Westlink M7 CASE STUDY Abigroup, Leighton, SMEC, AECOM

COMPLETION: 2005

12d DIMENSIONS: Roads and Highways

The Westlink M7 filled the SMEC/AECOM were the longest remaining gap in the designers for ALJV and set up orbital road network of a dedicated design team on Project Summary motorways around . The site. 12d Model was used Westlink M7 is a 40km motorway extensively for stormwater 12d Model was used for visualisation, with dual carriageways and lies drainage design on the project. design interrogation and the “pegging between the M5/ Philip Campbell (SMEC), leader out” of Australia’s largest urban road at Prestons and the at West of the drainage design team, project, the Westlink M7 (previously Baulkham Hills. said, “12d Model was used for known as the Western Sydney Orbital). all aspects of the drainage The construction of Westlink M7 design, including layout of pit offered significant social, and pipe networks, measuring environmental and economic catchment areas and benefits, including: calculating time of • safer and more efficient road concentration, design of onsite transport for passenger detention and water quality vehicles and freight in basins, and transverse western Sydney • good access to employment drainage.” For more information opportunities for the people 12d Solutions worked closely of western Sydney by linking To find out more about how you can create existing/future industrial and with the design team at the better designs faster with the 12d Model residential areas start of the project to develop solution for civil engineering design, visit • improved access to other tools for the design/sizing of www.12d.com. growing cities and regions, basins and for locating including the Central Coast, headwalls for transverse Newcastle, and the Australasia: Sydney drainage. These routines P: [email protected] Illawarra M: +61 2 9970 7117 • faster travel times between greatly assisted in the design of key western Sydney suburbs. the stormwater elements. Mr Europe: London The Abigroup Leighton Joint Campbell added, “12d Model’s E: [email protected] P: +44 845 051 0372 Venture (ALJV) undertook the ability to produce quality output design and construction of the directly to the printer enabled Motorway, which opened at the me to plot a drawing just end of 2005.

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© 2018 12d Solutions Pty Ltd. 12d Model and the 12d logo are trademarks of 12d Solutions Pty Ltd. minutes before a meeting, and table the latest “12Model is fast, intuitive, easy to use and good design at the meeting.” value for money,” said Mr Lehmann. “And the 12d Solutions people provide a prompt and “Abigroup has used 12d Model for nearly seven reliable service – a fundamental requirement years,” said Brett Lehmann, Survey Manager, when you need support on a project of this ALJV. “Because its developers are a local size.” company, 12d Solutions, we have been able to work closely with them and have input into the 12d Model has been used on many of the other software’s development.” major road projects around Sydney, including the M2 and . 12d Model was also used on this project to download and analyse the design, and then “As 12d Model has matured we have added many features which meet the needs of convert that information to TP Stakeout files for engineers and surveyors such as raster use with the Leica Total Station and to guide the modules, visualisation capabilities and drainage surveyors in pegging out the motorway. modules,” said Dr Lee Gregory, Managing Director of 12d Solutions Pty Ltd. “These "We are also using 12d Model to help us features, plus our ability to handle images of all visualise the designs and so interrogate them to sizes and our integration with TP SetOut and ensure they are viable as well as present the then TP StakeOut, has seen 12d Model become the software of choice for large road projects.” designs to third parties such as other contractors, the Government, community groups, etc.,” said Mr Lehmann at the time. “We are able to create a virtual drive through of the motorway on the computer and test it with the engineer in a ‘live’ environment, so to speak.”

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