- ENR Top Design-Build Firms (18 of Top 25, 26 of Top 50), and
- ENR Top Contractors (20 of Top 25, 29 of Top 50).
For example, ProjectWise is playing a key role in Consolidated Contractors Company’s (#17 in 2012 ENR Top 225 International Contractors) Midfield Terminal Building of the Abu Dhabi Airport project, a 2013 Be Inspired Awards finalist in the Innovation in Construction category. This USD 3.2 billion, 750,000-square-meter project will provide passenger and cargo facilities, duty-free shops, and restaurants for up to 40 million people per year. The X-shaped structure is located between two runways, and the complexity of the structure in both design and shape presented challenges in terms of engineering, construction, and procurement. Consolidated Contractors Company met these challenges using ProjectWise, Bentley’s AECOsim Building Designer, and other Bentley BIM solutions. “The client had a set of very demanding, ambitious and quite unique specifications,” said Essam El-Absi, of Consolidated Contractors Company. “Completion required a totally BIM-driven project and with several decades of experience with Bentley’s products, we knew that they were robust and capable of handling a mega project of this nature.”
ConstructSim and Bentley Navigator
ConstructSim, which is enabled by Bentley Navigator for dynamic project review and analysis, provides for the visual creation of work packages, workface planning, and progress status visualization. Through its integration with ProjectWise Construction Work Package Server, ConstructSim becomes even more dynamic and able to provide immersive status updates that lead to status progression.
ConstructSim has been instrumental in the AUD 52 billion development of the Greater Gorgon gas fields on Barrow Island, a protected nature reserve off the northwest coast of Australia. The project, also a 2013 Be Inspired Awards finalist in the Innovation in Construction category, includes the construction of a three-train liquefied natural gas plant. Restrictive procedures for handling equipment and materials created logistical challenges that were answered using ConstructSim to reduce work package production time by 90 percent and save millions of dollars. According to Abel Vera, the Last Planner Department lead for Gorgon constructor Kellogg Joint Venture Gorgon, “ConstructSim has become the glue on the project and enabled us to achieve a substantial return on investment on the planning effort alone, not to mention the improved collaboration with the field to deliver them truly executable work.”
Comprehensive Work Packaging
The capabilities of Bentley’s ProjectWise Construction Work Package Server are comprehensively combined with and augmented by other Bentley offerings, including:
- i-models – pervasive enablers of information mobility serving as conveyors for AECO deliverables; i-models are the core means for bringing data into the new server;
- SpecWave Composer – providing specifications (essential elements of every work package) and engineering standards inputs into construction workflows that can be personalized to the viewer’s role in the project;
- Bentley Transmittal Services – empowering infrastructure organizations to intelligently manage the distribution of work packages to subcontractors and other relevant personnel;
- mobile apps, such as Field Supervisor and Navigator Mobile – enabling workers in the field to access, review, and/or act on work packages on site, and to easily provide progressing and inspection information back into the server, where it will be used to update the real-time status of the project.
For additional information about Bentley’s software and services facilitating construction information mobility, visit www.bentley.com/construction.
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About Bentley Systems, Incorporated
Bentley is the global leader dedicated to providing architects,
engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators
with comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure.
Bentley Systems applies information mobility to improve asset
performance by leveraging information modeling through integrated
projects for intelligent infrastructure. Its solutions
encompass the MicroStation platform for infrastructure design and
modeling, the ProjectWise platform for infrastructure project
team collaboration and work sharing, and the AssetWise platform
for infrastructure asset operations – all supporting a broad portfolio
of interoperable applications and complemented by worldwide professional
services. Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in 50
countries, more than $500 million in annual revenues, and since 2005 has
invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.
