Wind Farms & Renewable Energy

Wind Farm Access Roads and Pad Design

Our software gives you power to do more. An easier way.

RoadEng Civil Engineer with Softree Optimal allows you to design access roads, pad sites, and platforms (balance of plant). It allows you to perform a wide variety of engineering functions without a steep learning curve. Quickly create designs, optimize and calculate earthwork quantities, then easily export to machine control.

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Optimal Road Locations Between Turbines

Powered by Path Explorer AI.

Quickly explore potential road locations for your wind farm road network, accounting for constraints like max grade,  min cut / max fill, no-go zones, high-cost zones, and crossing costs. 

Easier Access Road Design

Full geometric design for access roads in a fast, easier-to-use design environment. Get constant feedback from real-time window interactivity. 

 

Pad & Platform Design

Crane pad and site design made easy with intuitive grading functions and site design tools, including the calculation of quantities.  

Earthwork Optimization

With earthwork costing data as you design, you can adjust your design based on cost. Compare costs for design alternatives. Know preliminary construction costs before you build.

Use earthwork optimization to automatically find the lowest-cost vertical alignment design that satisfies your design constraints & standards. Vertical optimization on its own typically brings down construction costs by 10-30% or more.

 

Easy Output Sheet Generation

Easily share and communicate your design with Multi-Plot Report Builder. Print out plan, profile, and cross-section data as one document. 

Or export to a wide variety of industry standard formats, including LandXML, DWG/DGN and more!

Customized Cross-Section Template

RoadEng’s flexible template editor allows you to assemble typical sections using a library of customizable components.

Easily create a tailored template for your wind farm projects, including ditches (drains), cable trenches, sub-base materials, varying lane widths, cut slopes, variable height fill slopes,  etc.

“McElhanney discovered “RoadEng” while looking for an easier way to deliver resource based road designs. Years ago, we tested the software with immediate success, going from watching training modules on the weekend to project delivery without delay in the following weeks.

Since that time, it has quickly become a companywide standard tool for the design of linear based projects including resource roads, construction access, pad design, pipelines, pedestrian trails, etc. We regularly us it to manage large LiDAR base plans, conceptual engineering, earthworks balance, and preparation of final drawings (plan-profile-cross sections-mass haul). We believe its greatest strengths are how easy it is to learn and fine-tune design alignments. The ability to have the plan, profile, cross section, and mass haul open at the same time provides a great visual aid for designers which leads to more effective designs. The addition of “Optimizer” provides valued engineering for large projects based on a wide range of criteria by automating the process. The Softree team is friendly and provides great support.”

-- Jason Paquette, AScT, Senior Technologist, McElhanney Consulting Services Ltd

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