Sargent & Lundy Reduces Drawing Production and Distribution Requirements by 85 Percent With Bentley

The project is featured in the new publication “The Year in Infrastructure 2008,” available online from Bentley Systems, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, at www.bentley.com/YearInInfrastructure2008. The Dry Fork Station Unit 1 power plant presented the large project team – spread over many organizations, locations, and design platforms – with a complex industrial-design challenge. The team was able to substantially reduce the quantity of issue-for-comment drawings through collaborative model reviews using Bentley Navigator. This desktop application enables users to visualize, navigate, and interact with intelligent 3D models of large, complex facilities using both graphical and non-graphical facility information. Of the estimated 7,600 physical-plant drawings expected to be issued, approximately 85 percent of the review-cycle prints were eliminated, saving many thousands of man-hours due to decreased document handling, printing, and mailing. The project moved smoothly into the construction phase on schedule, with an optimized design and the necessary foundation for efficient construction and operation. Commenting on the project, Rich Marshalla, project manager and vice president, Sargent & Lundy, said, “We executed a very successful, advanced-generation, clean-coal technology project. The Bentley software tools were instrumental in allowing us to effectively meet the schedule and the customer’s expectations for the highly complex project.”

Marshalla continued, “For example, use of MicroStation and Bentley Navigator empowered us to improve online collaboration and reduce the quantity of comment drawing releases during the design-comment cycle phase. It also allowed us to improve contractor understanding by performing online constructability reviews and to facilitate contractor input early in the design phases. At the same time, the software made it possible for us to establish and control space allocation within the 3D model by enabling us to conduct regularly scheduled design reviews, thereby allowing the project team to reduce interferences and to stay on schedule.”

For additional information about MicroStation, visit www.bentley.com/microstation. For additional information about Bentley Navigator, visit www.bentley.com/bentleynavigator.

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About Sargent & Lundy
Sargent & Lundy LLC is a worldwide leader in professional services for the electric power industry and has been dedicated exclusively to serving energy business and energy intensive clients for more than 100 years. The firm provides comprehensive engineering, energy business consulting, and project services for new and operating electric power plants and power delivery systems.

It reliably meets its clients’ most complex challenges with strategic solutions that help define the power industry landscape of the future. Its client base includes investor-owned and government utilities, developers, industrial complexes, rural cooperatives, municipal and public power systems, regional transmission organizations/ISOs, financial institutions, and gas-line and oil companies. For additional information about Sargent & Lundy, visit www.sargentlundy.com.