Bechtel Tackles One of Its Most Challenging Projects With Help of Bentley's ProjectWise.Refinery Project in India Has Plot Plan Bigger Than That of London and Timescale timescale Noun the period of time within which events occur or are due to occur timescale n → délais mpl timescale time (Brit) n of Less Than 36 Months HOUSTON -- 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 JERP Joint Emergency Response Protocol (UK) ) in India. In both scope and complexity, the project rivals many of Bechtel's previous exceptional accomplishments, including Hoover Dam Hoover Dam, 726 ft (221 m) high and 1,244 ft (379 m) long, on the Colorado River between Nev. and Ariz.; one of the world's largest dams. Built between 1931 and 1936 by the U.S. , the Channel Tunnel Channel Tunnel, popularly called the "Chunnel," a three-tunnel railroad connection running under the English Channel, connecting Folkestone, England, and Calais, France. The tunnels are 31 mi (50 km) long. There are two rail tunnels, each 25 ft (7. , and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Trans-Alaska Pipeline or Alaska Pipeline Oil pipeline running 800 mi (1,300 km) north-south across Alaska, U.S. Completed in 1977, it transports crude oil from the oil fields of Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic Ocean to an ice-free port at Valdez. . 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 fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. 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 isometrics n. Isometric exercise. . Connecting People and Information Across the Enterprise To successfully complete a project this vast in scope and widely distributed Adj. 1. widely distributed - growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution" cosmopolitan bionomics, environmental science, ecology - the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms 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 de·cen·tral·ize v. de·cen·tral·ized, de·cen·tral·iz·ing, de·cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To distribute the administrative functions or powers of (a central authority) among several local authorities. 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 San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , 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 The process of removing solid, liquid, and hazardous wastes, except for unexploded ordnance, resulting from the joint operation of US forces to a condition that approaches the one existing prior to operation as determined by the environmental baseline survey, if one was conducted. projects, telecommunications networks, pipelines, and oil and gas field development. Signature projects include Hoover Dam, the Channel Tunnel Rail Link The Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL) is a project to construct a 108 km (67 mile) high-speed railway line from London through Kent to the British end of the Channel Tunnel. , the Kuwait oil fires, the Boston Central Artery/Tunnel, Iraq reconstruction, the Three Mile Island cleanup, Jubail Industrial City, Hong Kong International Airport Hong Kong International Airport (IATA: HKG, ICAO: VHHH) is the main airport in Hong Kong. It is colloquially known as Chek Lap Kok Airport, due to the fact that it was built on the island of Chek Lap Kok by land reclamation. , and the San Francisco Bay Area “Bay Area” redirects here. For other uses, see Bay Area (disambiguation). The San Francisco Bay Area, colloquially known as the Bay Area or The Bay Rapid Transit rapid transit, transportation system designed to allow passenger travel within or throughout an urban area, usually employing surface, elevated, or underground railway systems or some combination of these. (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 AEC US Atomic Energy Commission Noun 1. AEC - a former executive agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States Atomic Energy Commission ) 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. To receive Bentley press releases as they are issued, visit www.bentley.com/bentleywire. For more information, visit www.bentley.com. To view a copy of Bentley's May 2006 Annual Report online, go to www.bentley.com/May2006annualreport. Bentley, the "B" logo, and ProjectWise are either registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated or one of its direct or indirect wholly-owned subsidiaries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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