LAS VEGAS, June 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Amec Foster
Wheeler, a British multinational consultancy, engineering and
project management company headquartered in London, received the "Best of Show" award this
week during the 15th annual Golden Valve Awards customer
competition sponsored by Intergraph®.
The sixth annual Platinum Pipe Awards recognized the most
innovative automation ideas and implementations for
SmartPlant® P&ID, SmartPlant Electrical and
SmartPlant Instrumentation (known as SmartPlant Engineering &
Schematics); Intergraph Smart™ 3D; and SmartPlant Review.
Submissions by CB&I (United
States), Empresarios Agrupados (Spain) and Toyo Engineering Corporation
(Japan) received first-place
recognition in the Engineering & Schematics, Smart 3D and
SmartPlant Review categories, respectively.
The Golden Valve Awards annually recognize the most innovative
and well-executed uses of Intergraph PP&M solutions. The
competition is open to all users of Intergraph's market-leading
engineering design software and the subject matter must relate to
the process, power, offshore, shipbuilding or mining
industries.
The awards were presented in conjunction with HxGN LIVE, the
annual international user conference for Intergraph Process, Power
& Marine (PP&M) and Hexagon's other brands.
The "Best of Show" entry by Tyler
Enright of Amec Foster Wheeler depicts a night scene
rendering detailing a pipe rack on a major Alberta oil sands project. It was produced
using the latest version of Intergraph SmartPlant®
Review, the problem-solving 3D visualization tool that provides a
complete visualization environment for interactively reviewing and
analyzing large, complex 3D models of process and power plants, and
is used by many companies globally.
Enright received a cash award of US$1,500, a plaque featuring the winning image
and his "Best of Show" submission will grace the cover of the 2016
Golden Valve calendar.
The 2015 Golden Valve recipients are:
Best of Show
- Tyler Enright, Amec Foster
Wheeler, Oil & Gas Canada (Canada)
Judges' Choice: Offshore
- Engineering Team, Keppel Fels Baltech (Bulgaria)
Judges' Choice: Engineering & Construction
- William M. Fronheiser, Linde
Engineering North America, Inc. (United
States)
Judges' Choice: Power
- 3D R&D Center, SNERDI (China)
Category: Animation
- 1st – ECM Engineering Team, ECM S.A. Projetos
Industriais (Brazil)
Category: Discipline-Specific
- 1st – ECM Engineering Team, ECM S.A. Projetos
Industriais (Brazil)
- 2nd – LTEM Piping & Plant Engineering Team,
Larsen & Toubro Hydrocarbon Engineering, Mumbai (India)
- 3rd – Chen Mengyao, Sinopec Ningbo Engineering
Company Limited (China)
Category: Photorealism
- 1st – Integration Engineering Department, Sinopec
Petroleum Engineering Corporation (China)
- 2nd – 3D Design System Division, PT Rekayasa
Industri (Indonesia)
- 3rd – Process & Industrial, Burns &
McDonnell (United States)
- Honorable mention – Kandarp
Shah, L&T-Chiyoda Limited (India)
Category: Visually Complex
- 1st – MiJeong Kim,
Samsung Heavy Industries (Korea)
- 2nd – PGESCo (Egypt)
- 3rd – Sanjaykumar
Sarvaiya, Linde Engineering India Pvt. Ltd. (India)
- Honorable mention – Tyler
Enright, Amec Foster Wheeler, Oil & Gas (Canada)
The 2015 Platinum Pipe recipients are:
Category: Engineering and Schematics
- 1st – Shawn Hillen,
CB&I (United States)
- 2nd – Tetsuya Miwa,
Toyo Engineering Corporation (Japan)
- 3rd – PPM Project, Empresarios Agrupados
(Spain)
Category: Smart 3D
- 1st – PPM Project, Empresarios Agrupados
(Spain)
- 2nd – Caspar Arevad, Ramboll (Denmark)
- 3rd – ECM Engineering Team, ECM S.A. Projetos
Industriais
Category: SmartPlant Review
- 1st – Tetsuya Miwa,
Toyo Engineering Corporation (Japan)
- 2nd – Sherif Mokhtar ElGanady, PGESCo (Egypt)
Gerhard Sallinger, Intergraph
Process, Power & Marine president, said, "The Golden Valve and
Platinum Pipe Awards are truly a global competition, as we again
received entries from all around the world. We had approximately
100 inspiring submissions this year from customers who are using
our market-leading solutions to increase their safety, quality and
productivity."
All place winners receive a monetary award for their efforts (or
have the money donated to charity) and will have their work
displayed on Intergraph's website, www.intergraph.com, and in the
division's Insight magazine. Golden Valve winners will be
featured on the 2016 Intergraph Process, Power & Marine wall
calendar.
To view this year's Golden Valve winning entries, please visit
www.intergraph.com/ppm/customers/awards/goldenvalve/2015.
To view this year's Platinum Pipe winning entries, please visit
www.intergraph.com/ppm/customers/awards/platinumpipe/2015.
Intergraph Technical User Forum (TUF) LinkedIn groups provide an
online discussion forum for year-round networking between users. To
learn more about Intergraph solutions and network with other
Intergraph users, visit www.intergraph.com/go/tuf.
The ARC Advisory Group, a leading industry analyst firm, ranked
Intergraph as the No. 1 overall worldwide provider of engineering
solutions for plant design (process, power and marine), according
to its "Engineering Design Tools for Plants and Infrastructure
Worldwide Outlook Market Analysis and Forecast Through
2018."
About Intergraph
Intergraph helps the world work
smarter. The company's software and solutions improve the lives of
millions of people through better facilities, safer communities and
more reliable operations.
Intergraph Process, Power & Marine (PP&M) is the world's
leading provider of enterprise engineering software enabling
smarter design and operation of plants, ships and offshore
facilities. Intergraph Security, Government & Infrastructure
(SG&I) is the leader in smart solutions for emergency response,
utilities, transportation and other global challenges. For more
information, visit www.intergraph.com.
Intergraph is part of Hexagon (Nasdaq Stockholm: HEXA B;
hexagon.com), a leading global provider of information technologies
that drive quality and productivity improvements across geospatial
and industrial enterprise applications.
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