Market - Case Studies
Document Management
DrawMGT has been used on both small and very large projects. It is especially easy to use and quick to setup for small to medium sized projects, where you have the need, but not necessarily the time and budget to deploy an enterprise-level drawing/document management system. This means that your project can have the efficiencies and organizational advantages offered by larger systems, but without their overheads.
Kárahnjúkar Hydroelectric Project
- 5-year project to build a 700 MW power plant and 70km of tunnels
- DrawMGT in operation for over four years
- 15,000 documents
- Over 300 users, from 20 companies
DrawMGT has had a mission critical role on the Kárahnjúkar hydro-project for over four years, and has proven capable of managing the over 15,000 documents they have produced to date. In addition to drawings, the Kárahnjúkar DrawMGT system also manages tunnel profiles, inspection documentation, site instructions, correspondence and even photographs of the raw tunnel excavation. Currently DrawMGT continues to play a key role in the Kárahnjúkar project, managing the checklists for the headrace tunnel finishing work.
Location, work-type, alignment and chainage classify all Kárahnjúkar documents and tasks. You can specify, for example, a chainage range in a particular tunnel to find all pertinent documentation: starting from the original geological studies and design drawings, right through to the tunnel profiles, inspection forms, finishing instructions and as-built documentation. Tunnel inspectors use DrawMGT to generate lists of items to check on their inspection tours.
The savings at Kárahnjúkar due to the use of DrawMGT are considerable. A Kárahnjúkar project manager calculated that merely by using the automated drawing submittals, the direct savings had paid for their investment in less than two years.
Lagarfoss Hydroelectric Project
- 3-year project to refurbish and enlarge a 7500 kW power plant
- DrawMGT in operation for over one year
- 2500 documents
- 50 users, from 10 companies
VST Consulting Engineers of Reykjavik selected DrawMGT for use on the Lagarfoss refurbishment project. DrawMGT was deployed in spite of the project being within one year of completion. VST made the decision based on their calculation, that use of DrawMGT would pay for itself in less than one year. They have achieved both direct savings by using DrawMGT's automatic drawing distribution and organizational efficiencies by using DrawMGT to coordinate activities between the design office and the job site.
Numeric Modelling
Hydrodynamic Transient Analysis
We assisted the Kárahnjúkar Hydroelectric Project by helping to automate the hydrodynamic transient analysis of the waterways.