CASE STUDY Project Summary Organization Elia Location: Brussels, Belgium Project Objectives • Implement a managed work environment to support a "Smart Way of Working,” ensuring compliance with industry and corporate standards. • Move 1.2 terabytes of current project data from the HV file server to ProjectWise. Products used ProjectWise, ContextCapture, AECOsim Building Designer, Descartes, MicroStation, Bentley Pointools, ProStructures, and Bentley Substation Elia Adopts Bentley Technology to Facilitate Its “Smart Way of Working” Advanced Substation Design in a Managed Environment Saves Utility Firm More than USD 100,000 Annually Fast Facts • Elia adopted ProjectWise as a platform for its information management and collaboration solution to conform to corporate standards. • Based on the success of this proof-of-concept project within the HV department, Elia plans to expand the use of ProjectWise and Bentley technology throughout the company. ROI • Using Bentley technology as the foundation for its asset and lifecycle management initiative improved efficiency in Elia's HV department, and is estimated to save USD 100,000 - 150,000 annually. • ProjectWise simplified and accelerated information searches, ensured traceability and access management, streamlined workflows, and provided unprecedented document control. • The delta file transfer technology in ProjectWise prevented data loss transferring design files, and enabled staff to work from home securely, decreasing Elia's carbon footprint. A Lifecycle Management Initiative Located in Brussels, Elia is Belgium's high-voltage (HV) transmission system operator. Operating over 8,000 kilometers of lines and underground cables throughout the country, the utility plays a crucial role delivering electricity nationally and is also a key player within the European electricity grid. Typically, Elia has approximately 60 ongoing HV infrastructure projects annually using different software, and relies on MicroStation® for advanced substation design and editing information for the assets in its spatial database. To conform to industry regulations and corporate standards, and facilitate its 2013 "Smart Way of Working” paradigm, Elia's HV engineering department investigated new methods to improve documentation, collaboration, data consistency, and workflow processes in the substation design group. With numerous file servers storing extremely large amounts of project data, Elia sought to move from a file server-based storage system to an access-controlled, traceable, workflow-based system requiring the transfer of 1.2 terabytes of information. To meet these objectives, the team needed collaborative, interoperable applications for optimal information mobility, and researched different technology solutions to deliver an integrated solution. The interoperability of Bentley applications facilitated an integrated approach to modeling, analysis, optioneering, and geo-coordination, enhancing engineering processes. ProjectWise® Provides Common Data Structure in a Shared Environment In 2015, Elia started the ProjectWise pilot. Elias CAD expert, Nicolas Tobbackx, commented, "With a crucial aspect of ISO 55000 relating to documentation and traceability of all documents, that is where we come to this managed environment - and ProjectWise allows us to manage all this information.” The company adopted the ProjectWise platform as the foundation for its managed work environment, enabling a controlled, transparent, workflow-based system with internal and external accessibility. Using ProjectWise optimized collaboration and information mobility, facilitating file transfers, reporting and traceability, file access and management, and search/find performance. Elia transferred the 1.2 terabytes of data from the substation file server to ProjectWise. With its delta file transfer technology, ProjectWise saved significant time and prevented data loss by transferring only design changes rather than entire files when sending data. This facilitated the company's 2013 "Smart Way of Working,” which offers its staff options to work from home by accelerating transfer time and eliminating damaged files for large 3D design files. Furthermore, using ProjectWise to customize workflows and specify access rights allowed the department to control document ownership at a previously unprecedented level, improving reporting and file reference management. The check-in and check-out system in ProjectWise with reference file support enables the department to better understand file structure and locate missing or erroneous files, while the component indexing function in ProjectWise allows for faster, more specific search-and-find capabilities, making the company's archives a rich data mine. Using ProjectWise as its collaborative software platform provides a common, managed data environment consistent with Elia's lifecycle and asset management strategy to meet industry regulations and improve productivity and engineering efficiencies

“We have been working in 3D for years, but our models are not intelligent unless we use ProStructures, AECOsim [Building Designer], and Bentley Substation. This technology makes them intelligent.” – Nicolas Tobbackx, CAD expert, Elia 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 Intelligent 3D Models Foster Efficiency Simultaneously while migrating to ProjectWise, Elia explored the integration of additional Bentley design and analysis technology as part of its proof-of-concept...