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United Utilities Adopts Collaborative BIM Strategy to Deliver over 200 Water Projects

United Utilities Adopts Collaborative BIM Strategy to Deliver over 200 Water Projects
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CASE STUDY Project Summary Organization United Utilities Location Warrington, England, UK Project Objectives • Implement a GBP 6 billion AMP6 program that includes the delivery of more than 200 capital projects. • Adopt a collaborative BIM strategy to manage digital data and capital programs for optimal asset performance and more efficient project delivery. Products Used ProjectWise and Bentley Navigator United Utilities Adopts Collaborative BIM Strategy to Deliver over 200 Water Projects ProjectWise® Advancements Estimated to Save over GBP 40 Million on Capital Delivery Projects Fast Facts • ProjectWise enabled the United Utilities team to enforce a common data structure in a shared environment, providing secure access to information models for the multidiscipline project teams. • Integrating design, simulation, and clash resolution technology instills confidence in designs and enhances data reliability, accelerating construction. The implementation of ProjectWise enhances efficiencies in project delivery and is expected to yield GBP 40 million in savings on the five-year capital investment program. Having a uniform approach to digital data aligned with its business systems, United Utilities anticipates increased optimization of its asset base, delivering an even greater savings over the lifecycle of an asset. Relying on the interoperability of Bentley applications to implement its collaborative BIM strategy, United Utilities expects to save time and resources, minimize costly rework, and reduce health and safety risks through earlier design testing and better construction planning. Embracing BIM for Capital Project Delivery Privatization of the United Kingdom's (UK) water industry 25 years ago required providers to implement asset management programs (AMP) whereby water boards tendered contracts to construction firms to update the industry's antiquated assets and help keep infrastructure properly maintained. Each AMP lasts for a five-year period, and in 2015, the industry moved into AMP6. Consistent with industry standard, United Utilities released its AMP6 program, investing GBP 6 billion for the five-year period ending 2020, with GBP 2.9 billion dedicated to delivering over 200 capital projects. As the UK's largest listed water company managing regulated water and wastewater treatment plants and networks for 3 million households and 200,000 businesses, United Utilities' investment will improve its massive water infrastructure to deliver better quality potable and bathing water, provide a cleaner environment, and lower customer bills over the next five years. To ensure efficient implementation of its AMP6 program and improve delivery on capital projects, United Utilities recognized the need for a better data structure and optimal asset management. In an industry that delivers essential customer service through long-term operation and management of assets, United Utilities embraced a collaborative BIM approach to link operations with asset creation and capital maintenance. "United Utilities adopted BIM trying to leverage the efficiencies that BIM would deliver in project delivery," commented United Utilities lead BIM technologist (CDE), Gregg Yarnold. Digital Data Delivers Savings With numerous construction delivery and engineering services partners working on a multitude of projects, varying in complexity and affecting many water infrastructure assets, United Utilities required collaborative, comprehensive project management tools. Using ProjectWise, United Utilities configured the BS 1192 module to align with its business requirements in accordance with AMP6. The organization developed a structured data naming convention in a connected data environment for the dispersed project teams to develop, share, and coordinate their design information. Working in Having a single source of truth accessible to all project team members in a secure environment via ProjectWise eliminated the need for data transmission, saving significant time and reducing risk. this setting, every team member has access to all approved data, removing the need to transmit data from one system to another, saving time and reducing risk by ensuring all team members are working on the most accurate and up-to-date information at all times. ProjectWise allowed United Utilities to extract digital data about its assets from delivered projects and import it into corporate systems with minimal effort for complete data ownership. Owning the data from design conception through to commissioning combined with the ability to customize the system to enforce a data structure tailored to its business, United Utilities can more efficiently integrate new assets and soft land its projects - which is estimated to save GBP 40 million on the capital delivery program. In addition, a collaborative, uniform system for managing digital data allows for more efficient operation of its water infrastructure assets that potentially could dwarf the estimated savings on project delivery, yielding substantially more savings over the lifecycle of the asset. ProjectWise Enhances Data Security With AMP6 focusing on asset resilience and prioritizing asset investment, the program has moved from being document centric in the past, to being dependent upon using the latest and best data. In a technology-driven age where information is susceptible to being compromised, optimizing data security

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"The integration of many of the design tools with ProjectWise increases efficiencies further and also forms the basis of our secure asset data storage. ProjectWise forms the cornerstone of the United Utilities BIM strategy for the AMP6 program." - Gregg Yarnold, lead BIM technologist (CDE), United Utilities 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 has become a priority for the industry. A collaborative BIM approach not only streamlines information management...

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