientation and from any angle, performance being so important these standing about on the concourse. right up to fully rendered models for days, it is only logical that similar emphasis presentation purposes. The human models should be placed on user (pedestrian) MASSMOTION MODELS are available in different characterisations, performance. The configuration of this MassMotion previously used Autodesk's or as token people, depending on the software does appear to provide a task for Softimage as a modelling and visualisation scale of the model and tasks assigned, almost any conceivable pedestrian activity. tool. As that software is now only available and they are given a lifelike walking gait for www.oasys-ssoftware.com
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