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Digital Twin Solution for Shaoxing Urban Rail Line 1 by POWERCHINA Huadong

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Technology Category
  • Analytics & Modeling - Digital Twin / Simulation
  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries
  • Construction & Infrastructure
  • Transportation
Applicable Functions
  • Maintenance
  • Product Research & Development
Use Cases
  • Construction Management
  • Digital Twin
Services
  • System Integration
  • Testing & Certification
About The Customer
POWERCHINA Huadong Engineering Corporation Limited (HDEC) is a leading engineering corporation that was hired to digitally engineer the entire Line 1 of the Shaoxing Urban Rail Transit, including project management, overall consultation, survey, design, construction, and handover to operations and maintenance. The company is known for its innovative approach to engineering and construction, often leveraging advanced technology to improve efficiency, productivity, and quality of design, construction, commissioning, and handover of projects. For the Shaoxing Urban Rail Transit Line 1 project, HDEC faced the challenge of integrating with existing infrastructure assets, dealing with complex hydrogeological conditions, and coordinating with multiple design and construction disciplines, as well as governmental departments.
The Challenge
The Shaoxing Urban Rail Transit Line 1, the largest infrastructure project in the history of Shaoxing, China, was a complex undertaking due to its confined sub-surface envelope and complex hydrogeological conditions. The CNY 24 billion railway project was mainly underground, requiring the design to pass through a confined sub-surface envelope with the potential for leakage within foundation pits during construction. The project also had to integrate with existing infrastructure assets to serve commuter passengers within the city and connect with the city of Hangzhou along the Hangzhou-Shaoxing inter-city line. The railway passes through Shaoxing’s old town, which features narrow roads with large traffic flows, river courses, 26 bridges, two railways, and cultural and historical protection zones, making planning and traffic organization difficult. These challenges were compounded by issues with integrating the numerous technical interfaces used by the multiple design and construction disciplines, as well as the governmental departments in Shaoxing and Hangzhou.
The Solution
To overcome these challenges, POWERCHINA Huadong Engineering Corporation (HDEC) implemented intelligent design, construction, operations, and maintenance processes. They sought to maximize data potential and adopt advanced digital workflows by establishing an urban rail and transit engineering data center and unified construction management platform to digitalize all assets and processes throughout the project lifecycle. Leveraging Bentley’s open, collaborative design applications and iTwin technology, HDEC digitalized data and workflows to establish a digital twin. They used aerial photography and ContextCapture to create a 3D reality grid enabling them to more realistically visualize the landscape conditions, architecture, and road network that comprise the city. With ProjectWise as the foundation, they built an engineering digital collaboration and construction management platform that included all project data and models, providing a unified collaborative environment to manage and coordinate more than 20 participating units.
Operational Impact
  • The implementation of Bentley’s open, collaborative design applications and iTwin technology allowed HDEC to digitalize data and workflows, establishing a digital twin and a unified construction management platform. This facilitated urban spatial data collection and visual planning of the surroundings, minimized the impact on the citizens of Shaoxing, and facilitated synergetic design. The digital twin allowed HDEC to analyze construction in real-time, resolving more than 100 potential issues that could have negatively impacted the construction schedule and the cultural heritage of the city. By leveraging cloud computing, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT), and virtual reality in a connected data environment, HDEC has realized the full value and potential of its data to support improved decision-making. The successful experiences of this project can be replicated and applied to rail and transit construction in other lines and even other cities.
Quantitative Benefit
  • Shortened the design cycle by 20%
  • Saved CNY 12 million in design costs
  • Saved over 800 hours of field survey time

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