Bentley users are doing extraordinary work improving and sustaining the world’s infrastructure. These projects set benchmarks and showcase the imagination and technical mastery of the organizations that created them. Read and discover how these Bentley users accomplished success with some of the most innovative projects in the world.
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Bridges Case Studies
Revitalizing a Florida Favorite: Bridge of Lions to meet current standards and maintain historical significance
The Bridge of Lions rehabilitation and restoration project in St. Augustine, Florida, is a stunning example of how the unique, aesthetic elements of a historic structure can be incorporated into a modern design.
Sutong Bridge, the world’s longest cable-stayed bridge
Structural analysis of the Sutong Bridge. It’s not your average bridge. Sutong Bridge in China’s Jiangsu Province can claim the world’s longest cable-stayed span – 1,088 meters.
RITES Ltd
Design of New Jubilee Bridge. Originally constructed in 1887, the Jubilee Bridge provides an important railway link across the river Hooghly.
Arup
Marina Bayfront Pedestrian Bridge. The Marina Bayfront Pedestrian Bridge in Singapore is the first of its type in the world.
HDR Engineering: Hoover Dam Bypass
(Led by HDR Engineering, the Hoover Support Team applied MicroStation and GEOPAK Civil Engineering Suite software to complete the design of this 3.5 mile bypass and 1,900-foot bridge. The Hoover Dam Bypass helps ensure personal safety, smooth-flowing commerce and homeland security for one of the nation’s national treasures.
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Buildings Case Studies
Krakow Stadium - Technical University Munich, LT.
Use of parametric design helps football venue achieve exceptional design quality and FIFA requirements.
The Lagoons - Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates
A new twist for building castles in the sand.
Marina Bayfront Pedestrian Bridge –Arup
Inspired double-helix pedestrian bridge replicates designers’ vision of walking through a DNA molecule.
Melbourne Stadium – Arup
World-class event and sports administration complex to provide missing link in Melbourne’s sporting infrastructure.
Wayne L. Morse U.S. Courthouse - Morphosis
U.S. courthouse visually marries design and respect for the justice system.
Barclays UK Banking Space-Asset Capture and “Branch on a Page” - Barclay Bank plc
“Branch-On-A-Page” reporting captures component data for each location on single web page.
B&W Pantex Processing Facility - CH2M Hill
Bentley’s 3D visualization and collaboration tools enable an extended design team to resolve hundreds of interference issues and save millions of dollars in construction costs.
Water Treatment Plant Expansion Eases Pressure on Water Supply - The Walsh Group
BIM-enabled design and construction workflows aid communication, eliminate conflicts, and shorten schedule.
Bentley Enterprise Implementation and Management - VECO Alaska
VECO was challenged to provide a globally distributed environment for engineering and project-based initiatives.
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Campuses Case Studies
New Bangalore International Airport: LT Ramboll Consulting Engineers
Bangalore International Airport is the first greenfield airport developed in India. The project, which was conceived by the government of India in response to growing congestion at existing airport facilities, is located at Devanahalli.
Power Through Integration: Sandia National Laboratories
Sandia National Laboratories, a subsidiary of Lockheed-Martin Corporation, is contracted by the Department of Energy to operate and maintain Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico.
ProjectWise Used Organization-wide to Manage Complex Infrastucture Documentation
Sandia National Laboratories employs nine to 12 architectural/engineering firms to develop design changes on a project basis.
Greater Toronto Airport Authority Maximizes Engineering Productivity with Bentley GIS and Oracle Spatial
Toronto’s Pearson International Airport is Canada’s busiest airport, handling 29.9 million passengers in 2005.
3D modeling improves teamwork in demanding powerhouse renovation - Monsanto
A Midwestern college took a look at its need for a system of four new boilers in a 100-year-old facility.
Tapping New Resources - Offshore oil engineers use Bentley solutions to collaborate from offices on two continents
Just 42 miles off Scotland's Atlantic coast, the rich Clair oil field seemed tantalizing but out of reach since its discovery in 1977.
Wink Incorporated Turns to Bentley AutoPLANT to Design World's Largest District Heating and Cooling System
Bentley AutoPLANT proved to be the most precise, reliable and cost-effective design tool on a fixed bid, 32,000-ton cooling plant project for the New Orleans Medical Complex that left no margin for error.
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Communications Case Studies
Precision Contracting Services Deploys Bentley's Communications Products
PCS is a specialist in fiber optic communications infrastructure and low-voltage applications. In implementing Bentley's communications products, PCS has been able to improve communication between network engineers and project managers and increase ROI.
Bentley Software Helps Telefónica O2 Czech Republic Fulfill Potential for Business Growth
Bentley PowerMap's XFM Technology Improves Management of this National Telecommunications Network.
MonCre Telephone Cooperative Chooses Bentley Communications Suite to Build for the Future
MonCre Telephone Cooperative serves an extensive rural area of Alabama covering over 500 Square miles.
Kabel Noord Builds Out New Network Infrastructure Using Bentley Communications Network Engineering Tools
Prior to using the Bentley GIS and engineering tools, Kabel Noord had outsourced all its network engineering to the gas utility, Eneco. Noord is now able to extend the use of its engineering information to all departments.
Bentley Fiber Used to Deliver Broadband Services to Metro Areas in Southern Netherlands
Nacap Telecom, a Dutch company specializing in the rollout of broadband services, designed and installed a broadband network in the zuid-Limburg region of the Netherlands in about a year using MicroStation and Bentley Fiber.
Hellas Online Uses Bentley Fiber to Engineer a 400 KM Metropolitan Fiber Infrastructure
In April 2007, Attica Telecom was acquired by hellas online, one of the largest fixed telephony and broadband operators in Greece. Since the acquisition, hellas has moved from a design and documentation system with multiple data sources, to a repository-based system.
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Factories Case Studies
Ghafari Associates and General Motors
Managing complexity: facilitating 3D enabled delivery on a series of automotive projects. GHAFARI Associates served as the architect/engineer and 3D integrator on a series of six design/build projects for General Motors where 3D-enabled delivery and BIM were a requirement.
DaimlerChrysler AG
Digital Factory – Integration of Process Data. At DaimlerChrysler’s German digital factory—the generic term for its integrated network of digital models and methods —two different systems were being used for factory planning and process planning.
General Motors and Ghafari Associates
3D enabled design/construction for the General Motors Toledo transmission plant expansion. General Motors is expanding its Toledo, Ohio, transmission plant to produce a new Hydra-Matic 6L80 six-speed, rear-wheel-drive automatic transmission for full-size SUVs and trucks.
HOLCIM Cement Plant - CH2M Hill
One of the world’s largest cement plants is being designed by CH2M HILL. The plant is situated on 3,900 acres along the Mississippi River.
Integrated Piping Engineering Tools in a Multi-Project Engineering Environment at BASF Antwerp
BASF Antwerp is the second largest BASF site, with 53 chemical units and a total of 3,600 employees.
Centralizing the Enterprise - The Tessenderlo Group
Since 1988, Tessenderlo Group has been working with CAD systems. It started with the Calma system.
3D modeling improves teamwork in demanding powerhouse renovation - Monsanto
A Midwestern college took a look at its need for a system of four new boilers in a 100-year-old facility.
3D helps pharmaceutical company with critical equipment replacement – PROjEN
PROjEN’s GlaxoSmithKline condenser project involved the replacement of forty 12-year-old glass condensers tightly housed in nine chemistry pilot plant (CPP) modules at the R&D center.
AF Designs One of Sweden’s Largest Industrial Investments Using Bentley AutoPLANT
With little time and even less manpower, AF designs one of Sweden’s largest industrial investments using Bentley AutoPLANT. AF, a leading Swedish consulting engineering firm, recently designed a $230 million coating line for Modo Paper AB, meeting a tight schedule with only seven piping designers.
AMEC Reduces Design Time
Design time reduced 25 percent in polymer plant expansion with Bentley AutoPLANT. Faced with expanding the processing capacity of an existing polymer processing plant, the international engineering and services company AMEC sought a 3D plant modeling application — Bentley AutoPLANT proved to be the optimum design solution.
Sweet Rewards - 3D modeling enables speedy design and installation of chocolate tempering unit
By modeling a chocolate tempering unit in 3D with Bentley AutoPLANT, Egemin Automation reduced piping design time by 60 percent and ensured a clash-free installation.
The Cold, Hard Truth - SALOF Refrigeration lowers costs and strengthens job bids with Bentley AutoPLANT software
For more than two decades, New Braunfels, Texas-based SALOF Refrigeration has been meeting the needs of its global customer base.
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Government Case Studies
City of Helsinki 3D City Model Supports Master Plan
Good design has been underpinning development policy at the City of Helsinki since the first city plan produced the renowned neo-classical city centre in the early 1800s. Many talented architects have since been involved in planning Helsinki, and in recent years GIS technology provided by Bentley Systems has proved to be an invaluable tool.
City of Montreal Uses Bentley Products to Create and Maintain 3D City Model
With a population of approximately 1.6 million, the City of Montreal, in the province of Quebec, is Canada’s second-largest city. The city’s geomatic engineering department is responsible for providing geospatial data for all stakeholders in this extensive municipality as well as for external users. Surveyors and technicians working for the city deliver data with engineering-grade accuracy in both 2D and 3D.
Dutch Ministry of Finance
The goal of Dutch Ministry of Finance’s project was to create an integrated GIS-SAP solution that would provide administrative and geospatial data in one user interface.
MicroStation at the Heart of LiDAR surveying solutions from Blom Aerofilms
Blom Aerofilms is the United Kingdom's leading provider of aerial photography and digital map solutions for civil engineering design, environmental assessment and land information management.
The City of Eindhoven: Implementing E-Government in the Netherlands
The city of Eindhoven, population 200,000, is the fifth largest city in Holland. It is a thriving metropolis with a unique combination of high-tech companies.
Polish Regional Authority (DSIP) Integrates Spatial Information for Efficiency
Lower Silesia, one of 16 administrative units in Poland, is the seat of local government for the region, performing both legislative and information management functions.
2005 BE Award Winner: The City of Calgary
Better base mapping management is helping the City of Calgary, Canada share data citywide. Workflow efficiencies have resulted from improvements in data entry, data accuracy, and data.
Detailed 3D City Models Provide New Perspectives on Urban Development
Detailed 3D city models are one of the mapping products that have seen wide-spread use in recent years. Such models are used for urban planning.
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Mining and Metals Case Studies
Bentley’s promis•e Streamlines Design of Two Mining Projects in Australia
LE80JV used Bentley’s promis•e electrical design software to design the control systems for two large mining projects in Australia. They configured the software to automatically generate schematics, connection diagrams, and cable schedules to save time and reduce errors.
CH2M Hill
HOLCIM cement plant. One of the world’s largest cement plants is being designed by CH2M HILL. The plant is situated on 3,900 acres along the Mississippi River in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri.
GMI SA Ingenieros Consultores
Primary sulfide project/permanent fresh water supply engineering. Cerro Verde is a copper and molybdenum mine in Peru. The project was to design a fresh water system that would provide a seamless system to improve the water supply to the old plant and establish an efficient water supply system for the new primary sulfide plant.
Hatch Associates Pty Ltd
HATCH workSMART Data-Centric Environment. Proven on projects across Australia, South Africa, Chile, and Canada, the Hatch WorkSMART Data-Centric Environment has become a corporate standard for data-centric project execution.
HJ Banks & Company Ltd
Planned development - Shotton surface mining project. A surface mining project in the North of England won a Be Award of Excellence at the Bentley User Conference in 2005. Gone are the days when towering slag heaps blighted the grey landscapes of the country’s Industrial North.
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Power Generation Case Studies
Constellation Energy Upgrades to Electronic Performance Improvement Center Using Bentley’s eB: R.E. Ginna Nuclear Plant’s Best Practices Support Compliance With Industry Guidelines
With representatives from all plants, Constellation Energy selected a single integrated system for performance improvement using eB nuclear applications from Bentley. Though this case study will focus on performance improvement, eB applications are also currently used by Constellation Energy for master equipment lists, configuration management, records management, and information management.
Callaway Nuclear Plant: eB Streamlines Document and Records Management to Significantly Improve Regulatory Rating
Since Callaway adopted eB in 2001, it has become one of the core information management platforms at the plant. eB has allowed Callaway to completely replaced thirteen mainframe applications. The system is tightly integrated with Callaway’s work management, corrective action, and equipment reliability applications. eB automatically captures and manages records in electronic format from multiple applications eliminating the need to process paper records.
York International/A Johnson Controls Company
Renewable Energy Corp, Moses Lake Expansion. The $7 million Moses Lake Expansion project will double Renewable Energy Corp.’s capacity to produce polysilicon at its Washington state facility.
North China Power Engineering (Beijing)
Building Up NCPE Content Management Platform With ProjectWise as the Core. North China Power Engineering (NCPE) needed a well-managed design, information exchange, and publication process that would be traceable and satisfy quality-control requirements.
Southern Company Services
Plant Wansley Units 1-2 FGD Addition. Plant Wansley in Carrolton, Georgia, has two coal-fired boiler units and two combined cycle gas-fired units. Units 1 and 2 are being retrofitted with one scrubber per unit to significantly reduce sulfur oxide emissions. The major challenge was the completion of the design phase in a compressed schedule while keeping the two power plant units running at all times except for scheduled outages.
Energoprojekt-Katowice S.A. (EPK)
Poland's largest engineering company improves design and reduces costs. Energoprojekt-Katowice S.A. (EPK) is no stranger to heavy industrial and power plant design. Founded in 1949, the multidisciplinary engineering design firm has designed more than 100 power plants built in Poland and abroad, and is now the largest engineering company in Poland.
InterGen
Fast, broad-based access to plant data saves millions by reducing downtime. Outages are costly to a company such as Massachusetts-based InterGen, which operates power generation facilities on four continents. When a plant goes down, the company often must buy power on spot markets to fulfill its contracts—at $180,000 or more per day.
Wink Incorporated Turns to Bentley AutoPLANT to Design World's Largest District Heating and Cooling System
Bentley AutoPLANT proved to be the most precise, reliable and cost-effective design tool on a fixed bid, 32,000-ton cooling plant project for the New Orleans Medical Complex that left no margin for error. Wink, Incorporated was hired to provide overall project design and coordination for the construction of a 32,000-ton cooling plant – with thermal energy storage – known as District Energy for NOrMC.
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Process Manufacturing Case Studies
Accelerate Platform Delivery
The North Rankin Redevelopment Project will recover remaining low-pressure gas from the North Rankin and Perseus gas fields and extend the field life to around 2040. Data Quality Manager has been central to the information management strategy throughout the detailed design phase, performing the role of central asset register for the whole NRB facility.
Petrobras S.A. Uses Bentley Solutions to Map Undersea Obstacles
First developed in 1996 for the Campos Basin, Petrobras S.A.'s $20 million Sistema de Gerenciamento de Obstáculos (SGO) Obstacles Management System has been systematically mapping surface and deep-sea obstacles for more than 10 years. It now has more than 40,000 registered obstacles in the Campos Basin, as well as the Santos, Espirito Santo, and Rio Grande do Norte oil basins, which together total about 160,000 square kilometers.
Technip Germany GmbH
Oil field development. This oil field development project in the Middle East covers 20 infield flowlines for oil production water supply and water reinjection with a total length of approximately 100 kilometers within difficult terrain.
Bechtel
Jamnagar Export Refinery Project. Bechtel is collaborating on the Jamnagar Export Refinery Project (JERP) in India, which has a plot plan bigger than that of London and a target completion time of less than 36 months.
VECO Alaska
The VECO Alaska design team simultaneously engineered drill sites CD3 and CD4 for Conoco Phillips Alaska Inc. 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. This repeatability of design three and four times produced an estimated 20-30 percent reduction in cost of drill-site design during each data reuse.
Aker Kværner
At Aker Kvaerner, the engineering environment in maintenance, modification, and operations traditionally used separate systems to handle the many different types of project data. At any one time, there could be 50 to several hundred contracts, facilities, and projects in progress.
Tapping New Resources
Offshore oil engineers use Bentley solutions to collaborate from offices on two continents. Just 42 miles off Scotland's Atlantic coast, the rich Clair oil field seemed tantalizing but out of reach since its discovery in 1977. The reservoir's complex geography frustrated attempts at a cost-effective plan for tapping the largest untouched field on the U.K. continental shelf.
EDG Helps Chevron Cut Costs on Offshore Platform Project with Cyra and Bentley AutoPLANT
By performing laser scanning to create a Bentley AutoPLANT as-built 3D model of an offshore oil platform, EDG reduced project costs by 15 percent. EDG, a full-service professional engineering corporation, has been helping owner operators identify and manage plant and structure as-built engineering content through laser scanning and 3D models.
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Rail and Transit Case Studies
Movares Nederland BV
Introduction of a data management system. With 1,200 employees, Movares is the market leader in railway engineering in the Netherlands.
Mott MacDonald - East London Line Project
This project will connect Highbury and Islington Station on the North London Line with a connection into the Network Rail infrastructure in South London.
RITES Rail
Against the odds: 3D visualization helps forge a railway through the remote hills of the Himalayas. The new Kashmir Railway will add an additional 290 kilometers to the largest rail network in Asia, which already measures more than 64,000 route kilometers.
High Speed Rail Cuts Travel Time in Half
MicroStation helps integrate design data from 15 disciplines. The Channel Tunnel Rail Link will connect London with the Channel Tunnel, speeding passengers from London to Paris in just more than two hours.
Banverket's Track Record
A managed environment built on Bentley technology helps Sweden's rail agency move fast and cut costs. To help maintain and upgrade more than 14,000 kilometres of track, Swedish rail authority Banverket applied Bentley solutions to build a managed environment for engineering.
Urban Ecology
Scandiaconsult plans a new transportation system for Stockholm, helping the city reclaim a healthy environment from an inner-city industrial wasteland. Bentley products are enabling the design of transportation infrastructure within an ambitious new urban redevelopment project in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Roads Case Studies
KDOT Integrates Assets With Bentley Software for Better Informed Decisions: Exor Software Interfaces With Data Repositories to Eliminate Redundancies and Provide Additional Value With No Additional Data Maintenance
Prior to implementing the Exor suite of asset management solutions, KDOT used mainframe technology to coordinate its asset data. One of the difficulties faced by the state in using such a restrictive system was KDOT’s inability to expand or add reporting features onto outdated systems. Bradley added, “We initially looked at moving away from the mainframe. However, when we began investigating the market [for a new system] it became apparent that contemporary solutions existed in the market that would deliver significant advantages to us far beyond the benefits of a standard mainframe switch.”
US Army Corps of Engineers
The Army is currently undergoing a transformation to meet global changes. In 2006, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) joined Bentley’s Enterprise License Subscription.
HNTB
TrueViz OnTarget. Developed in partnership with the Range and Training Land Program of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, TrueViz OnTarget maximized the efficiency of planning and designing training facilities in Kansas City, Missouri.
The Banks Group
Centralized data storage using StartPoint and Riverbed WAN Optimization. The Banks Group needed real-time access to design and office documents at many locations. In the past this was achieved using remote copy procedures or a complicated setup of distributed file systems and WAN infrastructure.
North Carolina DOT: Interstate 26
Using MicroStation and GEOPAK, NCDOT was able to address unique construction and environmental challenges while creating a cost-effective design. It has been called one of the last great earthmoving projects in the United States—I-26 through North Carolina’s Appalachian Mountains.
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet: I264 at Westport Road
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet central office design team applied their experience with InRoads and MicroStation to the content management capabilities of Bentley ProjectWise for change control of all project files and better project communication. When the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet inherited this interchange and expansion project, it was three years behind schedule, surrounded by rapid suburban growth and documented by hundreds of unorganized design files.
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Utilities Case Studies
LADWP Achieves $800,000 in Annual Savings with ProjectWise
LADWP, the largest municipal utility in the United States, selected ProjectWise to provide over 200 engineers fast and accurate reuse of 300,000 design and construction files. Since adoption of the software, LADWP has recorded over $800,000 in annual savings.
Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water Deploys Bentley’s ProjectWise to Improve Team Collaboration
Read how ProjectWise helped Welsh Water manage the information (about 22,000 documents) from a 36,000-kilometer sewer network.
Essent Local Energy Solutions Improves Operations and Design Workflows with Bentley sisNET
Essent Local Energy Solutions implements Bentley technology for the design, management, and operation of their growing district heating network. In just six months, ELES is already benefiting from their new cost-effective utility GIS.
Bentley Helps Iberdrola Ingeniería Y Construcción Design Substation Infrastructure Faster With New Intelligent Software
Iberdrola Ingeniería Y Construcción is a subsidiary of the Iberdrola Group and one of the world's leading energy engineering companies, with projects in over 25 countries. With the use of Bentley products, Iberdrola succesfully improved synergy between various engineering groups during the design and construction of electrical substations.
United Utilities Improves Project Control, Increases Efficiency and Cuts Costs Using ProjectWise Geospatial Management
United Utilities is the United Kingdom's largest listed water company. It owns, operates, and maintains utility assets including water, wastewater, electricity, and gas. Using ProjectWise Geospatial Management, United Utilities now has secure, fast access to accurate engineering documentation.
The Bentley sisNET GIS Reduces Costs and Improves Operational Efficiencies at Wien Energie Fernwärme Wien
Fernwärme Wien, one of the largest operators of district heating infrastructure in Europe, provides about 30% of the heat required by the 1.6 million inhabitants of the Austrian federal capital.
Vattenfall Europe Berlin uses Bentley sisHYD for Network Calculations
Vattenfall Europe Berlin manages a large district heating network with a highly complex structure. Tasks such as network planning, modeling, and incident simulation are typically demanding, but are handled adequately using Bentley sisHYD network calculation features.
Bentley sisNET GIS Delivers New Levels of Engineering and Operational Efficiency to Kelag Warme
In Austria, Kelag Wärme operates 77 district heating networks and more than a thousand heating plants, varying in size from micro-generation to very large installations. Kelag Wärme’s network exceeds 700km in length. Kelag Wärme has also been a leader in finding ways to generate heat in a more sustainable way, and this has involved a major shift to the burning of a renewable fuel – biomass – in the form of woodchip pellets.
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Water and Wastewater Case Studies
United Water Adopts Innovative Modeling Processes to Improve Water System Management
United Water and IDModeling standardize water model building and analysis using Bentley’s water software. To focus on improving efficiency in its water networks, United Water worked with IDModeling, a company that delivers hydraulic modeling solutions.
Manila Water improves the reliability and efficiency of the Antipolo Water Supply System
The people of Antipolo can now enjoy clean and potable water 24x7. In order to optimize the Antipolo Water Supply System, Manila Water’s plan was to evaluate the steady state and transient hydraulics of the preferred pipeline, pump station, and reservoir combination as well as improve the reliability and efficiency of the network.
WaterGEMS Powers Design of Breakthrough 24-by-7 Water System in India
Technical innovation showcased as inspiration for water utilities in developing economies. Supplying potable water to dense populations in developing countries is a perpetually daunting task for water utilities.
Stockholm Water: Easier and Faster Access to Project Documents Saves Time and Money
Stockholm Water produces and supplies high quality drinking water to more than 1 million people in Stockholm, Huddinge and nine neighboring municipalities in Sweden.
JJG Streamlines Production of Gwinnett County's Largest Public Project with Bentley AutoPLANT
The F.Wayne Hill Water Resources Center is an advanced water reclamation facility located in Gwinnett County, Georgia.The plant, one of the few water reclamation facilities in the southeast that uses ozone as a disinfectant, currently treats up to 20 million gallons of wastewater per day.
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