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News Release from: Bentley Systems | Subject: ProjectWise
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 31 January 2007
Vast refinery project undertaken with
Bentley
Refinery project in India has plot plan bigger than that of London and timescale of less than 36 months.
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
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 26 Jan 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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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.
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Bentley Systems has unveiled ProjectWise StartPoint, an entry-level collaboration tool, based on Microsoft Office SharePoint technologies, for MicroStation and AutoCAD users.
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Bentley Systems has released the newest version of its market-leading ProjectWise - a system of collaboration servers that enables distributed enterprises to deliver infrastructure projects.
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ProjectWise StartPoint, which was first developed to work with MicroStation V8 XM Edition, now supports AutoCAD 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2006.
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 decentralised 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 realised 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, optimising 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".
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. Request a free brochure from Bentley Systems ...
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