Industry Sectors
ENVsupport has extensive experience in the renewable energy sector and is aware of the many problematic areas in EARLY project development where oversights often arise.
Below are the Industry sectors that ENVsupport has been involved with at some time or another along with some of the main issues that have arisen in the projects, also where early phase-relevant 3D Modelling has been used to effectively minimise problems being carried forward and avoid negative consequences.
Grid Substations
have multiple interfaces that can become issues depending on what discipline area you are focused on.
Civil issues can be the excavation of the site platform or the practicality of an access track for equipment.Environmental issues can be effective screening or deforestation.
Electrical issues can be aligning substation equipment positions with a realistic and practical Overhead Line (O.H.L.) or cable connection.Wayleaves can have issues in limiting the number of landowners that become involved when trying to fit a site into a specific area.
Wind Farms
have their own screening issues given the normal heights that turbines are. The length of the larger component parts such as blades and towers can also create issues when transporting to site as over sail on the transportation routes can sometimes require major modifications to road systems.
Solar Farms
have a low profile in the terrain, but the area that they can sometimes cover may create visual intrusion to the local community
Gas Engines
much like Solar farms are lower profile in the terrain but again can have issues regarding visual intrusion, platform excavation and practical access tracks
Overhead Lines
(O.H.L.’s), because of their necessary height cannot be hidden completely but with using 3D Modelling you can minimise the visual intrusion in populated areas that could be effected by a new O.H.L. route.
Cable Routes
although hidden underground can still be impacted by local terrain features. 3D Modelling of terrain can highlight potential ground problem areas that can lead to alternative routes.
Proposed Housing
and Building Developments can be difficult to imagine what it will look like in its location. There are a few ways that 3D Modelling can present this depending on what you are trying to show…..
Simple Block Models
can be used if you just want to assess the general visual intrusion of the development as viewed by the local community. The model represents the area and heights of individual buildings as coloured blocks with each height shown as a different colour.
This type of modelling, done early, can simulate the relevant envelope of the development and is the easiest, therefore most cost effective, ways to show what impact the development has….Alternatively…..
Detailed or Customised
modelling can be used if you want to assess the aesthetic compatibility with surrounding buildings. A more detailed building can be modelled which can be viewed for compatibility from all sides.
All of the above can be modelled quickly and economically making it suitable for optioneering and validating designs early in the development process………Please feel free to Contact Us for more information and support.