Emerging data visualization tools offer clear 3D models for highly complex projects. Forward-thinking
engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) firms integrate 3D modeling into their proprietary computer programs and toolsets for efficient and predictable EPC activities, correlation of all work processes, and collaborative planning. More importantly, the graphical representation of data brings clients greater project clarity and understanding, instantly bringing their investment to life.
Clear Construction, Execution and Progress
Project status visualization is a powerful tool that enhances communication and collaboration across project teams. It provides stakeholders, regardless of their location, with real-time access to construction progress and results, improving clarity and shared understanding.
This technology is especially beneficial for technical professionals:
- Engineers, craft professionals, and clients can more easily and clearly interpret complex information through immersive 3D models.
- The ability to visualize the outcome helps bridge the gap between conceptual design and the actual build, which is often difficult to achieve when relying solely on traditional 2D drawings.
- This clear visualization also facilitates early identification of potential issues and informed decision-making during the design phase and may reduce the need for costly later-stage modifications.
Enhanced Status Visualization for Greater Clarity
Emerging 3D modeling and advanced data visualization tools provide an immersive experience, allowing superintendents, auditors, and clients to promptly see the project's real-time status with intuitive color-coding features. This graphical representation of data enhances clarity and project understanding, bringing the investment to life for all stakeholders. For example, online status updates remain critical for complex pipe jobs. S&B uses an IConstruct Plug in, in conjunction with Navisworks Viewer, to color code pipe components as received, erected, tested, and posted in real-time, helping to ensure the project stays on or ahead of schedule.
This immediate access to vital, integrated data (which can be linked to construction schedules and work packages) allows for greater collaboration among all project partners. Teams can easily find necessary information within the model itself, eliminating time wasted tracking down details in separate documents. This transparency helps identify trends and manage cost-reducing efforts and also provides project owners with certainty in the project's successful, on-time delivery within budget. Auditors can even use tablets in the field to verify progress against the 3D model, further driving field productivity and efficiency compared to traditional 2D drawings and hard copies.
Drive Field Productivity
Field auditors use tablets to access real-time project progress and conduct comprehensive site walkdowns. This powerful data visualization capabilities, seamlessly delivered via integrated wireless devices, provide a substantial advantage over cumbersome, printed hard copies of workbooks and 2D drawings.
Project schedulers can dynamically link this visual data to precisely track individual components, enabling the efficient assignment of optimized installation work packages (IWPs). This integrated approach drives safe, predictable, measurable, and highly efficient work execution across the project lifecycle.
Linking EPC Procurement Services to Visualization Tools
Supervisors can leverage real-time data visualization via mobile tablets, integrated onsite technology hubs, or smart stations to verify the timely arrival and optimal placement of critical materials and equipment. This proactive oversight facilitates immediate look-ahead and dynamic workload adjustments. Ultimately, the strategic integration of data visualization underpins a robust, meticulously defined plan that propels the project across the entire engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) lifecycle—from initial design and materials delivery to construction execution, and finally to the successful commissioning and start-up of the facility.
Manage with Certainty
Project owners increasingly demand transparency from their EPC partners. S&B not only uses these data visualization tools to demonstrate to customers visually a project's real-time status but also gives stakeholders instant access to vital project information. S&B integrates data directly with its proprietary databases, adding even greater value to S&B's project reports and project management systems. When team members have access to the information they need, project owners can be confident of a project's successful delivery on time and within budget.
Data-Driven Success in the Midstream Sector
Partnering with the right EPC partner with advanced tools and industry experience is critical to getting the job done. S&B draws on the team's extensive construction expertise to develop an execution plan that optimizes construction means, methods, and sequencing. Learn more about S&B's proven expertise here.
