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Ameren Corporation, a major American utility company, provides services to 2.4 million electric customers and nearly one million natural gas customers across 64,000 square miles in Illinois and Missouri. The company has approximately 9,000 employees and ranks in the top third in market capitalization among the nation’s utility companies (NYSE: AEE). Ameren companies’ net generating capacity is more than 16,400 megawatts (MW) through coal-fired facilities, nuclear plants, combustion turbines (CTG) natural gas and oil-fired facilities, and hydroelectric plants. Ameren's corporate librarian uses IHS Standards Expert to help company engineers ensure they use the most current standards data, with immediate, on-demand to updates, saving time and money.
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Burns & McDonnell delivers planning, design and construction expertise to make clients successful. Founded in 1898, the 100% employee-owned architectural firm has more than 2,900 engineers, architects, construction experts, planners, estimators, economists, technicians and scientists representing virtually all design disciplines. With a diverse mix of projects, Burns & McDonnell may be simultaneously working on a state-of-the-art wind power facility and a 50-year-old power plant. For that reason, the range of standards documents needed numbers in the thousands. In the past year alone, engineers accessed more than 13,000 different standards. At the company’s headquarters in Kansas City, the corporate library maintains subscriptions to all relevant standards. Until several years ago, the library kept only paper copies, but IHS Standards Expert no provides instant access to up-to-date standards information from the office or the field.
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