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GEOSPATIAL of transmission lines and 21,000 miles of overhead and under“Bentley solutions have played an integral part in providing a ground distribution lines across 2,300 square miles. The gas storage, systemwide approach to gas and electric utility integrity managedistribution, and delivery system includes two gas plants and nine ment—revolutionizing project design and engineering,” said gate stations spread over 790 square miles in and around Baltimore. Harold Hagen, BGE supervisor-asset management maintenance. When BGE initiated this project in 1999, the intent was to develop a gas and License Management Data electric engineering design and drafting Connectors platform utilizing GIS functionality that Project included a work management design Management Centralized CAD/GIS Updates interface. Approximately 80 percent of System Migration the business case for the resulting BGE project was based on successful delivery License Session of a CAD/GIS job design application and Tracking the conversion of land, gas, and electric Systems Integration data. All were successfully delivered in Management Services 2004, with one individual being dediOS Provisioning cated to the CAD portion of the project, High-Security and a team of 20 individuals working on CAD Design the GIS applications. The CAD portion of Sessions Centralized Problem the project took two years to complete Packager Resolution Utility Updates from and the GIS applications took ﬁve years. Field Services Customized The BGE GIS and Bentley projects ultiWorkspaces CAD/GIS Work mately converted more than 9,500 gas Management System maps, 14,000 electric maps, 900,000 v The managed Bentley environment centralized BGE’s CAD and GIS capabilities MicroStation drawings, and associated databases for use in the new CAD/GIS application. This amounted to about 15 million pieces of data with “Multiple departments rely on the Bentley platform for access to 120 million attribute ﬁelds. The GIS project team also developed 34 mission-critical information in performing their jobs.” specialized applications for such functions as facilities design and pipe risk analysis. Projected estimates for average annual savings Transforming workﬂow related to the gas system applications alone total $4 million per year. As a regulated utility, BGE serves customers by determining their Departments as diverse as Maps and Records, Manholes, and energy requirements, then initiating a job or work order. Designers Electric Substations now have access to the centralized corporate convert these requirements into drawings using uniform land, gas, data repository. Based on the common platform of Bentley soluand electric data exported into MicroStation and developed in tions, the CAD/GIS job design application and data repository compliance with work management system job design criteria. improve productivity for approximately 1,415 users in the comThe designs are created using Bentley Expert Designer, and ﬁeld pany, enabling the utility to design and manage gas and electric engineers perform the work based on these designs. Once jobs systems safely and economically. are complete, the data is updated in the GIS system to reﬂect the new utility service. Bentley solutions have enabled the utility to maintain more than 1. IT Leadership Demand Supply 900,000 design drawings, including one-of-a-kind drawings stored Side Side 2. Architecture 1 Driving Innovation in the city’s repository and conﬁdential drawings stored in the Development in the Business and company’s record vaults. By scanning and converting these relics 3. Business Aligning IS Strategy Enhancement into electronic documents, the utility has saved considerable staff 2 4. Technology time tracking down drawings to determine location and geospatial Advancement 3 Embedded Delivering Change information. The document management system now stores draw5. Sourcing in the Business to the Business Management ings by work management system job number, subdivided into a 4 four-territory grid containing 2,750 subfolders. Engineers in various disciplines can view and work with the drawings by speciﬁc Supplying Outsourced to geographic location. and Supporting External Services 5 Infrastructure “This system of organization, based on the use of Bentley softProviders ware, has led to numerous new workﬂows and workﬂow improvev Managed Bentley environment governance ments,” said Timothy Landers, an analyst in BGE’s application Volume 4, Issue 4 | BE MAGAZINE 33

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BE Magazine - Volume 4, issue 4 Contents The Drive To Innovate News BE Newsletter Highlights Converging on the Market Bytes and Bricks Generative Components Building Courting Success Remodeling an Icon Structural Integration Building News From Bentley Civil Greenfield Airport Takes Flight Good Neighbors Collaborative Innovation Civil News From Bentley Advertisers Index Geospatial Ring of Fiber Revolutionizing Integrity Management Port City Transformation In Conversation With Greg Bentley Geospatial News From Bentley Plant Single-Source Service Committed to Cleaner Air Expediting Expansion Plant News From Bentley Strength in Numbers The Art of Visualization A Winning Legacy Zero Change Culture: Further Definition A Remarkable Collaboration With a Forward-Thinking Community

BE Magazine - Volume 4, Issue 4

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