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POWERCHINA Zhongnan Standardizes 3D Collaborative Design of Water Projects

POWERCHINA Zhongnan Standardizes 3D Collaborative Design of Water Projects
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CASE STUDY Project Summary Organization: Zhongnan Engineering Corporation Limited Solution: Water and Wastewater Plants Location: Qingzhen, Guizhou, China Project Objective: • Complete Design Phase I of the Qingzhen Vocational Education West Urban District sewage treatment plant. • Implement Bentley's 3D collaborative design technology for the integrated design, construction, and operation of the sewage treatment plant. • Develop a standardized design and project methodology that shortens delivery time of water projects. Products used: AECOsim Building Designer, Bentley Substation, GEOPAK, MicroStation®, Bentley Navigator, OpenPlant, and ProjectWise® POWERCHINA Zhongnan Standardizes 3D Collaborative Design of Water Projects Bentley's 3D Technology Reduces Plant Design Costs by 30 Percent Fast Facts • Bentley's 3D design applications prepared an intuitive design scheme with 90 percent fewer errors. • POWERCHINA Zhongnan's standardized design and project methodology included new design standards beneficial to other water projects throughout China. Design time was reduced by one month, saving about CNY 200,000 in design costs. Information mobility lessened communication time by 50 percent, saving about CNY 500,000. Collaboration among disciplines using Bentley's 3D design environment reduced design errors by 90 percent. New Method to Meet Demand China's 12th Five-Year Plan (FYP) (201 1-2015) allotted 20 percent more funds for municipal wastewater treatment projects to address the pervasive pollution caused by rapid urbanization and inadequate sewage disposal. The initiative put pressure on leading design institutes to keep pace with demand for water pollution prevention and control projects. Zhongnan Engineering Corporation Limited (POWERCHINA Zhongnan) responded by adopting a new methodology that made the process for designing, constructing, and operating water projects 50 percent more efficient. Bentley 3D design technology provided the capabilities and ProjectWise enabled a 3D collaborative design platform. POWERCHINA Zhongnan used Bentley solutions to standardize its approach to the CNY 75.8 million Qingzhen Vocational Education West Urban District sewage treatment plant, then applied the model on 13 subsequent projects. The new method reduced design time and costs by approximately one-third. Lagging Technology A subsidiary of Power Construction Corporation of China and HydroChina Corporation, POWEBCHINA Zhongnan is an award-winning EPC contractor for water resource, hydropower, wind power, environmental, and municipal, industrial, and civil projects throughout China and the world. Despite being one of the premier design institutes in China, POWEBCHINA Zhongnan suffered from a lag in new technology adoption that caused inefficiencies in several practice areas. The company had improved design efficiency by 75 percent with a Bentley Enterprise License Subscription in the hydropower practice area. However, in water resources project teams were spending 30 percent of design time coordinating disciplines and 40 percent of construction time communicating with contractors. The need to update became urgent when Chinas 12th FYP accelerated construction of water pollution control projects. In 2012, China set aside nearly CNY 2 trillion for wastewater treatment infrastructure, planning to build facilities in some 300 cities by 2015. By the end of the 12th FYP period, China expected to increase treatment rates from 77.5 percent to 85 percent in urban areas, 60 percent to 70 percent in counties, and 20 percent to 30 percent in townships. These advances in wastewater treatment would not only reduce pollution but also protect and improve water quality for the critically short supply of drinking water. POWERCHINA Zhongnan estimated the average design period for water projects to be 180 days, which was too long to meet the timetable for the slate of 14 immediate projects. To accelerate the process while maintaining quality, the company needed to implement the Bentley solution for water and wastewater treatment plant design. The 20,000-cubic-meter-per-day (m3/d) Qingzhen Vocational Education West Urban District sewage treatment plant project presented an opportunity to try a more advanced methodology that would introduce the 3D technologies to the practice group and improve overall efficiency. 3D Collaborative Environment POWEBCHINA Zhongnan adopted a portfolio of Bentley products that would create a standardized 3D environment for optimizing and integrating project design, construction, and operations. ProjectWise was implemented as the ideal collaboration platform to enhance communication and coordination among the 10 design

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“Based on Bentley’s standardized design, the clash detection of the system can help us ﬁnd out more than 100 clash points quickly, with a design error rate decreased by 90 percent. The design period was reduced to two months from three months, increasing the design efﬁciency.” – Yin Xiaowei, Chief Engineer, Qingzhen Vocational Education West Urban District Sewage Treatment Plant Find out about Bentley at: www.bentley.com Contact Bentley 1-800-BENTLEY (1-800-236-8539) Outside the US +1 610-458-5000 Global Ofﬁce Listings www.bentley.com/contact disciplines as well as the parties involved in...

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