Bechtel Uses Bentley ProjectWise in India's JER Project
 HOUSTON,
Texas (daratechPLANT2007), January 30, 2007 – 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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