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
- Analyzing energy efficiency