123BIM & Road Safety Audit 3D

Congratulations to our client Legendary Marina Blue Water Cay for their new venture, Blue Water Cay, a multi-million-dollar marina in Nassau.

123BIM technology was utilized to illustrate not only the new driving dynamics but communicate these complexities to virtual

community stakeholders. Here’s the story . . 

FDOT D5’s PM Eliode Joseph and PHD’s Jitesh Gajera engage Councilmember for Cocoa District 4 Lorraine Koss and the SR 520 project using the 123BIM model.

• Howell Branch Rd / Hall Rd and SR 426 (Aloma Ave.) Intersection
• SR 370 (Gulf Coast Parkway) Segment 8 New Alignment Located in Bay County, FL

From NTP to Public Hearing, utilizing the visual assets of the 123BIM model became an integrated part of the workflow and provided additional inter-agency and consultant communications for design progress meetings and stakeholder understanding.

The primary purpose was to use the 123BIM model to create driver’s eye videos and to show the public how to navigate a Diverging Diamond Interchange. An additional component, real time Vissim traffic data, was added and included with no deadline penalty.

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Time was short, the solution complex and both the Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) and stakeholder approval was critical to keeping the project on track.

With schedules tight, and client in-house resources stretched, 123BIM was invited to deliver rapid design visualization to not just augment the process already well underway, but deliver a solution focused on communicating complex engineering design solutions to the stakeholder public at the upcoming Public Hearing.

In 2018 Real Image Solutions (RIS) introduced 123BIM to Florida transportation agencies, engineering firms

and communication teams across Florida, and showed them how to implement 123BIM into the workflow

of FDOT and CFX.

Road Safety Audit 3D is an innovative analytic technology that tackles the

engineering challenges we face using a truly revolutionary approach to Road Safety.

It has long been said that a picture paints a thousand words. What if you could not just paint (render) a picture, but explore, analyze, collaborate and experience a project as a living document?

Customers have questions, you have answers. Display the most frequently asked questions, so everybody benefits.

What about Bob?  Not the movie character about a successful psychotherapist driven to distraction by an obsessive-compulsive patient, but Bob from a local community fretting at your public involvement meeting that his house or neighborhood is going to be paved over due to a proposed highway expansion.  Click the image to read more.

Case in point: When my team presented at a public involvement meeting, we were certain we had won over the audience . . . until someone mentioned a proposed 3-foot-high ornate retaining wall.  All they heard was wall, and it didn’t help that our design images didn’t include a visual of the wall. We returned a few weeks later with an image that not only showed the wall, but a crowd-pleasing design in full context, which they unanimously approved. Click the image to read more.

Located on U.S. Highway 1, the same highway that starts in the Florida Keys and ends in Maine, Red's Eat's is arguably the most popular lobster shack in Maine.

Built in 1947 in what is now considered an awkward highway right of way, people from around the nation flock to the Wiscasset restaurant. During high season it’s common to see lines of customers wrapped around the building and down the sidewalk, and on weekends, approximately 25,000 vehicles a day drive on U.S. Highway 1 through the tiny town.

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Do leaders recognize themselves in those whom they lead? Do they remember what it’s like to be under someone’s supervision and the influence that leader yields? 

There are many well-written posts on the value of good leadership, but I wonder if leaders understand what it really means to listen, to invite honest feedback, and to celebrate the courage of those who take that risk. 

Several years ago, while speaking to my then middle school-age son, I gave him my opinion regarding a particular situation and how he handled it. It was obvious he was tuning me out so I asked him what was he thinking and invited him to be honest. To my surprise he respectfully said I needed to stop lecturing him and to lighten up. 

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The Central Florida Expressway Authority (CFX) is designing the extension of State Road 538/Poinciana Parkway. The extension is being designed in two segments. Segment 1, from Ronald Reagan Parkway to south of US 17/92, and Segment 2, from south of US 17/92 to County Road 532, are expected to improve traffic flow and operations in the area.   

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