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Engineering and Construction Firms “Going Digital” to Improve Project Delivery with ProjectWise CONNECT Edition

31.10.2016 1:00 Bentley Systems

For architecture, engineering, and construction firms active in project delivery, as well as for owner-operators, it is increasingly important to digitally share engineering models, project information, and deliverables with the entire supply chain throughout design, construction, and completions. Firms that are going digital are significantly reducing project delivery time and are gaining better insight into project performance, ensuring collaboration among project participants, streamlining design processes, and improving data quality and governance.

ProjectWise CONNECT Edition provides a connected data environment, and enables firms going digital with managed access to project information and essential project services including deliverables management, issues resolution, BIM review, and field data management.

Mike Schellhase, senior director, software development, Bentley Systems, said, “Our users are going digital. They want to share project information with secure information mobility to connect their supply chain and give project stakeholders insight into project performance. Using our digital project delivery capabilities, our users are developing repeatable best practices, improving quality deliverables and winning more work.”

Firms active in project delivery are benefitting from ProjectWise’s digital project services through:

Virtualizing talent through global worksharing
Leveraging the best skillsets of in-house resources regardless of location and open access to new sources of talent from Value Engineering Centers leads to more cost-effective and better performing project execution models.

Connected supply chain for automated deliverable management
Users can now manage and lower the risks involved with schedule, contractual, and legal compliance with automated review workflows. Moreover, ProjectWise’s digital project services helps users ensure their transmittal information is accurate and speeds submittals and RFIs by identifying and resolving issues quickly and ensuring quality of project deliverables.

Connected field data management for closed-loop workflows
Field data management cloud services enable users to accelerate field collaboration with access to multiple project repositories and comprehensive document control. Users can now configure forms and report templates to ensure all tests and inspections are performed to standards and ensure consistency, speed, and coordination across all field activities such as QA/QC, daily reports, and inspections using mobile and other devices.

Analytic driven project insights
Deliverables-based KPIs and the ability to aggregate analytics across enterprise data sources, including cost, schedule, and document controls, allow users to make strategic decisions based on project history and trends across a project, a program, or the enterprise.

ProjectWise collaboration services for digital project delivery uniquely support digital workflows that span design to construction through completions. Providing a connected data environment as a single source of information enables organizations to securely aggregate, manage, and share digital project data.

What ProjectWise CONNECT Edition Users Are Saying About Going Digital
Dillon Consulting Limited implemented ProjectWise to enable worksharing among multiple offices and to exchange contractual deliverables with the extended supply chain. Dave Widdifield, system administrator, Dillon Consulting Limited, said, “With an expectation of several thousand transmittals, ProjectWise Deliverables Management eliminated a manual process and streamlines contract management with our supply chain.”

Brent Mauti, global director, design technology, IBI Group, said, “Bentley empowered IBI Group to devise a true hybrid LAN-Cloud project collaboration solution, where we have already saved USD 30,000 in hardware, alone. Additionally, this connected environment provided us with increased productivity without having to manually conduct file transfers across offices, netting 400 hours saved!”

Rob Braun, director, Automation Systems Integration, CH2M, said, “The simplicity and ease of use of ProjectWise digital project services, such as Project Performance Dashboards, helps us monitor status of project documentation and deliverables resulting in a streamlined delivery process and improved satisfaction of our customers.”

About ProjectWise
ProjectWise is a project collaboration and content management platform that helps organizations avoid risk and stay competitive by enabling going-digital strategies for project delivery. It provides comprehensive worksharing and content management required to increase transparency throughout the project lifecycle. With ProjectWise, organizations of all sizes have the ability to integrate data, people, and process to ensure successful project delivery. Deployed in 101 countries, ProjectWise is the system of choice for 25 of the ENR Top 25 Design Firms, 44 of the ENR Top 50 Design Firms, 81 of the ENR Top 100 Design Firms, 29 of the ENR Top 50 Design-Build Firms, 249 of the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners, and the majority of U.S. state departments of transportation.

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Image 1 Caption: IBI Group, Winnipeg Project, ProjectWise Design Integration and Supply Chain Worksharing

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Image 2 Caption: Dillon Consulting Limited, City of Winnipeg and University of Manitoba, tracking contract collaboration digitally

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OpenPlant Streamlines Project Delivery by Enabling Plant, Building, and Structural Designers to Coordinate Work More Effectively

31.10.2016 1:00 Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems announces new innovations for OpenPlant that enhance coordination across plant, building, and structural design disciplines. Engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractors and owner-operators around the world are embracing multi-discipline 3D plant design to deliver projects faster and to enable lifecycle information mobility.

OpenPlant now enables plant, building, and structural designers to reduce errors and save time through enhanced integration with ProStructures and AECOsim Building Designer. Structural components such as beams and columns can now be integrated into the 3D piping model, including their material makeup, to create a more detailed plant design. Users also have the ability to exchange steel and concrete objects between OpenPlant Modeler and ProStructures, as well as with other structural applications, with new support for Bentley’s Integrated Structural Modeling (ISM) technology.

OpenPlant Modeler gives designers the ability to quickly create common grid line definitions that are available for distribution across plant, building, and structural applications, eliminating rework. Grid lines defined in OpenPlant Modeler are available for sharing with OpenPlant Isometrics Manager to support the fast and accurate generation of isometric deliverables.

Key new capabilities include:

Improved drawing layout with better dimensioning and label positioning;
Automatic splitting of isometrics into multiple sheets based on different criteria;
Support for custom components created in OpenPlant Modeler.

Greg Short, principal process engineer at Tetra Tech, said, “Using OpenPlant Isometrics Manager to auto generate the piping isometrics reduced the time it would have taken to move labels around to make the isometric clearer to read. Tetra Tech reduced its isometric generation time from three hours to one hour per isometric. With over 1,500 isometrics, this saved the client USD 250,000.”

Visvaldas Šavelskis, vice-president, energy division of SWECO Lietuva, said, “Bentley’s plant design products and integrated workflow allow us to stay at the edge of the competition, meeting the challenging schedules, while fitting within the budget.”

Santanu Das, senior vice president, design modeling, Bentley Systems, said, “Effective multi-discipline plant design coordination has never been so important with so many projects employing globally distributed teams. We are pleased that OpenPlant users around the world are addressing this need while driving down costs and increasing accuracy on their projects. OpenPlant’s ability to quickly and easily integrate building and structural design into a single plant model for the entire project advances collaboration to enable faster project delivery.”

About OpenPlant
OpenPlant provides advancements for multi-discipline engineering of plants. It is widely adopted by leading plant EPCs and owner-operators as a practical and scalable solution to comprehensively support project delivery. Through its use of iRING/ISO 15926 as an intrinsic data model, OpenPlant enables users to coordinate and share information across multiple disciplines and the infrastructure lifecycle.

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Image 1 Caption: Through integration with ProStructures, OpenPlant Modeler users can now create and exchange steel and concrete components for detailed plant designs. Image Attribution: Image courtesy of Bentley Systems

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Image 2 Caption: Users can quickly define common grid lines across OpenPlant Modeler and AECOsim Building Designer and share them with OpenPlant Isometrics Manager. Image Attribution: Image courtesy of Bentley Systems