CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
10 October 2012
Implementation Investments
DPR Construction Standardizes on ProjectWise for Collaboration and Work Sharing on All Large Projects, Enhancing Productivity
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, today announced that DPR Construction has standardized on Bentley's ProjectWise for collaboration and work sharing in the delivery of all large construction projects. DPR’s ProjectWise network currently consists of more than 2,000 active users working on more than 80 projects across 13 different regions of the United States. According to Andrew Fisher, BIM applications specialist at DPR Construction, ProjectWise helps the firm’s project teams eliminate the time-consuming process of manual file and information management, increasing productivity across the board – achieving as much as 10 percent on some projects.
A leader in building information modeling (BIM) and integrated project delivery (IPD), DPR finds ProjectWise to be crucial on projects utilizing these design and construction delivery practices. With these innovative approaches, virtual building processes are used to produce coordinated documents prior to construction – minimizing unanticipated costs and schedule disruptions during the actual building phase. However, these practices require a framework that can support an enormous exchange of information among multidisciplinary teams over a long period of time.
As DPR CIO Radhika Menon said, “Integrated project teams need more than BIM alone to be successful. They need secure information mobility across file formats, geographies, and disciplines to support collaborative workflows, and for this we use ProjectWise.”
ProjectWise enables fast and easy access to information for all stakeholders across many companies in a manner that’s integrated with the workflow. By providing federated AEC content in an interoperable environment, ProjectWise enables the right people to quickly and reliably accelerate work in progress using their authoring tools and workflows of choice.
Andrew Fisher said, “DPR team members orchestrate an incredible amount of work every day. With an ever-increasing reliance on digital information for communicating a project plan, we need a tool that can keep up with the demand. ProjectWise allows us to streamline information exchange among different team members and improve project performance by automating certain parts of the workflow. ProjectWise provides necessary accuracy and performance for our teams due to its superior content management and user access controls.”
With ProjectWise, team members use one platform to access and share information that includes everything from drawings, specifications, standards, and 2D and 3D models to clash resolution reports, progress pictures, and much more. Currently, there are more than 2,000 DPR project team members using ProjectWise to manage and share engineering content that includes millions of unique files in 63,000 different folders. Total current data storage use is more than 2,500 gigabytes. All of this content can be accessed from the jobsite, including through the use of the new ProjectWise iPad apps that allow direct access to ProjectWise remotely.
“The ProjectWise iPad apps have been instrumental in allowing our team access to the most current information anywhere anytime,” said David Sproule, DPR BIM project engineer.
DPR also uses ProjectWise to develop efficient workflows by eliminating or automating tasks that do not add value. For example, all modelers can use ProjectWise to coordinate with other trades without recreating the model. This sharing of models among multidisciplinary project team members produces substantial savings in time and money. In addition to being able to easily download the latest models for other systems, modelers can coordinate as they model without having to wait for weekly updates and meetings.
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