BIM gets the pipes laid

摘要

Almost 400m of very large diameter, fabricated steel and ductile iron pipework has all been completed using Building Information Modelling (BIM) on the ￡200M project to upgrade United Utilities' (UU) Liverpool Wastewater Treatment Works. The work was carried out by UU AMP5 Process Alliance partner GCA, the Galli-ford Try, Costain and Atkins joint venture. BIM had to be used because any onsite cutting was forbidden due to the coating on the fabricated steel pipework. Therefore the installation contractors were anxious that such a large diameter network, often running to hundreds of metres with fixed points, could be laid without major on site modifications.