Continuum Industries

Design rules - FAQ

Adam Anyszewski

Lauren Scott

Fundamental building blocks of engineering, costing and planning logic that Optioneer uses to generate and evaluate options. 

Design Rules

How Optioneer identifies constraints, chooses the optimal path and informs users about obstacles and considerations along the way.

Design Rule: Environmental and Routing Constraints- Penalty Scores

How Optioneer detects crossings with linear features and what it does with that information.

Design Rule: Linear Feature Crossings

How Optioneer detects when it is following a linear feature and what it can do with this information.

Design Rule: Linear Feature Following

How Optioneer can 'look beyond the centerline' and report on important  features within specified catchments of the centreline.

Design Rule: Features within Catchment

How Optioneer identifies and counts land parcels to help inform about potential challenges with landowners and other stakeholders.

Design Rule: Count Land Parcels

How Optioneer minimise risk on the asset by avoiding undesirable gradients.

Design Rule: Slope Avoidance

How Optioneer calculates the distance to nearest feature in a geospatial layer, how to access this information and what you can do with it.

Design Rule: distance to Nearest

How Optioneer ensures that options keep away from buildings at specified, minimum distance. Relevant for safety reasons!

Design rule: keep minimum distance to buildings

How Optioneer can take account of being within a specified range of distance from a feature.

Design rule: distance / buffer ranges

Calculate How Optioneer incorporates installation costs and construction methods into the generation and evaluation of centrelines

Design Rule: Calculating CAPEX for Underground Onshore Assets

Common design rules (shared by all assets)

Overview of Optioneer's capabilities to support offshore cable projects.

Offshore cables - summary

How Optioneer ensures that the options generated present feasible route geometry.

Design rule: keeping within geometry requirements

How Optioneer ensures that it can avoid shallow sections or land outcrops when designing offshore infrastructure.

Design Rule: Avoid Land or Shallow Waters

How Optioneer can suggest suitable methods of cable burial and protection based on seabed type and other constraints.

Design rule: cable burial and protection

Offshore cables

Overview of Optioneer's capabilities to support onshore cable projects.

Onshore cables - summary

Onshore cables

Overview of Optioneer's capabilities to support water pipeline projects.

Water pipelines - summary

How Optioneer uses terrain data, flow requirements and costing inputs to include OPEX / TOTEX parameters in calculations.

Design rule: pumping requirements and costs

How Optioneer uses terrain data and flow requirements to ensure that gravity flow approach is feasible.

Design rule: gravity flow requirements

How Optioneer uses gradient limit parameters to design feasible 'sawtooth' profile for water pipelines.

Design rule: minimum and maximum pipe gradient

How Optioneer ensures that chambers are correctly placed and costed.

Design rule: air-valve and wash-out placement

How Optioneer ensures that pipelines have sufficient minimum cover and that earthwork costs are minimised.

Design rule: minimum cover and required earthworks

Water pipelines

Overview of Optioneer's capabilities to support onshore pipeline projects.

Onshore pipelines - summary

Onshore pipelines (excl. water) - hydrogen, CO2, LNG

Overview of Optioneer's capabilities to support overhead power line projects.

Overhead power lines - summary

How Optioneer minimizes line angle changes, determines types of anchor/tangent towers required and their numbers.