Atkins BIM strategy for Liverpool wastewater treatment works

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Posted on: 16 January 2013
By: mackene
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As part of the United Utilities Process Alliance, the Galliford Try Costain Atkins Joint Venture at Liverpool, Atkins have used BIM to help deliver significant cost and safety benefits on the development of a new wastewater treatment facility being constructed adjacent to the existing Sandon Dock site.  Directed by the GCA board of Directors to employ a Building Information Modelling strategy for the detailed design and construction of the £130 million project in April 2012, and with commencement of the implementation phase imminent, project detail designers had to quickly develop a strategy which could deliver sufficient aspects of BIM to enable the joint venture to achieve BIM Level 2 competency. The strategy was to adopt 3D modelling to drive the project forward in a Collaborative and Integrated method. In essence, the GCA approach was to get the right information to the right people at the right time and in the right format in order to foster a working environment in which, various BIM applications could be demonstrated at given opportunities in the design and construction process.

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