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The CE News Webcast Series consists of sponsored, online presentations for the CE News and cenews.com communities about timely topics affecting the business of civil engineering.
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Webcasts are fully synchronized visual and audio presentations streamed over the Internet. These online events may provide interactive features such as desktop presentations for product demonstration, and interactive real-time polling, surveys, and a question and answer tool. After registering for the free webcast, you will receive an email with a URL link to join the presentation at the specified date and time.
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ARCHIVED CE NEWS WEBCASTS:
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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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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⇒ New! 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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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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Overcoming our Infrastructure Deficits - Innovations in Planning and Design
Better Planning with Information Modeling
Wednesday, May 11, 2011, 1:00 pm ET/12:00 pm CT/10: 00 am PT
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is creating a cultural shift in infrastructure planning and design workflows. Increasingly, geospatial professionals working on transportation, utility, and other infrastructure projects are being asked to integrate BIM models with GIS data to more directly represent the as-built structure and better leverage “GIS ready” design data. This session will present how design and GIS professionals can take advantage of data aggregation, integration and standards to create more accurate drawings, designs and maps; make better design decisions by evaluating existing conditions more effectively; distribute and exchange information in different ways; and more.
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Delivering success: One year early and under budget
April 28, 2011 at 2:00 pm ET/ 1:00 pm CT/ 11:00 am PT
The Middletown-Norwalk Project was at one time the largest transmission capital project in the country and the first application of program management in the power delivery industry. Burns & McDonnell, a full-service engineering, architecture, construction, environmental, and consulting solutions firm, was tasked to help deliver this project one year ahead of schedule and significantly under budget. Learn how Oracle Primavera’s Enterprise Project Management solutions — which Burns & McDonnell chose to assist with this challenging project — provided the tools to manage scheduling, document control, costs, and resources to achieve amazing project success.
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Are Vacuum Sewers Your Answer?
NEW! Approved provider by the Florida Board of Professional Engineers, Provider Number #0005288
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
For many years, gravity sewers were the only choice engineers had when considering a wastewater collection system. This changed 40 years ago when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency challenged the industry to develop alternative collection systems by providing special funding for such endeavors. One such system is vacuum sewers. This webcast will present the theory of operation, key system components and design considerations unique to vacuum sewers. Advantages of the technology and where it is applicable will be presented by a consulting firm involved with multiple vacuum systems in a variety of settings. Finally, brief case histories of several vacuum projects will be presented.
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Overcoming Our Infrastructure Deficits – Innovations in Planning and Design
The Infrastructure Lifecycle: Challenges and Solutions
Thursday, March 31, 2011
It’s a global, trillion dollar problem: Roads, sewers, utilities and other infrastructure are in a critical state of disrepair. With limited fiscal and human resources it is vital for infrastructure project stakeholders to collaborate and find innovative approaches to deliver projects faster, more economically, and more sustainably. This webcast kicks off a series of presentations that elaborates on the challenges public and private infrastructure professionals face and will discuss how we can design, assess, construct, and manage projects in a different way than ever before. Attendees will see how model-based workflows and design tools play a key role in supporting these new approaches to reduce risks, costs, and timelines.
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CE News hosts two types of webcasts. For one type, industry experts are invited by CE News staff to present; sometimes presenters are users of the sponsor's product or service. Sponsors are not invited to participate in the presentation. CE News staff review the content in advance, ensuring that it meets our standards. This online presentation option is well suited for delivering information about industry trends, best practices, project case studies, and more.
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