Bechtel Corporation, one of the world's premier engineering,
construction, and project management companies, is using Bentley's
ProjectWise system to collaborate on the Jamnagar Export Refinery
Project (JERP) in India. In both scope and complexity, the project
rivals many of Bechtel's previous exceptional accomplishments,
including Hoover Dam, the Channel Tunnel, and the Trans-Alaska
Pipeline. JERP has a plot plan bigger than that of London and a target
completion time of less than 36 months.
Bechtel is tackling this megaproject using engineering resources
dispersed around the globe, including a design and engineering team of
2500 professionals in 10 design locations, 19 offices, and eight
countries. In total, the project will employ more than 90,000 people
during construction and call for the fabrication and installation of
109,170 metric tons of steel, about five million meters of varied size
pipe, more than 4000 pieces of major equipment, and more than 110,000
isometrics.
Connecting People and Information Across the Enterprise
To successfully complete a project this vast in scope and widely
distributed in so little time, Bechtel knew it would need
unprecedented network connectivity, document access, and document
control. The collaboration solution Bechtel selected for its 2D CAD
file management was Bentley's ProjectWise.
As described by Bechtel senior project personnel, "In our
decentralized model, technology that supports work sharing is
absolutely vital. The business must be able to reliably move attached
pieces of work around the globe. Different pieces of engineering must
be integrated and linked seamlessly, even though the work is occurring
in multiple locations. ProjectWise helps make this possible."
Nearly 1000 users in nine locations are employing ProjectWise to
ensure that more than 50,000 drawings are available to the correct
discipline at the correct location. With ProjectWise, the drawings can
be worked on collaboratively, enabling designers in one location to
view the results of design teams in other offices almost immediately.
This means Bechtel can rapidly distribute the project work to the
different locations in a much more granular way - by unit, by
discipline, and even by drawing - as the needs of the project dictate.
A key advantage realized by the project team is the ability to
search for and find all files that were changed in the last week, and
to cross reference the location of the files found with the location
of the person who last changed them. This enables the JERP team to
regularly reassess and redistribute their project content, optimizing
productivity and reducing network traffic.
Joe Croser, global marketing director, Bentley platform products,
commented, "This application of knowledge gained through querying a
document's history enables Bechtel's team to redistribute the content
to 'follow the skill' as the design process iterates towards
construction."
Data Reuse an Added Benefit
JERP is an expansion of the refinery that Bechtel built some 10
years ago for Reliance Industries. Once completed, this new project
will roughly double the size of the original Reliance Industries site,
creating the world's largest refinery complex.
Using ProjectWise to track and manage data, Bechtel has been able
to facilitate the reuse of more than 25 percent of the design and
engineering information generated during construction of the original
facilities. This has proved to be critically important in meeting the
project's aggressive timescale.
In addition, Bechtel has been able to use ProjectWise to
coordinate and collaborate with Reliance Industries on the procurement
of equipment and systems for the new facilities that match, as closely
as possible, the equipment and systems used in the existing refinery.
In many cases, reengineering has been required, which ProjectWise has
also facilitated. The end result has been major time and money savings
during construction, with significant and continued savings
anticipated during operations.
About ProjectWise
ProjectWise is a system of collaboration servers that enables
distributed enterprises and related organizations to successfully
deliver infrastructure projects. Its core capabilities allow users to
manage, find, and share CAD and geospatial content.
About Bechtel Corporation
Bechtel Corporation is one of the world's premier global
engineering, construction, and project management companies, with more
than a century of experience on complex projects in challenging
locations worldwide. Privately owned with headquarters in San
Francisco, the company has 40 offices around the world and nearly
40,000 employees.
Bechtel's project capabilities include roads and rail systems,
airports and seaports, fossil and nuclear power plants, refineries and
petrochemical facilities, mines and smelters, defense and aerospace
facilities, environmental cleanup projects, telecommunications
networks, pipelines, and oil and gas field development. Signature
projects include Hoover Dam, the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, the Kuwait
oil fires, the Boston Central Artery/Tunnel, Iraq reconstruction, the
Three Mile Island cleanup, Jubail Industrial City, Hong Kong
International Airport, and the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit
(BART). For more information about Bechtel, visit www.bechtel.com.
About Bentley
Bentley Systems, Incorporated provides software for the lifecycle
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
revenues now surpassing $400 million annually, and more than 2000
colleagues around the world, Bentley is the leading provider of AEC
software to the Engineering News-Record Top 500 Design Firms and major
owner-operators and was named the world's No. 2 provider of
GIS/geospatial software solutions in a recent Daratech research study.
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