Developers of Next Plants Will Enjoy a World of New Tools
Project collaboration is an area where a lot of technology for nuclear powerplant development has emerged since the last wave of U.S. plant construction. The use of unified databases for projects and the development of tools to share data across software systems will change the picture drastically in the future.
“Anything that has to do with collaboration is really key,” says Mark Harmon, chief technology engineer for energy business at Black & Veatch, Overland Park, Kan. He says the rise of standard data formats for collaboration that help engineers exchange data—even complete, intelligent 3D plant models—is making the idea of proprietary software obsolete.