Page 114 - 捷運技術 第56期

Journal of Rapid Transit System and Technology No.56
pp. 103-118, 2021 DOI 10.29670/JRTST.202110_(56).0006

Received June 08, 2020, accepted July 08, 2020, date of publication October 31, 2021

Application of MRT Underground Utilities

3D Automation Design Combined with BIM

LI CHEN , XINMIN DENG , CHIENMING LAI 2
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1 Engineer, Mass Transit Engineering Department, Sinotech Engineering Consultants, Inc.
2 Technical Manager, Mass Transit Engineering Department, Sinotech Engineering Consultants, Inc.
Corresponding authors: LI CHEN, E-mail: charlie@mail.sinotech.com.tw

ABSTRACT

Civil engineering design is complex. It includes a lot of professional interfaces and
is always lacking in investigated information during the detail in design stage. In
addition, such design should be adjusted efficiently in order to provide high quality
results and services due to various in-situ conditions during the construction stage.
Through the advancement of technology, engineering design analysis software and
modeling software have both been introduced simultaneously. The design process
has been switched from a 2D process to a 3D process, which is integrated with
BIM (Building Information Modeling), to provide better collaboration tools and
platforms for engineering design team members.

Public underground utilities are important infrastructures in cities. Urban water,
electricity, gas and telecommunication systems all rely on utilities for
transportation. Therefore, utilities play an important role in the city. Therefore, the
spatial configuration needs to be comprehensively integrated. In order to
effectively integrate and manage underground utilities, more importance must be
placed upon the spatial data construction of the underground utilities.

This article explains how Sinotech developed the SinoPipe 3D automation system,
imported new concepts, changed the previous operation process, and used the
investigate data provided by the survey company or 2D CAD drawings by
engineers to quickly check for clashing utilities, build 3D BIM models, generate
section base maps and quantities, significantly reduce the engineers’ operation
time, improve the design quality, and retain the utilities engineering information
one by one to facilitate subsequent maintenance and management.

Keywords: Underground Utilities, Automation, SinoPipe.