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Bentley Systems Names External Associate Professor Marianne Rask 2015 Educator of the Year

As a Practicing Road Engineer, Rask Is Able to Share Invaluable Firsthand Knowledge of Advanced Software for Civil Engineering and Transportation with Her Students, Providing a Particularly Engaging Learning Experience

EXTON, Pa., U.S.A. – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, today announced that External Associate Professor Marianne Rask of the Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, is the recipient of its 2015 Educator of the Year Award. The award recognizes a member of the academic community who has an outstanding record of achievements and is committed to inspiring students to pursue careers in the infrastructure professions.

George Church, senior vice president, Bentley CONNECT LEARNservices, said, “External Associate Professor Rask, a seasoned road engineer, began teaching in order to share her knowledge of advanced software for civil engineering and transportation with future generations of engineers. Her passion for the industry she serves as an infrastructure professional is reflected in the infectious enthusiasm she exhibits in her classroom lectures and dialogues with students. At the Technical University, she teaches a number of road-related courses, in both Danish and English, as required, and is the course coordinator for the university’s Railway Design and Maintenance course. In her Geometric Road Design course, she features the use of MicroStation and InRoads, mentoring students with absolutely no CAD experience and getting them to the point – in just three weeks – where they can understand comprehensive road design systems and have a basic working knowledge of geometric highway design. She also mentors thesis students in the use of Bentley’s OpenRoads software for multi-discipline engineering projects, and looks forward to including OpenRoads in her course curriculum in the near future.

“External Associate Professor Rask’s students gain valuable experience with our software – the same used by civil engineering teams around the world. As a result, upon graduation, they typically are in high demand by Danish road design companies. Her advanced and engaging approach to teaching results in her classes generally being filled to capacity, and earned her a presentation slot during the Bentley global user conference in 2012.

“We thank Professor Rask for serving as an inspiration to students in the engineering disciplines and for her dedication to providing them with the practical skills they will need for successful careers in civil engineering and transportation. On behalf of my colleagues at Bentley, I congratulate her on being named 2015 Educator of the Year!”

In describing how her unexpected secondary career as a teacher began, Rask said, “I had been working for a long time as a road designer when I ran into one of my former professors at the Technical University of Denmark. I blamed him for teaching the students the wrong kind of software instead of the applications that we were actually using for road design. That conversation developed into my getting hired as a part-time external associate professor at the university, where I started teaching MicroStation and InRoads as well as geometric road design. I have updated the course every year, but I still make my students work hard – after all, they should be prepared for real life as a civil engineer. It makes me proud when I see some of my former students designing roads and railways.”

Commenting on her award, Rask said, “I thank Bentley for choosing me as its 2015 Educator of the Year, and for providing a range of useful civil engineering solutions for designing roads, bridges, and other transportation infrastructure, as well as for teaching future generations of engineers.”

Rask has taught in the department of transport at the Technical University of Denmark since 2005. Her professional experience includes positions of senior consultant and CAD coordinator at Carl Bro (Sweco) from 1993 to 2007 and road engineer and road safety auditor at Roskilde Municipality from 2007 to 2013. Rask was an early adopter of Bentley software, having served on the civil engineering steering committees and contributing to the development and direction of Bentley’s civil products. During the past year she has implemented the new Danish standard for the digital roadway into PowerCivil for Denmark. Rask has a master’s degree in civil engineering, building, and civil works.

For Rask’s Technical University page, click here. For a high-resolution image from the Educator of the Year Award ceremony, click here. For a high-resolution image of Marianne Rask, click here.

About Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and comprehensive managed services.

Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2008 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.

Additional information about Bentley is available at www.bentley.com and in Bentley’s annual report. For Bentley news as it happens, subscribe to an RSS feed of Bentley press releases and news alerts. Visit The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference website for highlights of Bentley’s premier thought-leadership event, held November 3-5, 2015, in London, U.K. To view a searchable collection of innovative infrastructure projects from the annual Be Inspired Awards, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks. To access a professional networking site that enables members of the infrastructure community to connect, communicate, and learn from each other, visit Bentley Communities.

To download the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners ranking, a unique global compendium of the top public- and private-sector owners of infrastructure based on the value of their cumulative infrastructure investments, visit BI 500.

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Bentley Systems Names External Associate Professor Marianne Rask 2015 Educator of the Year

As a Practicing Road Engineer, Rask Is Able to Share Invaluable Firsthand Knowledge of Advanced Software for Civil Engineering and Transportation with Her Students, Providing a Particularly Engaging Learning Experience

EXTON, Pa., U.S.A. – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, today announced that External Associate Professor Marianne Rask of the Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, is the recipient of its 2015 Educator of the Year Award. The award recognizes a member of the academic community who has an outstanding record of achievements and is committed to inspiring students to pursue careers in the infrastructure professions.

George Church, senior vice president, Bentley CONNECT LEARNservices, said, “External Associate Professor Rask, a seasoned road engineer, began teaching in order to share her knowledge of advanced software for civil engineering and transportation with future generations of engineers. Her passion for the industry she serves as an infrastructure professional is reflected in the infectious enthusiasm she exhibits in her classroom lectures and dialogues with students. At the Technical University, she teaches a number of road-related courses, in both Danish and English, as required, and is the course coordinator for the university’s Railway Design and Maintenance course. In her Geometric Road Design course, she features the use of MicroStation and InRoads, mentoring students with absolutely no CAD experience and getting them to the point – in just three weeks – where they can understand comprehensive road design systems and have a basic working knowledge of geometric highway design. She also mentors thesis students in the use of Bentley’s OpenRoads software for multi-discipline engineering projects, and looks forward to including OpenRoads in her course curriculum in the near future.

“External Associate Professor Rask’s students gain valuable experience with our software – the same used by civil engineering teams around the world. As a result, upon graduation, they typically are in high demand by Danish road design companies. Her advanced and engaging approach to teaching results in her classes generally being filled to capacity, and earned her a presentation slot during the Bentley global user conference in 2012.

“We thank Professor Rask for serving as an inspiration to students in the engineering disciplines and for her dedication to providing them with the practical skills they will need for successful careers in civil engineering and transportation. On behalf of my colleagues at Bentley, I congratulate her on being named 2015 Educator of the Year!”

In describing how her unexpected secondary career as a teacher began, Rask said, “I had been working for a long time as a road designer when I ran into one of my former professors at the Technical University of Denmark. I blamed him for teaching the students the wrong kind of software instead of the applications that we were actually using for road design. That conversation developed into my getting hired as a part-time external associate professor at the university, where I started teaching MicroStation and InRoads as well as geometric road design. I have updated the course every year, but I still make my students work hard – after all, they should be prepared for real life as a civil engineer. It makes me proud when I see some of my former students designing roads and railways.”

Commenting on her award, Rask said, “I thank Bentley for choosing me as its 2015 Educator of the Year, and for providing a range of useful civil engineering solutions for designing roads, bridges, and other transportation infrastructure, as well as for teaching future generations of engineers.”

Rask has taught in the department of transport at the Technical University of Denmark since 2005. Her professional experience includes positions of senior consultant and CAD coordinator at Carl Bro (Sweco) from 1993 to 2007 and road engineer and road safety auditor at Roskilde Municipality from 2007 to 2013. Rask was an early adopter of Bentley software, having served on the civil engineering steering committees and contributing to the development and direction of Bentley’s civil products. During the past year she has implemented the new Danish standard for the digital roadway into PowerCivil for Denmark. Rask has a master’s degree in civil engineering, building, and civil works.

For Rask’s Technical University page, click here. For a high-resolution image from the Educator of the Year Award ceremony, click here. For a high-resolution image of Marianne Rask, click here.

About Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and comprehensive managed services.

Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2008 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.

Additional information about Bentley is available at www.bentley.com and in Bentley’s annual report. For Bentley news as it happens, subscribe to an RSS feed of Bentley press releases and news alerts. Visit The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference website for highlights of Bentley’s premier thought-leadership event, held November 3-5, 2015, in London, U.K. To view a searchable collection of innovative infrastructure projects from the annual Be Inspired Awards, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks. To access a professional networking site that enables members of the infrastructure community to connect, communicate, and learn from each other, visit Bentley Communities.

To download the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners ranking, a unique global compendium of the top public- and private-sector owners of infrastructure based on the value of their cumulative infrastructure investments, visit BI 500.

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Bentley Announces Winners of 2015 Be Inspired Awards

LONDON – The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, today announced the winners of the 2015 Be Inspired Awards. The awards honor the extraordinary work of Bentley users improving the world’s infrastructure. At a ceremony and gala last night here at The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference, 18 Be Inspired Awards winners and five Be Inspired Special Recognition Awards winners were acknowledged. In addition, Bentley’s Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to J.P. (Peter) Blake, Director, Project Delivery Group for Hatch. (For details on Blake’s career achievements, see press release).

The Year in Infrastructure Conference is a global gathering of leading executives in the world of infrastructure design, construction, and operations. It features presentations and interactive sessions exploring the intersection of technology and business drivers, and how they are shaping the future of infrastructure delivery and investment returns. The 2015 event was also attended by more than 100 members of the media from leading publications around the globe who met with Bentley executives on Monday for the company’s annual Media Briefing. The agenda also includes presentations by finalists in the Be Inspired Awards program, culminating in the selection of the winning projects.

This year, 10 independent panels of jurors, comprising distinguished industry experts, selected the 18 Be Inspired Awards winners from 54 project finalists. These finalists had been previously chosen from over 360 submissions by organizations in 66 countries.

Candidates for Bentley’s Be Inspired Special Recognition Awards were selected by the jurors from the top finalist projects as well as other exemplary nominations. This selection was based on the projects’ uniquely innovative and visionary achievements that transcend the narrower focus of the standing Be Inspired Awards categories. The nominees were then reviewed by a panel of Bentley executives, who evaluated them based on the criteria established for each award.

Bentley Systems CEO Greg Bentley said, “This has been a year of major achievements for Bentley Systems that include the introduction of our CONNECT Edition infrastructure engineering software, providing a common environment for comprehensive project delivery. But the achievements that my colleagues and I are most proud of are those of our users. For while our goal at Bentley is advancing infrastructure, we can only accomplish it through the vision, talent, and dedication of the architects, engineers, constructors, and operations professionals who creatively apply our technology in pursuit of effective strategies for achieving new levels of project and/or infrastructure asset performance.

“Such achievements are exemplified by the extraordinary Be Inspired Award-winning projects we celebrated last night. I heartily congratulate the organizations that were instrumental in the delivery or operations of these truly inspiring projects. Moreover, I applaud all of the project nominees in this year’s awards program for their contributions to improving quality of life around the globe.”

The Be Inspired Special Recognition Awards winners for 2015 are as follows:

Advancing Collaborative BIM

• Morphosis Architects – Bill & Melinda Gates Hall – (Ithaca, New York, United States)

Advancing Comprehensive BIM “Playbooks”

• Hatch Ltd – Keeyask Hydroelectric Generating Station Project – (Nelson River, Manitoba, Canada)

Advancing Construction Modeling

• Jacobs – NAG Project – (Baytown, Texas, United States)

Advancing Information Mobility in Operations

• Western Power Distribution – EMU for iPad – (Exeter, United Kingdom)

Advancing Integrated Projects

• HDR – Union Station to Oak Cliff Streetcar TIGER Design-Build Project – (Dallas, Texas, United States)

The Be Inspired Awards winners for 2015 are as follows:

Innovation in Asset Performance Management

• SA Water – Predictive and Operational Analytics Tools, Adelaide Metro Water Distribution Network – (Adelaide, South Australia, Australia)

Innovation in Bridges

• LCW Consult – The Ceira River Bridge – (Coimbra, Coimbra District, Portugal)

Innovation in Building

• Robin Partington and Partners – One Merchant Square – (London, United Kingdom)

Innovation in Construction

• Vic’s Crane & Heavy Haul, Inc. – Unit 25 Project – (Rosemount, Minnesota, United States)

Innovation in Government

• Singapore Land Authority – Mapping Singapore in 3D – (Singapore)

Innovation in Land Development

• Tata Consulting Engineers Ltd. – Detailed Design of Utility Infrastructure – (Dharampur, Gujarat, India)

Innovation in Megaprojects

• AECOM – E4 The Stockholm Bypass - Förbifart Stockholm - FSK02 Rock Tunnels Design Contract – (Stockholm, Sweden)

Innovation in Mining

• Tetra Tech Proteus – Kvanefjeld Rare Earth: Uranium Project – (Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland)

Innovation in Offshore

• Keystone Engineering Inc. – Block Island Wind Farm – (Block Island, Rhode Island, United States)

Innovation in Power Generation

• MWH Global – Tyseley Resource Recovery Centre – (Birmingham, West Midland, United Kingdom)

Innovation in Process Manufacturing

• Giprotyumenneftegaz – Preliminary Water Removal Unit: North Vankor Field – (Igarka, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Russia)

Innovation in Project Delivery

• AECOM – Global Project Collaboration in a Design-build-finance-operate (DBFO) World – (Global)

Innovation in Rail and Transit

• London Underground Ltd – Bond Street to Baker Street Tunnel Remediation Project – (London, United Kingdom)

Innovation in Roads

• Grontmij – A6 to Manchester Relief Road – (Stockport, Manchester and Cheshire, United Kingdom)

Innovation in Structures

• Stanley D. Lindsey and Associates, Ltd. – SkyHouse Apartments – (Denver, Colorado; Atlanta, Georgia; Orlando and Tampa, Florida; Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina; Nashville, Tennessee; Austin, Houston, and Dallas, Texas, United States)

Innovation in Utilities and Communications

• Pacific Gas and Electric Company – Engineering Contractor Collaboration Solution Using ProjectWise and Bentley Substation – (San Ramon, California, United States)

Innovation in Water Network Analysis

• Prolagos/Aegea – Water Master Plan for the Região dos Lagos – (Região dos Lagos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Innovation in Water Treatment Plants

• Aqua+ – Complex Scheduling and Automatic Water Quality Monitoring of Groundwater – (Khabarovsk, Far East Federal District, Russia)

Bentley Systems has posted highlights of this year’s winning projects on its website. It will include more detailed descriptions of all nominated projects in the print and digital versions of its 2015 Infrastructure Yearbook,which will be published after the first of the year. To review the past 11 editions of this publication, which together feature more than 2,500 world-class projects recognized in the Be Inspired Awards program since 2004, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks.

About Be Inspired Awards Program and The Year in Infrastructure Conference

Since 2004, the Be Inspired Awards program has showcased excellence and innovation in the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure projects around the world. The Be Inspired Awards is unique – the only competition of its kind that is global in scope and comprehensive in categories covered, encompassing all types of infrastructure projects. In the awards program, which is open to all users of Bentley software, independent panels of industry experts select finalists for each category. For additional information, visit the Be Inspired Awards.

The Year in Infrastructure Conference is a global gathering of leading executives in the world of infrastructure design, construction, and operations. This year’s conference includes:

• The Project Delivery Summit (by invitation only)
• The Infrastructure Asset Performance Summit (by invitation only)
• The Building and Facilities Forum
• The Rail and Road Forum
• The Oil, Gas, Offshore, and Mining Forum
• The Utilities Forum
• The Visions for the Future Forum
• The Be Inspired Awards Ceremony

The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference sponsors include:

• Platinum: Microsoft
• Gold: ARC Advisory Group, Architectural Record, Electric Light & Power, Engineering News-Record, Geospatial Media + Communications, Infrastructure Intelligence, New Civil Engineer, Offshore, Power Engineering, and WaterWorld

For more details and a complete list of sponsors, including Silver level, click here.

About Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and comprehensive managed services.

Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2008 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.

Additional information about Bentley is available at www.bentley.com and in Bentley’s annual report. For Bentley news as it happens, subscribe to an RSS feed of Bentley press releases and news alerts. Visit The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference website for highlights of Bentley’s premier thought-leadership event, being held November 3-5, 2015, in London, U.K. To view a searchable collection of innovative infrastructure projects from the annual Be Inspired Awards, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks. To access a professional networking site that enables members of the infrastructure community to connect, communicate, and learn from each other, visit Bentley Communities.

To download the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners ranking, a unique global compendium of the top public- and private-sector owners of infrastructure based on the value of their cumulative infrastructure investments, visit BI 500.

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Bentley Announces Winners of 2015 Be Inspired Awards

LONDON – The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, today announced the winners of the 2015 Be Inspired Awards. The awards honor the extraordinary work of Bentley users improving the world’s infrastructure. At a ceremony and gala last night here at The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference, 18 Be Inspired Awards winners and five Be Inspired Special Recognition Awards winners were acknowledged. In addition, Bentley’s Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to J.P. (Peter) Blake, Director, Project Delivery Group for Hatch. (For details on Blake’s career achievements, see press release).

The Year in Infrastructure Conference is a global gathering of leading executives in the world of infrastructure design, construction, and operations. It features presentations and interactive sessions exploring the intersection of technology and business drivers, and how they are shaping the future of infrastructure delivery and investment returns. The 2015 event was also attended by more than 100 members of the media from leading publications around the globe who met with Bentley executives on Monday for the company’s annual Media Briefing. The agenda also includes presentations by finalists in the Be Inspired Awards program, culminating in the selection of the winning projects.

This year, 10 independent panels of jurors, comprising distinguished industry experts, selected the 18 Be Inspired Awards winners from 54 project finalists. These finalists had been previously chosen from over 360 submissions by organizations in 66 countries.

Candidates for Bentley’s Be Inspired Special Recognition Awards were selected by the jurors from the top finalist projects as well as other exemplary nominations. This selection was based on the projects’ uniquely innovative and visionary achievements that transcend the narrower focus of the standing Be Inspired Awards categories. The nominees were then reviewed by a panel of Bentley executives, who evaluated them based on the criteria established for each award.

Bentley Systems CEO Greg Bentley said, “This has been a year of major achievements for Bentley Systems that include the introduction of our CONNECT Edition infrastructure engineering software, providing a common environment for comprehensive project delivery. But the achievements that my colleagues and I are most proud of are those of our users. For while our goal at Bentley is advancing infrastructure, we can only accomplish it through the vision, talent, and dedication of the architects, engineers, constructors, and operations professionals who creatively apply our technology in pursuit of effective strategies for achieving new levels of project and/or infrastructure asset performance.

“Such achievements are exemplified by the extraordinary Be Inspired Award-winning projects we celebrated last night. I heartily congratulate the organizations that were instrumental in the delivery or operations of these truly inspiring projects. Moreover, I applaud all of the project nominees in this year’s awards program for their contributions to improving quality of life around the globe.”

The Be Inspired Special Recognition Awards winners for 2015 are as follows:

Advancing Collaborative BIM

• Morphosis Architects – Bill & Melinda Gates Hall – (Ithaca, New York, United States)

Advancing Comprehensive BIM “Playbooks”

• Hatch Ltd – Keeyask Hydroelectric Generating Station Project – (Nelson River, Manitoba, Canada)

Advancing Construction Modeling

• Jacobs – NAG Project – (Baytown, Texas, United States)

Advancing Information Mobility in Operations

• Western Power Distribution – EMU for iPad – (Exeter, United Kingdom)

Advancing Integrated Projects

• HDR – Union Station to Oak Cliff Streetcar TIGER Design-Build Project – (Dallas, Texas, United States)

The Be Inspired Awards winners for 2015 are as follows:

Innovation in Asset Performance Management

• SA Water – Predictive and Operational Analytics Tools, Adelaide Metro Water Distribution Network – (Adelaide, South Australia, Australia)

Innovation in Bridges

• LCW Consult – The Ceira River Bridge – (Coimbra, Coimbra District, Portugal)

Innovation in Building

• Robin Partington and Partners – One Merchant Square – (London, United Kingdom)

Innovation in Construction

• Vic’s Crane & Heavy Haul, Inc. – Unit 25 Project – (Rosemount, Minnesota, United States)

Innovation in Government

• Singapore Land Authority – Mapping Singapore in 3D – (Singapore)

Innovation in Land Development

• Tata Consulting Engineers Ltd. – Detailed Design of Utility Infrastructure – (Dharampur, Gujarat, India)

Innovation in Megaprojects

• AECOM – E4 The Stockholm Bypass - Förbifart Stockholm - FSK02 Rock Tunnels Design Contract – (Stockholm, Sweden)

Innovation in Mining

• Tetra Tech Proteus – Kvanefjeld Rare Earth: Uranium Project – (Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland)

Innovation in Offshore

• Keystone Engineering Inc. – Block Island Wind Farm – (Block Island, Rhode Island, United States)

Innovation in Power Generation

• MWH Global – Tyseley Resource Recovery Centre – (Birmingham, West Midland, United Kingdom)

Innovation in Process Manufacturing

• Giprotyumenneftegaz – Preliminary Water Removal Unit: North Vankor Field – (Igarka, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Russia)

Innovation in Project Delivery

• AECOM – Global Project Collaboration in a Design-build-finance-operate (DBFO) World – (Global)

Innovation in Rail and Transit

• London Underground Ltd – Bond Street to Baker Street Tunnel Remediation Project – (London, United Kingdom)

Innovation in Roads

• Grontmij – A6 to Manchester Relief Road – (Stockport, Manchester and Cheshire, United Kingdom)

Innovation in Structures

• Stanley D. Lindsey and Associates, Ltd. – SkyHouse Apartments – (Denver, Colorado; Atlanta, Georgia; Orlando and Tampa, Florida; Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina; Nashville, Tennessee; Austin, Houston, and Dallas, Texas, United States)

Innovation in Utilities and Communications

• Pacific Gas and Electric Company – Engineering Contractor Collaboration Solution Using ProjectWise and Bentley Substation – (San Ramon, California, United States)

Innovation in Water Network Analysis

• Prolagos/Aegea – Water Master Plan for the Região dos Lagos – (Região dos Lagos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Innovation in Water Treatment Plants

• Aqua+ – Complex Scheduling and Automatic Water Quality Monitoring of Groundwater – (Khabarovsk, Far East Federal District, Russia)

Bentley Systems has posted highlights of this year’s winning projects on its website. It will include more detailed descriptions of all nominated projects in the print and digital versions of its 2015 Infrastructure Yearbook,which will be published after the first of the year. To review the past 11 editions of this publication, which together feature more than 2,500 world-class projects recognized in the Be Inspired Awards program since 2004, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks.

About Be Inspired Awards Program and The Year in Infrastructure Conference

Since 2004, the Be Inspired Awards program has showcased excellence and innovation in the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure projects around the world. The Be Inspired Awards is unique – the only competition of its kind that is global in scope and comprehensive in categories covered, encompassing all types of infrastructure projects. In the awards program, which is open to all users of Bentley software, independent panels of industry experts select finalists for each category. For additional information, visit the Be Inspired Awards.

The Year in Infrastructure Conference is a global gathering of leading executives in the world of infrastructure design, construction, and operations. This year’s conference includes:

• The Project Delivery Summit (by invitation only)
• The Infrastructure Asset Performance Summit (by invitation only)
• The Building and Facilities Forum
• The Rail and Road Forum
• The Oil, Gas, Offshore, and Mining Forum
• The Utilities Forum
• The Visions for the Future Forum
• The Be Inspired Awards Ceremony

The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference sponsors include:

• Platinum: Microsoft
• Gold: ARC Advisory Group, Architectural Record, Electric Light & Power, Engineering News-Record, Geospatial Media + Communications, Infrastructure Intelligence, New Civil Engineer, Offshore, Power Engineering, and WaterWorld

For more details and a complete list of sponsors, including Silver level, click here.

About Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and comprehensive managed services.

Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2008 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.

Additional information about Bentley is available at www.bentley.com and in Bentley’s annual report. For Bentley news as it happens, subscribe to an RSS feed of Bentley press releases and news alerts. Visit The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference website for highlights of Bentley’s premier thought-leadership event, being held November 3-5, 2015, in London, U.K. To view a searchable collection of innovative infrastructure projects from the annual Be Inspired Awards, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks. To access a professional networking site that enables members of the infrastructure community to connect, communicate, and learn from each other, visit Bentley Communities.

To download the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners ranking, a unique global compendium of the top public- and private-sector owners of infrastructure based on the value of their cumulative infrastructure investments, visit BI 500.

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Attendees at London Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference Applaud Visionary Leader for a Career Dedicated to Advancing Use of Innovative Technologies

LONDON – The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, today presented J.P. (Peter) Blake, Director, Project Delivery Group for Hatch Chile, with its Lifetime Achievement Award. Blake was recognized for his exceptional vision, numerous career achievements, leadership, and effectiveness as a change agent, having tirelessly advocated throughout his career for improving infrastructure workflows through the better application of advanced technologies. Equally important, he was honored as a great friend and mentor to the infrastructure community at large.

Blake has served Hatch for more than four decades, playing a key role in its initial forays into CAD implementation and then 3D modeling, as well as managing assignments in equipment design, project engineering, and project management. Hatch is an employee-owned professional services firm that provides consulting, information technology, engineering, process development, and project and construction management to the mining, metallurgical, energy, and infrastructure sectors. Hatch has six decades of project experience in more than 150 countries, 10,000 people in 65 offices, and currently manages over $35 billion in projects.

Randy McMeekin, Hatch’s Managing Director of Engineering, said, “Peter is one of the most visionary and innovative people that we’ve had in the company. To me, he’s been a trusted advisor and a great mentor to this day.” 

In recalling their work together in the late ’90s on a project for Stillwater Mining, McMeekin remarked, “He had the vision that to achieve schedule, we could go with a very lean engineering approach – that is, we would not make any paper deliverables. Against a lot of resistance from the project team, he drove us to the point where we actually built an entire smelter from a 3D model. That was true innovation.” 

McMeekin continued, “I think many of the visionary thoughts that Peter had 30 years ago are now standard in the industry. Peter saw it a long time ago, that the world needed data and a 3D environment, that software was always getting better and bandwidth was always going to get better.”

Commenting on his long business relationship with Blake, Bentley Systems Senior Vice President Rob Whitesell said, “Peter is always thinking about what is the next big idea, how we can apply technologies from different areas to answer an engineering problem. He breaks that down in a way that is really easy for us to understand and is a great partner to work with. Moreover, he is a very warm individual, very personable. Peter is the kind of person who will take you into his home for dinner – definitely a relationship person. It’s always been a big part of doing business with him.”

Fiatech Director Ray Topping said about Blake’s many contributions to Fiatech and its work transforming the world’s infrastructure delivery and operations, “Peter has been active on the Fiatech board of directors for many years, dating back to before I became the director five years ago and served with Peter on the board. In 2012 and 2013, Peter led the Fiatech organization as board chairman, and during that time we developed and published our three-year strategic plan, delivered many industry advancements in our Fiatech projects, and had strong membership growth. His inspirational leadership and inclusive approach brings companies together, even competitors, for the greater good of the capital projects industry, for which he has tremendous passion.”

In presenting the award, Bentley Systems CEO Greg Bentley said, “Through his steadfast confidence in advanced technology to drive significant improvement in work processes, and with remarkable vision that has kept him one step ahead of the crowd, Peter Blake has been an effective change agent for our industry as a whole. But even more than that, he has been instrumental in influencing technology companies – including Bentley Systems – to further improve our offerings, patiently guiding us and helping us understand how we could improve product features and functionality. More importantly, he taught us why we should do it, emphasizing all the while that more advanced technology was needed ‘yesterday!’ For this, and for all Peter Blake has done through his important contributions to improving quality of life through infrastructure, he well deserves our Lifetime Achievement Award. Thank you, Peter Blake.”

Peter Blake said, “I am honored to have been selected as the recipient of this award, and am deeply humbled by all of the kind words expressed about me. What hasn’t been said is that my work seeking opportunities to drive improvements in an industry whose future is perennially made brighter thanks to advances in technology has been an exciting journey for me. I particularly enjoyed working with technology companies like Bentley that were willing to listen to industry needs and actively seek creative solutions to filling them. My thanks go to all who have stood with me as we forged ahead with change for the better.”

About J.P. (Peter) Blake

During his more than 40 years with Hatch, Peter Blake has been instrumental in championing and guiding the firm’s transition to CAD and later 3D modeling on a global basis. He also has had managing assignments in equipment design, project engineering, and project management. His career experience includes projects in a broad range of areas, from feed systems, power trains, refractories, and off-gas systems to hot metal and slag handling systems for high power electric smelting furnaces, and the design and installation of hydrometallurgical works. Blake served as chairman of Fiatech for two years beginning in May of 2012, advising its board of advisors in all aspects of the organization, including strategic planning and project selection and funding. Blake holds a degree in engineering from the University of Waterloo.

About Bentley’s Lifetime Achievement Award 

Bentley’s Lifetime Achievement Award honors individuals whose collective extraordinary achievements and contributions over the span of their respective careers have left a lasting legacy from which the infrastructure community has greatly benefited. It is presented on the occasion of the recipient’s “retirement.” Past recipients since 2000 have included Tom Lazear, Chairman of California-based Archway Systems, the longest-serving Bentley Channel Partner, and Walter Lee Evey, former Program Manager of the Pentagon Renovation Program who headed reconstruction of the Pentagon after 9/11.

About Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and comprehensive managed services.

Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2008 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.

Additional information about Bentley is available at www.bentley.com and in Bentley’s annual report. For Bentley news as it happens, subscribe to an RSS feed of Bentley press releases and news alerts. Visit The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference website for highlights of Bentley’s premier thought-leadership event, being held November 3-5, 2015, in London, U.K. To view a searchable collection of innovative infrastructure projects from the annual Be Inspired Awards, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks. To access a professional networking site that enables members of the infrastructure community to connect, communicate, and learn from each other, visit Bentley Communities.

To download the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners ranking, a unique global compendium of the top public- and private-sector owners of infrastructure based on the value of their cumulative infrastructure investments, visit BI 500.

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Bentley, the “B” Bentley logo, Be, MicroStation, and ProjectWise are either registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated or one of its direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiaries. All other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.

Bentley Systems Honors Peter Blake of Hatch with Lifetime Achievement Award

Attendees at London Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference Applaud Visionary Leader for a Career Dedicated to Advancing Use of Innovative Technologies

LONDON – The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, today presented J.P. (Peter) Blake, Director, Project Delivery Group for Hatch Chile, with its Lifetime Achievement Award. Blake was recognized for his exceptional vision, numerous career achievements, leadership, and effectiveness as a change agent, having tirelessly advocated throughout his career for improving infrastructure workflows through the better application of advanced technologies. Equally important, he was honored as a great friend and mentor to the infrastructure community at large.

Blake has served Hatch for more than four decades, playing a key role in its initial forays into CAD implementation and then 3D modeling, as well as managing assignments in equipment design, project engineering, and project management. Hatch is an employee-owned professional services firm that provides consulting, information technology, engineering, process development, and project and construction management to the mining, metallurgical, energy, and infrastructure sectors. Hatch has six decades of project experience in more than 150 countries, 10,000 people in 65 offices, and currently manages over $35 billion in projects.

Randy McMeekin, Hatch’s Managing Director of Engineering, said, “Peter is one of the most visionary and innovative people that we’ve had in the company. To me, he’s been a trusted advisor and a great mentor to this day.” 

In recalling their work together in the late ’90s on a project for Stillwater Mining, McMeekin remarked, “He had the vision that to achieve schedule, we could go with a very lean engineering approach – that is, we would not make any paper deliverables. Against a lot of resistance from the project team, he drove us to the point where we actually built an entire smelter from a 3D model. That was true innovation.” 

McMeekin continued, “I think many of the visionary thoughts that Peter had 30 years ago are now standard in the industry. Peter saw it a long time ago, that the world needed data and a 3D environment, that software was always getting better and bandwidth was always going to get better.”

Commenting on his long business relationship with Blake, Bentley Systems Senior Vice President Rob Whitesell said, “Peter is always thinking about what is the next big idea, how we can apply technologies from different areas to answer an engineering problem. He breaks that down in a way that is really easy for us to understand and is a great partner to work with. Moreover, he is a very warm individual, very personable. Peter is the kind of person who will take you into his home for dinner – definitely a relationship person. It’s always been a big part of doing business with him.”

Fiatech Director Ray Topping said about Blake’s many contributions to Fiatech and its work transforming the world’s infrastructure delivery and operations, “Peter has been active on the Fiatech board of directors for many years, dating back to before I became the director five years ago and served with Peter on the board. In 2012 and 2013, Peter led the Fiatech organization as board chairman, and during that time we developed and published our three-year strategic plan, delivered many industry advancements in our Fiatech projects, and had strong membership growth. His inspirational leadership and inclusive approach brings companies together, even competitors, for the greater good of the capital projects industry, for which he has tremendous passion.”

In presenting the award, Bentley Systems CEO Greg Bentley said, “Through his steadfast confidence in advanced technology to drive significant improvement in work processes, and with remarkable vision that has kept him one step ahead of the crowd, Peter Blake has been an effective change agent for our industry as a whole. But even more than that, he has been instrumental in influencing technology companies – including Bentley Systems – to further improve our offerings, patiently guiding us and helping us understand how we could improve product features and functionality. More importantly, he taught us why we should do it, emphasizing all the while that more advanced technology was needed ‘yesterday!’ For this, and for all Peter Blake has done through his important contributions to improving quality of life through infrastructure, he well deserves our Lifetime Achievement Award. Thank you, Peter Blake.”

Peter Blake said, “I am honored to have been selected as the recipient of this award, and am deeply humbled by all of the kind words expressed about me. What hasn’t been said is that my work seeking opportunities to drive improvements in an industry whose future is perennially made brighter thanks to advances in technology has been an exciting journey for me. I particularly enjoyed working with technology companies like Bentley that were willing to listen to industry needs and actively seek creative solutions to filling them. My thanks go to all who have stood with me as we forged ahead with change for the better.”

About J.P. (Peter) Blake

During his more than 40 years with Hatch, Peter Blake has been instrumental in championing and guiding the firm’s transition to CAD and later 3D modeling on a global basis. He also has had managing assignments in equipment design, project engineering, and project management. His career experience includes projects in a broad range of areas, from feed systems, power trains, refractories, and off-gas systems to hot metal and slag handling systems for high power electric smelting furnaces, and the design and installation of hydrometallurgical works. Blake served as chairman of Fiatech for two years beginning in May of 2012, advising its board of advisors in all aspects of the organization, including strategic planning and project selection and funding. Blake holds a degree in engineering from the University of Waterloo.

About Bentley’s Lifetime Achievement Award 

Bentley’s Lifetime Achievement Award honors individuals whose collective extraordinary achievements and contributions over the span of their respective careers have left a lasting legacy from which the infrastructure community has greatly benefited. It is presented on the occasion of the recipient’s “retirement.” Past recipients since 2000 have included Tom Lazear, Chairman of California-based Archway Systems, the longest-serving Bentley Channel Partner, and Walter Lee Evey, former Program Manager of the Pentagon Renovation Program who headed reconstruction of the Pentagon after 9/11.

About Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and comprehensive managed services.

Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2008 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.

Additional information about Bentley is available at www.bentley.com and in Bentley’s annual report. For Bentley news as it happens, subscribe to an RSS feed of Bentley press releases and news alerts. Visit The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference website for highlights of Bentley’s premier thought-leadership event, being held November 3-5, 2015, in London, U.K. To view a searchable collection of innovative infrastructure projects from the annual Be Inspired Awards, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks. To access a professional networking site that enables members of the infrastructure community to connect, communicate, and learn from each other, visit Bentley Communities.

To download the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners ranking, a unique global compendium of the top public- and private-sector owners of infrastructure based on the value of their cumulative infrastructure investments, visit BI 500.

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Bentley, the “B” Bentley logo, Be, MicroStation, and ProjectWise are either registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated or one of its direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiaries. All other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.

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ESM Productions Credits Bentley Systems’ Reality Modeling Technology in Its Successful ‘Engineering’ of Philadelphia Papal Visit

‘Virtuality’ Breakthrough Advances Project Planning and Risk Reduction for World-class Public Event

LONDON – The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference – ESM Productions, a full-service event production company, and Bentley Systems, a leading global provider of comprehensive software for advancing infrastructure, today jointly acknowledged the significant contribution of Bentley colleagues, and technology advances, to ESM’s successful planning of the visit of Pope Francis to Philadelphia during the week of September 21, 2015, including the anchor event of the Eighth World Meeting of Families Congress. In planning this massive and multi-faceted event, ESM needed to coordinate with Philadelphia’s many public services, as well as the U.S. Secret Service, Pennsylvania state agencies, and the local Philadelphia Catholic Diocese. This coordination was made more effective and timely through Bentley’s reality modeling technology, as well as services provided by a legion of Bentley colleague volunteers.  

ESM had witnessed firsthand Bentley’s new reality modeling capabilities at a Bentley event that they produced, and was struck by its significant potential to accelerate their planning of the pope’s visit to Philadelphia. Upon learning of this interest, Bentley Systems CEO Greg Bentley invited Bentley colleagues (and retirees) to donate their time and talent to a “pro bono” effort on the part of Bentley Systems to help assure its headquarters region’s successful hosting of the pope and the unprecedented number of expected visitors. Some 30 colleagues participated in exploring how reality modeling could expedite the design and engineering of substantial temporary facilities for this highly visible, fast-tracked project, while supporting the extreme security workflows required.  

Scott Mirkin, co-founder and executive producer, ESM Productions, said, “We wouldn’t be chosen to produce world-class events unless we did them well, and we do them well because we innovatively apply the appropriate and most effective technologies. The minute we saw Bentley’s reality modeling in action, we knew it could provide breakthrough benefits – but given the exceptionally tight deadlines, we had limited time, in our own right, to experiment with it. I thank the Bentley colleagues who offered their support and applied Bentley’s reality modeling within their engineering tools in a way that had never been done before. This jointly coordinated effort enabled our event organizing team to leverage reality modeling to speed stakeholder buy-in and to ensure that one of the country’s largest public events was executed with great success. 

“In the end, we experienced dramatic risk reduction, better decision making, exceptional timeliness, and greater efficiency. The goal we set with Bentley to test the applicability of reality modeling as a mission-critical event planning technology was completely validated, and we are now planning to offer this new value to our clients going forward. We’ve already had conversations with many of the agencies and teams involved in the execution of this project and discussed the many benefits achieved by having a virtualized experience created through reality modeling. In fact, we were so impressed that we are creating a documentary highlighting our use and the outcomes we achieved.” For a preview of this documentary, visit https://youtu.be/dYJd36opBmY.

Bentley’s reality modeling process involved three steps:

1. Capture reality. Bentley’s ContextCapture software was used to build a highly detailed, photo-textured 3D “reality mesh” model from 28,000 digital photographs, with unprecedented geometrical accuracy. Base imagery was provided by Pictometry, high-resolution aerial photography was taken by helicopter by AEROmetrex, and ground footage was captured by Bentley volunteers – including building facades, street views, and the inside of the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul.
2. Engineer in context. The highly precise 3D model was populated with 2D and 3D maps and designs, resulting in a 28 GB dataset. The dataset was used to communicate the details for the 56,400 temporary structures, main and secondary stages and event seating, 33 miles of security barricade perimeter, special U.S. Secret Service security requirements, impact of local road closures to pedestrian traffic flows, and more.
3. Enliven the engineered environment. Bentley’s LumenRT software was used to add motion and additional content to simulate the expected operational experience, a great help to decision makers. The team added moving people in crowds, vehicles flowing in traffic, dynamic sunlight conditions, and seasonal trees and plants.

Buddy Cleveland, a recently retired Bentley senior vice president who led the Bentley team, said, “This was a highly public and complex project, with many stakeholders and an impossible timeline. We got involved right in the middle of it. The papal visit required effective planning for the construction and management of temporary facilities and utilities amidst a busy urban infrastructure. The most expedient way we could add value to this project was to create, just in time, a comprehensive, highly detailed 3D model of Philadelphia that was visually realistic and dimensionally accurate, and then seamlessly integrate that model with engineering models produced by our tools. Both ESM and Bentley are very grateful to our partners, Pictometry and AEROmetrex, who stepped up to provide the base imagery, aerial imagery, and processing with ContextCapture to create the initial reality mesh.”

He continued, “I am deeply appreciative of my colleagues at Bentley who dedicated their time for this worthwhile project, in particular 3D developer extraordinaire Ray Bentley, who swiftly delivered many innovative software enhancements that enabled the project team to effectively apply ContextCapture, MicroStation CONNECT Edition, ProjectWise and LumenRT in new ways for this major global event. Finally, we’re very grateful to ESM and the city of Philadelphia for their foresight and willingness to apply new technology. This project certainly validated the value of reality modeling technologies for the planning and engineering of a project of this scale.”

For additional information:

• ContextCapture
• The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference

About ESM Productions

ESM Productions is a premier, full-service event production company that specializes in the creative design, planning and execution of high-profile events and broadcast productions. ESM supplies the innovative expertise, resources and state-of-the-art technology to meet a wide variety of production needs and challenges. Scott Mirkin is one of America’s most successful event producers and a pioneer in large audience and `high quality live streaming events. He has been responsible for producing for a wide array of important political icons, religious figures, and entertainment moguls, as varied as President Barack Obama, Pope Francis, and Jay Z. Additional information about ESM Productions is available at www.esmproductions.com.

About Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and comprehensive managed services.

Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2008 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions. Additional information about Bentley is available at www.bentley.com.

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Bentley, the “B” Bentley logo, Be, ContextCapture, LumenRT, MicroStation, and ProjectWise are either registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated or one of its direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiaries. All other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.

Leading Civil Engineers Credit Bentley’s OpenRoads ‘BIM Advancements’

Introducing OpenRoads CONNECT Edition, OpenRoads Navigator CONNECT Edition, and OpenRoads ConceptStation

LONDON – The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, today reported that OpenRoads is setting the pace for civil and transportation engineers, contractors, governments, and owner-operators that are meeting today’s design, construction, and operations challenges by working more productively, collaborating globally, and delivering better-performing infrastructure assets. Among the many projects crediting OpenRoads are 52 nominees, spanning 13 innovation categories, in the 2015 Be Inspired Awards program. Examples of projects that have benefited from OpenRoads’ ‘BIM advancements,’ along with a brief description of advantages gained, immediately follow the product advancement update below.

Product Advancement Update: OpenRoads CONNECT Edition

Dustin Parkman, Bentley vice president, product development, road, rail, and site design, said, “With our most recent V8i versions of OpenRoads and our sewer and stormwater offerings having led the way through unprecedented integration between civil design and analysis, here at The Year in Infrastructure 2015 we turn our attention to the even more comprehensive integration of the OpenRoads CONNECT Edition.

“OpenRoads is already known for empowering civil infrastructure project teams to accelerate design, produce intelligent 3D models that enable construction-driven engineering, share information across project teams, and facilitate project delivery. With the OpenRoads CONNECT Edition, we complete the reach of our common modeling environment across roads, bridges, rail, geotechnical, and site optimization.

“With this month’s General Access to the OpenRoads Navigator CONNECT Edition app, and our new OpenRoads ConceptStation available for Limited Access in 2016, we are advancing comprehensive project delivery from conceptioneering through field workflows and next, construction modeling.”

OpenRoads Navigator CONNECT Edition App

Bentley’s OpenRoads Navigator CONNECT Edition app provides easy-to-use workflow access to civil design and pay item information in the field. It supports teams working better together to speed approvals and resolve issues during design, construction, and operations. OpenRoads Navigator integrates with ProjectWise to support collaboration for all team members and enable even faster resolution of field issues, resulting in better decisions throughout the lifecycle of a project.

OpenRoads ConceptStation

The new OpenRoads ConceptStation CONNECT Edition introduces conceptioneering. Through conceptioneering at the project outset, users are able to balance the demands of creative infrastructure designs with the financial, environmental, and engineering performance requirements of modern infrastructure projects. In conceptioneering, users consider the larger issues to help shape the project’s approach to meeting the programmatic requirements. Accordingly, conceptioneering spans context capture through compelling communication of a design proposal. Throughout the project, users explore design alternatives through optioneering, applying engineering analyses to improve decision making.

OpenRoads ConceptStation will help users to explore preliminary design options, leverage functional component catalogs, optimize project performance, and rapidly make decisions in the pre-bid phase to avoid high-cost errors. This conceptual design workflow takes full advantage of reality modeling – first to enable engineering in context, including reality meshes from ContextCapture, and then to enliven the engineered environment through LumenRT, including moving traffic and dynamic landscaping. With OpenRoads ConceptStation, engineers can evaluate designs and associated costs faster and more easily, present projects through immersive visualization, and continuously advance conceptual designs through project delivery by way of Bentley’s CONNECT Edition common modeling environment.

Examples of Projects Crediting OpenRoads

Enabling Global Supply Chain Collaboration While Enhancing Quality through Standards

AECOM is a premier, fully integrated professional and technical services firm positioned to design, build, finance, and operate infrastructure assets around the world for public- and private-sector clients. Its Roadmap for the Development of the E4 from Ljungby to Toftanäs project in Småland, Sweden, involved more than 15 sub-consultants located in different locations, including different countries. The challenge was to provide design standards to ensure quality control and implement a well-defined data environment workflow. OpenRoads was used to define civil software standards across all design teams. It allowed extensive utilization of 3D models to streamline collaboration across all disciplines and provide earlier clash detection and resolution to reduce errors in the field. ProjectWise provided the common data environment to be used by all team members. Using both applications together allowed AECOM to increase overall project performance and deliver a higher-quality design.

Leveraging Design-time Visualization to Help Gain Project Approval

Louis Berger is a leading global professional services corporation that helps clients solve complex infrastructure and development challenges. For the I-11 Boulder City Bypass project in Nevada, U.S., the company produced a 3D animation of the critical mountain-pass section of the bypass just before the Mike O’Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge. The summit of the mountain pass provides panoramic views of Lake Mead and nearby mountain ranges. The design needed to provide a scenic overlook and dedicated wildlife crossing bridge before the summit. The visualization was needed to illustrate the new design at public meetings and on YouTube to gain public project approval. The team used edge-of-pavement and striping curves from the OpenRoads digital terrain model (DTM) to model the roadways and extensive cut-and-fill sections. The visualization was invaluable in helping not only the public but also the lawmakers clearly understand the road design.

Leveraging Benefits Tenfold, from Subsurface Utility Engineering

Utility Mapping Services, Inc., provides Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE) services for site developments and transportation projects. For its project encompassing the installation of a Puget Sound Energy 8-inch, high-pressure natural gas main along SR510 in Lacey, Washington, U.S., the firm used OpenRoads and Bentley Subsurface Utility Engineering to model the utility infrastructure and avoid potential utility conflicts. The result was reduced costs from unnecessary utility relocations, avoidable construction delays, and contractor change orders. Philip J. Meis, P.E., Utility Mapping Services principal engineer, said, “For a number of years now we’ve had the ability to acquire 3D data on existing utility infrastructure, but have not been able to effectively leverage the value of that data and the ‘engineering’ in our SUE services. With the Bentley Subsurface Utility Engineering application, the benefit and value of our services have increased by tenfold. … We are now, from a holistic stance, able to provide the public, to whom we owe our paramount responsibility as professional engineers, the full benefit of SUE!”

Creating Design-Construct-Operate Model via Reality Modeling

African Consulting Surveyors, a leading geospatial service and solution provider, working with global professional services firm SMEC, used LiDAR, terrestrial, and mobile scanning in the N1 Freeway Upgrade Mobile Laser Scanning Survey project for Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. All three imaging datasets were combined into a single point cloud to ensure a detailed accurate 3D model for the design work. Taking advantage of OpenRoads’ unmatched data acquisition capabilities, the design team created 3D models to ensure that all project information was available to all team members across disciplines such as bridges, drainage, road design, and construction. OpenRoads provided an intelligent and accurate design, helping minimize expensive construction errors. Brett Forbes, director business development, African Consulting Surveyors, said, “Bentley’s technology allows users in all phases of the project lifecycle, including survey, optioneering, design, construction, maintenance, and operations, to effectively manage and utilize the geospatially correct laser point cloud in their particular discipline. This enables informed decision making and improved design, which reduces costs and optimizes project expenditure.”

Meeting Budget Constraints with Information Sharing
from Design through Construction

BCC Engineering, Inc., known for its work on massive infrastructure and transportation projects, was the lead design firm on the SR 826/SR 836 Interchange Improvements – Section 5 Design-build Florida Department of Transportation Project in Miami, Florida, U.S. Using Bentley’s OpenRoads, LEAP Bridge, and STAAD, the team developed cost-saving innovations that brought the project within FDOT’s budget constraints. OpenRoads enabled information sharing among the large design team and allowed for standardization and efficiencies that could be used from design through construction by all disciplines. Jose A. Muñoz, PE, president, BCC Engineering, said, “Bentley’s software solutions provide BCC Engineering with the tools to confidently turn complex plans inside out to create better built designs and more cost-effective solutions to meet the needs of our clients.”

For additional information:

• OpenRoads
• The Be Inspired Awards Program
• The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference

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About OpenRoads

OpenRoads, Bentley’s successor to its InRoads, GEOPAK, and MX offerings, continues to push the envelope in road design, construction, and operations. Meeting the needs of multi-discipline civil engineering projects, OpenRoads’ industry-leading “BIM advancements” empower users through immersive modeling, design-time visualization, design intent capture and persistence, hypermodeling, model interoperability, and construction-driven engineering.

About Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and comprehensive managed services.

Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2008 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.

Additional information about Bentley is available at www.bentley.com and in Bentley’s annual report. For Bentley news as it happens, subscribe to an RSS feed of Bentley press releases and news alerts. Visit The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference website for highlights of Bentley’s premier thought-leadership event, being held November 3-5, 2015, in London, U.K. To view a searchable collection of innovative infrastructure projects from the annual Be Inspired Awards, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks. To access a professional networking site that enables members of the infrastructure community to connect, communicate, and learn from each other, visit Bentley Communities.

To download the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners ranking, a unique global compendium of the top public- and private-sector owners of infrastructure based on the value of their cumulative infrastructure investments, visit BI 500.

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Leading Civil Engineers Credit Bentley’s OpenRoads ‘BIM Advancements’

Introducing OpenRoads CONNECT Edition, OpenRoads Navigator CONNECT Edition, and OpenRoads ConceptStation

LONDON – The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, today reported that OpenRoads is setting the pace for civil and transportation engineers, contractors, governments, and owner-operators that are meeting today’s design, construction, and operations challenges by working more productively, collaborating globally, and delivering better-performing infrastructure assets. Among the many projects crediting OpenRoads are 52 nominees, spanning 13 innovation categories, in the 2015 Be Inspired Awards program. Examples of projects that have benefited from OpenRoads’ ‘BIM advancements,’ along with a brief description of advantages gained, immediately follow the product advancement update below.

Product Advancement Update: OpenRoads CONNECT Edition

Dustin Parkman, Bentley vice president, product development, road, rail, and site design, said, “With our most recent V8i versions of OpenRoads and our sewer and stormwater offerings having led the way through unprecedented integration between civil design and analysis, here at The Year in Infrastructure 2015 we turn our attention to the even more comprehensive integration of the OpenRoads CONNECT Edition.

“OpenRoads is already known for empowering civil infrastructure project teams to accelerate design, produce intelligent 3D models that enable construction-driven engineering, share information across project teams, and facilitate project delivery. With the OpenRoads CONNECT Edition, we complete the reach of our common modeling environment across roads, bridges, rail, geotechnical, and site optimization.

“With this month’s General Access to the OpenRoads Navigator CONNECT Edition app, and our new OpenRoads ConceptStation available for Limited Access in 2016, we are advancing comprehensive project delivery from conceptioneering through field workflows and next, construction modeling.”

OpenRoads Navigator CONNECT Edition App

Bentley’s OpenRoads Navigator CONNECT Edition app provides easy-to-use workflow access to civil design and pay item information in the field. It supports teams working better together to speed approvals and resolve issues during design, construction, and operations. OpenRoads Navigator integrates with ProjectWise to support collaboration for all team members and enable even faster resolution of field issues, resulting in better decisions throughout the lifecycle of a project.

OpenRoads ConceptStation

The new OpenRoads ConceptStation CONNECT Edition introduces conceptioneering. Through conceptioneering at the project outset, users are able to balance the demands of creative infrastructure designs with the financial, environmental, and engineering performance requirements of modern infrastructure projects. In conceptioneering, users consider the larger issues to help shape the project’s approach to meeting the programmatic requirements. Accordingly, conceptioneering spans context capture through compelling communication of a design proposal. Throughout the project, users explore design alternatives through optioneering, applying engineering analyses to improve decision making.

OpenRoads ConceptStation will help users to explore preliminary design options, leverage functional component catalogs, optimize project performance, and rapidly make decisions in the pre-bid phase to avoid high-cost errors. This conceptual design workflow takes full advantage of reality modeling – first to enable engineering in context, including reality meshes from ContextCapture, and then to enliven the engineered environment through LumenRT, including moving traffic and dynamic landscaping. With OpenRoads ConceptStation, engineers can evaluate designs and associated costs faster and more easily, present projects through immersive visualization, and continuously advance conceptual designs through project delivery by way of Bentley’s CONNECT Edition common modeling environment.

Examples of Projects Crediting OpenRoads

Enabling Global Supply Chain Collaboration While Enhancing Quality through Standards

AECOM is a premier, fully integrated professional and technical services firm positioned to design, build, finance, and operate infrastructure assets around the world for public- and private-sector clients. Its Roadmap for the Development of the E4 from Ljungby to Toftanäs project in Småland, Sweden, involved more than 15 sub-consultants located in different locations, including different countries. The challenge was to provide design standards to ensure quality control and implement a well-defined data environment workflow. OpenRoads was used to define civil software standards across all design teams. It allowed extensive utilization of 3D models to streamline collaboration across all disciplines and provide earlier clash detection and resolution to reduce errors in the field. ProjectWise provided the common data environment to be used by all team members. Using both applications together allowed AECOM to increase overall project performance and deliver a higher-quality design.

Leveraging Design-time Visualization to Help Gain Project Approval

Louis Berger is a leading global professional services corporation that helps clients solve complex infrastructure and development challenges. For the I-11 Boulder City Bypass project in Nevada, U.S., the company produced a 3D animation of the critical mountain-pass section of the bypass just before the Mike O’Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge. The summit of the mountain pass provides panoramic views of Lake Mead and nearby mountain ranges. The design needed to provide a scenic overlook and dedicated wildlife crossing bridge before the summit. The visualization was needed to illustrate the new design at public meetings and on YouTube to gain public project approval. The team used edge-of-pavement and striping curves from the OpenRoads digital terrain model (DTM) to model the roadways and extensive cut-and-fill sections. The visualization was invaluable in helping not only the public but also the lawmakers clearly understand the road design.

Leveraging Benefits Tenfold, from Subsurface Utility Engineering

Utility Mapping Services, Inc., provides Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE) services for site developments and transportation projects. For its project encompassing the installation of a Puget Sound Energy 8-inch, high-pressure natural gas main along SR510 in Lacey, Washington, U.S., the firm used OpenRoads and Bentley Subsurface Utility Engineering to model the utility infrastructure and avoid potential utility conflicts. The result was reduced costs from unnecessary utility relocations, avoidable construction delays, and contractor change orders. Philip J. Meis, P.E., Utility Mapping Services principal engineer, said, “For a number of years now we’ve had the ability to acquire 3D data on existing utility infrastructure, but have not been able to effectively leverage the value of that data and the ‘engineering’ in our SUE services. With the Bentley Subsurface Utility Engineering application, the benefit and value of our services have increased by tenfold. … We are now, from a holistic stance, able to provide the public, to whom we owe our paramount responsibility as professional engineers, the full benefit of SUE!”

Creating Design-Construct-Operate Model via Reality Modeling

African Consulting Surveyors, a leading geospatial service and solution provider, working with global professional services firm SMEC, used LiDAR, terrestrial, and mobile scanning in the N1 Freeway Upgrade Mobile Laser Scanning Survey project for Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. All three imaging datasets were combined into a single point cloud to ensure a detailed accurate 3D model for the design work. Taking advantage of OpenRoads’ unmatched data acquisition capabilities, the design team created 3D models to ensure that all project information was available to all team members across disciplines such as bridges, drainage, road design, and construction. OpenRoads provided an intelligent and accurate design, helping minimize expensive construction errors. Brett Forbes, director business development, African Consulting Surveyors, said, “Bentley’s technology allows users in all phases of the project lifecycle, including survey, optioneering, design, construction, maintenance, and operations, to effectively manage and utilize the geospatially correct laser point cloud in their particular discipline. This enables informed decision making and improved design, which reduces costs and optimizes project expenditure.”

Meeting Budget Constraints with Information Sharing
from Design through Construction

BCC Engineering, Inc., known for its work on massive infrastructure and transportation projects, was the lead design firm on the SR 826/SR 836 Interchange Improvements – Section 5 Design-build Florida Department of Transportation Project in Miami, Florida, U.S. Using Bentley’s OpenRoads, LEAP Bridge, and STAAD, the team developed cost-saving innovations that brought the project within FDOT’s budget constraints. OpenRoads enabled information sharing among the large design team and allowed for standardization and efficiencies that could be used from design through construction by all disciplines. Jose A. Muñoz, PE, president, BCC Engineering, said, “Bentley’s software solutions provide BCC Engineering with the tools to confidently turn complex plans inside out to create better built designs and more cost-effective solutions to meet the needs of our clients.”

For additional information:

• OpenRoads
• The Be Inspired Awards Program
• The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference

Follow @bentleysystems and #YII2015 on Twitter. Like Bentley on Facebook.

About OpenRoads

OpenRoads, Bentley’s successor to its InRoads, GEOPAK, and MX offerings, continues to push the envelope in road design, construction, and operations. Meeting the needs of multi-discipline civil engineering projects, OpenRoads’ industry-leading “BIM advancements” empower users through immersive modeling, design-time visualization, design intent capture and persistence, hypermodeling, model interoperability, and construction-driven engineering.

About Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and comprehensive managed services.

Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2008 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.

Additional information about Bentley is available at www.bentley.com and in Bentley’s annual report. For Bentley news as it happens, subscribe to an RSS feed of Bentley press releases and news alerts. Visit The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference website for highlights of Bentley’s premier thought-leadership event, being held November 3-5, 2015, in London, U.K. To view a searchable collection of innovative infrastructure projects from the annual Be Inspired Awards, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks. To access a professional networking site that enables members of the infrastructure community to connect, communicate, and learn from each other, visit Bentley Communities.

To download the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners ranking, a unique global compendium of the top public- and private-sector owners of infrastructure based on the value of their cumulative infrastructure investments, visit BI 500.

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Leading EPCs and Owners Credit Bentley’s OpenPlant Advancements

OpenPlant Support Engineering Advancement Accelerates Design, Analysis, and Placement of Plant Hangers and Supports

LONDON – The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, today reported that OpenPlant continues to set the pace for engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractors and owner-operators around the world who are embracing multi-discipline 3D plant design to deliver projects faster and to enable lifecycle information mobility. Among the projects crediting OpenPlant are 22 nominees for the 2015 Be Inspired Awards program, spanning nine countries and eight innovation categories. Examples of projects that have benefited from OpenPlant’s advancements, along with a brief description of advantages gained, immediately follow the product advancement update below.

Product Advancement Update: Accelerating Design, Analysis, and Placement of Plant Piping Supports and More

The most recent addition to OpenPlant applications is OpenPlant Support Engineering, now available through General Access. The new offering enables EPCs and owner-operators to accelerate the design, analysis, and placement of plant supports and support assemblies for plant piping, electrical, and HVAC components. OpenPlant Support Engineering increases productivity and design accuracy while decreasing overall project time through its intra-operability with other OpenPlant applications, access to multiple vendors’ catalogs of support components, and the automated generation of construction drawings and bills of material.

Bentley Systems Vice President Ken Adamson said, “OpenPlant Support Engineering fully integrates with OpenPlant Modeler, OpenPlant ModelServer, and OpenPlant Isometrics Manager, along with ProjectWise. As a result, users work directly within their OpenPlant environment and can easily integrate support and support assemblies into their overall plant designs. This substantially reduces time spent coordinating across design disciplines while decreasing errors.”

Damian Fonte, senior piping engineer, Hatch, said, “We anticipate OpenPlant Support Engineering will allow us to save time with quick and easy access to accurate support models. What impressed me most about the software is that the manufacturers’ certified catalogs are one click away.”

With OpenPlant Support Engineering, users can:

• quickly and accurately design, model, and place supports and support assemblies;
• cost-effectively engineer all supports in a reasonable time frame;
• leverage a common data environment, with analysis tools such as Bentley’s AutoPIPE and STAAD.Pro, to help ensure the structural integrity and safe operation of plants of all types;
• access an extensive selection of content from multiple vendor catalogs;
• automatically generate accurate construction drawings and bills of material; and
• increase productivity through enhanced collaboration and data reuse.

Examples of Projects Crediting OpenPlant

Compliance and Risk Mitigation

MWH Global’s engineers, consultants, and construction professionals are specialists in water and natural resources who use innovative ideas and technology to help solve complex infrastructure and environmental challenges. During the Tyseley Resource Recovery Centre power generation project in Birmingham, U.K., MWH used OpenPlant PID to produce P&IDs with embedded KKS to comply with power industry standards and to export i-models to synchronize with mechanical piping models. MWH Global used OpenPlant Modeler to design mechanical piping and equipment and attach nongraphical information to all 3D design models. The use of intelligent 3D models helped identify hazardous areas in plants and mitigate risks. Ashish Katake, lead CAD designer, MWH Global, said, “Bentley OpenPlant applications suite truly helped in our project design delivery and enabled us to stand tall in the crowd.”

Reducing Project Delivery Time

Enipro Sp. z o.o. is a multi-discipline engineering and construction company based in Gliwice, Poland, with a long history of scientific and technical achievements in the energy and environmental sectors and chemical industries. During an installation involving the Catalytic Denitrification and Dedusting Gas from Boilers at PKN ORLEN SA’s CHP Plant in Plock, Mazowieckie, Poland, the Enipro team employed OpenPlant Modeler to virtually model the piping installation to EU standards. Enipro project manager Wojciech Szczuka said, “The Enipro engineering team used OpenPlant on the Bentley platform to create 3D models that were shared by all disciplines. Having a 3D model shortened design time, reduced project delivery time, and minimized the occurrence of clashes during construction. Our use of OpenPlant Modeler reduced project cost by up to 20 percent.” Additionally, Enipro’s use of OpenPlant Isometrics Manager for isometric production reduced the delivery time for the project’s documentation by 20 percent.

Optioneering for Higher ROI

GEA Equipamentos E Soluҫões S/A, based in Campinas, Brazil, manufactures a range of process technology equipment and components largely for the food processing industry. In constructing a Milk Pasteurization System in Paraná, Brazil, GEA’s use of OpenPlant to model the plant’s piping enabled it to check for interferences and possible design errors while avoiding future costs of manufacturing errors. Willian Leite Avelino, piping designer for GEA, said, “The OpenPlant software enabled the modeling of the components, extraction of the isometric projections, and the preparation of plant options in a faster manner, reducing the delivery time of the design and, thus, time for construction.” By reducing the delivery time of the project by 10 percent, time of construction by 20 percent, and the number of labor hours for plant completion, OpenPlant increased the return on investment.

Multi-discipline Collaboration in Parallel

DI Soyuzhimpromproekt FSBEI HPE KSTU, a provider of design services for a wide range of facilities including hazardous materials plants, petroleum and gas stations, HVAC systems for industrial buildings, and more, recently worked on the Special Industrial Production of Methylchlorosilane project in Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. It involved the conversion of an existing synthetic rubber plant into the new production facility. With the help of OpenPlant, ProjectWise, and other Bentley software, the engineering team developed a federated information model to facilitate design and accelerate information exchange. The software further provided a unified database of materials and equipment, automated the generation of specifications and estimates, and improved the quality of design decisions as well as the efficiency of project manufacturing administration. Together, these advancements cut design time by 25 percent, time to produce project documentation by 50 percent, and the project travel budget by 30 percent. Sergei Krashakov, head of design team, DI Soyuzhimpromproekt, said, “The Bentley software allows the organization of parallel teamwork on a project by practically any number of specialists in various fields.”

About OpenPlant

OpenPlant provides advancements for the multi-discipline engineering of process plants. It is widely adopted by leading plant EPCs and owner-operators as the most practical and the most scalable solution to comprehensively support project delivery. Through its use of iRING/ISO 15926 as an intrinsic data model, OpenPlant enables users to coordinate and share information across multiple disciplines and the infrastructure lifecycle.

For additional information:

• OpenPlant
• OpenPlant Support Engineering
• The Be Inspired Awards Program
• The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference

Follow @bentleysystems and #YII2015 on Twitter. Like Bentley on Facebook.

About Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and comprehensive managed services.

Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2008 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.

Additional information about Bentley is available at www.bentley.com and in Bentley’s annual report. For Bentley news as it happens, subscribe to an RSS feed of Bentley press releases and news alerts. Visit The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference website for highlights of Bentley’s premier thought-leadership event, being held November 3-5, 2015, in London, U.K. To view a searchable collection of innovative infrastructure projects from the annual Be Inspired Awards, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks. To access a professional networking site that enables members of the infrastructure community to connect, communicate, and learn from each other, visit Bentley Communities.

To download the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners ranking, a unique global compendium of the top public- and private-sector owners of infrastructure based on the value of their cumulative infrastructure investments, visit BI 500.

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Leading EPCs and Owners Credit Bentley’s OpenPlant Advancements

OpenPlant Support Engineering Advancement Accelerates Design, Analysis, and Placement of Plant Hangers and Supports

LONDON – The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, today reported that OpenPlant continues to set the pace for engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractors and owner-operators around the world who are embracing multi-discipline 3D plant design to deliver projects faster and to enable lifecycle information mobility. Among the projects crediting OpenPlant are 22 nominees for the 2015 Be Inspired Awards program, spanning nine countries and eight innovation categories. Examples of projects that have benefited from OpenPlant’s advancements, along with a brief description of advantages gained, immediately follow the product advancement update below.

Product Advancement Update: Accelerating Design, Analysis, and Placement of Plant Piping Supports and More

The most recent addition to OpenPlant applications is OpenPlant Support Engineering, now available through General Access. The new offering enables EPCs and owner-operators to accelerate the design, analysis, and placement of plant supports and support assemblies for plant piping, electrical, and HVAC components. OpenPlant Support Engineering increases productivity and design accuracy while decreasing overall project time through its intra-operability with other OpenPlant applications, access to multiple vendors’ catalogs of support components, and the automated generation of construction drawings and bills of material.

Bentley Systems Vice President Ken Adamson said, “OpenPlant Support Engineering fully integrates with OpenPlant Modeler, OpenPlant ModelServer, and OpenPlant Isometrics Manager, along with ProjectWise. As a result, users work directly within their OpenPlant environment and can easily integrate support and support assemblies into their overall plant designs. This substantially reduces time spent coordinating across design disciplines while decreasing errors.”

Damian Fonte, senior piping engineer, Hatch, said, “We anticipate OpenPlant Support Engineering will allow us to save time with quick and easy access to accurate support models. What impressed me most about the software is that the manufacturers’ certified catalogs are one click away.”

With OpenPlant Support Engineering, users can:

• quickly and accurately design, model, and place supports and support assemblies;
• cost-effectively engineer all supports in a reasonable time frame;
• leverage a common data environment, with analysis tools such as Bentley’s AutoPIPE and STAAD.Pro, to help ensure the structural integrity and safe operation of plants of all types;
• access an extensive selection of content from multiple vendor catalogs;
• automatically generate accurate construction drawings and bills of material; and
• increase productivity through enhanced collaboration and data reuse.

Examples of Projects Crediting OpenPlant

Compliance and Risk Mitigation

MWH Global’s engineers, consultants, and construction professionals are specialists in water and natural resources who use innovative ideas and technology to help solve complex infrastructure and environmental challenges. During the Tyseley Resource Recovery Centre power generation project in Birmingham, U.K., MWH used OpenPlant PID to produce P&IDs with embedded KKS to comply with power industry standards and to export i-models to synchronize with mechanical piping models. MWH Global used OpenPlant Modeler to design mechanical piping and equipment and attach nongraphical information to all 3D design models. The use of intelligent 3D models helped identify hazardous areas in plants and mitigate risks. Ashish Katake, lead CAD designer, MWH Global, said, “Bentley OpenPlant applications suite truly helped in our project design delivery and enabled us to stand tall in the crowd.”

Reducing Project Delivery Time

Enipro Sp. z o.o. is a multi-discipline engineering and construction company based in Gliwice, Poland, with a long history of scientific and technical achievements in the energy and environmental sectors and chemical industries. During an installation involving the Catalytic Denitrification and Dedusting Gas from Boilers at PKN ORLEN SA’s CHP Plant in Plock, Mazowieckie, Poland, the Enipro team employed OpenPlant Modeler to virtually model the piping installation to EU standards. Enipro project manager Wojciech Szczuka said, “The Enipro engineering team used OpenPlant on the Bentley platform to create 3D models that were shared by all disciplines. Having a 3D model shortened design time, reduced project delivery time, and minimized the occurrence of clashes during construction. Our use of OpenPlant Modeler reduced project cost by up to 20 percent.” Additionally, Enipro’s use of OpenPlant Isometrics Manager for isometric production reduced the delivery time for the project’s documentation by 20 percent.

Optioneering for Higher ROI

GEA Equipamentos E Soluҫões S/A, based in Campinas, Brazil, manufactures a range of process technology equipment and components largely for the food processing industry. In constructing a Milk Pasteurization System in Paraná, Brazil, GEA’s use of OpenPlant to model the plant’s piping enabled it to check for interferences and possible design errors while avoiding future costs of manufacturing errors. Willian Leite Avelino, piping designer for GEA, said, “The OpenPlant software enabled the modeling of the components, extraction of the isometric projections, and the preparation of plant options in a faster manner, reducing the delivery time of the design and, thus, time for construction.” By reducing the delivery time of the project by 10 percent, time of construction by 20 percent, and the number of labor hours for plant completion, OpenPlant increased the return on investment.

Multi-discipline Collaboration in Parallel

DI Soyuzhimpromproekt FSBEI HPE KSTU, a provider of design services for a wide range of facilities including hazardous materials plants, petroleum and gas stations, HVAC systems for industrial buildings, and more, recently worked on the Special Industrial Production of Methylchlorosilane project in Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. It involved the conversion of an existing synthetic rubber plant into the new production facility. With the help of OpenPlant, ProjectWise, and other Bentley software, the engineering team developed a federated information model to facilitate design and accelerate information exchange. The software further provided a unified database of materials and equipment, automated the generation of specifications and estimates, and improved the quality of design decisions as well as the efficiency of project manufacturing administration. Together, these advancements cut design time by 25 percent, time to produce project documentation by 50 percent, and the project travel budget by 30 percent. Sergei Krashakov, head of design team, DI Soyuzhimpromproekt, said, “The Bentley software allows the organization of parallel teamwork on a project by practically any number of specialists in various fields.”

About OpenPlant

OpenPlant provides advancements for the multi-discipline engineering of process plants. It is widely adopted by leading plant EPCs and owner-operators as the most practical and the most scalable solution to comprehensively support project delivery. Through its use of iRING/ISO 15926 as an intrinsic data model, OpenPlant enables users to coordinate and share information across multiple disciplines and the infrastructure lifecycle.

For additional information:

• OpenPlant
• OpenPlant Support Engineering
• The Be Inspired Awards Program
• The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference

Follow @bentleysystems and #YII2015 on Twitter. Like Bentley on Facebook.

About Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and comprehensive managed services.

Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2008 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.

Additional information about Bentley is available at www.bentley.com and in Bentley’s annual report. For Bentley news as it happens, subscribe to an RSS feed of Bentley press releases and news alerts. Visit The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference website for highlights of Bentley’s premier thought-leadership event, being held November 3-5, 2015, in London, U.K. To view a searchable collection of innovative infrastructure projects from the annual Be Inspired Awards, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks. To access a professional networking site that enables members of the infrastructure community to connect, communicate, and learn from each other, visit Bentley Communities.

To download the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners ranking, a unique global compendium of the top public- and private-sector owners of infrastructure based on the value of their cumulative infrastructure investments, visit BI 500.

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Announcing Bentley OpenRoads Navigator App

Leading Architectural and Design Practices Credit Bentley’s AECOsim Building Designer BIM Advancements

Intrinsic Incorporation of GenerativeComponents Computational Design and AECOsim Energy Simulator Advance Conceptioneering

LONDON – The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, today reported how noteworthy building and infrastructure projects are benefiting from the pacesetting BIM advancements empowered by AECOsim Building Designer V8i for the architectural design and multi-discipline engineering of facilities. In the 2015 Be Inspired Awards program, 60 nominees, spanning 20 countries and representing a diverse range of infrastructure projects, credited Bentley’s AECOsim Building Designer innovations. Examples of projects that have benefited from AECOsim Building Designer’s BIM advancements, along with a brief description of advantages gained, immediately follow the product advancement update below.

Product Advancement Update: Conceptioneering and Optioneering

Commenting on the latest advancements in AECOsim Building Designer, Santanu Das, Bentley Systems senior vice president, design and simulation, said, “Increasingly, AECOsim Building Designer is setting the pace for the unconstrained architectural design and engineering of buildings of any size or scope. Now with the V8i (SELECTseries 6) version, we’ve added innovative capabilities for what we call conceptioneering, bringing analytical modeling and design modeling together in the early conceptual stages of a building project to help create effective design strategies to meet building performance objectives.”

Through conceptioneering at the project outset, users are able to balance the demands of creative infrastructure designs with the financial, environmental, and engineering performance requirements of modern infrastructure projects. In conceptioneering, users consider the larger issues to help shape the project’s approach to meeting the programmatic requirements. Accordingly, conceptioneering spans context capture through compelling communication of a design proposal. Throughout the project, users explore design alternatives through optioneering, applying engineering analyses to improve decision making.

In AECOsim Building Designer V8i (SELECTseries 6), GenerativeComponents’ proven technology now intrinsically drives BIM intelligence for computational design. This enables designers to explore more possibilities in less time, create better designs, and efficiently create and manage complex geometric relationships.

The latest AECOsim Building Designer now also features enhanced integration with AECOsim Energy Simulator for indicative energy performance simulation at the conceptioneering stage to enable better-informed decisions. AECOsim Building Designer can produce Analytical Space Models at later stages for optioneering by AECOsim Energy Simulator’s more detailed energy analyses, to continuously assure that the high-performance potential is fully realized.

Das added, “In 2016, conceptioneering and optioneering for AECOsim Building Designer will be further extended through CONNECT Edition Scenario Services, a cloud-based service for unlimited computational capability. With more rapid turnaround for building analysis, users will be able to evaluate a far greater number of alternatives than would otherwise be possible, to further leverage the analytical modeling capabilities of GenerativeComponents and AECOsim Energy Simulator.”

Examples of Projects Crediting AECOsim Building Designer

Interdisciplinary Federation Across Stakeholders

Morphosis Architects is an interdisciplinary practice involved in rigorous design and research that yields innovative, iconic buildings and urban environments. Morphosis recently employed AECOsim Building Designer on the Bill and Melinda Gates Hall, Cornell University project in Ithaca, New York. Throughout the design of the project an integrated and iterative 3D process was employed, which allowed Morphosis to efficiently and effectively communicate design ideas to consultants and the client. By using a federated approach, the design team was able to create a holistic view of the building and provide a single source of information for the project from early concepts through construction administration. The integrated model increased the design team’s productivity and reduced the staff required to design, document, and coordinate the deliverables. Said Cory Brugger, director of design technology, Morphosis Architects, “The success of this highly innovative, award-winning project was supported by Bentley’s modeling platform, which provided an environment for the development and communication of accurate and highly interoperable information for all stakeholders in the project.”

A Construction Museum Dream: Halving Project Duration while Reducing Errors

Sichuan Provincial Architectural Design and Research Institute, a large architectural design consultant organization providing professional services to urban construction and development, employed AECOsim Building Designer on the Panzhihua Three-line Construction Museum project in Sichuan, China. This key cultural facility is innovatively shaped like flower petals and has a floor space of 40,000 square meters. AECOsim Building Designer’s advancements helped shorten the project time by 60 percent. In addition, they helped reduce design errors by 80 percent, increased design depth by 50 percent, and shortened design time from an anticipated 14 months to 7 months.

Optioneering through Computational Design

Scheiwiller Svensson Arkitektkontor AB, a leading architectural firm in office, housing, retail, and industrial infrastructure, needed to maintain a very complex process involving several contractors in the creation of the NOD open public arena and business center in Stockholm, Sweden. GenerativeComponents was used at the beginning of the process to test some façade ideas, and AECOsim Building Designer was used for 3D simulation of installations and collision control. The ability to generate 3D PDFs made for fast communication with clients, consultants, and tenants, and proved to be crucial to the project being completed for lower than the estimated budget. Automated quantification and smart construction of 2D drawings from 3D models significantly reduced the team’s workload.

Ensuring Quality and Precision for Sustainability

AG5 is a full service architectural studio focused on contextual sustainability, value design, and integrated technology. AG5 Partner Brian Sheldon said, “We employ BIM at an expert level to ensure quality and precision in our work, and we do this using Bentley’s AECOsim Building Designer.” AG5 used AECOsim Building Designer on the Gran Rubina Tower in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta. The tower was designed in partnership with PDW, an Indonesian architectural firm. AG5 won the 2014 International Property Awards architecture prize for the tower’s first stage for its sustainable office complex. The 22-story tower uses 30 percent less energy than typical skyscrapers in the region.

About AECOsim Building Designer

AECOsim Building Designer empowers multi-discipline teams to deliver high-performance buildings through BIM advancements. It provides a robust, scalable, and computational design environment that enables architects and engineers to easily and efficiently collaborate, integrate information, clearly communicate design intent, model anything, and simulate and predict real-world performance, including evaluating alternatives through conceptioneering at the project outset and optioneering throughout.

For additional information:

• AECOsim Building Designer V8i (SELECTseries 6)
• AECOsim
• The Be Inspired Awards Program
• The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference

Follow @bentleysystems and #YII2015 on Twitter. Like Bentley on Facebook.

About Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and comprehensive managed services.

Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2008 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.

Additional information about Bentley is available at www.bentley.com and in Bentley’s annual report. For Bentley news as it happens, subscribe to an RSS feed of Bentley press releases and news alerts. Visit The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference website for highlights of Bentley’s premier thought-leadership event, being held November 3-5, 2015, in London, U.K. To view a searchable collection of innovative infrastructure projects from the annual Be Inspired Awards, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks. To access a professional networking site that enables members of the infrastructure community to connect, communicate, and learn from each other, visit Bentley Communities.

To download the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners ranking, a unique global compendium of the top public- and private-sector owners of infrastructure based on the value of their cumulative infrastructure investments, visit BI 500.

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Leading Architectural and Design Practices Credit Bentley’s AECOsim Building Designer BIM Advancements

Intrinsic Incorporation of GenerativeComponents Computational Design and AECOsim Energy Simulator Advance Conceptioneering

LONDON – The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, today reported how noteworthy building and infrastructure projects are benefiting from the pacesetting BIM advancements empowered by AECOsim Building Designer V8i for the architectural design and multi-discipline engineering of facilities. In the 2015 Be Inspired Awards program, 60 nominees, spanning 20 countries and representing a diverse range of infrastructure projects, credited Bentley’s AECOsim Building Designer innovations. Examples of projects that have benefited from AECOsim Building Designer’s BIM advancements, along with a brief description of advantages gained, immediately follow the product advancement update below.

Product Advancement Update: Conceptioneering and Optioneering

Commenting on the latest advancements in AECOsim Building Designer, Santanu Das, Bentley Systems senior vice president, design and simulation, said, “Increasingly, AECOsim Building Designer is setting the pace for the unconstrained architectural design and engineering of buildings of any size or scope. Now with the V8i (SELECTseries 6) version, we’ve added innovative capabilities for what we call conceptioneering, bringing analytical modeling and design modeling together in the early conceptual stages of a building project to help create effective design strategies to meet building performance objectives.”

Through conceptioneering at the project outset, users are able to balance the demands of creative infrastructure designs with the financial, environmental, and engineering performance requirements of modern infrastructure projects. In conceptioneering, users consider the larger issues to help shape the project’s approach to meeting the programmatic requirements. Accordingly, conceptioneering spans context capture through compelling communication of a design proposal. Throughout the project, users explore design alternatives through optioneering, applying engineering analyses to improve decision making.

In AECOsim Building Designer V8i (SELECTseries 6), GenerativeComponents’ proven technology now intrinsically drives BIM intelligence for computational design. This enables designers to explore more possibilities in less time, create better designs, and efficiently create and manage complex geometric relationships.

The latest AECOsim Building Designer now also features enhanced integration with AECOsim Energy Simulator for indicative energy performance simulation at the conceptioneering stage to enable better-informed decisions. AECOsim Building Designer can produce Analytical Space Models at later stages for optioneering by AECOsim Energy Simulator’s more detailed energy analyses, to continuously assure that the high-performance potential is fully realized.

Das added, “In 2016, conceptioneering and optioneering for AECOsim Building Designer will be further extended through CONNECT Edition Scenario Services, a cloud-based service for unlimited computational capability. With more rapid turnaround for building analysis, users will be able to evaluate a far greater number of alternatives than would otherwise be possible, to further leverage the analytical modeling capabilities of GenerativeComponents and AECOsim Energy Simulator.”

Examples of Projects Crediting AECOsim Building Designer

Interdisciplinary Federation Across Stakeholders

Morphosis Architects is an interdisciplinary practice involved in rigorous design and research that yields innovative, iconic buildings and urban environments. Morphosis recently employed AECOsim Building Designer on the Bill and Melinda Gates Hall, Cornell University project in Ithaca, New York. Throughout the design of the project an integrated and iterative 3D process was employed, which allowed Morphosis to efficiently and effectively communicate design ideas to consultants and the client. By using a federated approach, the design team was able to create a holistic view of the building and provide a single source of information for the project from early concepts through construction administration. The integrated model increased the design team’s productivity and reduced the staff required to design, document, and coordinate the deliverables. Said Cory Brugger, director of design technology, Morphosis Architects, “The success of this highly innovative, award-winning project was supported by Bentley’s modeling platform, which provided an environment for the development and communication of accurate and highly interoperable information for all stakeholders in the project.”

A Construction Museum Dream: Halving Project Duration while Reducing Errors

Sichuan Provincial Architectural Design and Research Institute, a large architectural design consultant organization providing professional services to urban construction and development, employed AECOsim Building Designer on the Panzhihua Three-line Construction Museum project in Sichuan, China. This key cultural facility is innovatively shaped like flower petals and has a floor space of 40,000 square meters. AECOsim Building Designer’s advancements helped shorten the project time by 60 percent. In addition, they helped reduce design errors by 80 percent, increased design depth by 50 percent, and shortened design time from an anticipated 14 months to 7 months.

Optioneering through Computational Design

Scheiwiller Svensson Arkitektkontor AB, a leading architectural firm in office, housing, retail, and industrial infrastructure, needed to maintain a very complex process involving several contractors in the creation of the NOD open public arena and business center in Stockholm, Sweden. GenerativeComponents was used at the beginning of the process to test some façade ideas, and AECOsim Building Designer was used for 3D simulation of installations and collision control. The ability to generate 3D PDFs made for fast communication with clients, consultants, and tenants, and proved to be crucial to the project being completed for lower than the estimated budget. Automated quantification and smart construction of 2D drawings from 3D models significantly reduced the team’s workload.

Ensuring Quality and Precision for Sustainability

AG5 is a full service architectural studio focused on contextual sustainability, value design, and integrated technology. AG5 Partner Brian Sheldon said, “We employ BIM at an expert level to ensure quality and precision in our work, and we do this using Bentley’s AECOsim Building Designer.” AG5 used AECOsim Building Designer on the Gran Rubina Tower in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta. The tower was designed in partnership with PDW, an Indonesian architectural firm. AG5 won the 2014 International Property Awards architecture prize for the tower’s first stage for its sustainable office complex. The 22-story tower uses 30 percent less energy than typical skyscrapers in the region.

About AECOsim Building Designer

AECOsim Building Designer empowers multi-discipline teams to deliver high-performance buildings through BIM advancements. It provides a robust, scalable, and computational design environment that enables architects and engineers to easily and efficiently collaborate, integrate information, clearly communicate design intent, model anything, and simulate and predict real-world performance, including evaluating alternatives through conceptioneering at the project outset and optioneering throughout.

For additional information:

• AECOsim Building Designer V8i (SELECTseries 6)
• AECOsim
• The Be Inspired Awards Program
• The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference

Follow @bentleysystems and #YII2015 on Twitter. Like Bentley on Facebook.

About Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and comprehensive managed services.

Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2008 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.

Additional information about Bentley is available at www.bentley.com and in Bentley’s annual report. For Bentley news as it happens, subscribe to an RSS feed of Bentley press releases and news alerts. Visit The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference website for highlights of Bentley’s premier thought-leadership event, being held November 3-5, 2015, in London, U.K. To view a searchable collection of innovative infrastructure projects from the annual Be Inspired Awards, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks. To access a professional networking site that enables members of the infrastructure community to connect, communicate, and learn from each other, visit Bentley Communities.

To download the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners ranking, a unique global compendium of the top public- and private-sector owners of infrastructure based on the value of their cumulative infrastructure investments, visit BI 500.

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Bentley Introduces ContextCapture, Supporting Reality Modeling for Infrastructure Project Delivery and Asset Performance

Software Speeds and Simplifies the Capture of Real-world Context

LONDON – The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, today announced General Access to its new ContextCapture offering. ContextCapture is Bentley’s first product release of the Acute3D software technology it acquired earlier this year. The software is ideally suited for any organization that could apply 3D models of real-world context to benefit infrastructure design, construction, or operations.

With ContextCapture, users can easily produce high resolution 3D models of existing conditions using photos taken with any digital camera. The software generates a detailed reality mesh incorporating the referenced photography. This results in a navigable 3D model with fine and photo realistic detail, sharp edges, and precise geometric accuracy. These highly detailed models can be of virtually any size or resolution, up to city scale, and created much more quickly than with other technologies.

Bentley also announced General Access to ContextCapture Center for “grid computing” power to dramatically expedite processing time for very large models (typically involving more than 30 gigapixels of imagery).

Taking Acute3D technology to the next level, Bentley’s new ContextCapture offers significant new advantages to users, including:

• a new multi-platform browser plug-in and desktop viewer that supports multi-touch and allows users to easily and consistently share reality meshes on desktop and mobile devices, even for models of entire cities;
• enhanced level-of-detail generation and adaptive tiling, including tools for surface and volume measurement;
• directly providing context for engineering and geospatial workflows, including native support within MicroStation CONNECT Edition;

Pascal Martinez, Bentley Systems director of business development, said, “ContextCapture offers a new and versatile way of capturing reality to serve as context for design, monitoring, inspection, and surveying processes, complementing Bentley Pointools and Bentley Descartes. I’m pleased to say that reality meshes produced by ContextCapture can now be intrinsically integrated throughout Bentley’s common modeling environment, by way of native support within MicroStation CONNECT Edition.”

David Byrne, technical director, AEROmetrex, said, “With ContextCapture, we’re able to automatically construct highly detailed 3D models of virtually any size for our clients, faster and at much less cost than with traditional methods. But what’s most powerful is the amazing context that it provides to facilitate better decisions throughout design, construction, and operations. ContextCapture allows you to create a fully photo-textured, geographically located 3D model, all derived directly from digital photography. And, once the models have been built, they can be quickly and easily viewed on any desktop or mobile device. We think ContextCapture is going to revolutionize the geospatial industry.”

ContextCapture, and digital photography including from UAVs, can provide any infrastructure professional with:

• unrivaled 3D mesh creation and optimization from ordinary photographs, with high-quality texture mapping and optimal aerotriangulation accuracy;
• high performance, through multi-core support and optimization for use with general purpose graphics processing units;
• extensive scalability through sophisticated tiling mechanisms and “grid computing” support;
• robust and flexible publishing capabilities to produce and publish 3D visualization-ready models through a variety of formats and viewer applications with the required level-of-detail – in a way that maintains the highest quality but minimizes hardware requirements.

For additional information:

• ContextCapture and the ContextCapture Center
• The Be Inspired Awards Program
• The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference

Follow @bentleysystems and #YII2015 on Twitter. Like Bentley on Facebook.

About Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and comprehensive managed services.

Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2008 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.

Additional information about Bentley is available at www.bentley.com and in Bentley’s annual report. For Bentley news as it happens, subscribe to an RSS feed of Bentley press releases and news alerts. Visit The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference website for highlights of Bentley’s premier thought-leadership event, being held November 3-5, 2015, in London, U.K. To view a searchable collection of innovative infrastructure projects from the annual Be Inspired Awards, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks. To access a professional networking site that enables members of the infrastructure community to connect, communicate, and learn from each other, visit Bentley Communities.

To download the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners ranking, a unique global compendium of the top public- and private-sector owners of infrastructure based on the value of their cumulative infrastructure investments, visit BI 500.

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Bentley Introduces ContextCapture, Supporting Reality Modeling for Infrastructure Project Delivery and Asset Performance

Software Speeds and Simplifies the Capture of Real-world Context

LONDON – The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, today announced General Access to its new ContextCapture offering. ContextCapture is Bentley’s first product release of the Acute3D software technology it acquired earlier this year. The software is ideally suited for any organization that could apply 3D models of real-world context to benefit infrastructure design, construction, or operations.

With ContextCapture, users can easily produce high resolution 3D models of existing conditions using photos taken with any digital camera. The software generates a detailed reality mesh incorporating the referenced photography. This results in a navigable 3D model with fine and photo realistic detail, sharp edges, and precise geometric accuracy. These highly detailed models can be of virtually any size or resolution, up to city scale, and created much more quickly than with other technologies.

Bentley also announced General Access to ContextCapture Center for “grid computing” power to dramatically expedite processing time for very large models (typically involving more than 30 gigapixels of imagery).

Taking Acute3D technology to the next level, Bentley’s new ContextCapture offers significant new advantages to users, including:

• a new multi-platform browser plug-in and desktop viewer that supports multi-touch and allows users to easily and consistently share reality meshes on desktop and mobile devices, even for models of entire cities;
• enhanced level-of-detail generation and adaptive tiling, including tools for surface and volume measurement;
• directly providing context for engineering and geospatial workflows, including native support within MicroStation CONNECT Edition;

Pascal Martinez, Bentley Systems director of business development, said, “ContextCapture offers a new and versatile way of capturing reality to serve as context for design, monitoring, inspection, and surveying processes, complementing Bentley Pointools and Bentley Descartes. I’m pleased to say that reality meshes produced by ContextCapture can now be intrinsically integrated throughout Bentley’s common modeling environment, by way of native support within MicroStation CONNECT Edition.”

David Byrne, technical director, AEROmetrex, said, “With ContextCapture, we’re able to automatically construct highly detailed 3D models of virtually any size for our clients, faster and at much less cost than with traditional methods. But what’s most powerful is the amazing context that it provides to facilitate better decisions throughout design, construction, and operations. ContextCapture allows you to create a fully photo-textured, geographically located 3D model, all derived directly from digital photography. And, once the models have been built, they can be quickly and easily viewed on any desktop or mobile device. We think ContextCapture is going to revolutionize the geospatial industry.”

ContextCapture, and digital photography including from UAVs, can provide any infrastructure professional with:

• unrivaled 3D mesh creation and optimization from ordinary photographs, with high-quality texture mapping and optimal aerotriangulation accuracy;
• high performance, through multi-core support and optimization for use with general purpose graphics processing units;
• extensive scalability through sophisticated tiling mechanisms and “grid computing” support;
• robust and flexible publishing capabilities to produce and publish 3D visualization-ready models through a variety of formats and viewer applications with the required level-of-detail – in a way that maintains the highest quality but minimizes hardware requirements.

For additional information:

• ContextCapture and the ContextCapture Center
• The Be Inspired Awards Program
• The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference

Follow @bentleysystems and #YII2015 on Twitter. Like Bentley on Facebook.

About Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and comprehensive managed services.

Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2008 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.

Additional information about Bentley is available at www.bentley.com and in Bentley’s annual report. For Bentley news as it happens, subscribe to an RSS feed of Bentley press releases and news alerts. Visit The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference website for highlights of Bentley’s premier thought-leadership event, being held November 3-5, 2015, in London, U.K. To view a searchable collection of innovative infrastructure projects from the annual Be Inspired Awards, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks. To access a professional networking site that enables members of the infrastructure community to connect, communicate, and learn from each other, visit Bentley Communities.

To download the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners ranking, a unique global compendium of the top public- and private-sector owners of infrastructure based on the value of their cumulative infrastructure investments, visit BI 500.

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Bentley ProjectWise CONNECT Edition Joins MicroStation and Navigator CONNECT Editions in General Access

CONNECT Edition Early Adopters Share Their Enthusiasm

LONDON – The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of software solutions for advancing infrastructure, reported today that attendees at its Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference in London were enthusiastically sharing their experiences and encouragement regarding its new CONNECT Edition software generation. CONNECT Edition provides a common environment for comprehensive project delivery. At this time ProjectWise CONNECT Edition, MicroStation CONNECT Edition, and Navigator CONNECT Edition are all in General Access, and users are starting to take full advantage of advancements.

ProjectWise CONNECT Edition

With ProjectWise CONNECT Edition, this “workhorse for work sharing” advances from Design Integration to collaboration for comprehensive project delivery, adding hybrid cloud services for Deliverables Management, issues resolution, and Engineering Content Management.

What Early Adopters Are Saying

• “Hatch Mott MacDonald first implemented ProjectWise for secure design collaboration and engineering document work sharing. However, in today’s advancing project delivery environment, it is more important than ever to easily and securely share our models and associated project information, to expedite communications and design clarity with the entire supply chain. Now with ProjectWise CONNECT Edition, we have a more comprehensive project delivery platform – virtually connecting our partners and remote team members to project information and processes with a focus on data quality for planning, design, construction, and handover to operations.” – Cory Dippold, PE., Project Technologies Director, Hatch Mott MacDonald

• “As we embark on our first design-build project – Long Street in EMIA – the demand for improved collaboration is an imperative. As a long-standing user of ProjectWise, we have already seen significant increases in team productivity and better design quality. Now with ProjectWise CONNECT Edition, we have an easy-to-use, secure cloud-based environment supporting the entire project lifecycle. This powerful capability will simplify documentation workflow for critical project information, especially with our supply chain. It provides an excellent end-user interface to manage submissions, transmittals, and RFIs and helps us to standardize our workflows, allowing us to implement this AECOM standard on future design and build projects with minimum effort. The CONNECT Edition provides our senior management teams with real-time project status in one simple dashboard. The Long Street Project required us to reinvent and standardize the design-build process as only AECOM could by leveraging our scale, and in working closely with Bentley our project communications and visibility will not only be improved dramatically, but also allow AECOM to offer something unique to the market.” – Nuzrul Haque, Director, IT Business Relationship Management, AECOM Information Technology

• “We struggle with reliably and consistently capturing field data on a daily basis. Our current process includes field books that can be lost and laptops that are clunky and can get broken. Being able to enter data into quick, easy-to-access forms from a mobile device is the wave of the future.” – David Haskin, Senior Applications Specialist, Burns & McDonnell

• “Arup is looking forward to the ProjectWise CONNECT Edition so that we can extend our BIM collaboration capabilities and advance them to the next level. Communications with external project team members, through the use of Transmittal and RFI cloud services, will increase productivity, minimize mistakes, and reduce project risk. Dashboards will also allow Arup to monitor project performances by harvesting the rich attribute data in our BIM projects.” – Will Sims, Associate Director, ProjectWise Administrator, ARUP

MicroStation CONNECT Edition

MicroStation CONNECT Edition advances Bentley’s common modeling environment for unified support of design modeling, analytical modeling, construction modeling, and reality modeling.

What Early Adopters Are Saying

• “Maintaining a digital component catalog of every permutation/combination of objects has been challenging at best. The ability to have these objects be dynamic and reusable will save us constant setup/rework hours at the beginning of a job. … The days of modeling existing conditions from as-builts are diminishing in favor of more progressive reality capture techniques. The application of this dynamic technology is proving to be incredibly important to our workflow.” – Paul Patterson, Senior Specialist, Hatch Mott MacDonald

• “MicroStation CONNECT Edition’s ability to automatically create reports and schedules on the fly based on object intelligence helps us to deliver reliable and consistent drawings. And having property-driven annotation streamlines the process of making design changes too, because the deliverables stay up to date when changes happen. Plus, we can precisely control the appearance of tables, such as color and line weights, based on project standards. All this translates into better deliverables in less time!” – Marty Price, Senior Application Specialist, Burns & McDonnell

• “This new version of MicroStation is a HUGE step in the right direction. The new interface is very easy to understand and customize.” – Marc Schroeder, Andrews, Hammock and Power, Inc.

Navigator CONNECT Edition

The Navigator CONNECT Edition “app-lication” extends the common, connected experience for users from office to site or field. Its advances are highlighted by model-based visual reporting and, with the addition of ProjectWise, issue resolution.

What Early Adopters Are Saying

• We used Navigator CONNECT Edition in the office, in anticipation of an upcoming project; its overall usability was superior to other systems and planners we have tried. For scheduling and meeting deliverables, being able to look into 3D modeling and define future stages was beneficial. The ability to share real-time project data with other colleagues working remotely on the same project was invaluable.” – Doug Harper, Construction Superintendent, Melloy Industrial Services, Inc.

• “Navigator CONNECT Edition brings a consistent medium for geometry and data consumers residing in our local offices or via tablets from our sites, whether internal to IBI Group or a part of our extended teams. Some of our largest projects are harnessing this capability to bring information sourced by various tools – InRoads, Revit, MicroStation – together into one integrated platform. The data provenance is critical as the business information of specific assets carry through to the i-model format, allowing full interrogation of content consistently when accessed via ProjectWise or Worksite. The navigation engine is smooth, thus allowing us to easily traverse both the vertical buildings, along with linear infrastructure – site, rail and utilities. Overall Navigator CONNECT Edition has the potential to be the connection that binds our stakeholders together during major infrastructure projects.” – Brent Mauti, Architect, Global Director, Design Technology, IBI Group

For additional information:

• The CONNECT Edition
• The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference

About Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and comprehensive managed services.

Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2008 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.

Additional information about Bentley is available at www.bentley.com and in Bentley’s annual report. For Bentley news as it happens, subscribe to an RSS feed of Bentley press releases and news alerts. Visit The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference website for highlights of Bentley’s premier thought-leadership event, being held November 3-5, 2015, in London, U.K. To view a searchable collection of innovative infrastructure projects from the annual Be Inspired Awards, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks. To access a professional networking site that enables members of the infrastructure community to connect, communicate, and learn from each other, visit Bentley Communities.

To download the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners ranking, a unique global compendium of the top public- and private-sector owners of infrastructure based on the value of their cumulative infrastructure investments, visit BI 500.

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Bentley ProjectWise CONNECT Edition Joins MicroStation and Navigator CONNECT Editions in General Access

CONNECT Edition Early Adopters Share Their Enthusiasm

LONDON – The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of software solutions for advancing infrastructure, reported today that attendees at its Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference in London were enthusiastically sharing their experiences and encouragement regarding its new CONNECT Edition software generation. CONNECT Edition provides a common environment for comprehensive project delivery. At this time ProjectWise CONNECT Edition, MicroStation CONNECT Edition, and Navigator CONNECT Edition are all in General Access, and users are starting to take full advantage of advancements.

ProjectWise CONNECT Edition

With ProjectWise CONNECT Edition, this “workhorse for work sharing” advances from Design Integration to collaboration for comprehensive project delivery, adding hybrid cloud services for Deliverables Management, issues resolution, and Engineering Content Management.

What Early Adopters Are Saying

• “Hatch Mott MacDonald first implemented ProjectWise for secure design collaboration and engineering document work sharing. However, in today’s advancing project delivery environment, it is more important than ever to easily and securely share our models and associated project information, to expedite communications and design clarity with the entire supply chain. Now with ProjectWise CONNECT Edition, we have a more comprehensive project delivery platform – virtually connecting our partners and remote team members to project information and processes with a focus on data quality for planning, design, construction, and handover to operations.” – Cory Dippold, PE., Project Technologies Director, Hatch Mott MacDonald

• “As we embark on our first design-build project – Long Street in EMIA – the demand for improved collaboration is an imperative. As a long-standing user of ProjectWise, we have already seen significant increases in team productivity and better design quality. Now with ProjectWise CONNECT Edition, we have an easy-to-use, secure cloud-based environment supporting the entire project lifecycle. This powerful capability will simplify documentation workflow for critical project information, especially with our supply chain. It provides an excellent end-user interface to manage submissions, transmittals, and RFIs and helps us to standardize our workflows, allowing us to implement this AECOM standard on future design and build projects with minimum effort. The CONNECT Edition provides our senior management teams with real-time project status in one simple dashboard. The Long Street Project required us to reinvent and standardize the design-build process as only AECOM could by leveraging our scale, and in working closely with Bentley our project communications and visibility will not only be improved dramatically, but also allow AECOM to offer something unique to the market.” – Nuzrul Haque, Director, IT Business Relationship Management, AECOM Information Technology

• “We struggle with reliably and consistently capturing field data on a daily basis. Our current process includes field books that can be lost and laptops that are clunky and can get broken. Being able to enter data into quick, easy-to-access forms from a mobile device is the wave of the future.” – David Haskin, Senior Applications Specialist, Burns & McDonnell

• “Arup is looking forward to the ProjectWise CONNECT Edition so that we can extend our BIM collaboration capabilities and advance them to the next level. Communications with external project team members, through the use of Transmittal and RFI cloud services, will increase productivity, minimize mistakes, and reduce project risk. Dashboards will also allow Arup to monitor project performances by harvesting the rich attribute data in our BIM projects.” – Will Sims, Associate Director, ProjectWise Administrator, ARUP

MicroStation CONNECT Edition

MicroStation CONNECT Edition advances Bentley’s common modeling environment for unified support of design modeling, analytical modeling, construction modeling, and reality modeling.

What Early Adopters Are Saying

• “Maintaining a digital component catalog of every permutation/combination of objects has been challenging at best. The ability to have these objects be dynamic and reusable will save us constant setup/rework hours at the beginning of a job. … The days of modeling existing conditions from as-builts are diminishing in favor of more progressive reality capture techniques. The application of this dynamic technology is proving to be incredibly important to our workflow.” – Paul Patterson, Senior Specialist, Hatch Mott MacDonald

• “MicroStation CONNECT Edition’s ability to automatically create reports and schedules on the fly based on object intelligence helps us to deliver reliable and consistent drawings. And having property-driven annotation streamlines the process of making design changes too, because the deliverables stay up to date when changes happen. Plus, we can precisely control the appearance of tables, such as color and line weights, based on project standards. All this translates into better deliverables in less time!” – Marty Price, Senior Application Specialist, Burns & McDonnell

• “This new version of MicroStation is a HUGE step in the right direction. The new interface is very easy to understand and customize.” – Marc Schroeder, Andrews, Hammock and Power, Inc.

Navigator CONNECT Edition

The Navigator CONNECT Edition “app-lication” extends the common, connected experience for users from office to site or field. Its advances are highlighted by model-based visual reporting and, with the addition of ProjectWise, issue resolution.

What Early Adopters Are Saying

• We used Navigator CONNECT Edition in the office, in anticipation of an upcoming project; its overall usability was superior to other systems and planners we have tried. For scheduling and meeting deliverables, being able to look into 3D modeling and define future stages was beneficial. The ability to share real-time project data with other colleagues working remotely on the same project was invaluable.” – Doug Harper, Construction Superintendent, Melloy Industrial Services, Inc.

• “Navigator CONNECT Edition brings a consistent medium for geometry and data consumers residing in our local offices or via tablets from our sites, whether internal to IBI Group or a part of our extended teams. Some of our largest projects are harnessing this capability to bring information sourced by various tools – InRoads, Revit, MicroStation – together into one integrated platform. The data provenance is critical as the business information of specific assets carry through to the i-model format, allowing full interrogation of content consistently when accessed via ProjectWise or Worksite. The navigation engine is smooth, thus allowing us to easily traverse both the vertical buildings, along with linear infrastructure – site, rail and utilities. Overall Navigator CONNECT Edition has the potential to be the connection that binds our stakeholders together during major infrastructure projects.” – Brent Mauti, Architect, Global Director, Design Technology, IBI Group

For additional information:

• The CONNECT Edition
• The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference

About Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and comprehensive managed services.

Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2008 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.

Additional information about Bentley is available at www.bentley.com and in Bentley’s annual report. For Bentley news as it happens, subscribe to an RSS feed of Bentley press releases and news alerts. Visit The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference website for highlights of Bentley’s premier thought-leadership event, being held November 3-5, 2015, in London, U.K. To view a searchable collection of innovative infrastructure projects from the annual Be Inspired Awards, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks. To access a professional networking site that enables members of the infrastructure community to connect, communicate, and learn from each other, visit Bentley Communities.

To download the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners ranking, a unique global compendium of the top public- and private-sector owners of infrastructure based on the value of their cumulative infrastructure investments, visit BI 500.

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Bentley Continues to Advance Commercial Innovation with Cloud Services Subscription Program

Program Encompasses Comprehensive Range of Bentley Services, Including
ProjectWise CONNECT Edition as a Service

LONDON – The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, today announced a new, comprehensive subscription program for cloud-based access to collaboration services and apps, managed services, administration of term licenses, professional services, Bentley Institute LEARNservices, and new CONNECT Edition Cloud Services. With the new Bentley Cloud Services Subscription program, user organizations can subscribe to any or all of these offerings within the framework of a predictable annual budget.

The Bentley Cloud Services Subscription program is designed to be equitable and flexible:

• organizations will set their subscription level to an annual budget that matches their anticipated usage;
• only services actually used will be charged quarterly against the subscription balance;
• the subscription balance never expires, so when actual usage does not match anticipated usage, any remaining balance rolls forward – in other words, there is no “use it or lose it” risk.

Bentley Systems CEO Greg Bentley said, “Connecting through cloud services is so fundamentally valuable to our users, their projects, and their enterprises that we want to eliminate any commercial deterrent to user organizations’ taking full advantage. As an enterprise user of many cloud services, I think we have worked out how to improve on the vendors’ business models we’ve seen to date. We’re introducing all the benefits of being connected, but with full visibility and accountability for costs, and without headaches or risks to budget. We believe that our Cloud Services Subscription program, like our many commercial innovations that have preceded it, provides our users with the simplest and fairest approach possible.

“Our user organizations will continue their SELECT subscriptions for Bentley software licenses they already own, and our larger accounts will continue with their Enterprise License Subscription at a fixed annual fee. However, our ProjectWise passports, visas, and CONNECT Edition cloud services for collaboration, and our other CONNECT Edition cloud services, will be provided through this new commercial approach so that our incentives directly align with the value users generate from their actual utilization.”

The Cloud Services Subscription is comprehensive. Under this program, project delivery or owner-operator organizations can subscribe to:

• ProjectWise CONNECT Edition as a service, cloud provisioned, on premises, or in hybrid implementations;
• new CONNECT Edition cloud services, including Scenario Services and Catalog Services;
• professional services for Bentley Institute learning and for other implementation and configuration requirements;
• managed services offerings, inclusive of computing resources, software, implementation, and operational support; and
• term-licensed applications for design, analytical, construction, and/or reality modeling.

The Cloud Services Subscription program offers ProjectWise CONNECT Edition as a service and greatly simplifies ProjectWise licensing. With this program, user organizations will no longer need to pay for, limit, or even keep track of ProjectWise servers – as ProjectWise CONNECT Edition fees are only associated with quarterly passport and visa utilization. Access to ProjectWise services begins with a CONNECTIONS Passport, with more advanced services charged through service-specific visas. User organizations can choose managed (hosted) services, on-premises servers, or any combination, in a hybrid environment. Organizations that wish to use on-premises servers have complete flexibility to deploy any number in whatever architecture best suits their requirements, for optimal performance without additional software cost.

ProjectWise CONNECT Edition (CE) extends the scope of ProjectWise from a “behind the firewall” engineering work sharing solution to an enterprise-wide project delivery environment. ProjectWise CE spans the entire project ecosystem, allowing the extended project team to collaboratively participate throughout the project lifecycle.

ProjectWise CE is availed through Bentley CONNECTIONS Passports and service-specific visas, with actual usage for each logged and settled quarterly:

• CONNECTIONS Passport –Provides authenticated access to desktop, Web, and mobile apps, including Navigator;
• Project Collaboration Visa – Adds ProjectWise Design Integration and ProjectWise Deliverables Management capabilities. Project stakeholders can share information and collaborate effectively with the entire project team, including owners, managers, and all other participants;
• Engineering Content Management Visa – Provides organization-wide support of project delivery processes across projects – with support for document control, records management, tag data management, field data management, design configuration management, and project standards. Benefits of these capabilities include controlled management of documents and data, reuse of design knowledge and standards, and propagation of best practices across all projects;
• Enterprise Visa – Combines the ProjectWise Collaboration and Engineering Content Management Visas.

Among the new CONNECT Edition Cloud Services are Scenario Services and Catalog Services. Scenario Services provides users of Bentley’s analytical modeling applications with access to cloud-based computing power to analyze alternatives and understand and evaluate trade-offs through scenario reporting. The initial analytical modeling applications supported are STAAD and SACS, with more to come. Catalog Services helps project teams manage and deliver access to content. Users can employ Catalog Services to create enterprise-specific, owner-specific, and project-specific catalogs, combining content, specifications, and functional components from Bentley, manufacturers, standards bodies, and more.

In providing commercial access to ProjectWise CONNECT Edition and other CONNECT Edition cloud services, the Bentley Cloud Services Subscription supersedes the notion of “named users.” Organizations will be relieved of the painstaking and impossible task of annually predicting usage requirements for each of their respective users, and escape the inevitable inaccuracies and turnover that result in shelf-ware, underutilized software, or unwarranted fees.

Malcolm Walter, Bentley COO and champion of many of Bentley’s other commercial innovations, said, “It is pretty simple, actually. We have two decades of experience with subscription programs, beginning with our SELECT program. One of the things we’ve learned is that our user organizations want a predictable, annual budget. The other is – and this is perhaps most important of all – they only want to pay for the software and services that they have actually used. Our new Bentley Cloud Services Subscription program hits the mark in each case, enabling our users to take full advantage of all of our collaboration apps and cloud services with no ‘Gotchas!’”

For additional information:

• The Bentley Cloud Services Subscription
• The Be Inspired Awards Program
• The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference

 About Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and comprehensive managed services.

Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2008 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.

Additional information about Bentley is available at www.bentley.com and in Bentley’s annual report. For Bentley news as it happens, subscribe to an RSS feed of Bentley press releases and news alerts. Visit The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference website for highlights of Bentley’s premier thought-leadership event, being held November 3-5, 2015, in London, U.K. To view a searchable collection of innovative infrastructure projects from the annual Be Inspired Awards, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks. To access a professional networking site that enables members of the infrastructure community to connect, communicate, and learn from each other, visit Bentley Communities.

To download the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners ranking, a unique global compendium of the top public- and private-sector owners of infrastructure based on the value of their cumulative infrastructure investments, visit BI 500.

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AECOM credits Bentley Systems as strategic partner for project delivery technologies excellence

Extends ProjectWise adoption through new Bentley Cloud Services Subscription Program

LONDON – The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference – AECOM and Bentley Systems today jointly announced that AECOM, which has named Bentley as a strategic partner for project delivery technologies, has extended its ProjectWise corporate commitment to fully include the new Bentley Cloud Services Subscription Program.

AECOM is a longstanding user of Bentley’s ProjectWise, a global project collaboration platform that offers work sharing capabilities with the ability to connect to other Bentley products. Five out of the 54 Be Inspired Awards finalists named by independent jurors and presenting at this year’s Year in Infrastructure Conference are AECOM nominations. AECOM’s finalist nomination for “Innovation in Project Delivery” documented 80 percent savings in project startup from the capabilities offered by Bentley’s Cloud Services Subscription Program.

Under the new enterprise service agreement, AECOM has full access to all of Bentley’s mobile apps and other services including a team of embedded Bentley resources who globally support AECOM employees using ProjectHub, a hybrid ProjectWise system developed in-house at AECOM and used by 20,000 users on thousands of projects. AECOM’s ProjectHub system underscores its steadfast commitment to using technology to grow, differentiate, and innovate its business by ensuring best-in-class delivery of all phases of the project lifecycle. ProjectHub uses seven identical “hubs” placed globally, allowing users to access the system from anywhere in the world and have a consistent experience across projects and geographies. The hub system ensures user access is at local speeds, while maintaining global consistency across projects.

AECOM CIO Tom Peck said, “Bentley’s flexibility, technology portfolio, industry knowledge, and willingness to go above and beyond the typical vendor-client relationship have helped extend AECOM’s market position, complete our client service offerings, and enhance our delivery capabilities. We have a high level of confidence in Bentley’s software and services, which support our goals of mobilizing faster, reducing risk, and implementing the resourcing flexibility required to optimally staff our projects with our widespread domain expertise.”

Bentley Systems COO Malcolm Walter, who is executive sponsor of Bentley’s AECOM relationship, said, “It is so gratifying to work with a firm like AECOM and to be part of enabling it to achieve its objective of becoming the premier fully integrated infrastructure firm. AECOM’s leadership recognizes the tremendous advantage that information technology can afford their organization in serving clients’ dynamic needs on a global basis. We welcome AECOM as among the first to take full advantage of our innovative new Bentley Cloud Services Subscription Program, further enhancing the ability of its teams around the globe to work in a connected environment.”

For additional information about:

• The Be Inspired Awards Program
• The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference

About Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and comprehensive managed services.

Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2008 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions. Additional information about Bentley is available at www.bentley.com.

About AECOM

AECOM is built to deliver a better world. We design, build, finance and operate infrastructure assets for governments, businesses and organizations in more than 150 countries. As a fully integrated firm, we connect knowledge and experience across our global network of experts to help clients solve their most complex challenges. From high-performance buildings and infrastructure, to resilient communities and environments, to stable and secure nations, our work is transformative, differentiated and vital. A Fortune 500 firm, AECOM companies had revenue of approximately US$19 billion during the 12 months ended June 30, 2015. See how we deliver what others can only imagine at aecom.com and @AECOM.

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Bentley, the “B” Bentley logo, Be, MicroStation, Bentley Cloud Services Subscription, and ProjectWise are either registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated or one of its direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiaries. All other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.

AECOM credits Bentley Systems as strategic partner for project delivery technologies excellence

Extends ProjectWise adoption through new Bentley Cloud Services Subscription Program

LONDON – The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference – AECOM and Bentley Systems today jointly announced that AECOM, which has named Bentley as a strategic partner for project delivery technologies, has extended its ProjectWise corporate commitment to fully include the new Bentley Cloud Services Subscription Program.

AECOM is a longstanding user of Bentley’s ProjectWise, a global project collaboration platform that offers work sharing capabilities with the ability to connect to other Bentley products. Five out of the 54 Be Inspired Awards finalists named by independent jurors and presenting at this year’s Year in Infrastructure Conference are AECOM nominations. AECOM’s finalist nomination for “Innovation in Project Delivery” documented 80 percent savings in project startup from the capabilities offered by Bentley’s Cloud Services Subscription Program.

Under the new enterprise service agreement, AECOM has full access to all of Bentley’s mobile apps and other services including a team of embedded Bentley resources who globally support AECOM employees using ProjectHub, a hybrid ProjectWise system developed in-house at AECOM and used by 20,000 users on thousands of projects. AECOM’s ProjectHub system underscores its steadfast commitment to using technology to grow, differentiate, and innovate its business by ensuring best-in-class delivery of all phases of the project lifecycle. ProjectHub uses seven identical “hubs” placed globally, allowing users to access the system from anywhere in the world and have a consistent experience across projects and geographies. The hub system ensures user access is at local speeds, while maintaining global consistency across projects.

AECOM CIO Tom Peck said, “Bentley’s flexibility, technology portfolio, industry knowledge, and willingness to go above and beyond the typical vendor-client relationship have helped extend AECOM’s market position, complete our client service offerings, and enhance our delivery capabilities. We have a high level of confidence in Bentley’s software and services, which support our goals of mobilizing faster, reducing risk, and implementing the resourcing flexibility required to optimally staff our projects with our widespread domain expertise.”

Bentley Systems COO Malcolm Walter, who is executive sponsor of Bentley’s AECOM relationship, said, “It is so gratifying to work with a firm like AECOM and to be part of enabling it to achieve its objective of becoming the premier fully integrated infrastructure firm. AECOM’s leadership recognizes the tremendous advantage that information technology can afford their organization in serving clients’ dynamic needs on a global basis. We welcome AECOM as among the first to take full advantage of our innovative new Bentley Cloud Services Subscription Program, further enhancing the ability of its teams around the globe to work in a connected environment.”

For additional information about:

• The Be Inspired Awards Program
• The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference

About Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and comprehensive managed services.

Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2008 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions. Additional information about Bentley is available at www.bentley.com.

About AECOM

AECOM is built to deliver a better world. We design, build, finance and operate infrastructure assets for governments, businesses and organizations in more than 150 countries. As a fully integrated firm, we connect knowledge and experience across our global network of experts to help clients solve their most complex challenges. From high-performance buildings and infrastructure, to resilient communities and environments, to stable and secure nations, our work is transformative, differentiated and vital. A Fortune 500 firm, AECOM companies had revenue of approximately US$19 billion during the 12 months ended June 30, 2015. See how we deliver what others can only imagine at aecom.com and @AECOM.

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Bentley, the “B” Bentley logo, Be, MicroStation, Bentley Cloud Services Subscription, and ProjectWise are either registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated or one of its direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiaries. All other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.

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Registration Now Open for Bentley's Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference

To Register Visit www.bentley.com/YIIconference

EXTON, Pa., U.S.A. – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today announced that registration is now open for The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference, being held Nov. 3-5 at the Hilton London Metropole in London, U.K. This global gathering of leading figures in the world of infrastructure design, construction, and operations features a series of presentations and interactive workshops that explore the intersection of technology and business drivers, and how they are shaping the future of infrastructure delivery and investment returns.

Chris Barron, Bentley Systems vice president, corporate communications, said, “We’ve been very gratified by the enthusiastic feedback from attendees to our Year in Infrastructure conferences. The participating executives from architectural and engineering firms, construction companies, and owner-operator and government organizations found the sessions to be engaging and well worth the relatively small investment in their time. Many were able to incorporate into their strategic planning the valuable insights gained on advancements in technology and best practices, and virtually all were motivated by the Be Inspired Awards finalist presentations on extraordinary projects that took full advantage of Bentley’s BIM advancements to enhance both project and asset performance. Attendees also greatly appreciated the opportunity provided to network with their peers and the industry thought leaders speaking at the event. To ensure your availability for our 2015 conference, taking place Nov. 3-5, I encourage you to save the date or, better still, to register now!”

The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference will include:

• Executive Summits for C-level executives (available by invitation only):
  • The Project Delivery Summit
  • The Infrastructure Asset Performance Summit
• Industry-specific Forums that provide infrastructure professionals an ideal opportunity to interact with their peers and industry visionaries and learn about best practices and advances in technology:
  • The Building Forum is focused on the application of collaborative BIM in multi-discipline design and general construction, with an emphasis on strategies to get a better return on BIM investments.
  • The Rail and Road Forum looks beyond design and construction as it explores the application of BIM throughout the lifecycle of transportation infrastructure.
  • The Oil, Gas, Chemical, and Mining Forum covers both new capital projects and ongoing operations as it explores new methods and technologies to improve both project performance and asset performance. 
  • The Utilities Forum addresses topics of relevance to utilities, including the impact of cloud technology on utilities workflows, new developments in meeting the challenges of subsurface utilities, best practices in engineering collaboration, and how to achieve operational excellence through better-performing assets. A concluding panel will discuss the future of the utilities industry.
  • The Visions for the Future Forum features research by Bentley Fellows and their collaborating researchers. The speakers will discuss the latest results in their areas of research, including: facilitating onsite decision making through model and data navigation on mobile devices; advancing infrastructure performance through smart sensing, data analytics, and reality modeling; and streamlining construction planning through panoptic interaction.
  • The Be Inspired Awards, featuring project presentations by the finalists of the 2015 Be Inspired Awards program recognizing outstanding achievement in infrastructure design, delivery, and operations; the program culminates in the presentation of the awards to this year’s winners at the Be Inspired Awards banquet;
  • Media Day, a pre-conference, invitation-only briefing of over 100 members of leading international online and print media outlets on key business and technology trends in the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure;
  • Ample networking opportunities built into the agenda.

For additional information about The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference, or to register for this event, visit www.bentley.com/YIIconference.

Bentley Systems is the global leader dedicated to providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and comprehensive managed services.

Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2006 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.

Additional information about Bentley is available at www.bentley.com and in Bentley’s annual report. For Bentley news as it happens, subscribe to an RSS feed of Bentley press releases and news alerts. Visit The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference for highlights of Bentley’s premier thought-leadership event. To view a searchable collection of innovative infrastructure projects from the annual Be Inspired Awards, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks. To access a professional networking site that enables members of the infrastructure community to connect, communicate, and learn from each other, visit Bentley Communities.

To download the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners ranking, a unique global compendium of the top public- and private-sector owners of infrastructure based on the value of their cumulative infrastructure investments, visit www.bentley.com/500.

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Bentley, the “B” Bentley logo, Be, MicroStation, and ProjectWise are either registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated or one of its direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiaries. Other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.