NEW TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION
Ground Replacement
with Bentley MX and
Machine Control
Martens en Van Oord
In the northern Netherlands, new residential, recreational, and nature areas will surround a lake being carved out of the earth
by Dutch contractor Martens en Van
Oord. Creating the lake of eight square
kilometers will require moving 4. 5 million cubic meters of sand, clay, and peat.
The project also calls for building 20 kilometers of dikes and providing space for
1,500 houses.
and the project’s
design is often curving
and non-linear. ;
Approximately 50 earthmoving machines are
being used on this project; a number are
equipped with GPS machine control systems.
3D information is transmitted to these
machines directly from designs created with
Bentley MX software. Most of the earthmoving activities are done without any stakes,
NEW TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION
Dubai Autodrome
MERS UK / WSR Ltd.
Using MX lets MERS UK / WSR more effectively define the key features of a motor racing
circuit, such as grade, crossfall, and direction.
Additionally, the designers can now be more
imaginative in the technical definitions of
traction and flow. These features, combined
in the right mix, are key to a good, technically challenging racing facility. ;
For this project, MERS UK / WSR implemented Bentley MXROAD to meet its design
needs, such as FIA speed profile requirements for k values, civil engineering needs of
other subconsultants on the project, and
landscaping restrictions imposed by the site.
The use of MXROAD reduced labor needs,
including a 75 percent reduction for profile
defining, by allowing the incorporation of
rules linked to speed simulation software to
automatically restrict k values on the centerline, racing line, and track extents.
