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2012 Excellence in Infrastructure
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City of Gainesville Public Works
SW 6th Street Reconstruction Project
Gainesville, Florida
The City of Gainesville is planning to reconstruct a portion of the City’s SW 6th
Street to repair sidewalks, address broken or nonexistent curb and gutter sections,
create on-street parking, and construct raised, landscaped medians. The City’s
Public Works department is planning the scope of work for the project and its goals
include converting a typical intersection into a roundabout, adding left turn lanes
at another intersection where none are currently present, converting a failing,
unused road into a badly needed parking lot, reducing the overall impervious area,
and addressing lighting inadequacies.
To showcase its design proposal and
help gain both public support and funding
opportunities for the project, the City of
Gainesville Public Works used AutoCAD ®
Civil 3D ® software to generate project
visualizations. The City created a
detailed 3D model of its proposed
design and merged that proposal with
aerial photography of the corridor to
more quickly and cost-effectively
create digital renderings that helped
show the reconfigured roadway and
intersections in the context of the
existing city setting. The existing
aerial photographs and the conceptual
renderings of the proposed design are
being presented side-by-side, helping
the general public as well as public
officials more clearly understand
the proposal.
SC Engenharia, Moya Engenharia,
and Penido Construção
CEA Caçapava
Caçapava, São Paulo, Brazil
The CEA Caçapava (Centro Empresarial Aeroespacial) is a privately-owned aerospace
business center and real estate project located near São Jose dos Campos—Brazil’s
aeronautics industrial hub and home to the country’s largest aerospace and defense
companies. Currently under construction, the goal of the development is to house
aircraft production factories, maintenance services, parts sales and distribution
facilities, business jet and helicopter operations, and hangars for corporate, private,
and charter aircraft. The 2.5 million square meter development will include a 1,500-
meter runway and a heliport, as well as a hotel, banks, stores, and restaurants. The
design of the project is a collaborative effort involving SC Engenharia (Engineering),
Moya Engenharia (Engineering), and owner Penido Construção (Construction).
The team used AutoCAD ® Civil 3D ® software
to more accurately and efficiently
develop the infrastructure and site design
for this complex project. BIM-based processes
and intelligent models helped coordinate
the designs of the road system, the
airstrip and taxi ways, supply and drainage
networks, as well as site features such
as basins and watersheds. The team
relied on this 3D dynamic infrastructure
model to help identify and resolve
design interferences and automatically
update project documentation to
deliver a high-quality, detailed design.
2012 Excellence in Infrastructure
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