Engevix used ProjectWise to connect a team of 120 people across six offices for the design and construction of a new hydroelectric power plant. This was the first “virtual team” assembled by the EPC, and the first time it had deviated from their standard operating procedure to collaborate the team in one office.
Michael Baker Corporation got connected by ProjectWise. The goal: Create an environment to enable real-time collaboration – regardless of geographic location – for colleagues across 44 offices. The result: An independent analysis revealed a peak ProjectWise ROI of 5x from just one project.
PE - The Magazine for Professional Engineers reports that collaboration tools used to be about making paper-based information available electronically. Now, these tools have matured and allow users to manage many kinds of business processes.
Globalization has changed the way organizations work by introducing opportunities to collaborate on projects from the other side of the world. But with this new opportunity comes age old challenges. See how firms are overcoming those challenges to connect people and information and share work.
Read how ProjectWise enabled the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to clean up quickly after Katrina. "ProjectWise provided an out-of-the-box capability to store and manage multiple types of documents/datasets and the metadata associated with that data," explains Denise Martin, IPET Data Management coleader. "It also provided a delivery and access control mechanism such that users could access the data in a variety of ways."
VECO Alaska Inc. collected a 2007 BE Award of Excellence for their integration of AutoPLANT with the ProjectWise collaboration system. Tasked with reusing project data to generate several new drill sites and reduce engineering costs to the client, VECO generated and executed a method for reusing intelligent project data producing an estimated 20-30 percent reduction in cost of drill-site design during each data reuse.
Using ProjectWise software, North China Power Engineering improved project quality as it streamlined design work and information exchange. And, as team collaboration improved, NCPE cut project lead time by 30 percent and recorded savings in excess of US$10 million, all in less than two years.
Meeting client needs and maximizing economies of scale often requires that Gresham, Smith and Partners collaborate on projects from more than a dozen office locations. Using ProjectWise, the team is able to work on a portfolio of projects as though they were under the same roof. Better still, the firm can now increase employee utilization by balancing this work among 800 people.
ProjectWise is helping Baker increase efficiencies and reduce rework by connecting people and information across their distributed enterprise. Michael Baker Corporation is a leading professional services firm with revenues in excess of $650 million. Chairman Richard Shaw reported to shareholders on an annual conference call that ProjectWise increases employee utilization by balancing workload across busy and quiet offices.
Bechtel Realizes Rapid ROI
Read how the ROI on ProjectWise for Bechtel occurs four times faster than other ECM systems by connecting people and information across their distributed enterprise. Bechtel is using ProjectWise to collaborate successfully on Reliance Industries Limited Jamnagar Export Refinery Project in India. Connecting 2000+ engineers from 10 offices in five countries.
ProjectWise Civil User Stories
The Banks Group Saves 200 Man-Hours a Week with ProjectWise StartPoint
"Using ProjectWise StartPoint, The Banks Group implemented a solution that would allow easy, auditable, fast access to centralized design data from any location. With all documents being stored in the project portal, team members can go to one place and search on both document name and content."
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ProjectWise Connects Staff of 1,200
at Dutch Engineering Firm Movares
"By implementing ProjectWise, Movares has seen five major results: faster access to information; better data quality’ improved communication between partners and among colleagues, added document security through a secure vault for proprietary information,