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Consulting engineering is a very different experience in different parts of the world. Producing functional civil engineering designs in emerging markets can prove especially difficult when consulting fees are heavily discounted and timeframes are tight. Sometimes producing the most efficient design or creating stunning visuals is simply not possible without rethinking one’s approach to engineering design and modelling.​

Following on from our last webinar which focused on digitalization for road design optimization with OpenRoads Designer, we are delighted to host a session based on a project from one of our most experienced OpenRoads users  in South Africa.​

Warren McLachlan, an engineer in the Roads and Highways Function of SMEC South Africa, will show us how you can get the most out of your design experience and produce detailed visual presentations without breaking the bank or creating unnecessary delays.​

In this webinar, we will showcase

Session 3: November 29

  • Getting started when you have little to work with – either no survey or a poor quality one.​
  • A library of assets – creating reusable assets on one project to speed up production on future projects.​
  • Using the dgn file format as a platform for Digital Engineering models built up from multiple sources.​
  • Producing stunning visualizations with ease – planning your design and quantity model for multiple purposes.​

    The following Bentley software will be showcased:​
  • ContextCapture​
  • OpenRoads Designer/ MicroStation​
  • LumenRT​

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Webinar Presenters

Warren McLachlan-1

Warren McLachlan

Professional Engineer ​

SMEC South Africa (Pretoria)

Warren is a registered Professional Engineer with almost ten years of experience in the field of transportation engineering, specialising in the geometric design of roads and highways and traffic planning and engineering. He has an honours degree from the University of Pretoria in Transportation Engineering. He has a passion for new technologies, learning, and teaching others. ​

Working in the broad field of Transportation, Warren has experience in designing highways, BRT routes, NMT facilities, and freeway interchanges. His experience in traffic engineering includes capacity analysis, corridor master planning, signal design, and traffic microsimulation. ​

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Bassil Johnson-1

Basil Jonsson

Operations Director

South African Road Federation

Basil has worked in various technical roles in the Southern African Road Construction and Civil  Engineering industry since 1980. 

Skilled in Operations Management, Road Safety, Road Construction management, Bitumen and Asphalt technical experience, and Contract Management. Strong operations professional with a Higher National Diploma Civil focused in Civil Engineering from Durban University of Technology as well as Marketing and Market Research qualification from UNISA.

Basil has served as a director of the Global Road Safety Partnership South Africa as well as the South African Bitumen Association, and the Road Safety Partnership South Africa. 

Tsholo Txumalo

Tsholo Nxumalo ​

Senior Civil Consultant  Transportation

Bentley Systems 

Senior Civil Consultant with 16 years’ experience in the design, construction and project management of Infrastructure Projects. She has worked for various consulting companies in South Africa prior to joining Bentley Systems.

Tsholo joined Bentley Systems in 2015 where she has applied her experience in assisting engineers around the globe with civil design workflows, best industry practices and making sure that they realise the full potential of the Bentley design tools.
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Sergio Cediel

 

Sergio Cediel

Product Sales Engineer

Virtuosity

Sergio is a Civil Engineer with a Master in Hydrology and Water Resources Management with 7 years of experience in infrastructure projects.​ His involvement as a design engineer and project manager assistant in some of the most important international road and railway projects has given him the capacity of understanding the design workflows within an infrastructure project for the different stages of design.​ 

As a product sales engineer at Bentley’s Virtuosity Sergio helps companies and professionals of infrastructure design across EMEA to improve the quality of their projects through the digitalization of their workflows. ​