CASE STUDY Project Summary Organization Gippsland Water Solution Water and Wastewater Location Maryvale, Victoria, Australia Project Objectives • Eliminate odor, corrosion, and capacity issues • Provide a sustainable solution that benefits the community and environment • Recycle wastewater for industrial and agricultural use • Preserve fresh water resources Products Used • AutoPLANT P&ID • AutoPLANT Piping • Bentley Data Manager • Bentley Datasheets • Bentley Instrumentation and Wiring • Bentley Vision • ProSteel Fast Facts • Common database provided for engineers, draftsmen, and stakeholders • 3D visualization enhanced design • Bills of material automatically allowed procurement to be completed early • Facility saves about three billion liters of fresh water each year ROI • The alliance saved 20 weeks of drafting work, which paid for software, training, and implementation • Automatic isometric generation saved over five thousand hours • Gippsland Water indicated the value of as-built 3D models for lifecycle asset management was immeasurable Gippsland Water Factory Alliance Uses AutoPLANT on Wastewater Treatment Facility Sustainable Wastewater Treatment Infrastructure Ends 60-year-old Environmental Disaster Design a Sustainable Solution Gippsland Water provides water and wastewater services to about 130,000 people in 41 towns throughout Central Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. For nearly 60 years, raw wastewater from nine towns and Australian Paper’s Maryvale Mill discharged to a regional outfall sewer, causing serious odor, corrosion, and capacity issues. The (AUD) $260 million Gippsland Water Factory was designed to provide a sustainable and economically responsible solution. AutoPLANT, Bentley’s premier plant design engineering suite, helped to keep costs down by streamlining workflows, reducing design time, facilitating procurement, and producing as-built models for lifecycle asset management. The Gippsland Water Factory was delivered by a project alliance that included Gippsland Water, Transfield Services, CH2M HILL, and Parsons Brinckerhoff. The alliance partners worked collaboratively and shared equal responsibility for design, construction, and commissioning. Many factors made this ambitious project quite challenging. In addition to technical issues associated with treating the odiferous pulp-and-paper wastewater, the project alliance contended with the simultaneous construction of Australian Paper’s (AUD) $500 million Maryvale Mill upgrade just one kilometer away. Intense political pressure to deliver the project on time and on budget called for a tight timeline, close coordination, and carefully planned construction schedules. Partners Going Different Directions Starting at Maryvale and extending east 87 kilometers to Dutson Downs, the 1950s-era regional outfall sewer was half concrete pipe and half earthen drain. The 41 kilometers of open drainage generated a significant stench, which in turn caused community outrage. The simple solution would have been to pipe the open drain. Instead, Gippsland Water took advantage of the opportunity to go beyond compliance and provide a sustainable solution that benefited the community and the environment. The new wastewater treatment infrastructure, dubbed Gippsland Water Factory, included the Maryvale treatment plant, 78 kilometers of new pipeline, and eight new or upgraded pump stations. The project serves a population of 48,000 people in 11 towns. With four alliance companies and a large multidiscipline team working on the project, there was significant risk that the partners would take the design in different directions using different products. This risk was realized in the early days of the project, after about 100 piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs) were created. Using non-intelligent P&IDs caused a major problem as there was no consistency in 2D and 3D symbols, and there were both duplicate and incomplete asset tag information throughout the documentation. At the same time, manual lists were being created for equipment, valves, and instruments. The lists were out of date as soon as the P&IDs were updated, and there was no way to synchronize the diagrams and lists. AutoPLANT Provides Integrated, Database-driven 2D/3D Design To deliver this complex project on time and on budget, the Gippsland Water Factory Alliance needed design tools that would boost productivity, efficiency, and accuracy. The alliance recognized that Bentley software would save time in both design and rework. “Early in the design process, we were heading in all different directions using different products and using AutoPLANT really did save us,” said Mark Saunders, CAD manager, Gippsland Water. The AutoPLANT suite of products was chosen as the common – and mandatory – design technology because it links to a central project database and generates intelligent 2D drawings and 3D models, from which bills of material and isometrics could be automatically generated. Mark Saunders explained, “Because there were four companies involved, each with a large number of staff, we realized it was critical for the project to have a central database that we could all access, enabling us to get the most up-to-date information at all times.” The first order of business was to recreate the 100 P&IDs using AutoPLANT P&ID to enforce consistency, standardize symbols, eliminate duplicate asset tags, and generate a live shared database across engineering disciplines. Details were added via Bentley Data Manager and Bentley Instrumentation and Wiring. This database was then used to rapidly create

“Gippsland Water Factory utilized proven Bentley products to deliver an innovative, sustainable, and socially responsible project that goes well beyond compliance.” — Ray Baillie, ICT Manager, Gippsland Water 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 consistent, accurate equipment, valve, and instrument lists for procurement and construction. Having a common database gave multiple disciplines one source of truth. Drafting team members now used unique tag numbers and consistent...