UCD’s Three More Projects Win Tien-yow Jeme Civil Engineering Prize

Recently, the 20th Tien-yow Jeme Civil Engineering Prize was disclosed. Of 89 countrywide outstanding projects winning the prize, the Beijing Daxing International Airport Line with UCD undertaking its overall design and participating in its construction, the 1st phase of Wuxi No. 3 Metro Line with UCD participating in its design and the 1st phase of Nanning No.3 Rail Transit Line with UCD undertaking its survey all won the prize.

China Civil Engineering Society (CCES) established the “Tien-yow Jeme Civil Engineering Prize” in 1999 and awarded the prize for twenty times successfully. The prize has been the most influential and the most authoritative scientific and technological innovation prize in the civil engineering filed in China.

Beijing Daxing International Airport Line

Starting in the south from the Beijing Daxing International Airport and reaching Caoqiao in the north, the Daxing International Airport Line is as long as 41.36 kilometers. Open to traffic in September 2019, the line has been the first urban express subway line in China with its maximum operating speed per hour reaching 160 kilometers and city type D car adopted. It is the first fully automatic operating system express subway line constructed in China in accordance with the connectivity standards as well as an airport line providing the highest level of services.
In terms of plans and schemes, scientific research, general contracting and design and construction, UCD gave play to its advantages to participate in the project construction and innovated on the new airport line planning and design concepts. To meet the demand that it take half an hour to ride from the central city to the Daxing International Airport as provided in the plan, UCD put forward the multi-dimensional airport express line planning and design concepts in line with functional positioning, speed target, rail connection, service standard，station and airport integration to boost the construction of the airport express line into the first line of China.
Since its completion, the project has won 12 awards including National Quality Engineering Gold Award and ministerial and provincial awards for scientific and technological progress, 12 survey and design awards, 21 patents for invention, 115 utility model patents, 7 provincial and ministerial construction methods, 5 codes of practice, 5 monographies and 3 software copyrights.

1st Phase of Wuxi No.3 Metro Line

Starting in the north from Sumiao Station and reaching Shuofang Airport Station in the south, the 1st phase of Wuxi No.3 Metro Line stretches a total length of 28.5 kilometers and is a subway backbone in constructing Wuxi into a regional transportation hub city. The line was open to traffic in October 2020.
UCD undertook the design of 3 stations and 6 sections, FAS/BAS, comprehensive monitoring, AFC, and escalator/screen door system for Wuxi No.3 Metro Line. The project team adopted the “color pipeline” design concept and used 8 colors to fractionize pipelines of specialties and functions to forge an urban “underground rainbow”. The team compiled the Wuxi Rail Transit Network AFC System Standard, successfully adopted the “Big Reader” program in the engineering and realized the successful separation of the system ticketing rules from the selling and checking terminal equipment “host computer”, simplifying the structures and levels of the Wuxi metro network AFC system.

1st Phase of Nanning No.3 Rail Transit Line

As a backbone line running through the northwest and the southeast of Nanning, the 1st phase of Nanning No.3 Rail Transit Line (Keyuan Avenue—Pingle Avenue) stretches a total length of 27.9 kilometers, with 23 stations, 1 car depot and 1 parking lot set up. The line was open to traffic in June 2019, further satisfying the need of strategic expansion of “improving the river north area and enhancing the river south area with importance placed southward” of Nanning.
UCD undertook the design of all tracks, 4 stations, 5 sections, 1 station and 1 parking lot (entrance and exit lines included). At the Pingliang Flyover Station (formerly Pingle Avenue Station), “T” node is adopted for transfer, with entrances and exits for 7 stations and entrances and exits for 5 commercial areas set up in all, being in a position to realize the rapid connection between stations and neighboring areas. The functional layout of the parking lot is reasonable, providing the demonstration effect for the “economic and reasonable” concept of engineering construction. In addition, UCD also undertook the survey and groundwater control of the line, and developed the “Urban Rail Transit Geotechnical Engineering Investigation Technology System of Nanning” to stop the gap in regional urban rail transit investigation technology standard.