Korea District Heating Engineering Company Selects Intergraph® SmartPlant® Enterprise

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Nov. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Korea District Heating Engineering Company Limited (KDHEC) has selected Intergraph^® SmartPlant^® Enterprise solutions for new energy plant projects in Korea and around the world.

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KDHEC is a subsidiary of Korea District Heating Corporation (KDHC), and it is a leading engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company, providing design and engineering services for combined heat and power plants, as well as district heating systems. To continue driving growth in its EPC business, the company sought technology that would deliver better functionality and improved performance. KDHEC chose Intergraph because of its intelligent and production-driven technology, as well as its proven global leadership position, with top local and international engineering companies adopting Intergraph technology for projects worldwide. Intergraph's reliable and advanced engineering solutions will help the company deliver enhanced safety, quality and productivity to its energy plant projects.

"We want to revamp our engineering design platform and Intergraph is the best fit as we look at updating our systems to drive further growth of our business," said Park Keum Yeol, senior engineer at KDHEC. "Intergraph offers a comprehensive portfolio of integrated SmartPlant Enterprise engineering solutions, which will enable us to address our requirements for all disciplines across the entire project life cycle."

Gerhard Sallinger, Intergraph Process, Power & Marine president, said, "Intergraph has been supporting leading engineering companies in Korea for nearly 30 years, and we welcome this new partnership with KDHEC. The use of Intergraph's 3D modeling and visualization solutions will help KDHEC to be more effective and efficient in the management of KDHC's energy plant facilities."

SmartPlant Enterprise offers a powerful portfolio of industry-leading, best-in-class design and data management solutions, enabling companies in the process, power and marine industries to capture integrated engineering knowledge at the enterprise level for the competitive advantage needed in today's and tomorrow's market. SmartPlant Enterprise's integrated suite of solutions enables proven productivity gains, improving engineering efficiency by up to 30 percent. This is why the majority of plants built worldwide are designed using Intergraph solutions.

The ARC Advisory Group, a leading industry analyst firm, ranked Intergraph as the No. 1 overall worldwide provider of engineering design solutions for industry according to its "Engineering Design Tools for Industry and Infrastructure Worldwide Outlook Market Analysis and Forecast Through 2016."

About KDHEC
Korea District Heating Engineering Company Limited (KDHEC) was established in 1991 as a joint venture created between Korea District Heating Corporation (KDHC) and Poyry Finland Oy for the purpose of advancing TES technology. KDHEC has been dedicating itself for 20 years based on the extensive technologies and experiences in various projects to provide advanced engineering services in the fields of DH technical support, CHP, business consulting, feasibility studies, construction management, trial operations and supervisory business. The company strives to be the best business partner who perfectly satisfies its clients' needs in every possible way and guarantees first-class design quality. www.kdhec.com

About Intergraph
Intergraph is the leading global provider of engineering and geospatial software that enables customers to visualize complex data. Businesses and governments in more than 60 countries rely on Intergraph's industry-specific software to organize vast amounts of data to make processes and infrastructure better, safer and smarter. The company's software and services empower customers to build and operate more efficient plants and ships, create intelligent maps, and protect critical infrastructure and millions of people around the world.

Intergraph operates through two divisions: Process, Power & Marine (PP&M) and Security, Government & Infrastructure (SG&I). Intergraph PP&M provides enterprise engineering software for the design, construction, operation and data management of plants, ships and offshore facilities. Intergraph SG&I provides geospatially powered solutions, including ERDAS technologies, to the public safety and security, defense and intelligence, government, transportation, photogrammetry, and utilities and communications industries. Intergraph Government Solutions (IGS) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Intergraph Corporation responsible for the SG&I U.S. federal business.

Intergraph is part of Hexagon (Nordic exchange: HEXA B), a leading global provider of design, measurement, and visualization technologies that enable customers to design, measure and position objects, and process and present data.

For more information, visit www.intergraph.com.  

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