ACEC Virginia selects Atkins’ 4D modeling tool and web portal for
Engineering Excellence Honor Award
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Alexandria, VA – The American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) of Virginia has selected Atkins’ 4D modeling tool and web portal to receive an Honor Award in the 2012 Engineering Excellence Awards competition.
The award was presented to Atkins senior program manager Regan McDonald, PE, LEED AP, during the Engineering Excellence Awards Gala at The Jefferson Hotel in Richmond, Virginia, on February 2.
To support the planning and program management of the $4.5 billion expansion of Virginia’s Fort Belvoir Army Garrison under the Base Realignment and Closure Act of 2005, Atkins created a visualization tool to illustrate all development activity in time and space. The model combines 3D building informa¬tion models with planning data, AutoCAD files, and environmental and infrastructure GIS layers, while adding a fourth dimension—time—by incorporating project schedule information. Atkins worked with the client to build a web portal for access to the tool, providing project managers, installation staff, and senior leaders an animated view of the entire 5-year construction program.
“The web portal helps give users a quick, visual, color-coded snapshot of construction progress for more than 6 million square feet of new facilities being added to the base,” explains McDonald. “The Fort Belvoir 4D model has become the tool of choice for brainstorming, decision making, and conflict identification and resolution. The ACEC Honor Award is a great way to celebrate the project’s success.”
For more information on the 4D modeling tool and web portal, contact Regan McDonald at regan.mcdonald@atkinsglobal.com.
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Carol Hobbs
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Notes to Editors
Atkins (www.atkinsglobal.com) is one of the world's leading engineering and design consultancies*, employing some 17,700 people across the UK, North America, Middle East, Asia Pacific, and Europe. It has the breadth and depth of expertise to plan, design, and enable some of the world's most technically challenging and time critical infrastructure projects.
*It is the largest engineering consultancy in the UK (New Civil Engineer Consultants File 2011) and the 13th largest international design firm (Engineering News-Record 2011).
Recent projects include:
- Critical program management of storm protection works in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and Southern Louisiana, providing expertise in coastal restoration, engineering, environmental and GIS support to rebuild defenses and protect habitats.
- Architectural and construction phase services for the new Tyndall Air Force Base Fitness Center, meeting LEED Platinum standards without impact to project cost.
- Equal partner in a joint venture that is providing full-service program/project management support for the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, a $7.8-billion project encompassing ecological restoration, water storage, flood control, and recreation.
- Key transit projects – member of joint venture providing general engineering consultant team for the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority and project management oversight contractor for the Federal Transit Administration for major transit projects throughout the US.
- Lead firm on the Ascend, Joint Venture, LLC team, which is designing the $1.2-billion Maynard Holbrook Jackson Jr. International Terminal roadway system at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
- Meeting stringent nutrient removal requirements for wastewater treatment plants in the Chesapeake Bay area through design of upgrades to Howard County, Maryland’s Little Patuxent Water Reclamation Plant and the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission’s Seneca Wastewater Treatment Plant, and design and construction of enhanced nutrient removal facilities at Anne Arundel County’s Patuxent Water Reclamation Plant.
- Multi-year architecture-engineering construction management services for the National Park Service in the USA, including projects such as rehabilitation of the Furnace Creek Visitor Center and Administrative Complex at California’s Death Valley to meet the US Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold certification standards.
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Atkins senior program manager Regan McDonald
accepts ACEC Engineering Excellence Honor Award.
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