Structural Offerings in Practice
Many of our users have been benefiting from our structural offerings on some truly wonderful projects. It's not easy to improve the world. These are some of the best at it.
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Gresham, Smith and Partners Uses Process Innovation to Deliver Nissan America’s New Corporate Facility Ahead of Schedule
Organization: Gresham, Smith and Partners (GS&P) Be Awards Category: Innovation in Commercial and Residential Building Project Objective: Plan and design its new 11-story, 550,000 square-foot office building with a demanding schedule Software Used: Bentley Structural and RAM Structrual System See how Gresham, Smith and Partners uses process inovation to deliver Nissan America’s new corporate facility ahead of schedule. The facility opened four months early with a total cost savings of $1.2 million dollars!
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Plant Wansley Units, 1-2 FGD Addition
Organization: Southern Company-Birmingham Be Awards Category: Plant Structural Analysis, Design and Documentation Project Objective: Retrofit two coal-fired boiler units with scrubbers to reduce sulfur oxide emissions from the plant Wansley steam plant. Software Used: STAAD .Pro, Bentley Structural, AutoPLANT, Triforma
Fast Facts:
- Project required 2,800 feet of ductwork and 5,400 tons of structural steel for ductwork support.
- Bentley products allowed the team to meet the compressed design schedule.
- Integration of STAAD .Pro and Bentley Structural decreased drawing production time by 40%.
- 3D visualizations with AutoPLANT and Triforma improved team coordination and reduced design time.
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User testimonial quote – "QAL has been using AutoPIPE for 6 years now, to design modifications to the plant to reduce the excessive loads on pumps, nozzles and supports saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in maintenance costs,” stated Brian Lloyd, Senior Mechanical Engineer with Queensland Alumina, Ltd.
Recognizing the importance of integrated structural and piping analysis to capture more accurate, realistic and safer engineered designs Brian Lloyd had this to say about their recent purchase of STAAD.Pro. “We have started to use the integrated structural and piping solution and finding significant changes have to be made to both the piping and structural designs to make it safe. And now with STAAD plan to improve this design process“
Featured Bentley Plant users:
A list of Bentley's users reads like a Who's Who of the structural industry – leading structural engineers, detailers, and fabricators from around the globe. |
Foster Wheeler
Raytheon
Exxon
URS Corporation
Arcadis
Duke Energy Corporation
Washington Group International
Aecom
Parsons
BE&K
Black & Veatch
HNTB
Tetra Tech, Inc
HDR
Earth Tech
Carter & Burgess
Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc
CDM
US Army
Mactec, Inc
Sarget & Lundy LLC
The Louis Berger Group, Inc
Bechtel Corporation
Day & Zimmermann Group
Halliburton
CH2M Hill
Lockwood Greene
Siemens
Aker Kvaerner
Mott MacDonald
Halcrow
Atkins
British Petroleum
Alcatel
Technip
SNC Lavlin
Mitsui & Co., Ltd
Toyo Engineering Corporation (Tec)
Mitsubishi Corporation |
Kawasaki
JGC Corporation
National Thermal Power Corporation
National Hydroelectric Power Corporation Ltd.
Engineers India Limited
TATA
Stup Consultants
M.N. Dastur
Hatch Mott Macdonald
SNC Lavalin
ABB
Alstom Power
Burns & McDonnell
Duke Energy
Amergen
Arizona Public Service Co
Air Products & Chemicals Inc
Washington Group International
American Electric Power
Westinghouse Savannah River
Worley Parsons
Nooter/Eriksen
Southern Company Services Inc
Halliburton KBR
Shaw Group (Stone & Webster)
Proto Power
We Energies
GE Energy
CH2M Hill
Jacobs
Lurgi Oel • Gas • Chemie GmbH
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