The life-cycle information management practice of Shanghai Yangtze River Tunnel and Bridge Project

摘要

Shanghai Yangtze River Tunnel & Bridge Project is an extra-large transportation infrastructure project that is an important part of the express way from Shanghai to Xi'an. The completion of this project will improve the structure and layout of transportation system in Shanghai, speed up the regional economic integration of the Yangtze River Delta, better promote the economic developments of the Yangtze River area and even China overall, and enhance overall economic competitiveness of Shanghai within China. The project starts from wuhaogou in Pudong, crossing Yangtze River South Channel waterway by tunnel to Changxing Island and spanning Yangtze River North Channel waterway by bridge to the Chongming Island, The total length of the project is 25.5 km long, within which the length of the tunnel is 8.95 km (the length of river-crossing is 7.5 km), and the length of the bridge is 16.63 km (the length of river-crossing is 9.97 km). There are many difficulties of a huge river-crossing project, such as large scale, large investment, long construction period, complex technologies, multi-parties involved, high risk and long site locations.,etc. Then information management has become the effective method for construction and operation management for such a project. For this, overall life-cycle information management was set as the target, the project information management system, construction information management system, operation information management system are established to effectively manage all the in formations from project management, design, construction and operation of such an extra-large project, that have effectively improved the efficiency and quality of the construction and operation of the Shanghai Yangtze River Tunnel & Bridge Project.