Overview
3D design tools for civil engineering
Use the intelligent, model-based tools in Infrastructure Design Suite to gain more accurate, accessible and actionable insight throughout the lifecycle of your civil engineering projects.
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Understand and communicate project dependencies better
- Explore and communicate design concepts
- Get projects approved faster and help win work
- Promote greater visibility into project constructability
Maintain more consistent data, context, processes
- Aggregate data from a variety of formats
- Develop more consistent, accurate construction documentation
- Apply industry standards more easily
Respond more quickly to change
- Gain greater flexibility to make design changes
- Apply discipline-specific tools for a more streamlined process
- Improve designs by conducting engineering analysis
Aggregate and visualise data more effectively
- Manage data from many sources
- Build large data-rich city models
- Enhance insight into existing conditions
Analyse information to help inform decisions
- Conduct spatial analysis to help see trends
- Facilitate identification of priority locations
- Analyse impacts of new developments
Communicate project options more easily
- More quickly model and visualise alternatives
- Show intent more effectively with realistic visuals
- Create thematic maps to support reporting requirements
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Create more consistent designs
- Design in a AutoCAD environment
- Improve accuracy with rules-based standards
- Work more quickly with templates and workflows
Optimise with analysis
- Calculate voltage drop and flicker
- Calculate underground cable tension
- Calculate overhead sag for wind and ice
Deliver more complete documentation
- Deliver documentation in a single package
- Provide more complete engineering data
- Automate bill of materials creation
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Create better proposals
- Demonstrate a better understanding of project needs
- Create more realistic proposals of design alternatives
- Communicate options more effectively
Minimise project dependencies
- Create visualisations to help validate design decisions
- Help minimise construction documentation errors
- Identify issues before construction
Improve profitability
- Use tools to help decrease hours on fixed-cost projects
- Accommodate last-minute changes more easily
- Support productivity with more consistent data
Produce better designs
- Minimise errors with model-based tools
- Optimise with integrated analysis
- Minimise documentation errors
Improve co-ordination
- Share information with teams and stakeholders
- Generate documentation as a by-product of the design
- Help identify issues earlier to minimise errors in the field
Achieve greater transparency
- Attract more competitive bids
- Improve cost estimate accuracy
- Demonstrate impact with more realistic visuals
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Promote design efficiency
- Improve knowledge transfer
- Optimise workflows to minimise re-work
- Incorporate industry design standards
Improve materials use
- Optimise materials with engineering analysis
- Improve design to construction processes
- Deliver more accurate estimates
Improve data confidence
- Help reduce time-consuming processes
- Minimise as-built backloguES
- Deliver design data to the enterprise
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Explore constructability virtually
- Aggregate data for whole-project review
- Understand scope of labour and materials better
- Co-ordinate site and workflow planning more effectively
Improve cost reliability
- Generate material take-offs more quickly
- Evaluate the cost of design alternatives
- Help resolve conflicts before construction
Predict project outcomes more accurately
- Simulate schedules and logistics in 4D
- Assess and quantify scope changes
- Communicate plans to stakeholders more easily
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