KOPEC's Nuclear Power Plant Project Honored with BE Award

KOPEC, a leading engineering firm specializing in the
design and construction of power plants, used Bentley's PlantSpace to
design a Korean nuclear power plant. It was the first time a Korean
nuclear power plant had ever been designed completely using 3D
software. The project won KOPEC a BE Award for the Shin-Kori Nuclear
Power Plant in Korea. The award category was "Plant: Multidiscipline
Engineering."
The BE Awards of Excellence, which are selected by an independent
jury of industry experts and presented at an evening ceremony during
the annual BE Conference (www.be.org), honor the extraordinary work of
Bentley users improving the world's infrastructure. These projects set
benchmarks for their industries, and showcase the imagination and
technical mastery of the organizations that created them. This year's
BE Awards of Excellence ceremony takes place May 22 in Charlotte, N.C.
KOPEC is the prime contractor providing architectural,
engineering, and other services for Kansai Electric Power Company's
Shin-Kori Nuclear Plant Unit 1 and Unit 2. The plant is being
constructed on the southeastern coast of the Korean Peninsula.
KOPEC employed an engineering workflow based on the use of a
single 3D plant model that improved design accuracy and consistency
while reducing design and construction costs. As KOPEC's JikLae Jo,
engineering group supervisor for Shin-Kori Unit 1 and Unit 2,
explained, "Modeling the entire plant in 3D saved a considerable
amount of time. The 3D model was used to automatically generate
orthographic and isometric drawings with minimal effort."
Continued Jo, "We reinvested the time that was saved by increasing
the detail of the model and spending more time checking it for
potential interferences and other issues. We also developed a standard
3D design management workflow that provides real-time communication
among project engineers to manage the design work throughout the
project lifecycle."
The Shin-Kori units are two-loop, light-water-moderated and cooled
pressurized water reactor systems rated at 2,825 megawatts each, with
electrical output of 1,000 megawatts. Each unit includes about 3,300
pieces of equipment, 250,000 feet of piping, and 54,000 supports.
Using Bentley's MicroStation, PlantSpace, and the TriForma
extension for MicroStation, KOPEC modeled all piping, equipment,
structural, and architectural elements and brought them together in a
single model. Component information was entered into the PlantSpace
database and used to track all of the project materials. Even the
individual pipe supports were modeled and entered into the 3D model
using Support Manager. The PlantSpace Model Control System was used to
control access to the various components in the model, allowing
hundreds of engineers to work simultaneously on the single 3D model
without conflicts.
Added Jo, "We selected Bentley for the modeling tools used in this
project because Bentley provides the most powerful platform for
designing large plants as a single 3D model. For example, the Model
Control System makes it easy to enforce our standard design procedures
for the production of isometric drawings, piping layout drawings, and
stress analysis for the various units of the plant. Likewise, the
Interference Manager provides a powerful tool that automates clash
detection."
For more information on KOPEC's winning project and all of the
other 2005 BE Award projects, visit www.be.org/2005beawardwinners. For
more information on the Bentley products used in this project, visit
www.bentley.com/Plant.

About Korea Power Engineering Company

The Korea Power Engineering Company (KOPEC), a leading engineering
firm specializing in the design and construction of nuclear and fossil
fuel, is headquartered in Yongin, Korea. Over the past 30 years, the
company has joined the ranks of world-class nuclear power companies by
designing and building - using its own technology - a total of 14
nuclear power plants, including the APR1400 next-generation nuclear
power plant.
The company has also made substantial contributions in the area of
fossil power plants, having designed and built more than 40 coal power
plants and combined cycle and cogeneration plants. The Poryong and
Taean Thermal Power Plants, which KOPEC built, had the honor of being
selected as the world's best power plants by Electric Power
International in 1996.
KOPEC is firmly committed to continuously improving the safety and
economical viability of nuclear power based on technical know-how and
manpower resources developed through designing every single nuclear
power plant in Korea. It also has made significant contributions
toward environmental protection by becoming the world's first business
to develop the low-temperature DeNOx catalyst. For more information,
visit www.kopec.co.kr.

About the BE Conference

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satisfaction rating, is a once-a-year learning opportunity for Bentley
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attendees better themselves, better their organizations, and better
the ways they can improve the world's infrastructure.
For more information on BE Conference 2006, taking place May 21-25
in Charlotte, N.C., go to www.be.org.

About Bentley

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of the world's infrastructure. The company's comprehensive portfolio
for the building, plant, civil, and geospatial verticals spans
architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) and operations. With
2005 revenues of $336 million and more than 2,000 colleagues around
the world, Bentley is the leading provider of AEC software to the
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