BENEFITS OF A MANAGED ENVIRONMENT ON A LARGE INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT

Silvano Paolo Gritti, Andrea Amante, Armando Manes

Last modified: 2017-02-28

Abstract


The new Brescia–Bergamo–Milan Motorway Connection, commonly known as Brebemi, is the new toll motorway linking the city of Brescia with Milan. The overall project will provide the completion of the new 3 lane motorway in each direction, approx. 62 km long, along with new local roads and the renovation of existing roads in the length of 35 km or so. The route involves 43 municipalities and 5 provinces and the total cost of the work is 1.6 billion euros. The Company has decided to implement a solution to manage all documentation, at any level, connected with the Project and has chosen Bentley ProjectWise as a solution which meets all the requirements. During its implementation, an appropriate environment has been created for every work area, the file management procedures have been published and the access profiles and approval cycles have been created.
Now all of the documentation of the final and executive plan (consisting of around 60,000 technical drawings in editable and PDF format) which has been drawn up by the various external design units located all over Italy, under the coordination of the General Contractor which will also be responsible for the construction of the motorway, exist on a centralised server at the Brescia office. All procedure and authorisation documents for the project are also filed, as well as all correspondence.
The main benefits of implementing a managed environment solution include time saving in communication, controlled and accessible presentation of design and procedure documents, better standardisation of drawings and texts and the definition and implementation of linear workflows and verification.

Keywords


managed environment, Bentley ProjectWise, project design

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