BIM facilitates Road & Highway Design

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(Free-Press-Release.com) November 5, 2009 -- After serving the construction industries successfully Building Information Modeling provides advantages to Civil Engineers for road & highway design.

BIM provides a visual environment in which you can quickly get a more complete view of the project area to rapidly make out visual obstructions from buildings, barriers, vegetation and surrounding terrain. This will bring better roadway optimization as well as enhanced road safety (designing a roadway there are a number of safety considerations, including the road slope, turning radius and signal location that are tied to roadway speed limitations.) as you can quickly identity problems and synchronize design changes with highway plans.The final design model can be directly consumed during construction, making the process of delivering 3D models to contractors for automated machine guidance.
BIM can also create proposed surfaces earthwork volumes, material totals, drafted cross sections, and more.
BIM also provide assistance for the creation of design deliverables directly from the information model that can be leveraged for quantity take off, construction sequencing, as-built comparisons, and even operations and maintenance to achieve an optimal roadway design

BIM have the ability to provide contractors with 3-D proposed surfaces for driving machine control grading projects,.which decreases survey costs, minimize equipment operating costs save time and money during construction
By applying BIM Civil engineers can acquire immediate view on project performance. Traffic capacity, noise, lighting, drainage, and signage analysis are all detected earlier in a project as part of the design process well before significant effort is invested in construction documentation.

BIM provides coordinated, reliable design information for designing a road & highway project by producing an intelligent 3-D model of the roadway in which elements of the design are shared to each other dynamically. This features help transportation agencies to boost efficiency and productivity in operating and maintaining roads. Various scenarios can be visualized for any given road or highway, providing an opportunity to create the optimal design as for instance perhaps halfway during a roadway design project the profile requires modifications to a vertical curve and the grades. By amending the profile, all of the interrelated design elements update mechanically in real time, permitting the designer immediately to observe the impact to cut and fill and right-of-way.
The BIM environment also mechanizes the formation of construction documentation that saves time for engineers to spend more time on alternative design scenarios and to take on feedback from collaborators in the design process.
Pinnacle Cad is now emerging as a successful provider of BIM for road and highway design. Pinnacle’s experienced designers apply latest software like AUTOCAD CIVIL 3D and InRoads to explore more what-if scenarios and optimize project performance.

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