Civil Engineers Increase Productivity and Sharpen Competitiveness; Impressive Projects Prove the Benefits of GEOPAK Solutions.PALM SPRINGS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 16, 1997--GEOPAK Corporation, a Bentley Strategic Affiliate, today released the results of numerous GEOPAK customer projects to attendees of Bentley's 1997 Proactive Engineering Symposium. Recent projects feature robust application of GEOPAK(R) software on a broad scope of engineering projects, including roads through mountainous terrain, rail corridors, bridges, and underground subway tunnels. GEOPAK software is based on MicroStation(R). MK Centennial: E-470 Toll Road MK Centennial, a division of Morrison Knudsen, is using GEOPAK Civil Engineering Suite on the massive E-470 Toll Road project around the east side of Denver. MK Centennial has met the design schedule for the first year of construction and has now substantially completed all civil design for the project. GEOPAK software has provided MK Centennial the advantages of rapid training and startup, a more efficient second design phase that kept all designers working independently, and a smooth, automated plans production process. This primarily green-fields project is nearly 30 miles long and requires 12 interchanges, 33 bridges, 10 million cubic yards of embankment, one million tons of asphalt paving, and 135 utility relocations. "Other, template-based systems make you define exactly what the roadway template will look like at each segment of the road," says Mark Talvitie, senior project manager on the E-470 project. "The GEOPAK approach is far more efficient - it easily handles real-world situations where roads wind and narrow, and where interchanges and special drainage features are required." MK Centennial: Hsintein Line Subway MK Centennial also recently employed GEOPAK's alignment capabilities to check tunnel alignments for MK's Heavy Construction group, working on the Hsintein Line subway under Taipei, Taiwan. The tunnel boring machine Tunnel boring machines (TBM) excavate tunnels with a circular cross section through a variety of geologies. They can be used to bore through hard rock or sand and almost anything in between. Tunnel diameters can range from a metre (done with micro-TBMs) to 15 metres. had shifted off design alignment because of unstable and irregular soil conditions. Criteria development for dynamic analysis of the train was challenging since the horizontal track alignments were mostly in curvature. The project was a great success and MK's client, the Department of Rapid Transit Systems This is an alphabetical list of cities worldwide that have a rapid transit system, or a light-rail system with some elements of rapid transit. Such systems are commonly called metros, subways, elevated railways, heavy rail, rapid rail, or underground railways; see passenger rail (DORTS DORTS Department of Rapid Transit Systems (Taipei, Taiwan) ) of the Taipei Municipal Government, is now evaluating GEOPAK software for its own use. This is the first known project in which GEOPAK software has been used to model the vehicle clearance envelope with as-built tunnel alignments and calculate the differences between the two. "This project required that we process a cross section for each one meter along two 1,500-meter tunnels - which meant we were constantly crunching 10 and 15 megabyte One million bytes, or more precisely 1,048,576 bytes. Also MB, Mbyte and M-byte. See mega and space/time. (unit) megabyte - (MB, colloquially "meg") 2^20 = 1,048,576 bytes = 1024 kilobytes. 1024 megabytes are one gigabyte. cross section files," says Doug Stremel, project engineer on the Taipei tunnel project. "I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. of any other software that could have handled the job except GEOPAK." Federal Highway Administration The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is a division of the United States Department of Transportation that specializes in highway transportation. The agency's major activities are grouped into two "programs," The Federal-aid Highway Program and the Federal Lands Highway : Guanella Pass Guanella Pass (el. 3557 m./11,669 ft.) is a high mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado. The pass is located in southwestern Clear Creek County, just west of Mount Bierstadt in the Front Range west of Denver and south of Georgetown. Scenic and Historic Byway The Guanella Pass project is one of the best examples to date of providing public access to government projects on the World Wide Web. Requested of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA FHWA Federal Highway Administration (US DoT) ) by the U.S. Forest Service, the redesign of this popular Scenic and Historic Byway west of Denver is represented in its entirety on the web site: http://www.cflhd.gov/projects/co/guanella/, which includes maps, 360-degree views, and multimedia drive-throughs. Redesign was done using the GEOPAK Civil Engineering Suite, paying careful attention to preserving wildlife, terrain, wetlands, and historic sites; improving access to campgrounds, scenic points, and trailheads; and snow-removal requirements. The Guanella Pass Road redesign is 38 kilometers in length and connects I-70 with Colorado Highway 285. The project is located in the Rocky Mountains Rocky Mountains, major mountain system of W North America and easternmost belt of the North American cordillera, extending more than 3,000 mi (4,800 km) from central N.Mex. to NW Alaska; Mt. Elbert (14,431 ft/4,399 m) in Colorado is the highest peak. between Georgetown and Grant, Colorado Grant is an unincorporated town and a U.S. Post Office located in Park County, Colorado, United States. The community is located in foothills of the Front Range in the Platte Canyon, in the upper valley of the North Fork South Platte River, approximately 6 miles (10 km) east of . It is in very mountainous terrain, proceeding from an elevation of 2610 meters (8563 ft.) at Georgetown up to an elevation of 3,556 meters (11,667 ft.) at Guanella Pass, and then dropping to an elevation of 2,617 meters (8,586 ft.) at Grant. There are many hairpin hairpin a secondary structure that occurs in single-strand RNA during protein synthesis in which the strand turns back on itself. The structure is the result of base pairing and hydrogen bond formation. curves and switchback switch·back n. 1. A road, trail, or railroad track that follows a zigzag course on a steep incline. 2. A sharp bend in a road or trail on a steep incline. 3. Chiefly British A roller coaster. curves, and some curves have radii ra·di·i n. A plural of radius. radii Noun a plural of radius as small as 15m (49 ft.). "The design team reached eight design alternatives, one of which includes a tunnel," says John Penzien, computer applications engineer at the Federal Highway Administration. "GEOPAK software contained the features required to design all alternatives and to output the 3D design files required for visualizations." TranSystems: Kansas City Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). Terminal Railroad and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad Santa Fe Railroad, former U.S. railroad, chartered in 1863 as the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe RR; opened to traffic in 1864. Construction continued, and in 1880 it reached Santa Fe, N.Mex.; the following year the railroad connected with the Southern Pacific RR. TranSystems Corporation has been employing GEOPAK Civil Design Suite on a number of rail projects, including the nation's third-busiest railroad intersection at the Kansas City Terminal Railroad. The solution included design of a 6,080-foot railroad bridge - modeled using GEOPAK Bridge - spanning two mainline mainline Drug slang verb To inject a drug tracks and the Blue River. TranSystems created an animation of the evolution of construction and passing of trains at the finished intersection to demonstrate the effectiveness of the design. Using GEOPAK, TranSystems provides design services on many projects for the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, including one in Nebraska that included complex sections and a massive amount of cut - up to 60-feet. "One of the big advantages of GEOPAK is that you can make a simple graphic change on cross sections and all of your quantities, reports, and slope limits will reflect that change," says Bob Rolle of TranSystems in Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City is the largest city in the state of Missouri. It encompasses parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest in Missouri, which includes counties in both Missouri and Kansas. . "There is no need to recreate a model or modify a template to make one small modification." More than any other software, GEOPAK products are designed and supported by practicing civil engineers. The resulting product line addresses every phase of the civil engineering workflow, conceptual studies through construction, with working methodologies that address the scope of real-world problems faced daily by civil engineering consulting firms and departments of transportation. GEOPAK software is available through Bentley's MicroStation Value-Added Resellers (MVARs) worldwide, along with a range of geoengineering software based on MicroStation. About GEOPAK Corporation, a Bentley Strategic Affiliate GEOPAK, a Bentley Strategic Affiliate, has been providing civil engineering software since 1984. More than any other software, GEOPAK is developed and supported by practicing civil engineers and land surveyors. The software is the standard at 13 state DOTs, the Federal Highway Administration, and over 600 engineering consultants worldwide. GEOPAK is the market leader of roadway design and engineering software and the fastest growing civil engineering software provider, with revenue growth topping 40 percent in 1996. GEOPAK is headquartered in North Miami Beach, Florida North Miami Beach (commonly referred to as NMB) is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. Originally named Fulford in 1926 after Captain William H. Fulford of the United States Coast Guard, the city was incorporated in 1927 as Fulford, but was renamed North . GEOPAK can be reached -- By telephone toll-free at 888-GEOPAK1 (888-436-7251) -- By FAX at 305-948-6290 -- By email at sales@geopak.com -- On the World Wide Web at http://www.geopak.com About Bentley and Bentley Strategic Affiliates Bentley Systems Bentley Systems, Incorporated, provides software for the "Design, construction and operation of the world's infrastructure". The company’s software serves the building, plant, civil, and geospatial vertical markets in the areas of architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) , Inc., is a worldwide leader in engineering software and user services. Its products are proven at over 70 percent of the largest U.S. engineering firms and are the software foundation of well-known buildings, roadways, machines, and industrial plants around the world. Bentley Strategic Affiliates provide project services and the world's best and most interoperable engineering applications to Bentley users. Bentley's Strategic Affiliate program involves an intense technical and business collaboration with, as well as a corporate investment in, a select number of focused, luminary developers. More information about Bentley and Bentley Strategic Affiliates is available at http://www.bentley.com. -0- GEOPAK is a registered trademark of GEOPAK Corporation. MicroStation is a registered trademark, and Bentley is a trademark of Bentley Systems, Incorporated. Other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners. CONTACT: Cissell Consulting, Huntsville Jackie Cissell, 205/536-2822, jcissell@hiwaay.net |
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