Located in the Scottish Highlands, Inverness Airport Station will be an unstaffed, two-platform station with step-free access adjacent to the airport. It will also house 64 vehicle parking spaces with 10 electric charging facilities and four disability spaces, plus cycle and bus parking. AECOM was tasked with designing and constructing the station and needed to ensure that the project stayed on schedule and within the project budget. With repair and maintenance costs accounting for a major part of this investment, they sought a solution to help achieve the client’s goals and ambitions.

AECOM used Bentley applications to create a digital library to undertake option studies. The approach, which enabled the creation, storage, and reuse of client-approved design components, dramatically reduced the time needed to design a building. These parametric project components can also be reused on future projects, leading to additional significant savings, and enabling AECOM to better quantify time associated with 3D modeling activities.