Leveraging Bentley’s
Digital Twins Applications Saved over Half a Million Work Hours, Reducing
Carbon Emissions by 51,000 Tons
Breda
Kiely, Product Marketing Manager, Bentley Systems
Breda Kiely is a product
marketing manager at Bentley Systems. Since joining Bentley in 2019, she has
worked as part of a team of global product marketers focused on Bentley’s
transportation solutions, civil engineering, mobility simulation product lines.
Breda has over 20 years’ experience in B2B marketing, developing, and executing
global marketing strategies and campaigns for aerospace, healthcare,
manufacturing, and green energy organizations. She holds a bachelor’s degree in
economics and finance from the University of Limerick and a master’s degree in
digital marketing from University College Dublin.
A Modern Connectivity Marvel
As part of Indonesia’s
strategic plan to improve governance and achieve its 2045 vision of becoming a
developed country, Nusantara will become the archipelago’s new green capital
city. Promoting economic transformation, tourism, smart sustainable transport,
and renewable energy, the city’s success is largely dependent upon road and
highway connectivity. To meet connectivity demands, PT Wijaya Karya (WIKA) has
been tasked with delivering several sections of the new highway network. Having
already completed their portion of the first phase of the toll road from
Balikpapan to Samarindra, WIKA’s team is now working to deliver the final
57-kilometer roadway section. Upon completion, the new transport infrastructure
will reduce travel times from Balikpapan City to Nusantara’s Central Government
Core Area (KIPP) from two hours to 30 minutes.
WIKA
was tasked with constructing a Section 3B within Nusantara Toll Road to support
highway connectivity, critical to the success of Nusantara. Image courtesy of
PT Wijaya Karya (Persero) Tbk.
In addition to delivering
the toll road, featuring three long-span bridges, two helipads, two toll gates,
and a seven-kilometer pile slab, WIKA is also building the East National Axis
Road (Axis Road) located at the end of the toll road in the KIPP. The Axis Road
includes two bridges and a multi-utility tunnel that will connect the
presidential complex to the Mangrove Forest Ecological Park through open,
landscaped spaces. It will provide service for integrated public transport,
emission-free electric vehicles, and pedestrians anywhere within 10 minutes.
Together, all these
connectivity initiatives comprise the IDR 4.5 trillion smart transport
infrastructure project that will serve as Nusantara’s main access point,
integrating the Indonesian community and transforming it into a strategic,
innovative, and resilient global economic hub. “This connectivity emerges as a
modern marvel with revolutionary features, encompassing everything from
continuous charging lanes to the autonomous rail transit,” said Rizky Yusuf
Ramadhan, BIM infrastructure coordinator at WIKA. To facilitate the safe
passage of animals roaming the area, the modernized transport network also has
a wildlife corridor.
Challenging Topography and Multidiscipline Coordination
Despite the favorable
location of Nusantara in the center of the Indonesian archipelago amid lush
rainforest surroundings, the topography and geology consists of hilly terrain
with soft soil and clay. “Currently as global warming intensifies heavy rain,
this generates risks in slope landslide for soft soil properties,” explained
Ramadhan. Compounding these site challenges is the existing infrastructure that
must be circumvented when designing and constructing the toll road. There are
10 critical transmission towers that had to be avoided along the corridor. At
the same time, WIKA needed to orchestrate 33 work packages for the Axis Road
and coordinate multiple disciplines and stakeholders.
At the beginning of the
Nusantara development, the project teams used software that proved insufficient
and misaligned with achieving Nusantara’s smart, eco-friendly vision. Given the
dynamic nature of the transport design and construction works, WIKA recognized
the need for a collaborative, digital, model-based approach. “We realized that
we need [an] open BIM and digital twin solution to overcome the significant
challenges and gain advantage,” said Ramadhan. They wanted to utilize
integrated civil engineering applications and establish a connected modeling
environment and digital twin to digitalize delivery of the toll road network.
Developing an Open, Integrated Digital Delivery Solution
“WIKA chose Bentley’s open
solution and its interoperable capabilities, as well as iTwin technology, to
develop a digital delivery system,” explained Ramadhan. They initiated a
collaborative design and construction management strategy, as well as
established a connected digital ecosystem and digital twin based on Bentley Infrastructure
Cloud—which includes ProjectWise and SYNCHRO—along with iTwin, OpenRoads,
OpenBridge, PLAXIS, and OpenTunnel. Working in a cloud-based, connected digital
platform supported transparent coordination among all participants and
stakeholders throughout the lifecycle of the project.
The
digital twin solution reduced design errors by 80% and Co2 emissions by 51,000
tons. Image courtesy of PT Wijaya Karya (Persero) Tbk.
Using iTwin Capture
Modeler, WIKA processed 500 hectares of aerial survey data to create a reality
mesh of the existing project area, then used OpenRoads to design the roadway
and OpenBridge to manage the massive structural data. With Bentley’s iTwin
applications, they performed model reviews, developed digital project
dashboards and a digital twin, and visually monitored project progress and
performance in real-time via sensor data uploaded to iTwin IoT. Leveraging AI and
the digital twin, WIKA was also able to monitor the diversity of ecosystems
along the corridor to support biodiversity conservation goals. By equipping
site engineers with iPads and mobile devices, the on-site crews had visual
insight and a better understanding of the design intent prior to beginning
construction works. “This work culture will push the project forward,
developing new technology and adding new dimensions of BIM and digital twin
development across the entire lifecycle,” said Ramadhan.
Digitalization Sets Benchmark for Sustainable City
Development
Bentley technology enabled
WIKA to create alternative engineering solutions to mitigate risk during design
review and increase contractual cost through value engineering that improved
the commercial impact of the project by 12%. By using iTwin Capture, the team
increased the speed, accuracy, and consistency of data processing by 100%,
while Bentley’s civil applications helped accelerate design iteration by 35%
and increase the structural safety factor by 0.231, fulfilling residual safety
requirements. OpenRoads helped reroute the alignment to avoid the transmission
towers and facilitated aquaplaning assessment to ensure safe and comfortable
travel in all road conditions. Working in a collaborative digital environment
accelerated workflows by 50% compared to previous methods and facilitated clash
detection to reduce design errors by 80%. “With the use of Bentley software, we
saved a total of 667,708 or 8.2% work hours,” said Ramadhan.
Using Bentley’s open BIM
and digital twin technology, WIKA created their first standard operating
procedure for digital delivery of infrastructure, supporting a sustainable,
eco-friendly transport network and a smart, green city. “Based on the iTwin
embodied carbon calculation, we saved 51,000 tons of CO2 emissions, equal to
USD 1.6 million in social costs of carbon,” stated Ramadhan. WIKA is now
developing a structural health monitoring system integrated with Bentley’s
iTwin IoT software that will be installed across all Nusantara critical
infrastructure. The success of Nusantara’s highway and connectivity initiatives
form a new chapter in technological advancement and sustainability towards
Indonesia’s Golden Vision 2045. “This Nusantara Toll Road will be a benchmark of
digital delivery for next connectivity; Indonesia’s first immersed tunnel is in
[the] research phase, estimated at IDR 10 trillion [and] 1.5 kilometers long,”
concluded Ramadhan.
iTwin
Capture increased processing speed of 500 hectares of aerial survey data by
100%. Image courtesy of PT Wijaya Karya (Persero) Tbk.
Project Summary
Organization: PT
Wijaya Karya (Persero) Tbk
Solution:
Roads and Highways
Location: Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
Project Objectives:
• To deliver a 57-kilometer
Nusantara Toll Road serving as the main connectivity point for Indonesia’s new
eco-friendly capital city of Nusantara.
• To leverage AI and
digital twins to support sustainable city development initiatives.
Project Playbook: Bentley LumenRT, iTwin
Capture, iTwin IoT, MicroStation, OpenBridge, OpenRoads, OpenTunnel, PLAXIS,
ProjectWise, SYNCHRO
Fast Facts
• Indonesia’s new purpose-built
Nusantara capital city promotes economic transformation, tourism, smart
sustainable transport, and renewable energy for the nation.
• WIKA was tasked with
constructing a Section 3B within Nusantara Toll Road to support highway
connectivity, critical to the success of Nusantara.
• Upon completion, the new
Nusantara toll road network will reduce travel times from two hours to 30
minutes.
ROI
• iTwin Capture increased
processing speed of 500 hectares of aerial survey data by 100%.
• Using Bentley’s open
digital technology shortened the schedule by 25% and saved over 8% of work
hours.
• The digital twin solution
reduced design errors by 80% and CO2 emissions by 51,000 tons.
• Working in Bentley’s
connected digital ecosystem improved data exchange processes by 80%.
CALLOUT QUOTE: “Bentley’s digital
delivery approach helps us to achieve the commissioning target by June 2024,
shortening the schedule by 25% faster than planned.” – Rizky Yusuf Ramadhan,
BIM Infrastructure Coordinator, PT Wijaya Karya (Persero) Tbk
