Year In Infrastructure 2005

MANAGED ENVIRONMENT
Dubai Festival City
Dubai Festival City

has established a management structure comprising five divisions. Additionally, special-purpose companies are being established to operate the facilities upon completion. More than 100 consulting and contracting firms have been hired as of March 2005, including a number of major international firms.

A project of this magnitude generates vast amounts of correspondence and other project documentation. DFC selected Project Wise to facilitate document control and management. It is being used to manage drawings, correspondence, and contractor submittals. ;

The project, which has a forecast cost of $5 billion, is scheduled to be completed in 2012. At 1,600 acres, it is one of the largest private developments under construction in the world and represents a major management task.

The project is being developed using fast-track techniques with more than 15 project management teams working in parallel. DFC

MANAGED ENVIRONMENT

Greenwich Millennium
Village
Greenwich Millennium Village Ltd

Greenwich Millennium Village (GMV) is being developed by Greenwich Millennium Village Limited (GMVL). Construction started on the 60-acre site in late 1999 and the scheduled completion date is 2011.

The GMV master plan was to deliver an integrated, high-density urban community. The 1,377 mixed-tenure homes include affordable and shared-ownership units that are indistinguishable from the private homes. There will be a total of 2,950 homes.

The continuing evolution of iterative design ideas and interrelationships between the multiple files in the project are being handled using Project Wise. Its control of the constituent files has saved each consultant time issuing and distributing engineering

documentation. Uploading of the design information during the scheme and detailed design phases was followed by the project manager and the QS electronically signing off approved documents and the compilation of trade packages for construction. With all consultants and contractors now looking at a single source for information, this has improved communication in the design and construction process.

The managed environment also removed ambiguity from the CAD data. Through a holistic approach to CAD standards and automated entry of document names, a fully coordinated project dataset has been created, where the fact that consultants use MicroStation, AutoCAD, Vector Works, and Revit is irrelevant. ;