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Located on the Claro River in Brazil, Coqueiros is a 90-megawatt hydroelectric power plant that will generate energy for 650,000 people in the state of Goias. To design the $180 million plant on an accelerated schedule, Engevix deployed professionals in geographically distant units, some in cities 700 miles away. ProjectWise was critical to integrating these offices, enabling Engevix to optimize workflow and reduce production time by about 40 percent.

Engevix also took advantage of the synergy between design disciplines. From Bentley View and MicroStation PowerDraft to the InRoads and PlantSpace, team members used integrated applications to design geotechnical, electrical, and mechanical solutions. The hundreds of drawings delivered by each discipline were produced faster and with fewer errors, and revisions cost half as much to generate from the 3D model.

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As a global engineering, construction, and project management corporation, Bechtel faces challenges associated with the broadening geographic distribution of projects and employees; increasing numbers of non-Bechtel entities—contractors, partners, competitors, suppliers, and customers—participating on integrated project teams; and growing concerns about security, confidentiality, and data integrity.

To address these issues, Bechtel is using cloud technology to deploy ProjectWise for project collaboration. Bechtel’s Project Services Network is accessed directly from the Internet via a portal. Bentley’s Professional Services helped design the new ProjectWise architecture, write XenApp Farm add-ons, and review documentation to ensure a standard build-out would work for the global roll-out. Project team members were based in London, Singapore, and Ashburn, Virginia.

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This 130-bed, 230-square-foot acute care hospital is being designed and delivered for Sutter Health in Castro Valley, California, by an integrated project delivery team of 300 professionals spread throughout the United States. GHAFARI customized a ProjectWise deployment to support document sharing needs, with an integration server hosted at its main office and 10 file storage and caching servers deployed at other office locations.

All project documents—including 3D models, 2D CAD files, specifications, and other supporting information—are stored on ProjectWise. The system has integrated design teams and contractors distributed over multiple locations, accelerated information sharing and communications across teams, eliminated duplication of files, and reduced rework due to the use of outdated files.

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