About Movares
Movares is an engineering consultancy providing solutions in the fields of mobility, infrastructure, building and spatial planning. With some 1.400 members in their professional staff, Movares operates throughout Europe. From the initial studies and the earliest planning phases to the design and execution of projects and on through to management and maintenance, Movares is 'Giving shape to mobility'.

About the project
This project is the winner of Category 4: Industrialized Planning of the Nemetschek Engineering User Contest 2011, it concerns a new fly-over at the 'Kerensheide' junction. The fly-over has a length of approximately 590 m and a width of 17 m. There are 11 sections which span up to 57,2 m.

During the design process of the fly-over, the BIM concept was applied to gain savings in costs and time in the building phase. This implementation consisted of the engineer, contractor and rebar company coming together and making agreements on what information is needed and how that information can be exchanged. In practice this resulted in reusing design information and speeding up the process, all based on one 3D Allplan model.

The fly-over was modelled with Allplan using plain solids for the abutments, foundations and columns. The deck was modelled using a Bridge/Civil Engineering object. For the creation of the template rebar drawings (BIM) the rebars were modelled for one foundation block and pillar.

During the detailed design phase Scia Engineer was used for determining the force distribution of the deck construction, the abutments, the pillars, foundation blocks and piles. In the building phase Scia Engineer was used for optimizing.

Because of the integrated approach from preliminary design to building design, the integration between Allplan, Scia Engineer and prestressing software as well as close cooperation between engineering consultancy, contractor and reinforcement company, savings in costs and time have been achieved.

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To be able to use a profile section or vertical alignment in the "Bridge/Civil Engineering Component Modeller" of Allplan, you need a .lpr file. This .lpr can be created automatically using a digital terrain model, but if you don't have one, this can also be done manually by means of a coordinate file. The manual method is more flexible, but during the intermediate step to convert the coordinate file in a .lpr file, it is necessary to use Excel 2007 (or higher). Because this procedure depends on the version and settings of Excel, Scia has developed a new tool: Create LPR.

With this tool, the coordinate file is converted at one go into a .lpr file that can be used directly in the "Bridge/Civil Engineering Component Modeller".

Step 1: Create LPR	Step 2: Log Data	Step 3: Input File	Step 4: Output File

1. "Select input file (*.re1)":
• click on […] to choose a coordinate file (.re1): the default Allplan I_O-folder will be opened
• select the coordinate file (it is also possible to convert multiple .re1 files simultaneously: drag-and-drop a selection of files into this field)

2. "Generate output file":
The coordinate file will be converted automatically into a .lpr file (the .lpr file is created in the same folder as the .re1 source file).

In the bottom part, there are three tabs with additional information:
• Log Data: overview of the actions executed by the program
• Input File: the content of the coordinate source file
• Output File: the content of the created .lpr file

On our website in the FAQ section you can find the full procedure in the step-by-step: creating horizontal and vertical alignment, for use in the "Bridge/Civil Engineering Component Modeller".