Creates Integrated Content Management System for 1550 Projects; Saves 80 Million RMB and 30 Percent in Project Times Through Improved Collaboration
BEIJING – Bentley Plant, Asia Summit – 23 May 2007 – North China Power Engineering (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (NCPE), a leading provider of survey and design, engineering consultation, and general contracting services, has won a 2007 BE Award of Excellence for its creation of an integrated content management system based on the ProjectWise collaboration system. To date, NCPE has been able to save 80 million RMB and to cut project times by up to 30 percent as a result of improved collaboration.
The award, which was originally announced last month at BE Conference 2007 in Los Angeles, California, was presented here today to Mr. Wang Rong, vice president of NCPE, by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Monnier, senior vice president, Bentley Asia-Pacific Operating Unit. The award category was “Plant Lifecycle Information Management.”
NCPE needed an integrated system to manage the design, information exchange, and publication processes for a portfolio of 1550 projects. The system would need to be traceable, satisfy quality control requirements, and be able to streamline the workflows of more than 1000 project team members by facilitating collaboration.
“Our use of ProjectWise has been widely accepted and viewed as a core capability by potential clients and partners of NCPE,” said Mr. Li Zhi, general engineer, NCPE. “For example, NCPE and government-owned power companies recently reached an agreement to use the ProjectWise collaboration system for managing design content on future projects. In addition, when CH2M HILL, a global leader in full-service engineering, construction, and operations, selected NCPE as its partner in China, the firm said it was impressed with our deployment of ProjectWise.”
NCPE is using ProjectWise to manage, find, and share design, engineering, and project information among multiple disciplines, coordinate and streamline publication and co-signature workflows, and to speed project creation and work schedules. System functionalities, which are fully integrated with the firm’s ERP system, include directory and mapping, workflow, communication, version control, security, planning, and finished product.
The content NCPE is managing with the help of ProjectWise includes survey, design, and engineering data related to 142 600-kilowatt generator projects, 93 300-kilowatt generator projects, 102 5-million-kilovolt power line and substation projects, 118 2.2-million-kilovolt power line and substation projects, and 17 domestic and international general contracting projects. The ProjectWise system currently holds 19 data sources, 420,000 shared files, more than 52,000 process transfers and audits, and more than 240,000 published, archived, and delivered electronic documents and relevant hard copies.
For more information on NCPE’s winning project and all of the other 2007 BE Award projects, visit www.be.org/awards. For more information on the Bentley products used in this project, visit www.bentley.com/ProjectWise.
About ProjectWise
ProjectWise is a scalable collaboration system for connecting people and information across the distributed enterprise. It includes desktop clients and servers.
On the desktop, ProjectWise Navigator delivers visual collaboration for design review and analysis plus work packaging. ProjectWise StartPoint extends Microsoft SharePoint to enable collaboration for MicroStation and AutoCAD users. Used together or individually, they open the power of ProjectWise to a broad population of new users and teams.
For the enterprise, ProjectWise Integration Server delivers federated engineering content management. It connects to servers for caching data, for automating and managing plotting, and for integrating with SharePoint to expose ProjectWise content to the wider project team. For more information, go to www.bentley.com/ProjectWise.
About the BE Awards of Excellence
The BE Awards of Excellence, which are judged by an independent panel of industry experts and presented at an evening ceremony during the annual BE Conference (www.be.org), honor the extraordinary work of Bentley users improving the world’s infrastructure. These projects set benchmarks and showcase the imagination and technical mastery of the organizations that created them.
About the BE Conference
The BE Conference, which consistently scores a 99 percent attendee satisfaction rating, is a once-a-year learning opportunity for Bentley user organizations offering professional training, technology updates, keynotes, and best practice sharing. At these sessions, attendees better themselves, better their organizations, and better the ways they can improve the world’s infrastructure. For more information, go to www.be.org.
About North China Power Engineering (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
North China Power Engineering (Beijing) Co., Ltd., a leading provider of survey and design, engineering consultation, and general contracting services, holds Class A and Class B qualification certificates in eight industries, including: power engineering design, architectural engineering design, oceanic engineering, electronic communication, municipal works, hydraulic engineering, engineering supervision and consultation, environmental impact assessment, and general contracting.
Since 1996, the firm has consistently been included in the Top 100 National Engineering Survey and Design Enterprise list. In addition, it was named in the 2001 and 2003 Engineering News-Record 225 International Contractors list, won the title of “Advanced Collective Adopting the Strategy of ‘Developing the International Market’” by the State Power Corporation in 2001, ranked 35 in the 2002 and 25 in the 2003 Top 100 National Engineering Contracting Enterprises list, ranked 17 in the 2003 Top 60 China Engineering Design Enterprises list of both Engineering News-Record and China Architecture Times, earned the 2004 National Good Contract Performance and Faith Enterprise award presented by the Beijing Administrative Bureau of Industry & Commerce, and won the titles of “Capital Civilized Entity” and “Civilized Entity” under the Party Central Committee. For more information, visit www.ncpe.com.cn.
About Bentley Plant, Asia Summit
The Bentley Plant, Asia Summit is a gathering of Bentley executives, owner-operators, engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractors, and industry experts from across Asia to share best practices in the design and management of infrastructure projects for the oil and gas and chemical industries. The conference is sponsored by Bentley Systems, Incorporated.
About Bentley
Bentley Systems, Incorporated provides software for the lifecycle of the world’s infrastructure. The company’s comprehensive portfolio for the building, plant, civil, and geospatial verticals spans architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) and operations. With revenues now surpassing $400 million annually, and more than 2400 colleagues globally, Bentley is the leading provider of AEC software to the Engineering News-Record Top Design Firms and major owner-operators, and was named the world’s No. 2 provider of GIS/geospatial software solutions in a recent Daratech research study.
