4D modelling has “significant results” on smart motorway

Balfour Beatty VINCI say 4D modelling as management tool on smart motorway project has achieved “significant results”.

Balfour Beatty VINCI, the joint venture working on a 10 mile stretch of the M5 between junctions 4a and 6, have said results from using 4d modelling to upgrade the motorway have had “significant results”.

The contract worth £45.4M involves installing electronic overhead signs and cameras and turning the hard shoulder into a running lane.

The joint venture used 4D modelling on major areas of the project which could affect the timescale of the works. The tool allowed the workers to understand more about the works sequence prior to starting on the site, reduce waste and inefficiencies, avoid operational and logistics clashes and mitigate health and safety risk.

Thanks to the innovative software, Balfour Beatty VINCI and Highways England were able to open a stretch of the M5 three and a half hours earlier than planning during a scheduled 12-hour closure, which avoided disruption for over 26,000 of road users on their morning commute.

Josh Hanson, Digital Project Coordinator for Balfour Beatty said, “This is the first time Balfour Beatty VINCI joint venture has used this software as a management tool, taking the technology beyond site safety and operational planning uses in to all aspects of our work including site inductions. This collaborative approach has also extended to planning meetings with Highways England, resulting in a more seamless working relationship on a complex and busy project”.

“This approach will now be rolled out to our other highways projects as well as other areas of the business”.

 

Balfour Beatty Vinci say that their use of the software broadened its scope to include day to day project management – taking the software beyond its standard operational practice.

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