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UPCOMING CE NEWS WEBCASTS:

The Journey of a Roadway Project - A BIM for Infrastructure Webcast Series
Create with Vision: BIM for Infrastructure on the South Fraser Perimeter Road Project
Thursday, May 31, 2012, 1 PM ET/12 PM CT/10 AM PT
Join us in a conversation with technology manager David Kasha of Stantec and learn how their organization implemented BIM on a large infrastructure project, the South Fraser Perimeter Road (SFPR) project, a Public Private Partnership funded project near Vancouver, B.C. Stantec provides professional design and consulting services in planning, engineering, architecture, surveying, and project management for infrastructure and facilities projects and have been using Building Information Modeling (BIM) for building and facility design for over a decade. In this conversation with Mr. Kasha, we will examine how the execution of the modeling and production work was strategized even before project work began. And, we will also discuss how the initial planning needed to consider the dynamics of a BIM workflow within this type of project delivery structure.
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GIS + CAD - The Best of Both Worlds
Tuesday, June 19, 2012, 2 PM ET/1 PM CT/ 11 AM PT
Join industry experts from Esri and PenBay as they discuss how GIS can be used to integrate and extract knowledgeable information from CAD drawings and other geospatial information. Learn how to use ArcGIS as a foundation for more sustainable and cost effective facilities management.
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The Bentley Civil Infrastructure Webcast Series:
Replacing The Katrina-Damaged I-10 Twin-Span Bridges
Tuesday, May 8, 2012, 2:00 PM ET/1:00 PM CT/11:00 AM PT
Integrated design efforts were required across multiple project teams and locations during a six-year bridge replacement project to repair and replace old structures severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina along an 11-mile I-10 corridor connecting New Orleans, New Orleans’s Ports, and the petro-chemical industry along the Mississippi River. This included an approximately 5.5-mile-long twin-structures bridge. This project was completed ahead of schedule and $53 million under budget, while meeting the goals to provide better storm protection, safe accommodation of six traffic lanes, enhanced barge collision resistance, and utilization of materials and techniques to provide for a low-maintenance and long-service life.
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Bentley Civil Presents...
Part 2: Leveraging LiDAR Data in Transportation Design
Wednesday, December 7, 2011, 2:00 PM ET/1:00 PM CT/11:00 AM PT
In today’s economy and with accelerated project schedules, we are all looking for ways to reduce costs and increase production. One of the technologies helping to provide the improvements we need is laser scanning. Point cloud or LiDAR technology continues to improve in acquisition, interpretation and in usability to meet engineering needs. This webcast is a follow-up to the previous webcast “From Point Clouds to CAD Deliverables“ showing practical application of point clouds for engineering using Bentley Civil applications.
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⇒ Click here to take the webcast quiz for your certificate of completion. You will need to log into the Continuing Education website. Locate the webcast on our Professional Development page, complete the quiz and submit your answers. Your quiz answers will be graded automatically. If you answer at least 80 percent of the questions correctly, you can immediately download a certificate of completion and will be awarded 1.0 professional development hour (equivalent to .1 continuing education unit in most states).
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Bentley Civil Presents...
Part 1: From Point Cloud to CAD Deliverables
Wednesday, November 30, 2011, 2:00 PM ET/1:00 PM CT/11: 00 AM PT
This webcast will demonstrate techniques for assessing the quality of imported point cloud data and the subsequent extraction of CAD deliverables. Quality assessment procedures will focus on establishing and confirming lineage back to survey network control. Specific quality metrics will be explained and measurement methods demonstrated. Following quality assessment, the majority of the presentation will focus on processing techniques for identifying and extracting high quality deliverables from point cloud data. The focus of the demonstration will be in the area of Civil-Transportation. Specific tools for the identification and extraction of breaklines, road surfaces, features and assets into CAD models will be demonstrated. The final extracted CAD deliverable will be a complete high quality digital terrain model (DTM) developed for downstream engineering and design processes.
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Overcoming our Infrastructure Deficits - Innovation in Planning and Design
Better Infrastructure Management with Information Modeling
Thursday, September 22, 2011, 1:00 pm ET/12:00 pm CT/10: 00 am PT
After a road, highway, water or utility infrastructure project is constructed, the owner faces the challenges of maintaining the asset to maximize the capital invested. Having a precise and consolidated view of the infrastructure and related assets is crucial for efficient maintenance and improvement operations. Further, timing matters: planning what data will be helpful and how it should be presented early in the project lifecycle can help designers deliver exactly what the owner needs later. This session will discuss how the consolidation of historically disparate stores of CAD and GIS data into a single view can help public agencies and private firms make better and faster operational decisions.
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Overcoming our Infrastructure Deficits - Innovation in Planning and Design
Infrastructure Projects: From Design Coordination to Completion
Thursday, August 11, 2011, 1:00 pm ET/12:00 pm CT/10: 00 am PT
Better communication between project stakeholders means reduced errors and omissions and increased ability to build projects on time and on budget. During the construction phase of road and highway projects, collaboration and communication between design and construction teams are critical to success. This session will focus on how engineering and construction firms can use the BIM process and rich 3D models to help them gain greater visibility into a project, develop deeper insights into constructability, and identify and resolve issues virtually before breaking ground. We’ll discuss how high-quality, accurate 3D models and visualizations for bid proposals, regulatory review, and public approvals can help firms win more work, keep stakeholders informed, and accelerate time to construction.
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Overcoming our Infrastructure Deficits - Innovations in Planning and Design
Infrastructure Projects: Optimizing Designs Through Visualization
Thursday, July 28, 2011, 1:00 pm ET/12:00 pm CT/10: 00 am PT
During the design phase of road and highway projects, design teams need to quickly create, analyze, and present design options that meet established goals for performance, safety, and cost. This webcast will present solutions for more efficiently creating and exploring multiple design alternatives, performing analysis to guide decision making, and creating high-quality exhibits and visualizations for stakeholder reviews. We’ll expand on how the dynamic information model serves to make design changes efficient yet accurate, facilitating the exploration of design alternatives. And, we’ll show how project visualization helps to communicate design proposals quickly to project stakeholders and the public, actions crucial to the success of almost any roadway project.
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Overcoming our Infrastructure Deficits - Innovations in Planning and Design
Site Development: Planning for Sustainability
Thursday, June 23, 2011, 1:00 pm ET/12:00 pm CT/10: 00 am PT
Selecting the best location for new infrastructure and building projects, especially with today’s attention to sustainable development, has never been more important. In this session, we’ll focus on the significance of knowing not only where to build, but also where not to build an infrastructure or building project. We’ll show attendees how to effectively integrate and analyze information about floodplains, environmentally sensitive areas, land use, transportation data, and more to create more accurate base maps of the project area and make smarter site selection decisions as part of the BIM process.
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Overcoming our Infrastructure Deficits - Innovations in Planning and Design
Roads & Highways: Planning Ahead
Thursday, June 2, 2011, 1:00 pm ET/12:00 pm CT/10: 00 am PT
Effective planning for roads and highways ensures their safety, efficiency and effectiveness, and minimal environmental impact. This presentation will show how geospatial data — such as information about parcels, existing roads, traffic data, and road conditions — can be accurately integrated into the BIM process for more effective analysis and better design decisions. We’ll discuss how team collaboration can be improved with clear and concise maps and exhibits. Planning, GIS, and civil engineering professionals will see how they can effectively access, integrate, and analyze disparate data to better assess and present project impacts, and help get projects approved faster.
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