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| Balfour Beatty signs agreement with Autodesk to expand BIM capabilities UK construction giant Balfour Beatty and Autodesk, Inc., a world leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, have signed a three year, $12 million agreement that will help Balfour Beatty expand its adoption of Building Information Modelling (BIM). The agreement, one of the first of its kind and size in the infrastructure industry, will enable Balfour Beatty to better serve customers across the world through increased use of BIM, an intelligent model–based process that provides insight for creating and managing building and infrastructure projects faster, more economically, and with less environmental impact. The UK Government will mandate the use of BIM on public building projects beginning in 2016. Balfour Beatty has already used Autodesk BIM on a number of high profile projects including the San Francisco Bay Bridge, the widening of the M25 outside London, and design and construction for the replacement of Terminal 2 at London Heathrow International Airport. For the new Terminal 2B, the largest ever airside project at Heathrow, the use of BIM helped the company coordinate over 30 active stakeholders through 13 interfacing projects and enabled a peak workforce of 1, 600 to complete work, including a 2 km diaphragm wall, the largest in Europe, ahead of schedule. Through the agreement, thousands of Balfour Beatty users across all international operations will have access to a range of Autodesk BIM solutions including Autodesk Revit software products, AutoCAD Civil 3D software, Autodesk Navisworks software products, AutoCAD software and Autodesk 3ds Max Design software. Autodesk will provide significant training, support and strategic consultancy through Autodesk Consulting to help Balfour Beatty maximise their use of BIM. write your comments about the article :: © 2012 Construction News :: home page |