Black & Veatch Pritchard Adopts Jacobus PlantSpace and MicroStation; Major EPC Company Embarks on Rapid Implementation for Gas Processing Project.GAITHERSBURG, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 17, 1997--Jacobus Technology, a strategic affiliate of Bentley, today announced that its PlantSpace(R) family of software products has been adopted by Black & Veatch Pritchard, Inc. (BVPI BVPI Best Value Performance Indicator ), for plant design and engineering of a major international natural gas processing Natural gas processing plants, or fractionators, are used to purify the raw natural gas extracted from underground gas fields and brought up to the surface by gas wells. The processed natural gas, used as fuel by residential, commercial and industial consumers, is almost pure project. Following an in-depth pilot program - in which the BVPI team modeled an entire unit of the proposed plant in a record two weeks - the company cited major advantages in ramp-up time, ease-of-use, and overall productivity. The announcement was made yesterday in Houston at a Jacobus seminar attended by plant professionals. "Our company has an impressive success record of on-time project completions, executed within budget constraints A Budget Constraint represents the combinations of goods and services that a consumer can purchase given current prices and his income. Consumer theory uses the concepts of a budget constraint and a preference ordering to analyze consumer choices. ," says Kerry Erington, project manager at BVPI in Overland Park, Kansas Overland Park is the second most populous city in the U.S. state of Kansas. It is located in Johnson County, a satellite city of Kansas City, and is near Olathe, Lenexa, Prairie Village and Leawood. In 2006, the estimated population is 167,500. . "I'm convinced that the PlantSpace 3D system is going to help us set new standards for product delivery and quality." "We were required by our client to deliver the project in MicroStation format; we also wanted to have a full plant modeling system to do the job if proven effective," continues Erington. "From our pilot design, we found PlantSpace to be outstanding - both for ease of training and implementation and for overall productivity. We are reasonably confident it will be successful." The pilot project was a 30-day experiment that began with four days' training in MicroStation(R) and four days' training in PlantSpace. The BVPI team simulated a job from start to finish, modeling piping and equipment, interfacing with structural steel software, and performing interference checking and resolution. The team performed project review using PlantSpace(R) Enterprise Navigator(TM) and produced the full range of reports and deliverables, including isometric isometric /iso·met·ric/ (-met´rik) maintaining, or pertaining to, the same measure of length; of equal dimensions. i·so·met·ric adj. 1. piping drawings, orthographic or·tho·graph·ic also or·tho·graph·i·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to orthography. 2. Spelled correctly. 3. Mathematics Having perpendicular lines. and section drawings, line lists, valve lists, and equipment lists. Modeling for the pilot required only two weeks and encompassed 50 to 60 pieces of equipment and 60 to 70 lines; deliverables extraction took one week. "I was impressed with the fact that - with just a few days' training - we were able to go to work designing on-the-fly," says Chuck Liveley, lead for piping design at BVPI. "Equipment modeling was by far the quickest we've ever done; for example we built six skids Skids can refer to:
BVPI purchased over 60 seats of PlantSpace Design Series products and 60 seats of MicroStation, as well as copies of PlantSpace Enterprise Navigator and PlantSpace Integration Tools(TM) and training services. BVPI commended Jacobus and Bentley for providing excellent training, support, and documentation for the pilot. A major benefit lies in being able to perform automatic material takeoffs at any time in the 3D process. The company's ability to meet client needs is greatly enhanced, especially in the area of materials control, since materials can now be tightly trimmed down to cut costs. "Our piping and equipment designers are very positive about PlantSpace," says Erington. "We can now provide a better product to our customers." About Black & Veatch Black & Veatch specializes in the power, infrastructure, process, and buildings sectors and provides complete engineering, procurement, construction, telecommunications, architectural, financial, information, and management consulting Noun 1. management consulting - a service industry that provides advice to those in charge of running a business service industry - an industry that provides services rather than tangible objects services for utilities, commerce, industry, and government agencies worldwide. Black & Veatch employs approximately 7,000 professionals in more than 90 offices worldwide. Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City is the largest city in the state of Missouri. It encompasses parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest in Missouri, which includes counties in both Missouri and Kansas. is the headquarters for the 82-year-old partnership. Revenues in 1996 were $1.4 billion, with over $2 billion projected for 1997. BVPI is the world leader in the design of sulfur recovery facilities and has been offering full engineering and construction services to the hydrocarbon hydrocarbon (hī'drōkär`bən), any organic compound composed solely of the elements hydrogen and carbon. The hydrocarbons differ both in the total number of carbon and hydrogen atoms in their molecules and in the proportion of hydrogen industry since 1920. The company has worldwide experience in sulfur recovery, gas processing, refining, liquefied natural gas liquefied natural gas: see under natural gas. Liquefied natural gas (LNG) A product of natural gas which consists primarily of methane. Its properties are those of liquid methane, slightly modified by minor constituents. (LNG LNG (liquefied natural gas): see under natural gas. ), chemicals, and revamps. It has carried out more than 35,000 assignments in 350 countries for 6,000 plus clients, including all major oil companies. About Jacobus, a Strategic Affiliate of Bentley Jacobus Technology, Inc., provides software products and services to the 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 plant operations communities, with concentration on the process and power industries. Maker of the PlantSpace line of object-oriented software, based on JSpace(TM) architecture, Jacobus is regarded as the premier life-cycle solutions provider by plant owners/operators and engineering/construction firms worldwide. The company provides applications for computer-aided plant design and engineering, 3D real-time design review, project management, information management, and global engineering on the Internet and corporate intranets/extranets. Jacobus is a strategic affiliate of Bentley Systems Bentley Systems, Incorporated, provides software for the "Design, construction and operation of the world's infrastructure". The company’s software serves the building, plant, civil, and geospatial vertical markets in the areas of architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) , Incorporated. Jacobus Technology can be reached -- By telephone at 800-724-8741 or 301-926-0802 -- By FAX at 301-926-2313 -- By email at info@jacobus.com On the World Wide Web at http://www.jacobus.com About Bentley and Bentley Strategic Affiliates Bentley Systems, Incorporated is a worldwide leader in engineering software and user services. Its products are proven at over 70 percent of the largest U.S. engineering firms and are the software foundation of well-known buildings, roadways, machines, and industrial plants around the world. Bentley Strategic Affiliates provide project services and the world's best and most interoperable The ability for one system to communicate or work with another. See interoperability. engineering applications to Bentley users. Bentley's Strategic Affiliate program involves an intense technical and business collaboration with, as well as corporate investment in, a select number of focused, luminary developers. More information about Bentley and Bentley Strategic Affiliates is available at http://www.bentley.com . -0- PlantSpace is a registered trademark, and Enterprise Navigator, Integration Tools, and JSpace are trademarks of Jacobus Technology, Inc. MicroStation is a registered trademark and Bentley is a trademark of Bentley Systems, Incorporated. Other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners. CONTACT: Cissell Consulting Jackie Cissell, 205/536-2822 jcissell@hiwaay.net |
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