Airport Link design team receive highest honour in Bentley awards

The team responsible for the design of the Brisbane Airport Link projects - the Parsons Brinckerhoff and Arup Joint Venture (PBAJV) - received the ‘Special Recognition Award for Sustaining our Society’ at the Bentley 2012 Be Inspired Awards on 14 November in Amsterdam.

Regarded as the highest honour of the awards program, the Special Recognition Award recognises outstanding achievement in infrastructure projects said to represent both excellence and innovation in a way that is emblematic of Bentley’s mission of sustaining infrastructure.

PBAJV was a finalist in the individual award categories of Innovation in Roads and Connecting Project Teams for its entry for the Airport Link, Northern Busway (Windsor to Kedron) and Airport Roundabout Upgrade projects. Only projects that reach the finalist designation for each category were eligible for a Special Recognition Award.

The $5.6 billion road and infrastructure project is one of the largest in Australia’s history, requiring a collaborative effort to deliver 1500 separate design packages and more than 35,000 design drawings. Over 1000 PBAJV team members worked more than one million hours to design the project and provide construction phase support, drawing on their local and international skills and resources. Specialist design professionals were mobilised from around the world to form a highly effective delivery team.

Bentley solutions that were used for the design include MicroStation, MXROAD, InRoads, Structural Modeler, and gINT, and ProjectWise project collaboration document control.