Located along the border of Thailand and Cambodia, the 230-kilovolt Koh Kong substation will provide essential power to 11 rural villages, strengthening the reliability of Cambodia’s grid. PESTECH was awarded the construction and installation contract and faced site constraints along with a tight timeline and budget. Manual substation design methods were time-consuming and error-prone, so they needed integrated intelligent modeling technology in a connected data environment.

They selected OpenUtilities and OpenBuildings to model the entire substation, including equipment and buildings, addressing its entire lifecycle. ProjectWise provided the collaborative design platform. They could automatically extract materials and construction deliverables, eliminating manual errors and increasing design quality. Maximizing design automation through digital modeling accelerated design time by 50%, while coordinated design and clash detection reduced design changes by 60%. Bentley’s integrated smart technology solution allows utilities to keep pace with refurbishment requirements and reduce regulatory compliance risks.