In the heavy industry sector, Renaissance has been actively utilizing plant design software (PDS), a comprehensive and intelligent computer-aided system used to support plant design, construction and operation services, in its industrial projects with the aim of delivering plant projects more efficiently with better coordination. PDS has been used by its competent process engineers, plant designers, mechanical and structural engineers of Renaissance from scoping studies to feasibility analysis and front end design to detail engineering in the areas of petrochemicals, refineries, fertilizers, natural gas plants, power plants and process plants.
Renaissance Engineering Teams offers high-quality and reliable process, piping and layout, mechanical and vessel, civil, structural and architectural, electrical, instrumentation and automation engineering, and building electromechanical designs through the integration of PDS to the its engineering solutions. The benefits gained and areas where the PDS has been facilited are given as follows;
BENEFITS IN DESIGN AND ENGINEERING
Automating design and editing activities
Identifying drawing inconsistencies
Importing specifications from other software
Quickly generating drawings, material lists,
Enabling design checks for interferences
Utilizing digital prototyping for equipment and skids
More easily creating equipment specifications
Visualizing equipment and skids in a 3D process model
Designing and analyzing structures in 3D models
More efficiently designing with intelligent structural objects
Providing more accurate engineering models
Better front-end engineering design
BENEFITS IN COORDINATION, COMMUNICATION AND DOCUMENTATION
Improving coordination among stakeholders
Sharing of plant designs and models
Working via an interconnected model
Better coordination of piping and structural design
Optimizing designs and finding problems earlier with simulation
Better coordination of project information
Enabling more complete plant engineering data
Generating documentation from digital protoypes
BENEFITS IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Calculating detailed material quantities
Minimizing rework by identifying nonconformities earlier
Minimizing change orders
Improving the reliability of cost estimations
Creating bills of materials
Enabling confict resolution prior to construction
BENEFITS IN CONSTRUCTION
Simulating performance before manufacturing
Identifying constructability visually
Providing better coordination at site
Better understanding site conditions before delivery
Simulating site logistics in 4D models
Providing better site coordination and workflow planning
Providing enhance communication among stakeholders
Renaissance has also incorporated PDS in its Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) projects as PDS is helpful to deliver the projects in best design possible, in lowest cost, in highest efficiency and in most effective cooperation. Renaissance has also attached great important to the EPC contracting as it ensures safe delivery of projects due to effective cooperation and joint efforts of project stakeholders. As an EPC contractor, Renaissance has entered into joint venture and consortium agreements with a wide range of technology providers, financial institutions and reputable international EPC contracts such as Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd., the Sojitz Corporation and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. Through its EPC projects, Renaissance has been successfully established solid long-term partnerships and provided mutual benefit to all project participants.
Some of the services provided by the Renaissance in the context of its EPC projects are as follows;
Engineering (E)
· Detailed Engineering
· Reinforced concrete structures
· Steel structures
· Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing services (MEP)
· Architectural
· Infrastructure
Procurement (P)
· International procurement of building and MEP materials,
· International procurement of sanitary installation materials
· International procurement of process equipment
· International logistics of process equipment for large-scale EPC contracts
Construction (C)
· All types of construction works, including piling, concrete works, structural steel works, pipe installation, equipment assembly, painting, insulation, instrumentation, electrical installation, earthworks, MEP works, assembly works, etc.
· Pre-commissioning, commissioning, and start-up services
Acting with environmental responsibility and awareness, Renaissance Construction has knew the negative impacts of the structures built on environmental and human health such as excessive consumption of energy, water and materials and emissions of various greenhouse gases. Renaissance Construction, adopting various strategies to avoid possible effects of its projects on the environment and human health, has attached great importance to design, construct and operate its projects in accordance with the “Green Building” principles.
As being a leader in its sectors; Renaissance Construction has also taken pioneering and innovative steps in the regions where it operates with the importance given to sustainability and environmental health through undertaking various projects awarded by LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification; that is one of the most important certifications in the field of environment issued by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC).
Through designing with sustainable design principles, supplying environmentally friendly and re-cycled materials, utilizing sustainable technologies and constructing with green building principles, some of the projects of Renaissance Construction, which have been awarded by LEED certification by USGBC, are as follows:
Renaissance Pravda, the first and only office building of Russia to be awarded with the LEED Gold Certificate of Russia
TED Renaissance College, the first private school of Turkey to be awarded with the LEED Gold Certificate
The A-class office project, Renaissance Tower, the first high-rise building of Turkey that has received the LEED Platinum Certificate
Renaissance Construction has also been conducting various studies with its project participants in the fields such as water and energy consumption, material usage, waste management and indoor air quality. The contexts of its studies, which have been continuously improved and within which innovative solutions are incorporated, are defined as follows:
SUSTAINABLE SITES
Developing strategies about prevention of construction pollution
Measuring and minimizing the heat island effect
Identifying and minimizing light pollution
Analyzing sites in the context of environment
LOCATION AND TRANSPORTATION
Assessing the sites in terms of “urbanization” density and proximity to basic services
Assessing the sites in terms of appropriateness of alternative transportation systems and public transportation
Developing sites to protect the natural habitat and enhance open space
WATER CONSUMPTION
Implementing water efficient landscaping
Utilizing innovative waste-water technologies
Decreasing water consumption
MATERIAL AND RESOURCE USAGE
Using materials appropriate for recycling
Effectively facilitating waste management system
Encouraging the material re-use
Prioritizing to use regional materials
ENERGY AND ATMOSPHERE
Utilizing efficient and sustainable building energy systems
Enabling energy saving and efficiency
Using renewable energy
Measuring, auditing and implementing necessary strategies about energy consumption
INDOOR AIR QUALITY
Enhancing the indoor air quality
Undertaking smoke control
Preparing and developing indoor air quality management plan
Using low emission-materials
Auditing the indoor air quality
Ensuring the highest degree of utilization of daylight
The green buildings constructed by Renaissance Construction have the following characteristics:
Evaluates the land as in most appropriately
Uses materials appropriate to be re-cycled
Uses renewable energy sources
Utilizes daylight in the highest degree
Controls the indoor air quality and protects from dust, toxic gases emissions
Provides cost savings from heating, cooling and lighting
Attaches important for the rain water collection and treatment
Implements solid waste management practices
Complies with international environmental laws and standards
Renaissance Construction has been utilizing Building Information Modelling (BIM) system since the beginning of the 21st century as part of its strategic plan. Having over 100 architectures and engineers in its teams, Renaissance Construction has two BIM centers located in St. Petersburg, Russia and Istanbul, Turkey. Through the incorporation of BIM system to the design and project management, projects are managed in a more timely manner, the quality of process and products are enhanced, time and cost overruns are minimized, quantity take-offs and project costs are more accurately estimated, and project information are more effectively shared among all project participants.
With designing, utilizing and managing project components as in the form of “intelligent objects” incorporating their “information”, Renaissance BIM team has been supporting various project phases and project participants involved in project value chain as well as has more effectively managed design and construction with the 4D and 5D building models having rich and intelligent building data.
Our initiatives;
Effectively utilizing BIM in projects and benefit from its expected outcomes
Investigating and developing the best-practices and techniques about BIM
Organizing training and education programs
Providing in-house consulting services
Renaissance Construction has been facilitating BIM system in four major fields;
3D Modelling: Visualization and development of “intelligent objects”
4D Modeling: Project simulation and project scheduling
5D Modelling: Quantity take-off and cost estimation
Lean Construction and Sustainability
Some of the benefits gained with the use of BIM system are listed as follows;
VISUALIZATION AND MONITORING OF PROJECT SCHEDULES
Developing 4D models with the incorporation of scheduling program to the 3D models
Obtaining project simulations
ldentifying variations among planned and actual schedules
Visualizing projects prior to their initiation
EFFICIENCY OF DESIGNP ROCESSES
Automaticaliy updating design changes
Preventing design errors and defects
More effectively managing design changes
Making more informed design decisions
ldentifying design inconsistencies
CLIENT SATISFACTION
Building a final product that meets with the client expectations
Enhancing project performance and guality
Presenting preventive strategies for cost and time overruns
COST ESTIMATION
Automatically obtaining guantity take-off
More effectively estimating costs with defined unit prices
ERP SYSTEMS INTEGRATION
Automating processes through the incorporation of SAP system with BIM
Undertaking project and cost control activities with RIB-Itwo system
COORDINATION AND COMMUNICATION
Enhancing coordination among project participamts
Enabling involvement of project participants from the beginning of design
Sharing of project information with project participants as in the form of visual “intelligemt objects”
More effectively managing project and design complexities
LEAN CONSTRUCTION AND SUSTAINABILITY
Enabling to identify problems and nonconformities that may create waste
Minimizing time and construction resources-related waste