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News Release from: Bentley Systems
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Team on 29 August 2006
HDR wins 2006 BE award
HDR ProjectWise implementation named top project in "Civil: Managed Environment" category.
HDR, an architectural, engineering, and consulting firm ranked No 17 among ENR's 2006 Top 500 Design Firms, has won a 2006 BE Award for its implementation of ProjectWise
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 30 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The award category was "Civil: Managed Environment." 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 honour 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.
Distributed work sharing is one of the keys to HDR's business success.
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Here, the firm found that moving drawings and documents over e-mail and FTP poses unacceptable risks that files will be overwritten or corrupted.
The average cost to regenerate a single drawing is approximately $1350 and a single miscue could affect a set of 75 sheets, leading to a total loss of $100,000.
To overcome these and other challenges, HDR implemented the ProjectWise system of collaboration servers as its primary document management system.
"ProjectWise has added considerable value to HDR's production processes and has also considerably enhanced the quality of our work," said Rick Llewellyn, director of systems, HDR.
"In an expanding, multiple-service business like HDR, producing plans and specifications can be a daunting challenge".
"ProjectWise provides a framework for work sharing and workload balancing that perfectly matches our distributed production model." Continued Llewellyn, "ProjectWise facilitates transparent access to documents when project teams are spread across multiple locations".
"As a result, HDR engineers can now access their critical documents from a client's office, from an HDR office they are visiting, or from home." ProjectWise is also serving as a framework for implementing HDR's comprehensive CAD standards, which follow the firm's engineers from location to location.
Moreover, engineers can work on projects and jump from one client standard to another.
Realising that CAD technicians are overwhelmed with complicated choices, HDR has automated those choices and forced the automatic control of settings based on the project folders from which a drawing is selected - improving work quality.
To date, ProjectWise, which serves roughly 3500 HDR staff in more than 80 locations, has reduced rework problems by 50 percent or more per location.
HDR estimates its time savings from the use of ProjectWise total at least 40 hours per project start. Request free introductory details about products from Bentley Systems ...
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