From Planning through Construction: Leveraging Virtual Design Construction (VDC) to Enhance your Collection System Project Delivery

From Planning through Construction: Leveraging Virtual Design Construction (VDC) to Enhance your Collection System Project DeliveryAbstractPurpose: The Virtual Design Construction (VDC) approach transforms infrastructure projects, especially those involving collection systems, showcasing its worth throughout every stage of execution, starting from planning and design through to construction. Benefit: This presentation serves as a primer for utilities, consultants, and contractors, offering insights into the VDC tools that can significantly enhance the execution of a collection system project. It also showcases case studies and highlights instances where these tools and processes have been successfully applied in DeKalb County's capital improvement collection system projects. DeKalb County and River To Tap (R2T) excel in utilizing integrated VDC techniques across the entire span of a collection system project. This allows for precise monitoring of progress against anticipated goals. The digital assets generated in the planning, design, and construction stages smoothly transition into operations, guaranteeing the peak performance of the infrastructure assets. Integrated VDC techniques utilized throughout multiple phases of recent collection system projects: - Drones to collect aerial photogrammetry for routing analysis and optimization (Planning, Design) - Laser scanners to develop point clouds of existing facilities and structures (Design) - 3D models transitioned into REVIT and Civil 3D environments to generate contract documents (Design, Construction) Reverse Gwinnett Flow Project: The Reverse Flow Project was initiated to establish a regional conveyance solution along the boundary between DeKalb and Gwinnett Counties, redirecting current sewer flows from Gwinnett County back to DeKalb County. The project encompassed the design of several lift stations (1250gpm, 450gpm R2T 2; AtkinsRealis 3SourceProceedings of the Water Environment FederationDocument typeConference PaperPublisherWater Environment FederationPrint publication date Apr 2024DOI10.2175/193864718825159407Volume / Issue Content sourceCollection Systems and Stormwater ConferenceCopyright2024Word count17