GT STRUDL Award

PGESCo is pleased to announce that Dr. Samih Wahab P.E., Eng. Mohamed Khattab and Eng. Sherif Hewaidy won first place out of thirteen international competitors, in the International Intergraph at HXGN Live 2014 Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Dr. Samih Wahab presented a PowerPoint entitled “Using GTSTRUDL in the Structural Analysis of Heavy Industrial Buildings. GTSTRUDL was used extensively to design the power block steel structures for the Suez Power Plant (Suez City, Egypt) (1X650 MW).

The design is in accordance with the International Building Code IBC, ASCE, AISC and ACI. The Steam Turbine Generation Building was used as an example for this presentation which focused on the interface between the mechanical, plant design, and structural disciplines, particularly the global problems faced by all companies in pipe support analysis and design. The future possibility of an automated interface between GTSTRUDL, Caesar II, and SP3D was suggested as a solution. This would result in many long-term benefits, including savings in time, money and resources.  PGESCo is very proud of this extraordinary accomplishment and hopes to continue achieving greatness.