I have blogged previously about how Duke Energy and Nashville Electrical Service have used model-based design to make substation design more efficient.
Next week, on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 from 2 – 3:30 p.m. (Eastern Time), Terri Humel, Principal Associate Engineer on the substation design team at Nashville Electric Service (NES), in Nashville, Tennesse, will describe on a American Public Power Association (APPA) webcast how her team is using model-based design ( also known as BIM ) to double design productivity, improve design quality, and communicate more effectivily with non-technical stakeholders. They are also finding that the new technology is a lot more fun than traditional CAD-based substation design.
Many utilities are incorporating 3D design tools into their processes, but Nashville Electric Service (NES) is going even further. NES is creating intelligent digital models of their 60 existing substations, which can then be used to design rehabilitation and upgrades. This allows many of the formerly time-consuming aspects of the design process to be automated. NES has found that with this approach the design process has been cut in half, human error reduced, and design quality increased. NES expects its enhanced design process to help it meet a number of challenges including a workforce nearing retirement and the need to use resources more efficiently in the smart grid era.
Speakers:Terri Humel, Principal Associate Engineer, Nashville Electric Service, Tenn.
Geoff Zeiss, Industry Program Director, Utilities, Autodesk
This webinar is worth .2 CEU/1.5 PDH credits.
You can register here
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