Entrant details
Role or Job Title on the Project
Project Manager
Employer
CCCC Second Harbor Consultants Company Ltd.
Part of CCCC
Wuhan. China
Employer Role
Design-Builder Company
Are you or your employer a member of buildingSMART?
Yes - Sponsor Member (Standard, Multinational or Strategic)
Submission details
Submitting Party Company Name
China Communications Construction Co.ltd.
Submitting Party Company Location
Beijing, China
Submitting Party Role on Project
Design Organization
Submitting Party Company Website
Full Project Name
openBIM Application for Linhuaigang Double Line Ship Lock
Project Location (Country)
China
Project Objectives
This Project is based on the IFC Standard for Ports and Waterways, and meets the requirement from the newly published China BIM standard for Ports and Waterways, to implement its actual usage for design phase of ship lock complex.
The aims are to improve the quality of project deliverables, increase the efficiency of the design process and coordination environment. There are a number of openBIM applications have been done in the project, such as deliverables management, quality check, virtual simulation, 4D schedule planning, quantity take-off, which accumulate many valuable engineering application experiences in ports and waterways for further development.
openBIM Achievements
By using openBIM standard, the efficiency of data exchange and collaboration between different software vendors is effectively improved, and the loss of data transfer is reduced to improve the accuracy of collaboration.
Based on IFC data format, the deliverables in the design phase can be managed hierarchically and the quality check for the BIM model therefore can be achieved, which reduces the project time and cost, and improves the quality of the design as well as the visibility of deliverables, which lay a robust foundation for the application in the next construction stage.
openBIM used
IFC4, bSDD, IDM, MVD
openBIM or open standards used other than those listed above
China OpenBIM Standard:
Design Standard for Application of Building Information Modeling in Ports and Waterways
Unified Standard for Application of Building Information Modeling in Ports and Waterways
UniClass 2015
Software used
Revit, Civil 3D, Inventor, SketchUp, Unreal Engine.
Self-developed Software: IFC Model Verification Tool, Drawing Generation Tool, Model Integration and Management Tool.
Strategic Alignment
Throughout the project, the top priority is to ensure the data collaboration in the design process and their deliverables re-usability, therefore the output is not limited to a particular type of data file format.
To ensure that the project is executed in accordance with the stated objectives, the project adopts standardized process from a number of openBIM standards. Also, in the planning stage, the data format and organization for deliverables have been considered which will bring enlightenment for future project usage.
Highlights
Based on the model hierarchy management system, from project planning, project implementation to project delivery, the complete BIM application in model creation, storage and management is achieved.
There are a number of applications based on IFC data format developed, including "IFC model verification application" and "Model level management application", which greatly improved the execution efficiency and quality of design phase and shortened the design cycle.
In the deliverables, 48,000 IFC data objects were found including the models from the project level up to the rebar and part level.
Project and Stakeholder Logos (compiled into one .ppt/pptx file for upload)
Project Address
Lu'an City, Anhui province, China
Project Type
Civil
Size of Project
Total investment: 716 million yuan
Effective dimension of lock chamber: 240m × 23m × 5.2m
Design representative ship types: 2000 ton motor barge and 1000 ton motor barge
Detailed description of the project
Linhuaigang double line ship lock located at Linhuaigang water conservancy hub at Lu'an City, Anhui province in China. It is 73km from Sanhejian on the top, 28km from Zhengyangguan in the middle reaches of the Huai river, and 159km from Bengbu Gate.
The hub is composed of barrage dam, intake and discharge sluice, first line ship lock, river diversion, etc. The hub was a key project that raises the flood control standard of the main stream of Huai River to once every 100 years, and can be called "Three Gorges Project" and "Xiaolangdi Project" on Huai River. Its completion is of milestone significance in the history of harnessing Huai River.
With the development of social economy, the trend of large-scale ships in the Huai River system has become obvious in recent years.
Most of the transport ships are ships with a deep draft of more than 1000t, and the existing first line Linhuaigang lock is 500 tons, which cannot meet the development needs of large-scale ships. The new-built Linhuaigang double-line ship lock is planned to be built according to Class II standards, that is, the design representative ship type is a 2000t class barge, and the effective size of the lock chamber is increased from the original 130 m × 12 m × 2.6 m to 240 m x 23 m x 5.2 m, estimated total investment of about 716 million RMB. The source of funds is government subsidies and self-raised by the owners, of which 40% of the government subsidies are government subsidies, and the project owner is responsible for bank loans for the remaining 60%.
The ship lock project designed contents including: ship lock, upstream and downstream approach channel, downstream channel revetment, ship lock management area, water cultural landscape area, cross-lock bridge and connecting road, greening project, etc.
This ship lock design project was designed in accordance with newly released China BIM standard for ports and waterways. The openBIM approach was adopted for the entire design phase.
This BIM design involves disciplines such as surveying, geotechnical investigation, masterplanning, waterway, marine structure, metal structure, route, subgrade, bridge, etc.
The IFC and a number of openBIM standards have been used throughout the project. The aims are to improve the quality of project deliverables, increase the efficiency of the design process and coordination environment.
There are a number of openBIM applications have been done in the project, such as deliverables management, quality check, virtual simulation, 4D schedule planning, quantity take-off, which accumulate many valuable engineering application experiences in ports and waterways for further development.
By using openBIM standard, the efficiency of data exchange and collaboration between different software vendors is effectively improved, and the loss of data transfer is reduced to improve the accuracy of collaboration.
Based on IFC data format, the deliverables in the design phase can be managed hierarchically and the quality check for the BIM model therefore can be achieved, which reduces the project time and cost, and improves the quality of the design as well as the visibility of deliverables, which lay a robust foundation for the application in the next construction stage.
Detailed description of openBIM on the project
This project implements the coding requirements. The coding system in the BIM Standard for Ports and Waterways adopts the facet classification method which based on ISO 12006-2 and UniClass 2015.
When ship lock model is designed, the marine engineering and metal structure disciplines need to cooperate with each other in the same central file.
Among them, the ship lock structure design is completed in Revit, and the metal structure model is completed in Inventor.
Data exchange and collaboration are carried out through IFC data format.
Export volume models into IFC data file format.
IFC Model Verification Tool has been developed to read the IFC files and check if the model contents meet the data depth requirements.
The output is the inspection report, including the component ID, missing information, and score etc., for the designer to reference.
Software ecosystem map
openBIM Supporting Evidence
Benefits from using openBIM
By using openBIM in the project, the project related model, document and deliverables can be well-organized and increase the communication for stakeholders. Using IFC data format for data exchange, the amount of time spending on repeated modeling reduced significantly. With automated compliance check, there is at least one third of the cost and time were save by this strategy.
"We were able to innovate using openBIM."
There are many innovations in this project were initially based on buildingSMART openBIM framework.
e.g. the development experiences from IFC ports and waterways have helped for project which led to innovative model hierarchy, design collaboration, quality check, and deliverables management.
"We were able to identify where we need openBIM to develop further."
There are a number of concepts brought by openBIM but they need practical applications to utilize. Following the framework from buildingSMART and contribution from the community, we believe we can develop more applications to boost openBIM development further.
BIM Uses were defined on the project
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Stakeholders
Anhui Ports and Waterways Group, Anhui province in China,
http://www.ahghtz.com/, Owner, Guigeng Yang
