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A webinar with Minnkota Power

Agenda

Introduction Rich Giska – Industry Management Consultant

Industry Success Jennifer Johnson, Minnkota

Solution Demo Hannah Hosch, Aconex

Q&A

Industry landscape – emerging issuesRich Giska, 40-year industry veteran and management consultant

• Critical: replacement of aging fossil-based plants, reduced emission

• Complex: influence of deregulated market on capital investments

• Evolving: increased use of renewable sources for generation

• Impacts: grid stability challenges with intermittent power sources

• Needs: expanded transmission capacity and energy “storage”

• Operational Readiness: improve transition from construction

Challenges of renewables• Regulatory authorities expanding

requirements for renewable power sources

• Regional transmission grid operators (ISOs) challenged to manage continued increase of renewables and intermittent power supplies

• Remote siting of renewables driving new transmission to

bring power to end users

Challenges of current trends

• Multiple entities (Consortium) with distinct division of responsibilities

• Early engagement by owner

operators

• Stringent information handover requirements

• Project management and delivery

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Bigger projects have bigger impacts

Effective process management can improve both cost and schedule

Percentage of projects exceeding budget and cycle time by over 10%Source: Booz Allen Hamilton

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Jennifer JohnsonEngineering Services SupervisorMinnkota Power

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Power project challenges - A traditionally stable industry now in

constant change

- Projects requiring multiple design and

construction disciplines

- Extremely short project timelines

- Imposed regulatory requirements

- Planning for long life of asset operations

- Aging workforce with high employee

turnover

- Ensuring knowledge transfer as people

move from the project

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Minnkota project: Center to Grand Forks transmission line

• 345 kV / 250 miles / 1,334

structures

• Cost of $350M

• Start Date: January 2009

• In-Service Date: August 2014

• 4.5 years from project kick-off to

completion

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Project challenges – mini projects

• US Fish and Wildlife concerns – whooping crane

• Landowner concerns – fencing, stray voltage, view,

tree removal

• County / Township concerns – road damage

• Mother Nature -- unpredictable

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Whooping crane migration area #1 concern

Installing bird flight diverters on new and existing lines.

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Landowners – fences to contain cattle, tree removal and replacement program

Trees, farmingEMF

Fencing became an issue

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Airport concerns – installed lower profile towers

Limited clearance due to flight path

60’

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Counties and townships – installed lines with tractors and helicopters to be less disruptive

Retaining the integrity of the

roads

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Mother Nature – causing schedule and cost impacts

Blizzard conditions

Excessive rain

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Project snapshot

1334 Structures

250 miles

11 counties

2 substation

s4

regeneration

stations

16 highway crossing

s

440 landowne

rs

100s of

workers

1000s of trees

10s of 1,000s of documents

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• Project Management (2)• Procurement (3)• Right-of-Way (3)• Environmental (1)• Engineering (4)• Construction Management (2)• Communications (2)• Legal (1)

The small Minnkota team:

22 people working “mostly” full time on the Project, but still maintaining existing operations.

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We had to bring in and collaborate with an extended teamHow many other people worked on the project?

Consultants: Design, Environmental, ROW

Vendors: Pole, hardware, substation equipment

Contractors: Foundation, fencing, construction

Outside Agencies: RUS, USFW, PSC

Other Utilities: distribution cooperatives At least 15 more

“teams” added to the Project

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Power project challenges

• Geographically dispersed teams• Large number of companies on the project team • Large project team • Scope change• Delivering critical operations• Regulatory requirements• Pre handover testing• Planning for long life of asset operations• Ensuring knowledge transfer as people move on

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The solution? Aconex

Document management - Upload and distribute files - Manage revision control - View any type of document

Project communication - Visibility into project mail - Track progress - Nothing is deleted – complete audit trail deleted, audit trail

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How we managed processes before & after AconexChallenge Manual process System process

Information exchange

Email, FTP, error prone

Single secure auditable system

File size and compatibility issues

Inability to email or open files

No file size limits and integrated viewer

Time spent searching for and tracking documents

Email, internal drives, paper archives

Full version history and all communication tracked within a central system

Security Email is not secure and files can be forwarded

All communication happens within a secure environment

Transmitting documents

Manual sending of multiple versions to multiple parties

Everything needed is in one central location available from any place, anytime

Disputing incorrect/ undelivered docs

Searching through sent boxes & transmittal logs

Clear audit trail with accountability

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Selection criteria: Information Management System

Flexibility• Should support YOUR project processes• Manage documents, communication and

models• Support PC, mobile and offline access

Project-wide • Support ALL users from all organizations

equally• Not behind anyone’s fire wall• Secure workspace for each company

Ease of set up and use• Must reflect industry-specific processes• Facilitate cross-project implementation

and adoption

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Results – Awarded Constructech Vision Awardfor innovative use of technology• Reduced project risk

– clear audit trail

• Improved communication – ease of reviews

• Time savings – no tracking, searching or waiting

• A safe operating asset – built as designed

Estimated cost savings of US$500,000 over five years

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Aconex collaboration Save money, increase productivity. Manage project risk.

Cloud & Mobile

Information & Process

Management

Engineering & Construction

Project-Wide

Across the Project Lifecycle

Plan Design Construct OperateBid

OperatorSub-contractorsContractorConsultantsOwner EPC Designer

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One integrated collaboration platform for project information and processes

Owner

EPC Designer

Consultants

Contractor Subcontractors

Web Mobile APIs

Information & Process Management

Platform

Document Management

3D Modeling Field Inspections

Correspondence Registers Bidding & Tenders

Workflows O&M / Deliverables Site Mobility

Network Integration API Reporting & Search

Infrastructure 2D & 3D Viewer Archiving

Operator

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The world’s most widely-used collaboration platform for engineering & construction

500thousandusers worldwide

$800billionin projects

1.1billiondocuments

48thousand

companies served

70countriesaround the world

40offices

globally

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Panama Canal Expansion $3.2B

Dubai Airport Concourse 3 $4.5B

Algeria Highway $5B

Apex Clean Energy $470M

Venda Nova III $438.6M

Mundra UMPP $4.1BM

Apex Clean Energy $470M

Minnkota Power $350MSan Juan Generating $100M

NgaAwaPurua Geothermal $235M

Uranquinty Power Station $500M

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Aconex: Power project process managementThere was a 20 minute platform demo during the live webinar. Request a personal demo at aconex.com/Demo• Overview• Mail• RFIs• Submittals• Knowledge transfer • Document records• Handover and commissioning

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Thanks to Jennifer Johnson, Minnkota

andRich Giska, power industry consultant,

for participating in this webinar

Contact us at aconex.com/Demo