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Subsurface Utilities Integration with OpenRoads Design Workflows
JP Gauthier , Bentley Systems Inc.
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Why 3D Utility Models?
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Why 3D Utility Models?
• Constructability – 3D models facilitate efficient workflows for utility coordination:
– Dr. Ralph Ellis and Dr. Randolph Thomas, as part of NCHRP 2-24(12), found that the top five causes of construction delays were:
1. Utility Relocation Delays
2. Utility Delays due to differing site conditions
3. Permitting
4. Weather
5. Errors in Plans and Specifications
– Virginia DOT credits SUE with helping to reduce the time needed to design
highways from 5 years to 4 years.
– Florida DOT analyzed the use of SUE on major projects in Tallahassee and
Miami and found that it saved $3 in contractor construction delay claims for
every $1 spent for subsurface utility engineering
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What is Subsurface Utility Design and
Analysis?
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Drainage DesignSubsurface Utility Engineering
• Conflict
Management
• SUE Attribution
• Storm/Sanitary
Hydraulic
Analysis and
Design
• Hydrology
• 3D Modeling of
all underground
• Integrated with
OpenRoads
Subsurface Utility Design and Analysis
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Create 3D Models from Survey Data
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Utility Models from Survey
• “Survey” means anything located in the field and represented graphically after processing.
– Land Survey
– Geophysical methods such as SPAR and GPR
– Paper records reduced to graphics
• Utility profile defined by:
– The survey information (3D graphics)
– Drape on terrain at assumed depth
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Utility Models from Survey Data
• Insert Durham Park Extract Graphics Video.
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Create 3D Models from External Data
Sources
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Build Hydraulic and 3D Models from External Sources
• Direct Import from:
– StormCAD, CivilStorm, SewerCADSewerGEMS (.stsw)
– SWMM V5
– LandXML
– MicroDrainage
– GEOPAK Drainage
– InRoads S&S
• MX Drainage
• Using Model Builder link/import from:
– Microsoft Excel
– Microsoft Access
– Text Files (.csv, .txt)
– ESRI (.shp)
– Bentley Map
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Utility Models from GIS
• Make a new recording and augment dataset to retrieve some utilities from SHP.
• Manufacture a SHP file for GAS.
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Design New and Relocated Utilities
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New Utilities
• For relocation or extension
• Uses same workflows as existing utilities
• Except there is usually an additional step of designing a profile.
• Trench design defined by ITL template.
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Utility Models for New and Relocated Utility Lines
• Insert Durham Park Proposed water Video.
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Automatically Create 3D Models While
Laying out Networks
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Layout Drainage Network
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Modeling Storm and Sanitary Networks
• Inlets, headwalls and catch basins ruled to OpenRoads geometry and surfaces.
• Pipes ruled to the nodes.
• Multi-pipe profile runs
• Hydraulic properties linked into feature definitions.
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Best Practices - Layout
• If you don’t know how to use Civil Accudraw, put it on your training list. It will make your life easier and OpenRoads more powerful
• When connecting pipes to headwalls, remember that the direction determines whether the headwall is an inlet or an outlet.
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Catchments (Drainage Areas)
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Layout Catchments
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State of the Art Drainage Design
Calculations
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Storm/Sanitary Product Functions
• StormCAD – Rational Method storm water design and analysis (HEC 22)
– Included in OpenRoads for networks up to 100 inlets
• SewerCAD – Gradually varied flow sanitary sewer design and analysis package
• CivilStorm – Storm water management and dynamic modeling
• SewerGEMS – Complete storm and sanitary sewer modeling analysis and design package with geospatial integration. Superset of SewerCAD, CivilStorm and StormCAD.
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Storm/Sanitary Product Functions
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Peak Flow Analysis and Design
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Peak Flow Hydraulic Analysis/Design
• Included with OpenRoads - drainage networks up to 100 inlets.
• StormCAD GVF calculations engine.
• 3D Model updates with design changes.
• Includes latest HEC-22 methods.
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Scenario Manager
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Scenario Manager
• Scenario Manager provides unlimited variation of design parameters with complete confidence that known good alternatives can be recalled at any time.
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No Sumps Video
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Cross Drains (Culverts)
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Culvert Design / Analysis
• Perform Culvert Analysis by flipping the “Is Culvert” switch in properties to True
• Define inlet coefficients on conduit or the end node
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Video Culvert
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Advanced Hydraulic Calcs
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Video SWMM
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Activating Advanced Hydraulic Analysis Tools
• StormCAD functionality for up 100 Inlets included in OpenRoads.
• 100 inlet count applies per drainage design model. Split multiple networks across multiple models for longer projects.
• Activate higher level licenses from Tools Menu.
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SWMM Analysis
• Using EPA SWMM analysis allows validation of a peak flow design
• Network is analyzed for the entire storm event, not just the peak flow.
• Available in CivilStorm and SewerGEMS
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Higher Level License Highlights
• StormCAD Unlimited – Same functionality as base OpenRoads but unlimited inlet count.
• SewerCAD
– Adds Convex compute engine
– Sewer Loading tools
– And more…
• CivilStorm
– Adds Dynamic Wave and SWMM compute engines
– Pond Maker tool
– Compute Storage in network
– Low Impact Development structures (LIDs)
– And more…
• SewerGEMS – All the above and more, such as long term simulations
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Questions (that I can answer)?
JP Gauthier Bentley Systems Inc.