Two 5,499 cubic metre volume blast furnaces are under construction at Jindal Steel Odisha Ltd. in India.

CISDI has provided digital designs throughout for the furnaces’ system and core equipment and supply and construction consulting services.

Utilising digital designs across all relevant engineering majors has played a crucial role in optimising workshop layout and pipeline arrangement. It is enabling the team to pre-empt and resolve potential interference and spot missing items before practical construction.

Digital designs ensure a higher standard of engineering quality is met and appropriate maintenance spaces are prepared.

At Jindal Steel, the construction process is running smoothly without onsite issues, thanks to the digital design of the civil foundations, steel structures, pipework and bridges.

Digital design also leads to well-controlled schedule and quality.

Highlights of CISDI’s collaborative digital design platform:

1) Engineering majors can share real-time input and output information on the unified collaborative digital design platform. Problems and solutions are communicated swiftly, enhancing design efficiency and quality.

CISDI’s QingCheng platform - the ‘Model + Data’ digital base - has implemented online browsing and digital applications for light-weight (simplified, streamlined) buildings.

2) All majors’ three-dimensional models are collected at the platform, facilitating collision checking. Closed-loop engineering control holds back any pending designs ahead of construction, reducing the possibility of losses arising from design-incurred building changes or re-modelling.

3) 3D models give JSOL and its construction partners a thorough understanding of the design purposes, the layout, equipment and pipeline arrangements.

It makes it easy for all parties to comment on the models and support JSOL to make sensible decisions based on the agreed constructional schemes and controllable costs and schedule. Model-based clarification meetings give participants an accurate view, as if they are physically in the workshop.

The project manager in charge of JSOL BFs’ proper and top construction, Mr Angesh Jha from Indian subcontractor GM, commented: “We habitually use CISDI 3D; it is very helpful.”

Engineers are checking and solving collision and headroom issues on the modelling platform