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T5 GOES LIVE SOCIETY BISHOP ADDRESSES ACADEMY THE PRESIDENT’S NEW YEAR RECEPTION 2008 Heathrow Airport Interchange Plaza: the 4D modelling helped manage the complex interface of three On 14 January The Royal Academy of Engineering welcomed the Bishop of Southwark as separate teams building the multi-story car park, main terminal building and Heathrow Express rail station in close proximity © Arup guest speaker for this year’s reception hosted by the Academy’s President, Lord Browne of Madingley. The Rt Revd Dr Tom Butler is a chartered engineer and a regular contributor CONSTRUCTION PLANNING critical instances. Once issues were resolved, the very forefront of the achievement. The to Radio 4’s ‘Thought for the Day’. Unsurprisingly he gave a theological slant to some the model could be quickly updated and AVI opposition and delays that the project faced For other parts of the project, the team (movie) files distributed around the team to in the 1990s meant that greater knowledge engineering issues of the day in his speech. The President also took the opportunity of took planning to a new dimension. There improve communication. and understanding had been assembled by developed a system of 4D construction the New Year reception to present a prestigious Academy award to the head of Rolls- The result was cost savings of the time the go ahead was given in 2001. planning which uses software to produce £2.5 million in the first nine months of use In the end, this £4.3 billion project was Royce, Sir John Rose. an animation of construction works by and a reduction in the length of the original delivered safely and well within agreed linking CAD data to one or more schedules. master programme by six months. time and budget limits. It is part of a The 4D (the fourth dimension being time) £6 billion investment plan by BAA who simulation was used for the Heathrow want to replace Terminals 1 and 2 by 2012 interchange which is a space between TAKING OFF – by which date almost the entire airport the T5A building, the T5A car park and the This is just a snapshot of the 37 million man will have been rebuilt or redesigned – with rail station. This was a complex building hours of work involved in the Terminal 5 an end result a mile away from the few interface between projects. project during the 20 years from inception to tents and phone boxes that existed at its Arup worked closely with software completion and of course the verdict of the inception. provider Autodesk NavisWorks to create passengers passing through T5 – predicted a high-level integrated 4D CAD model to be 30 million per year – is still to come. identifying the overall build sequence. However, Heathrow’s T5 looks set to be This added the model geometry – including remembered as one of the most remarkable contractor exclusion zones, crane usage, engineering stories of the 21st century with access, and general site logistics – to the innovative IT and engineering solutions at programme generated from the detailed plans. BIOGRAPHY – Dervilla Mitchell FREng Once the model contained sufficient Dervilla Mitchell is based in London and co-leads the Arup aviation business. She detail, everyone involved met at weekly spent six years at Heathrow in various different roles leading the structural teams planning sessions to continue building the there. Prior to T5 she worked on a number of projects including Portcullis House at 4D plan and debate site clashes. At the Westminster and the redevelopment of the Goodwood Paddock. meetings, the model was projected on a big screen to show sequences at any time The author would like to thank Richard Matthews, Stuart Kerr and Steve McKechnie for their help in interval, down to as little as daily in some preparing this article. The Rt Revd Dr Tom Butler © Richard Keil 28 INGENIA ISSUE 34 MARCH 2008 INGENIA ISSUE 34 MARCH 2008 29 BISHOP ADDRESSES ACADEMY INNOVATION THEOLOGICAL mysterious than might have been thought,” Bishop Tom OVERLAP told the evening’s gathering of “To sin is human; to forgive, Fellows. The Hubble telescope’s gPROMS divine; to check is engineering.” recent pictures of galactic rings So started a unique address continue to inspire the Bishop. by the Rt Revd Tom Butler. They provide further evidence Reflecting on how his passion not only of Einstein’s theory PUSHING THE BARRIERS for engineering and his church of gravitation but also of the ministry have continually existence of dark matter, which interwoven over the years, Bishop cannot be observed directly but Tom challenged the Academy OF PROCESS MODELLING can be discerned by its influence to rethink its message to young on everything else. people on why they might view “For me, that has echoes of engineering as their future. the language of Christian mystics Bishop Tom heard his call who, for centuries, have been The latest winner of the UK’s premier prize in engineering In its ten year life our company, to ordination while he was saying precisely the same thing Process Systems Enterprise, has an undergraduate studying concerning the hiddenness of innovation, the MacRobert Award, is a spin-out company achieved success as a result electronic engineering at the God’s awesome reality, which from Imperial College London. Costas Pantelides and Mark of developing and applying University of Leeds. He resolved cannot be observed directly, for effective software that can to join the Community of it is too massively real for human Matzopoulos, two of the key people behind the success of model processes extremely the Resurrection, the Mirfield understanding, but it can be gPROMS, tell the story of how they have created a way in which accurately. So accurately in fact, Fathers, who were active both discerned by its influence on that eight of the world’s ten in the slums of British cities and everything else.” engineers can harness physics, chemistry and engineering leading chemical companies in Africa – particularly in South The Bishop warned “that the knowledge within a framework that solves highly complex have become users of the Africa. Tom Butler then spent six battle for engineering hearts tool, named gPROMS (general- years as a lecturer in electrical and minds of new generations Academy President, Lord Browne of Madingley, presents the Chief Executive of mathematical problems. purpose PROcess Modelling engineering at the University of is being lost.” The Bishop Rolls-Royce, Sir John Rose, with the President‘s Medal © Richard Keil System), to gain higher degrees Zambia, not only helping to start challenged the Academy to use of predictive accuracy. a new school of engineering but the burning issue of our time Process industries, from literally helping to build it. Reception to make Rolls-Royce me huge pleasure to accept – climate change – to recruit a the first company to receive the this award on behalf of Rolls- traditional oil and gas, chemicals Then, during vacations, new generation of engineers to and petrochemicals, to new he would pack a toolkit, President’s Medal for its initiative Royce, particularly as it comes the profession. “The problem in promoting excellence in as an endorsement of what energy technologies, food multimeter and some basic here can be part of the solution. processing and pharmaceuticals components, and he and his engineering. Instigated in 1987, I firmly believe, which is that The issue that is motivating the medal has previously only engineering is very much a are experiencing increased wife would visit remote rural young people today is that of demand for their products, mission stations and attempt to been presented to individuals. team sport. We could not global warming and climate Lord Browne of Madingley achieve what we achieve as a especially in Asia. This is mend malfunctioning electrical change. happening against a backdrop equipment. They became said: “Over the years, many company individually, because “It is becoming embedded engineers from Rolls-Royce doing things of the complexity of decreasing availability of engaged in the battle against in the curriculum and it is primary raw materials and malnutrition: campaigning for have won awards made by this of making gas turbines and appearing in out-of-school Academy. We decided to now integrating complex systems, global concerns relating to better nutrition and organising activities, but it will not be energy consumption, safety and food imports and distribution. award the President’s Medal and supporting these things solved without a plethora of to the company as a whole through service, is a job that environmental consequences. They also joined projects to engineering initiatives. This build better houses for shanty in recognition of its sustained requires a huge range of skills is a moment in history when contribution to technological and capabilities.” town dwellers. children are interested in the A NEED TO MODEL and commercial excellence Accurate modelling provides very issue where engineering in engineering in Britain and Jane Sutton the key information needed to has things to say and things to LOOKING BEYOND around the world. It is a Manager, Academy design and operate processes in discover and do. We should not THE UNIVERSE privilege to make this award to Communications a way that maximises quality and miss the moment.” “People used to be optimistic such a great company whose minimises production costs and that science would eventually name has been synonymous To see the full transcript of adverse environmental effects. be able to explain everything PRESIDENT’S MEDAL with quality for over a century.” Bishop Tom’s talk and a video of It also saves raw material and but things have turned out The Academy also took the Sir John Rose, Rolls-Royce the evening go to: www.raeng.

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