Intergraph® Honors 2009 Golden Valve Award Winners at Annual Users’ Conference

Global competition showcases innovative uses for SmartPlant® and SmartMarine® Enterprise engineering design software

Keppel FELS Ltd. was awarded “Best of Show” in the annual Intergraph® Golden Valve Awards Competition for the company’s detailed view of a semi-submersible drilling tender created with SmartMarine® 3D design software.

The Golden Valve Awards competition is sponsored by Intergraph and is open to all SmartPlant and SmartMarine Enterprise engineering design software users. The winners were announced in Washington, D.C. at Intergraph 2009, the engineering and geospatial software leader’s annual international users’ conference. Keppel FELS’ submission won over the more than 80 entries in this year’s competition.

“We are honored to be named Best of Show in the 2009 Golden Valve Awards Competition,” said Aziz Merchant, general manager (Group Design & Engineering) at Keppel Offshore & Marine. “SmartMarine 3D, which we used to design the winning entry, is one of our key 3D solutions and reinforces our position as the provider of choice and partner for solutions in the offshore and marine industry.”

Gerhard Sallinger, Intergraph Process, Power & Marine president, said, “We continue to see increasing adoption of our Smart 3D design solutions by industry leaders for its ability to increase productivity and accelerate projects, and the many Golden Valve entries this year using this next-generation technology are evidence of this trend.”

SmartPlant Enterprise and its marine and offshore counterpart SmartMarine Enterprise are integrated solutions suites that provide design, construction, fabrication, materials and engineering data management capabilities needed for the creation, safe operation and maintenance and capital Plant Lifecycle Management (cPLM) of large-scale process, power, marine and offshore assets.

The ARC Advisory Group, a leading industry analyst firm, ranked Intergraph the No. 1 overall engineering design 3D software and process engineering tools (PET) provider worldwide according to its PET Worldwide Outlook Market Analysis and Forecast through 2013.

Other Golden Valve award winners include:

Category: Working Views

1st Place – Dongkwon Lee, Samsung Heavy Industries
2nd Place – Carolina Braganca and Cristiane Alvarenga, ECM S.A. Projectos Industriais
3rd Place – Martin T. Ammann Jr., Shaw Group
Honorable Mention: Darío Rigaud Méndez, EmpresasY&V; Kevin J. Alba, Selas Fluid Processing Corp.; and Soonmi Jeon, Daelim Industrial Co. Ltd.

Category: Visually Complex

1st Place – A R Vivekraj, L&T Valdel Engineering Ltd.
2nd Place – Kenneth R. Houston, Selas Fluid Processing Corp.
3rd Place – Michael Bashore, WorleyParsons Group Inc.
Honorable Mention: Dongkwon Lee, Samsung Heavy Industries; and Robert Anderson, Linde Process Plants Inc.

Category: Rendering and Ray Traces

1st Place – William Fisch, Selas Fluid Processing Corp.
2nd Place – Carolina Braganca and Cristiane Alvarenga, ECM S.A. Projectos Industriais
3rd Place – Emil P. Kushner Jr., Selas Fluid Processing Corp.
Honorable Mention: Rhys Ryan and Scott Foster, WorleyParsons Services Pty Ltd.; and Jimmie Cannon, Linde Process Plants Inc.

Category: Animation

1st Place – Augusto Munhão, Promon Engenharia SA
2nd Place – Jerzy Chrzanowski and Michael J. Kosanovich, Westinghouse Electric Co.
3rd Place – Augusto Munhão, Promon Engenharia SA
Honorable Mention: Soo Hyun Park, Young Min Lee, and Chang Jae Lee, Hyundai Engineering Co. Ltd.; and Zhao Ying Lu and Xu Zhang, Chinergy

All the place winners will receive a monetary award for their efforts and will also have their work appear on Intergraph’s Web site, in the division’s Insight magazine and the 2010 Intergraph Process, Power & Marine calendar.