The Year in Infrastructure 2007 - (Page 143) plant distriButed enterprise These projects demonstrate the use of Bentley data and document management technology that supports global or multi-site work sharing, while delivering significant benefits across the business including increased efficiencies and integration with third parties. winner Jamnagar Export Refinery Project Bechtel Bechtel Corporation 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 this 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. 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 4,000 pieces of major equipment, and more than 110,000 isometrics. 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. 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. 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. BE AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE 143
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