BuildingSMART International Awards Program credits exemplary demonstrations of openBIM best practice or innovation within project delivery and lifecycle asset management. The Queen’s Wharf Brisbane project has been selected as one of the three finalists competing.
This event was sponsored by DBM Vircon and acts as a social platform in which emerging engineers, architects, town planners have a chance to meet and share their experiences while hearing about industry developments.
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) recently replaced an aging, structurally deficient span of U.S. 60 in western Kentucky with a three-span, continuous Warren style through truss. The steel truss superstructure, features a clutterless, aesthetically pleasing bridge with vertical members & sway bracing used in typical truss designs.
Reconstruction National Award – Wells Street Bridge
The Wells Street Bridge is the longest double deck, double leaf, bascule bridge built over the Chicago River, and only one of two remaining bascule bridges in the city of Chicago that carries both automobile and transit (Chicago Transit Authority elevated trains) on two levels.
A sample steel plate girder bridge employing A1010 is the 123ft long, 42ft, 8in wide Mill Creek Bridge along Lower Columbia River Hwy, only the second A1010 plate girder bridge for public use in the world.
The Hastings Bridge over the Mississippi River in Hastings, Minnesota, is a record breaker. Built as a replacement for the functionally obsolete Hastings High Bridge (built in 1950), the new 1,938ft long bridge with a 545ft main span is the longest freestanding tied-arch bridge in North America
The bridge consists of two double-leaf trunnion bascules, one for eastbound traffic and one for westbound traffic. The project included completely replacing both the superstructure and substructure of the older eastbound bridge with 430 ft of approach and a new 146ft double-leaf trunnion bascule span.
DBM Vircon has captivated the globe with the newly opened Optus Stadium located in Perth. The 60,000-seat multi-purpose stadium and joint project of DBM Vircon, Arup, and Civmec bagged the Best Sports & Recreation Project in 2018's Tekla Global BIM Awards.
This is the first major cable supported bridge where a single line of large diameter drilled shafts was used for each tower foundation. The combination of three-tower arrangement and single line of drilled shafts for each tower foundation created a very flexible system.
Spanning the Genessee River in New York, this new bridge is a 483-foot arch with three, 80-foot girder spans on either end for a total length of 963 feet. The single track bridge has a ballast-filled concrete deck, and sits 235 feet above the rushing water below.
