Novapoint Civil Construction

Face 3D echangeur - That is a road project made by a client on a
new important national road into the west of france, the RCEA
(Atlantique Center Europa Road)
The current release of the French version of Novapoint
(17.10) 7 is the result of an 18-month effort conducted
with the dedicated support from the head-office’s
development teams at Vianova Systems AS in order to
capture, analyze and implement French engineers’
requirements to conceive, design, build and maintain
infrastructural projects from A to Z.
Vianova Systems France SAS started releasing French
software solutions for civil engineers in 2007 7 and has
over 150 licenses deployed in 25 different accounts
today. Its turnover has been on approximately half a
million euros in 2008. Its team consists of half a dozen
civil engineers with specialized expertise in road and
railway design, geotechnical issues, noise propagation
analysis, urban development and environmental
issues, virtual reality, etc.
Only a year and a half on the French market and
Vianova’s solutions are already helping with the
designing of over 20 real-world projects. Amongst the
designers of these projects are County Councils, four
out of eleven regional offices (DIR) of the Ministry of
Transportation, ARCADIS and INGEROP, two of the
most important independent engineering consultants,
as well as several subsidiaries of the COLAS Group that
are the largest road construction group in the world.
A EUROPEAN CONTExT
The transportation sector in Europe is in fact one of the
largest (10% of the EU GDP) in terms of public and
public / private investments, as well as in terms of the
size of the private groups based in this region acting
worldwide, alike the number of people employed
(around 10 million). France enjoyed three private
groups ranked among the 10 largest in the world, e.g.:
Bouygues (#1), Vinci (#3) and Eiffage (#8).
The EC Directives have made the concept of a Trans-
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Plan Bordeaux - That was a tender to represent Bordeaux French
city on the web. We was on 3 last finalists, but there was not
enough web option for them. Good to create the model but to for
web interactions.
European Network (TEN) a reality, with common
guidelines for the infrastructures (norms), interoperability
(systems) and the services (deregulation) run
on top. The TEN is not only composed of roads, but of
railways, airways and waterways too.
The challenges are tough: Emission of pollutants
caused by 77,500
km of daily traffic jam should be
reduced by 50%. The freight transport by train should
be doubled from 8 % today to 15 %, vs. 40 % in the
US. And those are just some of the challenging tasks.
This development and harmonization effort is led by EC
Directives in the field of civil engineering. It opens
opportunities for solutions built from the ground-up to
address the common European requirements, as well
as to be customized to implement national specific
rules.
Vianova’s solutions in France are designed from knowledge
gathered in a European area with high population
densities, a transportation network inherited from history
and a tough relief configuration. Integration of
French rules is naturally being made continuously.
This is executed and maintained by Vianova’s team of
civil engineers in France in collaboration with the
French authorities in charge, like SETRA, CETE or
LCPC.
ASSESS INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS’ IMPACT
Under the Directive on the Assessment and
Management of Environmental Noise that was
approved in 2002, all EU Member States will have to
produce strategic noise maps every five years detailing
noise pollution from major roads, railways, airports and
industrial sites near urban areas.
The first maps were due in 2007. 7 In that context
Vianova’s solutions helped users in France with harmo-