On June 30, 2023, the School of Construction Engineering conducted technical training for foreign employees of the EPC project department of PowerChina Jiangxi Hydropower Engineering Bureau Co., Ltd. on construction safety and application of BIM technology.
The Saudi Pump Station project undertaken by the PowerChina Jiangxi Hydropower Engineering Bureau Co., Ltd. is to construct a new residential area at each of the six sites along the East-West Gas Pipeline of the Saudi Arabian National Oil Company (Saudi Aramco), meeting the residential needs of employees at each site. This project is located along the Saudi Aramco East-West Pipeline, spanning over 1200 kilometers with approximately 200 kilometers between each site. It is linearly distributed and requires simultaneous commencement and delivery of all six sites. Therefore, this project has significant challenges in managing and coordinating resources.
This training primarily targeted foreign technical workers of the project. It utilized “virtual simulation + bilingual (Chinese and foreign languages) + online remote” methods to conduct technical training on critical and complex construction procedures, addressing challenges faced by foreign technical workers in understanding complex procedures, promoting advanced Chinese technologies, and enhancing the capability of Chinese enterprises to serve the Belt and Road Initiative.
In recent years, the School of Construction Engineering has actively collaborated with “going global” enterprises such as China State Construction, PowerChina, Henan Province Installation Group and so on, serving their construction engineering projects in Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and other countries along the “Belt and Road” and carrying out overseas employee training. The training team innovated key technologies in BIM construction simulation, and developed visual, experiential, easy-to-understand, bilingual (Chinese and foreign languages) virtual simulation training resources, which addressed communication barriers such as difficulties in understanding and hearing for foreign employees during training sessions on the Belt and Road projects. Their typical practices and experiences have been recognized with the approval of a sub-project under the National Social Science Fund’s Telling China’s Vocational Education Stories, aiming to spread China’s voice to the world.
