January 31, 2007—Bechtel Corporation, a global premier engineering, construction, and project management company, is using Bentley’s ProjectWise system to collaborate on the Jamnagar Export Refinery Project (JERP) in India.
JERP has a plot plan bigger than that of London and a target completion time of less than 36 months. Bechtel is tackling the megaproject using engineering resources dispersed around the globe, including a design and engineering team of 2,500 professionals in 10 design locations, 19 offices, and eight countries. 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. To complete the project in view of its scope and time frame, Bechtel selected Bentley’s ProjectWise for its 2D CAD file management.
Bechtel says that 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, explains Bechtel, helps make this possible.
Nearly 1,000 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. Drawings can be worked on collaboratively, enabling designers in one location to view results of design teams in other offices almost immediately.
A key advantage realized by the project team is the ability to search for and find all files that were change din 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.
Bentley’s ProjectWise is a system of collaborative 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.
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