CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
18 June 2013
Company News
HydroChina Zhongnan Engineering Corporation’s Standard Design and Application for the Pumped Storage Power Station Project Wins 2012 Bentley Be Inspired Award
HydroChina Zhongnan Engineering Corporation, a company primarily engaged in the planning, investigation, and design of hydropower and wind-power projects, announced that its Standard Design and Application for the Pumped Storage Power Station project in Zunyi, China, has won a 2012 Be Inspired Award from Bentley Systems, Incorporated. The project won in the “Innovation in Power Generation” category. The recipients of the Be Inspired Awards are selected by independent panels of jurors comprising accomplished Bentley users and distinguished industry experts. The awards honor the extraordinary work of Bentley users improving and sustaining the world’s infrastructure, recognizing outstanding and innovative project achievements in infrastructure design, construction, and operations.
Commenting on the award presented to HydroChina Zhongnan Engineering Corporation, Anne-Marie Walters, Bentley global marketing director, industrial process and operations, said, “The ‘Innovation in Power Generation’ award category represents power professionals from the largest utility to the smallest rural or municipal utility who work efficiently to produce and deliver energy. They share common goals of improving efficiency, reducing cost, and delivering better customer service while sustaining and expanding aging power generation plants and adding new generation capacity. The category recognizes innovative projects ranging from the traditional fossil fuel power plants to nuclear power stations and renewable energy sources such as hydroelectricity, solar, and wind power.
“HydroChina Zhongnan created standardized designs for large-scale pumped storage power stations, moving from one-off designs for each project to repeatable schemes for power generation units with capacities of 4 by 300 megawatts and 6 by 300 megawatts. The collaborative process produced a 3D information model that will be applied to the design, construction, and management of future pumped storage power stations for a total design cost savings of more than USD 1.57 million for each project. Thousands of man-days for each project will also be saved through a 90 percent reduction in design errors and shortening of project feasibility studies from six months to four months.
“The judges selected this project as an excellent case of true innovation in today’s engineering environment. HydroChina Zhongnan’s approach to standardization in design delivered a substantial increase in business value and return on investment. The changes it implemented on this project resulted in changes on projects already under way, delivering significant cost savings across multiple projects.”
HydroChina Zhongnan Deputy President Lixun Di said, “On behalf of my colleagues at HydroChina Zhongnan, I wish to thank the Be Inspired judges for recognizing our project for its many innovations. We are very proud of our work on this standardization project as it is speeding the delivery, as well as reducing the design and construction costs, of pumped storage power stations that provide clean energy to meet China’s growing demand for increased power generation capacity. In addition to emitting almost no carbon emissions, these hydroelectric units help manage energy loads across the power grid, enabling less environmentally friendly coal- and oil-burning power generation plants to operate at peak efficiencies, reducing their carbon emissions of unit power generation capacity. So it is very gratifying to win an award for a project that underscores our corporate commitment to supporting a harmonious environment among nature, people, and the energy needed to fuel China’s economic engine. And I want to thank Bentley for its innovative collaboration and information modeling software that helped us successfully realize our project objectives.”
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