CISDI gave TATA Steel’s heads an illuminating talk on processes scheduled for the KPO BF2 engineering project by utilsing its Building Information Modelling technology.

BIM was introduced into CISDI’s projects in 2000 and has been applied to blast furnace 2 at TATA Steel KPO, Formosa Ha Tinh Steel’s two blast furnaces, Gerdau Acominas’s blast furnace 2, GUSA’s BOF and ArcelorMittal’s Saudi Arabian seamless steel tube mill.

BIM enables CISDI to optimise designs at an early stage, reducing the need for changes during construction. It also enables the client to assess the feasibility of the design and proposal.

During a meeting at CISDI’s Shanghai subsidiary, CISDI used BMI models to explain the blast furnace-related systems’ inspections and maintenance plans for the site. Attending were RRJHA , vice president of TATA Steel Construction, Rajiv Kumar, vice president of TATA Steel Production, and Niraj Kumar, TATA Steel’s project manager.

Detailed presentation and visualisation models enabled TATA to understand precisely the movement track for equipment lifting, the equipment travel scope and the relative positions between equipment and structures.

The process enabled CISDI to demonstrate how it would add new lifting holes at Column axle 16 on Platform +37.3m of the stockhouse discharge car.

CISDI’s project manager used the BIM model to demonstrate how the equipment would be located around the environments and how equipment during lifting would have to be interfered with the charge belt conveyor on Platform +37.3m, the passenger walkway, the lower return belt conveyors respectively at Platform +13.1m and +7.0m if the lifting holes were required adding at that place.

CISDI is currently developing a BIM-based management platform to provide full life-cycle BIM support - from design to construction - and for operations management.

A BIM render of TATA Steel’s KPO BF2

BIM render of Formosa Ha Tinh Steel’s blast furnaces

BIM render of ArcelorMittal’s Saudi Arabian seamless steel tube mill