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ProStructures Streamlines Building Design Workflows and Further Supports the Exchange of Information Across Teams

Bentley Systems’ structural detailing application, ProStructures, which includes the capabilities of ProSteel and ProConcrete applications, significantly improves the workflow between structural detailing and building design disciplines and supports information exchange across teams with full support for the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) standard.

Since ProConcrete is now integrated with AECOsim Building Designer, users can place rebar and create rebar details directly in AECOsim Building Designer models. Referencing the original concrete models coming from AECOsim Building Designer in ProConcrete reduces the need to remodel the concrete components, thus avoiding errors and omissions. This new workflow also saves users valuable time by reducing the level of effort in managing models between structural detailing and building design applications.

Additionally, users can now generate and export steel, concrete, and rebar information with ProStructures in full fidelity with the IFC (CV2x3) standard. IFC data models are commonly used for data exchange in the building and construction industries. The view supports clash detection, project review, scheduling, quantity take-off, and more. Users can open IFC compliant files in supported host applications and in IFC viewers to support design reviews.

Rui Pedro Mota, senior site architect and BIM specialist, ISQ, said, “AECOsim Building Designer and ProStructures is outstanding technology for project and construction development. Their interoperability helps us to respond to 21st century challenges and advance our coordination in order to achieve our project goals on the new development of Oecuse Airport in Timor Leste.”

Santanu Das, senior vice president, design modeling, Bentley Systems, said, “Driving increased value and enhancing our users’ workflows are continuous objectives at Bentley. With the recent release of ProStructures, which now includes ProConcrete, we have enabled users to place and create rebar directly in the building model without having to transfer data and information manually – which ultimately reduces cost, risk, and errors. We have also made it easier for our users to exchange information across teams by further extending ProStructures’ interoperability through full support for the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) standard. Users are excited about these new enhancements, and with over 1,000 new ProConcrete users added recently, the application is demonstrating excellent momentum among reinforced concrete design professionals.”

About ProStructures
ProStructures steel and concrete design applications efficiently create accurate 3D models for structural steel, metal work, and reinforced concrete structures. ProStructures lets users create design drawings, fabrication details, and schedules that automatically update whenever the 3D model changes. ProStructures is built by experienced design engineers and includes ProSteel and ProConcrete.

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  Image 1 Caption: Building models created in AECOsim Building Designer that include concrete objects are referenced in ProConcrete to save users valuable time. Image Attribution: Image courtesy of Bentley Systems

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  Image Caption: The building model from AECOsim Building Designer is referenced into an empty ProConcrete model where it is used directly for rebar placement. Image Attribution: Image courtesy of Bentley Systems

Organizations Extend BIM Review from the Office to the Field and Improve Project Coordination

Organizations across many industries are using Bentley’s BIM Review applications to coordinate the exchange of 3D digital models and project documents among engineering, construction, and completions professionals, leading to improved project outcomes. The Bentley BIM Review Visa provides users access to Bentley Navigator and OpenRoads Navigator, as well as Bentley’s Navigator Mobile, ProjectWise Edge, and ProjectWise WorkSite mobile applications to support BIM review workflows in the office, site, and field. With the BIM Review Visa organizations can set a subscription level that matches anticipated usage and are billed only for what they use.

Engineers, constructors, and inspectors benefit by having access to models and project information in the field. Using Bentley’s BIM Review applications and apps design firms can facilitate the coordination of disciplines, speed design approvals, and reduce re-designs. Construction teams can collaborate with the office to gain insight into project planning and execution details, and quickly resolve issues found in the field. Operational professionals gain visibility into an asset’s information with complete 3D visual context, leading to improved safety and speeding inspections and maintenance.

Cory Brugger, director, design technology, Morphosis, said, “The design and development of innovative buildings is dependent upon the quality of information and speed at which the project team can receive feedback from an iterative design process. We rely on the development of an integrated project BIM as a central part of this process. The reliability of Bentley’s products provided our design team with the tools necessary to successfully deliver the Hanking Center Tower. The success of this highly innovative, iconic skyscraper is supported by Bentley’s modeling platforms, which provided an environment for the development and communication of accurate and highly interoperable information for the multi-national team involved in the project.”

The widespread adoption of BIM Review is showcased in this year’s 2016 Be Inspired Awards nominations:

• Innovation in Building: Hanking Center Tower
  Bentley’s Navigator Mobile and apps allowed the engineering team and the local design institute in China to access up-to-date 3D models, coordinate changes, and review construction documents. The integrated 3D design process, seamless workflow, and cross-platform interoperability among architect, consultants, and subcontractors enabled unprecedented design exploration and comprehensive systems coordination. Iterative modeling expedited the optioneering and rapid prototyping that ensured constructability of this 350-meter-tall tower by Morphosis.

• Innovations in Government: Build LAACD
  Using Bentley Navigator and Navigator Mobile, Los Angeles Community College District and Build LAACD enabled over 500 project participants to access a comprehensive collection of information about their campuses and facilities managed by ProjectWise. The results were a 12 percent reduction in labor costs and USD 12 million in savings through reduced search time, less rework due to improved version control, and improved collaboration.

• Innovation in Project Delivery: Northern Line Extension
  Responding to the employers’ information requirements (EIRs), Ferrovial O’Rourke (FLO) worked collaboratively on a BIM execution plan to deliver the Northern Line Extension. FLO and Mott McDonald conducted weekly BIM reviews using Bentley Navigator to readily identify issues and resolve project clashes, minimizing design iterations. Bentley Navigator facilitated design discussions on the construction site enabling the engineers, site engineers, and health and safety teams to plan better and work in a safer, virtual environment.

• Innovation in Roads: Ningzhen Road
  Remodeling the Ningzhen Road, Huahui Engineering and Design Group employed BIM processes across disciplines to manage the project. Along with the use of Bentley’s ProjectWise, MicroStation, and OpenRoads applications, Bentley Navigator was adopted to coordinate trade designs and perform schedule simulation and manage issue resolution and clash detection. This resulted in a project savings of RMB 6 million.

• Innovation in Water Treatment Plants: Changi Water Reclamation Plant Phase 2 Expansion
  During the Changi Water Reclamation Plant Phase 2 Expansion project, CH2M implemented Bentley Navigator to allow the various disciplines to conduct BIM reviews of the latest plant designs in ProjectWise. Multi-discipline designs were visualized together to better plan ongoing design work. Interdisciplinary reviews were conducted early in the design process enabling a more coordinated outcome without extensive modifications or rework.

About BIM Review Visa
The BIM Review Visa provides users access to Navigator CONNECT Edition, Navigator Mobile, and OpenRoads Navigator CONNECT Edition applications. This new business model, a consumption-based subscription, makes it cost-effective for users to perform BIM reviews on projects of all sizes. Organizations can better control their software budget by setting a subscription level that matches anticipated usage and are billed only when they use the products.

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  Image 2 Caption: Speed design coordination with the ability to identify and resolve clashes.

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  Image 3 Caption: Navigate models immersively and interact with embedded property data.

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AutoPIPE Vessel Capabilities Optimize Pressure Vessel Design in Manufacturing and Power Generation Industries in Full Compliance with the Latest Chinese Standards

Bentley Systems announces availability of the new Chinese GB-150 code in AutoPIPE Vessel, expanding its commitment to serve the large domestic Chinese market and address the infrastructure needs of the second largest economy in the world. Engineers can now efficiently design static equipment in accordance with Chinese domestic pressure vessel codes, including Chinese wind and seismic codes GB 50009 and GB 50011, respectively. 

These new capabilities enable users to:

• Perform advanced optimization for component and full vessel design in accordance with Chinese GB-150 codes to find the most cost-effective engineering solutions;
• Design using an extensive database of GB code materials and flange standards;
• Design for wind and seismic loads in accordance with Chinese GB 50009 and 50011 standards;
• Generate a comprehensive set of automated load combinations covering a full range of loading conditions including installation, lifting, test, operation, and shutdown, as well as special loadings for transport motion and blast explosions;
• Produce intelligent 2D drawings and precise 3D i-models that can be viewed using the built-in DGN viewer or used with other Bentley applications;
• Generate 2D drawings and 3D models created by other applications, such as AutoCAD or SolidWorks;
• Create bill of materials and cost-estimate reports in Microsoft Word or Excel.

Engineers in China can now achieve compliance with regional and global standards, pressure vessel design codes and regional wind, seismic, wave, and blast-loading codes. They can design for both brownfield and greenfield projects, and shorten design time and rework by eliminating guesswork. Both international bidders for Chinese projects and domestic Chinese companies now have a competitive advantage by offering design capabilities meeting Chinese codes and standards.

Zou Tong, senior equipment engineer and IT manager, Sinopec, said, “With the new GB-150 code incorporated in AutoPIPE Vessel, we now have all the codes that we need. This addition will greatly advance the future of manufacturing and support the ‘Made in China 2025’ plan, which is a very important part of the growing Chinese petrochemical industry.” 

Phil Christensen, VP, analytical modeling, Bentley Systems, said, “This extension of AutoPIPE Vessel to assist with Chinese design code compliance exemplifies Bentley’s global approach to product development. We have responded quickly to our Chinese users’ requirements for code compliance in this fast growing market.”

About AutoPIPE Vessel
AutoPIPE Vessel helps engineers quickly create accurate designs for the safe operation of vessels under all loading conditions for pressure vessels, heat exchangers, tanks, and air coolers. Users can design faster with fully automatic vessel design optimization, and confidently account for installation and operating conditions. Compliance with many regional standards, including pressure vessel design codes from the past 10 years and regional wind, seismic, wave, and blast-loading codes support global project execution. Engineers can design for both brownfield and greenfield projects, and shorten design time and rework by eliminating guesswork.

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SITEOPS Integration with Bentley’s ContextCapture for Reality Modeling and Real-life Visualizations Adds Life to Site Designs

Bentley announces the availability of a new SITEOPS workflow for creating optimized site designs, leveraging reality meshes created with ContextCapture and stunning visualizations created with Bentley LumenRT as part of the design process. With ContextCapture, users can create highly accurate 3D reality meshes containing the precision to allow any engineering project to be done completely in context. These reality meshes are engineering ready and can now be directly used as context for 3D design, with the most accurate topography possible, within SITEOPS. Once the design is complete, users can export the 3D model to Bentley LumenRT for creating amazing, enlivened 3D visualizations.

The hardest part of creating a site plan and design is to acquire an accurate and complete survey of the existing conditions. ContextCapture allows designers to quickly produce accurate terrain models from a collection of ordinary digital photographs, which can be immediately used in SITEOPS to begin the process of identifying optimal site configurations.  

Key new capabilities include:

• Acquire detailed existing surface topography from digital images for use in grading design and analysis;          
• Conduct site feasibility studies by using digital imagery, computational design tools, and cost optimization in a fraction of the time it normally takes using traditional CAD software;
• Analyze multiple site layouts and grading plans using the digital topography produced by ContextCapture to determine the best design options based on constraints and cost of construction;
• Combine the most cost-effective layout and grading with enlivened digital content such as buildings, trees, vehicles, and more to bring projects to life with Bentley LumenRT;
• Create stunning 3D visualizations that will allow design professionals to convey the intent of their designs to project stakeholders.

When determining the construction budget, one of the biggest risks is typically in the cost of grading, due to the lack of quality data in the conceptual stage and the time it takes to perform grading designs. Now, with ContextCapture, users can turn site photos into detailed topography, replacing the low quality surface data with high-quality detailed reality meshes. This workflow allows design firms to determine optimal design options based on accurate data enabling the client to make a better decision sooner in the project lifecycle. 

Phil Christensen, VP, analytical modeling, Bentley Systems, said, “The integration of ContextCapture reality meshes into SITEOPS extends the dramatic positive impact that drones are having on civil teams that work on site optimization. These teams can now benefit from the automatic conversion of photos to meshes that ContextCapture provides and more rapidly identify optimal site configurations from an accurate, up-to-date terrain model.”

About SITEOPS
With SITEOPS, civil engineers, architects, and land planners can perform site configuration simulations that fully assess millions of layout, parking, grading, and drainage options for a site within hours – not days. Evaluating more information in the early stages of a project allows users to design more efficiently and minimize land development costs. Preliminary cost estimates and conceptual designs can be produced faster while optimizing site designs through advanced optioneering.   

About Bentley LumenRT
Bentley LumenRT is for any infrastructure professional needing to visualize enlivened designs within a realistic environment in order to more quickly and clearly communicate winning design ideas to project stakeholders. With Bentley LumenRT you no longer have to be a computer-graphics expert in order to integrate lifelike digital nature into your simulated infrastructure designs, and create high-impact visuals for stakeholders. This revolutionary real-time visualization medium is easy for any professional in the AECO industry to use and powerful enough to produce stunningly beautiful and easily understandable visualizations nearly instantly.

About ContextCapture
ContextCapture can produce 3D models, derived from simple photographs, in order to provide context for infrastructure projects of all types. Without the need for expensive, specialized equipment, and saving time over traditional surveying methods, highly detailed 3D photo-textured reality meshes can be produced, providing precise real-world context for use in design, construction, and operations decisions throughout the lifecycle of projects.

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  Image 1 Caption: SITEOPS and ContextCapture help engineers, architects, and designers examine real-world existing conditions to create optimized designs. Image Attribution: Bentley Systems

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  Image 2 Caption: Create stunning visualizations to help convey design intent to shareholders. Image Attribution: Bentley Systems

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GHD’s Proactive Construction Management Delivers Successful Closure of Hazardous Toxic Dump

GHD has successfully managed a challenging public safety infrastructure project for the Government of Guam—The Ordot Dump Closure. Originally built in the 1940s by the United States Military, the 50-acre dump introduced polluted leachate into the Lonfit River, which feeds into Guam’s Pago Bay. The site was also the source of significant air pollution from methane gas emissions. To close the Ordot Dump, GHD managed the construction of a network of environmental safeguards including a complete cover system, a leachate collection system, a gas flare, sewer system improvements, emergency backup generators, security fencing, and roadway improvements.

For this USD 42 million project, GHD leveraged ProjectWise EADOC, Bentley’s cloud-based construction management software to coordinate the entire project team and stakeholders—including the owner located 10 time zones away, on the other side of the International Dateline. ProjectWise EADOC enabled the team to manage, mine, and utilize an enormous amount of project data including onsite weather station logs, site video monitor imagery consisting of thousands of images a day, aerial drone photography, and CM/CQA and contractor daily reports.

The Ordot Dump project was located in remote harsh tropical environment, and the contractor filed multiple claims due to bad weather totaling 202 days. GHD evaluated the claims fairly based on the meticulous and extraordinary records that were developed, managed, and archived in ProjectWise EADOC. By leveraging this project data, GHD negotiated a time extension of 107 work days, to which the owner and contractor agreed.

GHD used ProjectWise EADOC to efficiently manage the project’s 262 submittals, 76 RFIs, 36 design clarification memos, 163 documents related to the design clarifications, 711 contractor daily production reports, 553 daily construction quality control reports, and 32 correction required notices. ProjectWise EADOC’s document module managed all project drawings, specifications, construction photographs, archaeological, environmental, and UXO (unexploded ordinance) monitoring reports. GHD estimates that ProjectWise EADOC saved its submittal and RFI manager approximately 800 resource hours, and significantly increased efficiency for the entire project team.

Paul Baron, P.E., principal/pacific business group manager, GHD, Inc., said, “EADOC provided us a broad, collaborative solution for a complex project with multiple stakeholders spread across 10 time zones, and has won us over as our go-to construct management tool.”

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  Image 1 Caption: An aerial view of the Ordot Dump located in Chalan Pago-Ordot municipality, United States Territory of Guam.

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  Image 2 Caption: A ground-level view of the Ordot Dump located in Chalan Pago-Ordot municipality, United States Territory of Guam.

Municipalities Improve the Quality and Speed of Their Plan Review Processes with Bentley’s Electronic Plan Review

Bentley’s new Electronic Plan Review is a hosted system that eliminates paper plans, reduces delivery time, and increases visibility into the plan review workflow. This Bentley managed service automates the electronic plan review process, from project application completed with an easy-to-use, public-facing website through efficient online review and approval by municipal department personnel. Electronic Plan Review provides municipalities and their constituents with continuous access and the ability to submit plans, check status, and review decisions regarding their projects and plans.

Key capabilities include:

•         Streamlined plan review processes – provides municipalities with fast and easy access to accurate plan information. Reviewers can quickly and easily markup plans and share information with other reviewers and applicants, saving time and rework.
•         Managed electronic plan workflows – agencies can manage the plan review and approval processes electronically for commercial building, residential building, and planning and land use reviews. Using the Electronic Plan Review reviewer website, municipalities can check and review plans concurrently instead of sequentially. By using standard workflow templates that match an organization’s business processes, Electronic Plan Review saves printing and transportation costs and reduces plan review times from weeks to days.
•        Easy-to-use applicant website – enables constituents to quickly and easily submit plans through the applicant website. Applicants can create and submit new projects, upload plans and documents, and monitor project review status online, which increases visibility and reduces plan approval times.

Noah Eckhouse, Bentley’s senior vice president, Portfolio Development, said, “At last, the electronic plan review process is made easy for both municipalities and their constituents. With this innovative cloud service from Bentley, constituents and governments save money in printing and transportation costs, and results in faster application processing.”

Electronic Plan Review enables people, plans, communication, schedules, and markups to interact in a consistent, clearly defined workflow. Using a public-facing website and proven Bentley software, Electronic Plan Review facilitates the communication, workflow, information, and document control needed to have full visibility into ongoing plan review activities.

About Electronic Plan Review
Electronic Plan Review provides municipalities and their constituents with continuous access and the ability to submit plans, check status and review decisions regarding their projects and plans. Electronic Plan Review gives municipalities and applicants the ease, speed, and confidence involved in submitting, reviewing, and concluding the plan review process.

About AssetWise CONNECT Edition
AssetWise CONNECT Edition optimizes asset performance and supports an asset strategy for risk mitigation, operational efficiency, and regulatory compliance. Built on a hybrid cloud-computing platform that leverages a connected data environment, AssetWise facilitates the interoperability of multiple data sources, providing operations, maintenance, and engineering with accurate and reliable information, when it is needed, to make informed decisions, from capital planning through proactive asset maintenance.

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  Image 1 Caption: Track project reviews, performance and KPIs using Electronic Plan Review standard reports.

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  Image 2 Caption: Easily upload and track plans using the applicant website

Bring Infrastructure Designs to Life—Bentley LumenRT Enlivens Models with Digital Nature in Real-time Visualizations

Bentley Systems announces the availability of Bentley LumenRT CONNECT Edition, to speed and simplify the creation of enlivened environmental context for infrastructure projects of any size. Bentley LumenRT differs from traditional offline rendering software and delivers an always-rendered immersive experience more typical of gaming environments. Built for infrastructure projects, Bentley LumenRT allows project teams to clearly communicate design and construction intent with very real and enlivened environmental context. 

The rendering engine in Bentley LumenRT CONNECT Edition now provides improved smoothness when displaying scenes of any size, making it ideal for road, rail, utilities, and other large-scale projects. In addition, there are significant performance improvements when working with large models that include many instances of the same object, like railroad ties or guard rails.

Key new capabilities include:

• New traffic authoring tools that enable the rapid creation of multi-lane traffic animations with adjustable traffic densities and additional vehicle types, including articulated trains and trucks;
• Animation staging that allows individual objects to have animation paths with adjustable start and stop times, enabling specific sequences to be visualized, which is particularly useful for simulating construction sequencing;
• New tools for content creation including a content eraser brush, improved material editor, and the ability to attach sounds to individual objects;
• An updated user experience with new layer and object hierarchy tools;
• Enhanced integration with MicroStation.

Users will benefit from Bentley’s continued commitment to interoperability with newly added API integration with:

• Revit 2016 and 2017
• ArchiCAD 20
• Esri CityEngine 2016
• UTF8 languages

Neil Stewart, contract manager of the CH2M Fairhurst Joint Venture, said, “From the experience of our A9 Dualling project team, we have no doubt that using Bentley LumenRT and ContextCapture 3D visualization models has been a tremendous step forward in communications and stakeholder engagement. We believe these models will become the norm for major projects in the future.”

Santanu Das, SVP, design modeling with Bentley, said, “Bentley LumenRT’s real-time visualization environment, scalability, and ease of use puts the ability to clearly and compellingly communicate complex design and construction ideas within reach of virtually any AEC professional. This update builds upon these strengths with even greater performance and productivity enhancements so design teams can get visualizations done faster, and more projects can benefit from Hollywood-caliber visualizations.”

About Bentley LumenRT
Bentley LumenRT is for any infrastructure professional needing to visualize enlivened designs within a realistic environment in order to more quickly and clearly communicate winning design ideas to project stakeholders. With Bentley LumenRT you no longer have to be a computer-graphics expert in order to integrate lifelike digital nature into your simulated infrastructure designs, and create high-impact visuals for stakeholders. This revolutionary real-time visualization medium is easy for any professional in the AECO industry to use and powerful enough to produce stunningly beautiful and easily understandable visualizations nearly instantly.

About the CONNECT Edition
Introduced in 2015, and with general access to Bentley’s full portfolio of applications becoming available in 2016 and 2017, the CONNECT Edition represents Bentley’s next generation of infrastructure engineering software. CONNECT Edition provides a comprehensive modeling environment, a connected data environment, and a connected performance environment, leveraging the accessibility and computing power of the Microsoft Azure cloud, and supporting a hybrid environment that includes on-premise servers, desktop applications, and mobile apps. The CONNECT Edition extends the reach of information mobility for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Learn more at: CONNECT Edition.

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  Image 1 Caption: Bentley LumenRT now includes a variety of additional articulated vehicles like trains and trucks, which more realistically move along curved paths.

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  Image 2 Caption: Users can confidently produce visualizations of models of unprecedented scale, exceeding tens of millions of polygons.

Mott MacDonald Bentley Demonstrates BIM Leadership in the UK Water Industry with Support from ProjectWise and OpenPlant

In 1999, global multi-discipline consultancy Mott MacDonald formed a joint venture with civil engineering contractor JN Bentley, creating Mott MacDonald Bentley (MMB). The joint venture, now wholly owned by Mott MacDonald Group, grew steadily over its first decade serving the UK water industry. In 2012, the management team recognized that to sustain and accelerate its business growth required a change in information management. MMB selected Bentley’s ProjectWise as the cornerstone of its information management and connected data environment strategy, and it has played a key role in MMB’s successful growth as it entered the latest five-year investment cycle, known as AMP6, the UK government’s process of tendering asset management contracts to private firms to maintain the country’s water infrastructure.

For the previous investment cycle (AMP5), MMB partnered with Yorkshire Water and Severn Trent Water, and had a turnover approaching GBP 100 million per annum. For AMP6, MMB successfully retained its partnership with both Yorkshire Water and Severn Trent Water and secured new framework agreements with Dwr Cymru Welsh Water, Anglian Water (as part of the @one Alliance), United Utilities, and Northumbrian Water – to emerge as a leading design-and-build organization in the UK water sector. MMB has now been involved in more than 500 water industry design and construction projects.   

The adoption of a BIM methodology, together with a well-established, robust, and rigorous information management system, contributed to MMB’s ability double the size of its operation in a little more than two years. ProjectWise and OpenPlant, Bentley’s applications for plant design modeling, introduced rigor into the management of BIM project information to improve the flow of information through all stages of the projects. This methodology helped MMB improve compliance within its own stringent IMS system and exceed client expectations.

To efficiently deliver BIM processes, MMB realized it needed to create a library of high-quality components that could be used repeatedly. As part of a global team representing all sectors of infrastructure development in Mott MacDonald, MMB led the development of water-specific content for its the Digital Component Catalogue (DCC).

The DCC is a core enabler of Mott MacDonald’s newly launched Carbon Portal, an in-house carbon assessment tool designed for the building, power, transport, and water sectors to be used across all regions to assess capital and operational carbon in projects. MMB will use the Carbon Portal in its goal to exceed the UK government’s Construction 2025 carbon reduction target of 50 percent.

MMB leverages ProjectWise’s connected data environment, which ensures the integrity of project information across the project lifecycle, for the entire Mott McDonald group. MMB capitalizes on the expertise and resource availability of global teams adopting a consistent and rigorous way of working and as an internal client to the Global Design Centre in Chennai, India. This process has allowed MMB to save more than 50 percent in costs on aspects of its design work, and increased daily productivity by 62.5 percent.

A large proportion of the work conducted by MMB in AMP6 is process-engineering related. As such, it became a business imperative to adopt a consistent means of delivering intelligent process and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs). In short, it required a system that would facilitate a seamless flow of information from the outset of the design through to commissioning that could also manage information from other vendors’ applications as well as interoperate with SAP.

MMB selected OpenPlant PID and a successful pilot program proved the seamless exchange of information between Autodesk Revit and OpenPlant PID. This workflow freed data that was historically buried within third-party applications and enables it to be controlled and managed more easily, through a simple interface, by engineers and technicians. The data can be verified and approved as any other MMB deliverable. This represents a significant step forward toward delivering a synchronized set of numerical and visual data as an asset information model, and assists MMB clients with achieving their aspirations for better information management.

Simon Kerr, senior project technologies consultant, Mott MacDonald, said, “Bentley’s ProjectWise has had a hugely positive influence on MMB over the past four years. It has helped us scale our business significantly to meet the demands of the new AMP period by providing a rigorous and robust means of storing all technical information on over 500 projects.”

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Bentley’s Expanded Bridge Design Capabilities Ensure the Delivery of Safe, Economical Structures Even in Demanding Locations

Bentley’s OpenBridge, LEAP, and RM deliver a fully integrated solution for bridges of all types, and unites all disciplines involved in bridge projects from planning and design through construction, inspection, and maintenance. One single bridge model provides all deliverables required throughout the bridge project, including design details, fabrication schedules, drawings, quantities, visualization, and construction sequencing. Users of Bentley bridge applications can directly access civil designs, integrating the bridge project in the context of a broader infrastructure project.

OpenBridge Modeler, Bentley’s most recent addition to its bridge applications, allows users to develop intelligent 3D bridge models quickly and within the context of an overall infrastructure project. Contractors can also plan to minimize costly construction delays with traffic and construction simulations, as well as control costs and avoid delays by using clash detection tools to solve interference problems, before construction begins.

Key capabilities for OpenBridge Modeler include the ability to:

• Interoperate with Bentley’s bridge analysis applications, including LEAP Bridge Concrete, LEAP Bridge Steel, and RM Bridge;
• Calibrate design to terrain, roadways, access ramps, and related infrastructure by directly integrating with OpenRoads Designer, Bentley’s civil design application;
• Enliven designs and enhance visualization with lifelike renderings and libraries of physically correct materials, lighting, and rich photorealistic content;
• Manage design changes parametrically through built-in relationships between components;
• Generate complete bridge geometry reports, including civil and bridge element reports, deck and beam seat elevations, quantities, and cost estimates. 

In addition, Bentley’s RM Bridge application for design and analysis of complex bridges now offers unique analytical capabilities for floating suspension bridges. These new capabilities are being used on one of the most challenging bridges in the Norwegian Public Roads Administration’s E39 coastal highway project. Several floater concepts have been proposed for the 2,400-meter-wide Halsafjorden crossing project. One concept is a two-span suspension bridge supported by a central floating tension leg platform and two onshore concrete pylons. TDA COWI, a Norwegian engineering firm, required this advanced functionality in RM Bridge in order to evaluate the dynamic response caused by wind and wave loading, which can now be predicted in time domain.

Arne Bruer, senior consultant with TDA COWI, said, “Now the bridge industry has a bridge engineering tool for complex analysis and verification that accounts for the coupled dynamic effects of wind, waves, and current.”

André Tousignant, P.E., construction engineer, PCL Civil Constructors, Inc., said, “Finally, a purpose-built bridge modeling software that is parametric and easily editable. In just minutes, I had results that would have taken at least a half hour in other civil engineering applications.”

Phil Christensen, VP, analytical modeling, Bentley Systems, said, “As highway agencies and their bridge engineering supply chain transition from 2D to 3D workflows, making the creation of information-rich bridge models fast and easy becomes an efficiency imperative. Bentley’s ongoing expansion of the modeling capabilities in OpenBridge Modeler – including full roundtrip interoperability with bridge structural analysis tools – supports the industry’s move to using 3D models as early as possible in the design process.”

Bentley bridge applications provide engineers and designers the ability to design bridges in context of their surroundings as well as deliver safe, well-engineered bridges, even in the most complex conditions and environments.

About OpenBridge Modeler
OpenBridge Modeler helps engineers develop intelligent 3D bridge models within the context of an overall infrastructure project. Users are able to calibrate design to terrain, roadways, access ramps, and related infrastructure by directly interoperating with Bentley’s civil design applications. You can enliven designs with lifelike renderings, minimize costly construction delays with traffic and construction simulations, and control costs using clash detection tools to reduce interference problems before construction begins.

About LEAP
LEAP helps engineers easily handle the vast majority of the bridges built today, with the smart choice for concrete and steel bridges. Innovative analysis, design, and load-rating functionality come together in one advanced environment with LEAP, a powerful modeling and analysis solution for small- to medium-sized concrete and steel bridges of all types. Users experience a synthesis of geometric modeling, substructure, and superstructure analysis and design, and load rating in a single, information-rich environment.

About RM Bridge
RM Bridge is a bridge design, analysis, and construction application. Engineers can perform bridge design, analysis, and construction simulation to determine resiliency during seismic and natural events and analyze rolling stock. You can streamline massive analytical tasks and save time on complex engineering issues by taking a more integrated approach in the design and construction of your bridge systems.

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  Image 1 Caption: Mitigate risk with OpenBridge Modeler by performing conflict analysis of the bridge structure with existing infrastructure to save time, eliminate building errors, and reduce project costs. View clashes in 3D or in table format. Check for required minimum clearances between adjacent structures and roadways.

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  Image 2 Caption: RM Bridge rendering of Halsafjorden supported suspension bridge.

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HNTB Delivers Rapid and Iterative Conceptual Designs for new I-84/ Route 8 Interchange with OpenRoads ConceptStation

The I-84 and SR-8 interchange, which provides access to downtown Waterbury, Connecticut, is a critical link to the US interstate system. Originally designed and constructed in the 1960s with a stacked design containing double-decker sections, the interchange now carries an estimated 150,000 vehicles a day, triple the amount it accommodated when first built. In addition to the serious capacity issues, Connecticut Department of Transportation (ConnDOT) is facing increasing maintenance costs in order to address bridge deficiencies.

ConnDOT engaged HNTB Corporation to study and recommend a preferred design alternative and to develop the detailed design of an upgraded interchange to current construction standards. The final design also needed to provide easier access to Waterbury’s central business district, fuelling further re-development along the Naugatuck River, which runs parallel with SR-8. Key objectives for this USD 2 billion project included meeting the capacity issues, but also delivering safety improvements that would address geometric deficiencies identified in a 2010 Interchange Needs Study.

HNTB’s biggest challenge was to implement a solution that would enabled it to quickly develop alternatives that met current design criteria, evaluate constructability, manage data across many locations, visualize and review results, and ultimately deliver costings. It was the team’s combined use of OpenRoads ConceptStation, OpenBridge Modeler, OpenRoads technology within Bentley’s InRoads, and the ability to share data between phases and disciplines of the project, which proved critical to HNTB’s success.

OpenRoads ConceptStation provided designers with the ability to quickly and efficiently evaluate different scenarios using the required design standards. Its GeoCoordination Services helped the team save time and money by helping them quickly locate and organize relevant project context at the beginning of the project. In addition, HNTB reduced conceptual design time by four days using OpenRoads ConceptStation as compared to the traditional detailed design workflow. The software also enabled the design team to pass conceptual design models, including horizontal and vertical geometry, seamlessly to the detailed design phase. Using the embedded Bentley LumenRT engine, OpenRoads ConceptStation’s visualization capabilities also allowed the team to rapidly review the complete project in a rich 3D environment and communicate options to all stakeholders involved.

Due to the complexity and condensed footprint of the interchange, bridge clearance and pier locations were critical to design and constructability. OpenBridge Modeler helped HNTB design and model all of the bridges within the same modeling environment, ensuring potential conflicts were identified and resolved early in the process. ProjectWise was used for storage of the refined project data and shared by key members of the project team to ensure efficient collaboration.

Kevin Schlereth, PE, delivery technology group manager, HNTB Corporation, said, “Bentley’s understanding of design requirements has created a powerful tool for conceptual design. Today’s project schedules are getting shorter and shorter, and time savings is critical to project success.”

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  Image 1 Caption: Revised I-84 and SR-8 interchange downtown Waterbury, Connecticut, in OpenRoads ConceptStation. Image Attribution: HNTB Corporation

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  Image 2 Caption: Conceptual design for I-84 and SR-8 interchange showing Naugatuck River in OpenRoads ConceptStation. Image Attribution: HNTB Corporation

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  Image 3 Caption: Visualization of new I-84 and SR-8 interchange using OpenRoads ConceptStation and embedded LumenRT functionality. Image Attribution: HNTB Corporation

WorkFace Planning and ConstructSim Deliver 8% Total Install Cost Reduction to Houston Refinery

In November 2014, a Houston-based refinery engaged Insight-WFP to implement advanced work packaging and deliver a stable construction environment with predictable project outcomes on one of its construction projects. A long-time user of ConstructSim, having implemented it on six previous projects, Insight-WFP was confident that WorkFace Planning would bring significant benefits to the project, but it needed the support of information management and the construction team. Additionally, the construction project was a fixed-price project exposing the contractor and the owner to risk through claims and schedule compliance.

Initially, the contractors were hesitant to implement a new process where schedulers produced work packages. But, the 3D images created using ConstructSim were so compelling, the team quickly realized that combining planning and information management was a win-win business proposition.

Insight-WFP used ConstructSim Work Package Server as a single source for online documents where the contractors could search and pull electronic documents as needed, and revise them with near-zero lag time. This process avoided construction team members from using incorrect revisions of drawings.

Schedulers presented 4D simulations to the constructors during the daily onsite meetings to create a single understanding of the plan. These reviews also created conversations around constructability, which created the opportunity for the team to adjust the sequence of the schedule into a series of events that made better sense for the construction trades and led to improved safety.  

The project completed 1.6 million work-hours without a single lost time incident, which is a unique outcome for this industry and recognized as world-class performance.

Overall, Insight-WFP estimated that through better material scheduling, improved management of craft labor, and more streamline use of other resources, such as scaffolding, it saved the owner approximately USD 36 million, which is 8 percent of the total installed cost, and reduced the project schedule by six weeks.

Geoff Ryan, P.M.P. AWP specialist, Insight-WFP, said, “One thing that is absolutely certain is we have a very happy owner. We also have contractors who have a new business model; a scaffold company that is selling the virtues of planning with ConstructSim to their other business partners; new hope in an industry that was hungry for change; and our company has a solid business case for information management to support advanced work packaging.”

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  Video Caption: By playing 4D simulations to the constructors during the daily onsite meetings, the scheduler created a single understanding of the plan.

WaterGEMS, WaterCAD, and HAMMER Advance Modeling and Reporting Processes for Water Utilities

Bentley Systems announces the availability of the CONNECT Editions of WaterGEMS, WaterCAD, and HAMMER, applications used for the analysis and design of water networks. These new releases streamline specific modeling tasks and make users more productive so they can focus more on the engineering decision-making process.

Key new capabilities allow users to: 

• Create and manage customized reports that automatically combine graphs, data tables, color-coded and annotated plan views, and more into a single report;
• Access tools quickly through a modernized ribbon-based user interface with built-in search to find commands more easily;
• Create AVI movies of model animations to share with others;
• Integrate with AssetWise Operational Analytics, Bentley’s tool for real-time predictive and operational analytics, for decision support;
• Run historical simulations using actual operation of pump and valve controls based on SCADA system records;
• Model turbines for energy and revenue generation;
• Include service laterals in hydraulic analysis, facilitating automatic customer load assignment.

From water loss investigations to fire protection studies, from understanding and preventing transient issues to ensuring water quality, and from energy management to emergency response, WaterGEMS, WaterCAD, and HAMMER cover every aspect of water infrastructure management.

Gregg Herrin, P.E., director of product management, Bentley Systems, said, “The CONNECT Edition releases of WaterGEMS, WaterCAD, and HAMMER continue to empower water system planners, designers, and managers with fit-for-purpose analytical and asset-performance modeling tools,” “With this release, the ability to automatically generate reports that combine maps, graphs, tables, and more makes it much faster for a water professional to synthetize modeling results and present them clearly to all project stakeholders. Combined with extended modeling capabilities, utilities can more easily understand their system behavior and make better-informed decisions, while reducing project time and costs.”

About WaterGEMS and WaterCAD
Engineers at utilities, municipalities, and civil engineering firms use WaterGEMS and WaterCAD for the analysis and design of water distribution systems, from automated fire flow, water quality, criticality and flushing studies to energy cost analysis, pipe renewal optimization, and genetic algorithm optimization modules for automating pipe design, calibration, water loss detection, and pump scheduling. WaterCAD is a subset of WaterGEMS.

About HAMMER
HAMMER helps engineers determine appropriate surge control strategies and reduce transients. It uses the Method of Characteristics, the benchmark standard for hydraulic transient analyses. Engineers can run both transient and steady-state (for initial condition calculation) analyses in HAMMER, and choose to use it as a stand-alone product or use it along with WaterCAD or WaterGEMS.

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  Image 3 Caption: Gain insight into system operations by integrating AssetWise Operational Analytics with WaterGEMS’ SCADAConnect capabilities.

CITIC Investment Co Ltd. Delivers China Zun Tower in an Innovative Factory Setting

China Zun Tower, part of the rejuvenation of Beijing’s Central Business District (CBD), is a symbol of national identity. The skyscraper will be home to CITIC Group and CITIC Bank headquarters and attract international financial institutions and top 500 enterprises of China to Beijing. Innovative planning and technology provided an integrated platform for intelligent construction to complete the project using prefabricated sections in only 62 months, faster than any other skyscraper in Beijing. The intelligent construction platform is the world’s largest using a jumping lift with service height over 500 meters and carrying two cranes. The speed of construction is about 1.4 times the average construction speed of similar super high-rise buildings already built in China.

The China Zun Tower design not only pursues a unique visual aesthetic, but seeks to design and build a structure to meet functional and high security requirements. The total building area is 437,000 square meters and 528 meters high, with 108 floors above ground and seven floors below ground. The shape is based on the traditional Chinese sacrificial wine vessel, while the design is based on the Kongming lantern. The building design effectively reduces wind load, withstands earthquakes of 8 degrees and has a low-carbon footprint with lighting, heat, insulation, water, waste disposal, ventilation, and other aspects to reduce energy consumption. The building also achieved green “Samsung” certification as a landmark high-rise green building.

CITIC established ProjectWise as China’s first enterprise-wide platform for information management and collaboration for a 350-person team spanning owner, designer, inspector, general contractor, and subcontractors. To manage the massive amount of project data, CITIC set up a “CITIC and ProjectWise Management Platform” for internal use and “ProjectWise Platform for Project” for external use. These ProjectWise systems were synchronized and all the construction units, including the owners, design leaders, and construction and electromechanical general contractors, were equipped with four integrated collaborative networks to ensure timely synchronization of engineering information. The ProjectWise solution managed engineering, design, and construction audit drawings to enable automated workflows and secure storage.

With over 40 permission levels, ProjectWise enabled collaboration of the construction units in different stages of the project in Beijing, Shanghai, New York, and other places, so the owners and project participants had a secure network access to manage the project’s 540,000 documents throughout the project lifecycle. Routine files were transmitted synchronously every 12 hours, and critical files were transmitted synchronously every four hours. This strategy allowed design and construction teams to work together early on in the project to break information barriers and work simultaneously to shorten the project lifecycle.

On site, workers used i-models and Bentley Navigator for BIM review and engineering coordination to plan long-range collaborative work. Engineers used Navigator Mobile for design reviews, QA/QC, inspections, multi-discipline design coordination, and to improve on-site management efficiency. The team also used Navigator Mobile extensively for construction management to provide BIM models to the remote teams who were able to collaborate on multi-discipline design review and issues resolution with Web-based access to unified project information. The centralized storage and quick, secure access to project information is expected to save 15 percent in productivity costs.

The China Zun Tower established many “firsts” in China, including:

• Implementing ProjectWise to provide full collaboration among the owner, designer, inspector, general contractor, and subcontractors;
• Eight basement floors, which account for the most basement floors among Chinese Skyscrapers;
• Largest quantity of one-time concrete pouring for foundation slabs;
• Placing temporary and permanent firefighting systems during construction to eliminate turnover time and safeguard construction.

World “firsts” include:

• First skyscraper built on the assumption of 8 degrees of seismic fortification intensity to exceed 500 meters;
• First intelligent jumping steel platform for construction integration, which resulted in the largest plan area and carrying capacity in civil engineering;
• First jump lift to carry two cranes and with service height over 500 meters.

Luo Nengjun, deputy general manager, CITIC Industry Investment Co., Ltd., said, “During the construction of the super-high-level project, CITIC and its project participants set up a new information management model and formed a complete information delivery standard using Bentley’s ProjectWise collaborative worksharing network. This went beyond the barriers of information transmission, and effectively enhanced the project management level.”

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Thames Water’s Innovative ALIM Approach Will Reduce TOTEX by 20% and Meet BIM Level 2 Compliance

Thames Water is the largest water and wastewater service provider in the UK with in excess of 15 million customers. In partnership with the eight2o alliance, Thames Water initiated a project to manage all of its asset information created in the current AMP6 cycle, the UK government’s process of tendering asset management contracts to private firms to maintain the country’s water infrastructure. The primary goal of the project is to enhance Thames Water’s processes involving its asset data, and to improve water efficiency and effluent quality. As a result of efficiencies gained, Thames Water hopes to reduce the TOTEX (total expenditure) of the project by 20 percent using Bentley’s applications.

To reduce TOTEX, the eight2o alliance needed to improve collaboration between architects, engineering firms, consultants and the client. But, Thames Water had to ensure uninterrupted service to its customers during this project. Significant government legislation also had to be factored in, as these initiatives were driving change and innovation in the water industry in the UK. One requirement was for Thames Water to be BIM Level 2 compliant, providing rigor and consistency by enforcing collaborative 3D technology to the project.

Previously, Thames Water’s asset management system did not support engineering drawings. For the project to be a success, the alliance needed a federated approach to managing its engineering designs and documents. It required a connected data environment to house all its designs (including 3D and 4D construction simulation data), geospatial data, hydraulic models, technical documents, and legal and regulatory compliance documents. This connected data environment would need to interoperate with other existing applications seamlessly to align with the AMP6 goals in order to deliver compliance.

Thames Water selected Bentley’s ProjectWise CONNECT Edition as the preferred platform, providing the connected data environment in a cloud environment. This hosted solution seamlessly integrated its people, process, and asset information, and improved information mobility through the use of i-models. As a result, Thames Water is now BIM Level 2 compliant, with the entire supply chain working in a common format, sharing a connected data environment. Thames Water is well on its way to being BIM Level 3 compliant as it strives for better asset performance.

Kevin Bezant, BIM manager, eight2o, said, “We combined Bentley’s ProjectWise CONNECT Edition with the provision of a hybrid cloud environment to securely host and manage eight2o design information. This has driven efficiency into the AMP6 capital program and provided Thames Water’s asset management teams with enriched asset information that can be reused time and time again throughout the life of the asset.”

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Optioneering Center Cloud Services Enable Optimization and Performance Insight for Better Structural and Offshore Designs and Reduced Risk

Bentley Systems announces Optioneering Center, cloud-based services made available on the Connection Center, that will help engineers win more business, design safer and more effective structures, and improve operational efficiency.

The initial Optioneering Center offerings include three cloud services for structural and offshore engineers:

• Scenario Services for scalable, simultaneous, cloud-based analysis of alternate STAAD or SACS design models and powerful Web visualization capabilities to compare and communicate scenarios;
• Analytical Insights delivered initially for RAM Structural users to provide automated quality assurance review and provide insight and recommendations for improved design performance; and
• Design Services, tools to enable optioneering in the field, starting with the popular RAM SBeam design utility;

Key capabilities include the ability to:

• Analyze multiple design alternatives simultaneously on the cloud using Scenario Services for STAAD.Pro or SACS;
• Visually compare and communicate performance tradeoffs of designs with Scenario Services and STAAD;
• Identify areas of designs that are unsafe, costly, or not constructible with Analytical Insights; and
• Quickly perform optioneering in the field quickly with Design Services.

All services are offered under a consumption-based Bentley Optioneering Visa, which allows users to scale the number of users to meet project needs. The Optioneering Visa services enable users to win projects through the ability to provide clients more conceptual alternatives in a short time and reduces risk by identifying areas of the design that have variance from historic norms and corporate standards. It also improves operational efficiency by facilitating flow of information from office to field and back.

Raoul Karp, VP, development, analytical modeling, with Bentley, said, “With the new Scenario Services, structural engineers can leverage their STAAD.Pro design experience to perform parametric studies and investigate almost any number of design alternatives in virtually the same time it takes to consider a single design. Also, users can take advantage of the power of the cloud to do more than just analyze their models. They can also now visually compare the performance of design alternatives together with any stakeholder to select the optimal designs.”

Ben Rogowski, P.E., project engineer, John A. Martin & Associates, said, “Structural Insights will help us reduce our firm’s risk by ensuring that designs conform to our standards. It’s also a great way to save time by allowing management to quickly review design progress without having to print out a bunch of plans and elevations, or even opening the design application. And further, with the ability to compare against historical projects we will be able to quickly identify where, and then how, to improve our designs.”

About STAAD.Pro
STAAD.Pro enables engineers to design any type of structure and share synchronized model data among their entire design team. Regardless of complexity, users can deliver steel, concrete, timber, aluminum, and cold-formed steel projects on time and on budget. Engineers can confidently design structures anywhere in the world using over 80 international codes, reducing the need to learn multiple software applications. With STAAD.Pro’s flexible modeling environment and advanced features such as dynamic change revisions and management, firms can provide accurate and economical designs to their clients and quickly turnaround change requests.

About RAM Structural System
RAM Structural System helps engineers efficiently produce high-quality and economical designs, using various concrete, steel, and joist building materials; all in compliance with local building codes. Firms can use RAM Structural System to design anything from individual components to large-scale building and foundations maximizing their software investment with fully integrated applications for complete building analysis, design, and drafting for both steel and concrete structures. Engineers can easily share structural data with applications such as Bentley’s AECOsim Building Designer, Revit, and Tekla, and through Integrated Structural Modeling (ISM) workflows. 

About SACS
SACS helps engineers improve design quality and predict offshore structural performance using a unified analysis environment that enables the efficient exploration of alternatives. Users can streamline processes with automated structural workflows to apply specialized analyses essential to any offshore project. This includes nonlinear structural analysis and dynamic response analysis due to environmental loads, impact effects, and severe accidental loading. Operational safety is improved by allowing engineers to analyze ship impact and dropped objects, and minimize risk through offshore-specific load generation. Engineers can efficiently visualize complex structural response via interactive graphical review of analysis and fatigue, thus avoiding rework and potential project delays.

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  Image 1 Caption:  Scenario Services allows quick, visual comparison of the performance of multiple design alternatives.

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  Image 2 Caption: Quickly identify where your designs violate performance thresholds with Analytical Insights.

BIM Processes Help Shougang International Engineering Undertake Innovative Project for the 2022 Winter Olympics

The 2022 Winter Olympic Organizing Committee contracted Beijing Shougang International Engineering (BSIE) to design and construct its new plaza in Shougang, Shijingshan District, Beijing, China. The new plaza, which is located in an industrial park in the northernmost area of the Shougang Industrial Zone, will retain much of the Shougang plant’s original appearance due to strict controls in place to protect the industrial heritage of the area. Phase 1 of the project, which includes the reconstruction of silo’s 1 to 6 has been completed at a total cost of CNY 3.6 billion, with the remaining office and common areas plus transportation links for the 85,300 square-meter site due to be completed by the end of 2016. When completed, a new landmark in the Shougang area will be ready to receive the 5,000-plus Chinese and foreign visitors and dignitaries expected in the run up to and during 2022 Winter Olympics Games.

The BSIE team used Bentley technology to capture and gain context and understanding of the site and existing infrastructure. By using laser scanning and point-cloud data the team dedicated fewer resource hours to the project that would normally be used to survey and map the area. The results provided a very valuable source of information for decision making and analysis during the latter stages of the project, saving BSIE around CNY 1 million and 3 to 5 percent of the time it would have taken using traditional methods. Bentley’s solutions also enabled the team to, in their words, “build a bridge” between industrial and civil engineering with information mobility and improved processes. Bentley software addressed the needs of these two different areas of design and construction, where use of a connected data environment avoided the inherent risk of data loss when exporting and importing data between different file formats and applications.

Responding to local legislation for green building projects, the BSIE project team also implemented BIM processes at all stages of the project lifecycle. All units involved, including planning, design, procurement, construction, plus operations and maintenance, are using ProjectWise to collaborate. Using BIM processes and ProjectWise in this way ensured secure access to data while working on the project, and enabled the organization to effectively share data saving production time and costs associated with the creation and maintenance of corresponding models for various departments. Having a fully integrated and virtual BIM model also meant that it could be used as the basis for systems needed during operation and maintenance, reducing the need and associated cost of creating as-built information from scratch.

Li Hongguang, project manager of Xishi Winter Olympics Square Project of Old Shougang Industrial Area Transformation, said, “Bentley provides us with systematic solutions covering each link of a project, and achieves a seamless data connection so that we can keep our mind on the project itself, rather than how to operate the software.”

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Bentley Descartes Accelerates the Use of Reality Modeling in Engineering Workflows

Bentley Systems announces the availability of Bentley Descartes CONNECT Edition, an application that enables production of a wide range of design deliverables through the integration of 2D and 3D imagery with data from popular BIM, geospatial, and CAD formats. Bentley Descartes CONNECT Edition delivers groundbreaking new capabilities and substantially improved performance, enabling reality meshes to be truly accessible to all stakeholders throughout the infrastructure lifecycle.

Key new capabilities include:

• Integration of large reality meshes created with ContextCapture for:
• Easy generation and manipulation of cross sections
• Production of orthophotos on any axis
• Production of 3D PDFs and i-models from any combination of vector geometry and imagery
• Thematic visualizations and solar studies
• Production of visualization-ready models for use in Bentley LumenRT
• Integration of popular BIM, geospatial, and CAD formats such as DGN DXF, DWG, Rhino, SKP, SHP and more
• Feature extraction from reality meshes or point clouds
• The ability to visualize and visually navigate geospatial information within the context of a 3D reality mesh through the new reality mesh classifier
• Personalized environment and streamlined user experience
• Use of orthographic images to colorize point clouds without color information to produce more photorealistic point-cloud data

Native support for reality meshes allows Bentley Descartes users to directly integrate models produced with ContextCapture into engineering workflows. Descartes users then have the ability to combine reality meshes with other data types including point clouds, raster, and models. Users can then use all of this data in combination with BIM, geospatial, and CAD data in many popular formats to produce a wide range of design deliverables.

With new feature extraction capabilities, users can now extract breaklines and produce digital terrain models from reality meshes or point clouds, dramatically speeding these tasks.

Bentley Descartes CONNECT Edition adds the ability to perform thematic visualizations, changing the display of models based on their inherent properties like slope, elevation, and aspect angle. Users can also conduct solar studies and shading analyses as well as publish models so that they can be visualized in the real-time rendering environment of Bentley LumenRT.

A new innovation, the reality mesh classifier, enables users to enrich reality meshes with attribute information from spatially enabled databases, attaching it to specific parts of the mesh. Users then can search and query the mesh based on the associated data, enabling a unique and powerful 3D visualization of geospatial information.

Leveraging Bentley’s comprehensive modeling environment, Bentley Descartes CONNECT Edition introduces a new streamlined user interface that speeds the access to project-specific files, standards, help, tools, and the support required to get work done faster.

Users can also now work with much larger models without sacrificing performance, using Bentley Descartes CONNECT Edition’s high-performance 64-bit architecture.  This performance supports even the most demanding use cases, making it ideal for working with city-scale reality meshes and very large point clouds. Descartes users will also be able to access CONNECT services such as point-cloud streaming to speed the sharing of very large point-cloud data sets.

Users who have point-cloud data without color information can enrich their point clouds to be much more visually rich and understandable by using orthophotos to colorize them, enhancing the long-term value of both the orthophotos and point clouds to enable better decision making.

David Byrne of AEROmetrex, said, “The new mesh classifier and terrain extraction tools in Bentley Descartes CONNECT Edition will enable us to provide even richer deliverables to our clients. We see that Bentley Descartes will be an invaluable part of our ContextCapture workflows thanks to its newly added support for reality meshes.”

Dustin Parkman, VP, civil and reality modeling with Bentley Systems, said, “Bentley Descartes CONNECT Edition is the key to effectively realizing the full potential of reality meshes within engineering workflows. Bentley Descartes is critical for engineers, architects, and infrastructure owners in that it makes reality data seamlessly accessible for use throughout the infrastructure lifecycle.”

About Bentley Descartes
Bentley Descartes provides users with advanced processing for 3D imagery, enabling the integration, visualization, clean-up, and flexible display of their reality modeling data for use within design, construction, and operations workflows. Bentley Descartes offers unmatched capabilities for working with and producing deliverables from point clouds, reality meshes, scalable digital terrain models and raster imagery of any scale for use in engineering and geospatial applications from Bentley and others.

About CONNECT Edition
Introduced in 2015, and with general access to Bentley’s full portfolio of applications becoming available in 2016 and 2017, the CONNECT Edition represents Bentley’s next generation of infrastructure engineering software. CONNECT Edition provides a comprehensive modeling environment, a connected data environment, and a connected performance environment, leveraging the accessibility and computing power of the Microsoft Azure cloud, and supporting a hybrid environment that includes on-premise servers, desktop applications, and mobile apps. The CONNECT Edition extends the reach of information mobility for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Learn more at: CONNECT Edition.

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Hubei Leverages Digital Engineering Models for Design and Construction on Large Substation Project

The State Grid Corporation of China commissioned Hubei Electric Engineering Corporation (HEEC) to build a large substation in Dongxihu District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. The project includes three sets of 240 MVA transformers, 10 220 kilovolt outgoing lines, and 12 110 kilovolt outgoing lines to deliver reliable power to more than 400,000 customers. 

The suburban setting for the substation was challenging as the density of the buildings and limited space required engineering precision, determined through 3D modeling, to accurately manage the planning and design phase. A further challenge was creating an environment that included all project participants, whether they were in the office, jobsite, or the field. HEEC also had multi-discipline design requirements, focusing on the electric, structural, irrigation works, heating, ventilation, and construction disciplines that would be a challenge from the outset for the designers.

This CNY 171 billion project delivered the detailed design with Bentley Substation and supporting design modeling applications including AECOsim Building Designer. HEEC used Bentley Substation to design the main wiring, electrical equipment layout, stress calculation and arrangement of wires, lightning protection, and grounding. It also used Bentley Raceway and Cable Management to detail the cabling and routing layout, and ContextCapture to capture the existing condition of the densely populated area. This approach gave the planning department sufficient insight into how the substation would be built, and the impact on the environment and residents. Lastly, HEEC used ProjectWise for work-sharing and collaboration among the various design disciplines. 

During the construction period, the project team used Navigator Mobile for better decision making, further leveraging the digital engineering models created in the engineering phase and reducing design time by 20 days and checking time by 30 days. During construction, Bentley applications saved 15 days, and CNY 50,000 in design time. Clash detection using digital engineering models avoided more than 10 areas of rework and ensured a total project savings of CNY 2 million.

Digital engineering models were key to meeting these challenges as they helped deliver multi-discipline design, collaboration, and visualization potential that reduced rework, clashes, and offered a connected data environment for the project participants. These models would also help once the substation was in operation, providing valuable asset information.

Wang Wei, team leader of Digital Center, Hubei Electric Engineering Corporation, said, “Bentley’s digital platform solution has been fully applied across multiple disciplines and phases of the Miaoshan 220 kilovolt Secondary Transformer Substation project, bringing significant improvements to design efficiency and quality, and providing strong technical support for construction, operations, and maintenance. This project achieved good social and economic benefits.”

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Complete Lifecycle BIM Approach Enables Efficient Collaboration and Approvals for Stockholm Metro Extension

In the coming years, Stockholm Metro will undergo extensions that include approximately 20 kilometers of track and 10 new stations, representing the largest investment in the city’s metro in modern times. The project owner FUT tasked JV Sweco/TYPSA to produce the technical designs and railway plans, including an environmental impact report (EIR) for the line that runs from Kungsträdgården to Nacka and Gullmarsplan/South Stockholm. The SEK 25.7 billion project, which includes 11 kilometers of track, rock tunnels, and seven new stations, will be managed using a complete lifecycle BIM approach, and is scheduled to be operational by 2025.

With team members spread across offices in five countries, Sweco/TYPSA used Bentley’s ProjectWise to create a connected data environment and single source of truth for all project information. Managing design coordination, review, and approvals with ProjectWise enabled multi-discipline teams to work together on an integrated design regardless of where their offices are located in Europe.

The teams also used Bentley’s ContextCapture to work with the client and Stockholm Municipality, which allowed stakeholders to visualize new designs within the context of a recently produced interactive 3D city model of Stockholm. This proved invaluable when studying and presenting new metro station entrances.

The project’s rock tunnel team used OpenRoads technology to build structured content and create dynamic templates for track, service, escape, and work tunnels, plus pumping stations, turning spaces, and emergency vehicle parking. Display rules enabled the tunnel design to automatically shift between single and double track based on the distance between tracks. This approach saved the team the significant time and effort it would have taken to manually complete the task. With the project in its early stages, and conditions constantly changing, inbuilt design intelligence means that the team can move parking spaces and tunnels without having to redesign everything from scratch.

With construction set to commence in 2018, it is intended that the multi-discipline design models generated using Bentley applications will be used across all stages of the project and asset lifecycle, including production planning (4D), cost estimation (5D), and operations, where as-built federated BIM models will be utilized in the owner’s facility management systems.

Daniel Ahnsjö, business area manager, VDC, for Sweco, said, “Bentley solutions support our integrated design process between all disciplines, helping us to control work frequently and in a better way to ensure quality on this megaproject. The use of a connected data environment managed by ProjectWise has been key to improving the overall design process and integrating multi-discipline teams.”

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ONGC Adds 10-15 Years Life to Existing Offshore Assets With Bentley SACS

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) started its hunt for “Black Gold” in Indian waters in 1976 and is currently operating more than 265 offshore fixed jacket platforms in water depths ranging from 25 to 90 meters. Most of these platforms had a 25-year design life, with many of them having already outlived this milestone and many more approaching it. Additionally, modifications on many of the platforms have been made due to updated design criteria or because of revamping projects executed for enhanced oil recovery. As a result, the requalification of these structures was highly important to ensure continued oil production, thus sustaining the energy supply needed for the national growth. ONGC also wanted to avoid installing new platforms at a net cost of USD 25 million per platform.

ONGC invested USD 150 million to assess its jacketed platforms for extended “fit for use” and strengthen the platforms as required to meet industry safety requirements. ONGC used SACS for design-level analysis to carry out detailed structural analyses and SACS Collapse for ultimate strength analysis. This technology became part of ONGC’s methodology for platform life extension/requalification, which added 10-15 years to the average life of each structure.

The analysis included dent modeling, member/joint component strengthening, additional pile modeling, and soil convergence, as well as extensive load modeling to recommend equipment removal if necessary. SACS and SACS Collapse, with the efficient multi-run option, allowed multiple analyses with parametric variations to be carried out simultaneously and enabled ONGC to optimize the strengthening/mitigation measures, saving at least 12 resource-hours per platform. 

Dinesh Kumar-GGM, head structures, IEOT-ONGC, India, said, “The wide range of applications offered under the umbrella of Bentley technology has resulted in ONGC being able to manage our offshore assets much more efficiently.”

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Owner-operator Banedanmark Aims to Deliver Denmark’s First High-speed Line On-time and On-budget Using State-of-the-art Technology

On May 18, 2010, the Danish Parliament passed an act approving the construction of a new dual track, electrified railway running from Copenhagen to Ringsted via Køge, Denmark. Capable of handling passenger train speeds of up to 250 kilometers per hour, the new line will be Denmark’s first high speed railway, and its largest rail project for many years. Responsibility for establishing the 60-kilometer line, which will include four tunnels, 88 bridges, and require the expropriation of around 290 hectares of land, fell to Banedanmark, Denmark’s national rail owner-operator. Its stated aim was to construct the line on time and within budget, setting a best-in-class example for all European rail projects, in a competitive market, using state-of-the-art technology. Construction of the new line commenced back in 2012 with completion scheduled for late 2018.

The Banedanmark team used an extensive list of Bentley software on the project including:

• ProjectWise, which helped ensure data could be shared between all parties involved across 20 different contracts on the project. The connected data environment provided by ProjectWise was split into pre-tender, post-tender, and as-built information, ensuring that only the right users had access to information relevant to their organization, contract, and role. This well-coordinated process resulted in contract costs that were 9.3 percent lower than estimated, and an overall budget saving for Banedanmark of 10 to 15 percent.
• MicroStation, chosen to ensure that all project information could be visualized within a comprehensive modeling environment. The flexibility offered by the DGN format and tools within MicroStation made it possible for the team to combine data generated using Bentley applications and third-party software for tasks including consistency and clash control, creation of multi-discipline sections or hypermodels, quantity takeoffs, quality checks, and high resolution visualizations and animations.
• Bentley Rail Track, used to create 3D models of the minimum infrastructure gauge. Built-in Danish design standards and validation enabled Banedanmark to create models and animations approximately 10 times faster than using other techniques.
• PowerCivil for Sweden, which enable the team to easily extract earthworks volumes. The 3D models were then used by the contractors for machine control, increasing the accuracy and speed of works. Finally, mapping functionality within PowerCivil for Sweden made it possible to exchange data with ArcGIS, Banedanmark’s GIS in operations and maintenance.

As a result of its achievements on the Copenhagen – Ringsted project, Banedanmark implemented a strategic project called The Digital Railway of Future. The project’s mission is to look at implementing the same methods and requirements on all construction projects in the future, and to explore the potential for using models and intelligent data generated during design and construction within asset management, implementing a whole lifecycle approach to BIM.

Gita Mohshizadeh, CAD manager, Banedanmark, said, “Bentley’s commitment to providing the tools necessary to support the whole lifecycle of assets and interoperability with other design and construction software means that Banedanmark’s project information is usable, well-coordinated, and well-documented.”

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Improve Accuracy, Reduce Risk, and Accelerate Project Schedules with the Integration of Pipe and Offshore Structural Analysis

Structural engineers can now improve the accuracy of offshore plant designs, considerably reduce design iteration resource-hours, and accelerate project schedules with a higher degree of confidence in the safe operation of the final designed plant. Enabled through the round-trip exchange of pipe support loads and the visual coordination of critical piping systems in Bentley’s SACS and AutoPIPE applications, an integrated structural and pipe stress model provides a more accurate combined analysis model, and one that has been subjected to rigorous static and dynamic environmental loadings.  

On subsea or topside offshore structures supporting critical oil or gas piping systems, the actual real-world stiffness of the combined systems cannot be ignored. It can easily compromise the safe operation of the plant due to unforeseen higher pipe component stresses or extremely hazardous piping loads placed on equipment like pumps, compressors, or pressure vessels, which can lead to catastrophic failures.

Key new capabilities of the integration of AutoPIPE and SACS include:

• Transfer all deadweight, temperature, and environmental piping loads such as wave, wind, and earthquake loads to the structural design model, eliminating thousands of hours of error-prone manual data entry;
• Create fully connected piping and structural analysis models across hundreds of pipe support locations in a single operation to more accurately capture the sway and stiffness of the model;
• Combine single or multiple structures easily with single or multiple piping systems into one integrated 3D analysis model;
• Improve 3D visual coordination by piping and structural engineering groups to avoid costly design mistakes;
• Perform 3D clash detection under hot or cold deflected conditions to prevent even one key piping component moving and damaging essential equipment or structures.

Complex offshore fixed and floating platforms, particularly FPSOs, have a maze of structural, piping, and equipment. These large, billion-dollar plants typically have more than 10,000 pipe supports and 1,000 pipelines supported by hundreds of independent structures. These need to be located, designed, and fitted together in very tight spaces, presenting a significant challenge to be overcome in order to avoid costly installation and operational failures. SACS and AutoPIPE provide 3D geo-coordination of piping and structural systems enabling engineers to quickly deliver more accurate and safer designs. 

Phil Christensen, VP, analytical modeling, Bentley Systems, said, “This major enhancement to integration between AutoPIPE and SACS is just one part of our ongoing investment in software to bring mechanical and structural teams closer together for the benefit of the project. This is particularly important as global work sharing becomes the norm, and we can help automate workflows between disciplines across geographical boundaries.”

About AutoPIPE
AutoPIPE is a comprehensive, advanced application for pipe stress design and analysis that helps engineers produce the highest quality and safest engineered designs. It is suitable for nuclear plant design, which means engineers can ensure the highest safety standards possible. Fully interoperable with Bentley and third-party applications, engineers can analyze design scenarios faster and more comprehensively.  

About SACS
SACS helps engineers improve design quality and predict offshore structural performance using a unified analysis environment that enables the efficient exploration of alternatives. Users can streamline processes with automated structural workflows to apply specialized analyses essential to any offshore project. This includes nonlinear structural analysis and dynamic response analysis due to environmental loads, impact effects, and severe accidental loading. Operational safety is improved by allowing engineers to analyze ship impact and dropped objects, and minimize risk through offshore-specific load generation. Engineers can efficiently visualize complex structural response via interactive graphical review of analysis and fatigue, thus avoiding rework and potential project delays.

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  Image 1 Caption: Save time, reduce errors, provide 3D collaboration transferring piping, structure and loads between AutoPIPE and SACS

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Morphosis Leverages Bentley BIM Advancements to Create Innovative, Iconic Building for Shenzhen, China

As the new icon for the Shenzhen high-tech industrial sector, the Hanking Center Tower is designed as an incubator for emerging technologies, providing space for rapidly growing, young firms with an innovative approach to circulation, social, and work spaces made possible by the tower’s unique offset core configuration. With high-end commercial office spaces anchored by a retail and dining hub in the podium, the tower serves Shenzhen’s growing body of global professionals and its slender design will redefine the Shenzhen skyline.

The form of the tower is primarily defined by its pioneering steel structural system, which offsets the primary movement and service cores to the exterior of the floorplate. Shifting the cores open the main body of the tower, significantly minimizing the building’s structural footprint while maximizing open space.

Based in the United States, Morphosis was hired as the design architect for this 350-meter-tall tower, and to provide the detailing and specifications for all the exterior envelope and public spaces throughout the building. Working closely with a U.S.-based engineering firm and a local Chinese-based design institute responsible for all contracting activities, Morphosis maintained a complete and up-to-date building information model (BIM) of the entire project. BIM is a shared knowledge resource for information about a facility, forming a reliable basis for decisions during its lifecycle. The building information model efficiently coordinates any required changes in the building geometry, or system details. Further, the comprehensive BIM strategy is being used to review and coordinate construction RFIs and shop drawing submittals from the general contractor and its sub-contractors.

This project used Bentley’s design modeling applications, including AECOsim Building Designer and MicroStation, to translate geometric and BIM data for use by other applications and allowed the team to focus on providing a highly detailed and well-developed building information model. This integrated process ensured that all key stakeholders were focused on developing the project in 3D instead of the traditional 2D documentation. Using Bentley Navigator and Bentley’s mobile apps, detailed 3D models are able to be shared among key stakeholders, enabling the team’s collective investment in a comprehensive building information model and allowing for a seamless workflow among the architect, project consultants, and subcontractors.

Cory Brugger, director of design technology, Morphosis, said, “The design and development of innovative buildings is dependent upon the quality of information and speed at which the project team can receive feedback from an iterative design process. We rely on the development of an integrated project BIM as a central part of this process. The reliability of Bentley’s products provided our design team with the tools necessary to successfully deliver the Hanking Center Tower. The success of this highly innovative, iconic skyscraper is supported by Bentley’s modeling platforms, which provided an environment for the development and communication of accurate and highly interoperable information for the multi-national team involved in the project.”

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  Image 2 Caption: Leveraging BIM advancements from Bentley, Morphosis could coordinate design, engineering, and construction to deliver this innovative, iconic building.

Ameren Builds $1.4 Billion Environmentally Sourced Transmission Line Project Using ProjectWise

Ameren Transmission is in the design and development phase of a project that will provide clean, renewable energy via transmission lines across the state of Illinois, linking Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana to wind power fields from the Midwest and the east coast of the United States. Construction remains on schedule for completion in 2019, with a total line length of approximately 350 miles. This project aligns with Ameren’s goal of providing reliable, efficient, and environmentally responsible energy. This is Ameren’s largest project in the past 30 years and required significant collaboration among project stakeholders and participants across the entire project.

The civil and transmission engineers working on the project needed consistency across the construction of fifteen new substations, as well as two major towers that span the Mississippi River, the busiest river in North America. To achieve their goals on this on the USD 1.4 billion project, Ameren leveraged Bentley’s ProjectWise to speed design and construction and ensure collaboration and project performance by integrating people, data, and processes throughout the project lifecycle. They also deployed MicroStation as the engineering design application for the engineers and consultants.

Among the challenges Ameren faced on this project was regulatory compliance. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) required Ameren to file its preliminary surveys and property rights documents to be eligible for the Clean Power Plan, as set out by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. State and federal legislative requirements were also needed for planning and design approvals of the detailed design. With the help of ProjectWise, Ameren was able to achieve these in record time. Other challenges included difficult terrain and height considerations for the two towers on either side of the Mississippi River and traffic congestion in and around the river that caused logistical issues that had to be factored into the construction phase.

Using ProjectWise’s connected data environment, Ameren ensured consistency across the supply chain, which streamlined workflows, reduced risk, and improved its design and construction phases. With managed workflows, and increasing transmittals and submittals as the project developed, Ameren gained significant levels of control over its engineering workflows realizing greater efficiency on the project. In addition to MicroStation, Ameren utilized other Bentley products such as GEOPAK, STAAD, RAM, and Bentley Descartes.

Mike Moore, engineering system administrator, Ameren Corporation, said, “Bentley’s project management and engineering tools allowed Ameren to build its new transmission line faster and more effectively to bring environmentally responsible energy sources to its customers and to the U.S. as a whole.”

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A BIM Commitment Helps Los Angeles Community College District Deliver on this USD 6 Billion Project

The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) serves Los Angeles, California, USA, and its neighboring cities. It is the largest community college district in the United States and one of the largest in the world, educating more than 3 million students over the past 77 years. In the early 2000s, the state initiated several bond programs called Proposition A and AA and Measure J to expand the capacity and efficiency of the district while targeting a zero-energy usage. The propositions called for designing and constructing 50 new buildings and remodeling many other buildings. Proposition A and AA were traditional design-bid-build projects, while Measure J introduced a design-build with the requirement to take a BIM approach to designing and constructing the buildings.

Some of the unique challenges of the Measure J project included a large number of participants needing access to the same information across the project lifecycle. LACCD used more than 200 public and private firms for the construction and project management alone. To ensure collaboration, LACCD needed all its data to be managed in a common environment, adhering to standards and specifications that could ensure a successful project. For this USD 6 billion project, LACCD is leveraging Bentley’s ProjectWise to ensure collaboration and project performance by integrating people, data, standards, and processes throughout the project lifecycle. This strategy meant that all stakeholders, including architects, engineers, designers, construction managers, and consultants would have access to a single repository of information.

To maintain consistency, LACCD published Measure J BIM standards for models, drawings, specifications, photographs, and all other project information in 2011, and used ProjectWise as the connected data environment. i-models enabled the information flow of the BIM models and standards, ensuring data was exchanged without losing integrity or accuracy. Additionally, LACCD used Bentley Navigator for BIM review and issue resolution, which provided a 3D environment where project participants could better understand, review, and share feedback on a variety of ongoing designs. This strategy reduced time and costs and equated to a 12 percent savings in labor and USD 12 million in cost savings.

The BIM methodology allowed LACCD to incorporate solar energy and use low-cost electricity during off-peak hours, and helped reduce energy and ensure all buildings achieved at least a LEED Silver certification. LACCD could also confidently manage its documents and data as it adopted ongoing asset management strategies.

James Conway-Juarbe, maintenance and operations standards coordinator, LACCD, said, “Bentley’s ProjectWise provided us with the capability to coordinate over 3 million documents totaling 5 terabytes of data to give 500 project participants the latest controlled information on which to base confident action. The repository provides the base of documents for ongoing asset management.”

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Bentley Substation Accelerates Project Delivery by Increasing the Speed and Flexibility of Design Workflows

Bentley Substation now allows users to further accelerate the completion of their projects through increased engineering productivity and collaboration. Bentley Substation, an integrated software application for intelligent electrical and physical substation design, empowers project teams to design substations substantially faster.

With these new capabilities, users can:

• Address a wider range of lightning protection requirements with support for IEC lightning protection levels, custom analysis algorithms, and overhead cables;
• Accelerate preliminary layouts by inserting 3D components using symbols to identify devices rather than specifying manufacturers’ parts;
• Design grounding grids faster with automatic grounding rod placement as well as enhanced 3D visualization, reporting, and integration with third-party analysis tools;
• Slash latency times when using local or remote databases through fewer and faster queries;
• Increase collaboration by importing models from ProStructures to use load points to define valid equipment connections.

Barry Grib, project manager with Aurecon, said, “Working smarter rather than harder and longer is the key to staying at the top of an increasingly sophisticated and competitive engineering design market. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the use of 3D design technology for electrical substations.” Using Bentley Substation, ProjectWise WorkSite, and Navigator Mobile, Aurecon reduced substation design time by 50 percent compared to traditional 2D design on its Sidwadwa 66/11kV substation in South Africa. Grib added, “Bentley has proven to be the one software partner that can help us to realize our dreams in a visual environment.”

Santanu Das, senior vice president, design modeling, Bentley Systems, said, “Bentley Substation continues to advance the industry’s ability to design greenfield and brownfield electric substation projects faster, more cost effectively, and with higher quality. The scope and breadth of enhancements in the latest release of Bentley Substation demonstrates our unceasing commitment to enabling ever-higher levels of productivity and collaboration for our users.”

About Bentley Substation
Bentley Substation is an integrated software application for intelligent electrical and physical substation design that empowers project teams to design substations faster while reducing errors and minimizing rework. Bentley Substation can be complemented with other Bentley design and simulation applications as well as collaboration, and asset performance services to deliver a comprehensive lifecycle solution that accelerates delivery, increases reliability, and reduces operating costs of electric substations.

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Bring Infrastructure Designs to Life—Bentley LumenRT Enlivens Models with Digital Nature in Real-time Visualizations

Bentley Systems announces the availability of Bentley LumenRT CONNECT Edition, to speed and simplify the creation of enlivened environmental context for infrastructure projects of any size. Bentley LumenRT differs from traditional offline rendering software and delivers an always-rendered immersive experience more typical of gaming environments. Built for infrastructure projects, Bentley LumenRT allows project teams to clearly communicate design and construction intent with very real and enlivened environmental context. 

The rendering engine in Bentley LumenRT CONNECT Edition now provides improved smoothness when displaying scenes of any size, making it ideal for road, rail, utilities, and other large-scale projects. In addition, there are significant performance improvements when working with large models that include many instances of the same object, like railroad ties or guard rails.

Key new capabilities include:

• New traffic authoring tools that enable the rapid creation of multi-lane traffic animations with adjustable traffic densities and additional vehicle types, including articulated trains and trucks;
• Animation staging that allows individual objects to have animation paths with adjustable start and stop times, enabling specific sequences to be visualized, which is particularly useful for simulating construction sequencing;
• New tools for content creation including a content eraser brush, improved material editor, and the ability to attach sounds to individual objects;
• An updated user experience with new layer and object hierarchy tools;
• Enhanced integration with MicroStation.

Users will benefit from Bentley’s continued commitment to interoperability with newly added API integration with:

• Revit 2016 and 2017
• ArchiCAD 20
• Esri CityEngine 2016
• SketchUp 2017
• UTF8 languages
  

Neil Stewart, contract manager of the CH2M Fairhurst Joint Venture, said, “From the experience of our A9 Dualling project team, we have no doubt that using Bentley LumenRT and ContextCapture 3D visualization models has been a tremendous step forward in communications and stakeholder engagement. We believe these models will become the norm for major projects in the future.”

Santanu Das, SVP, design modeling with Bentley, said, “Bentley LumenRT’s real-time visualization environment, scalability, and ease of use puts the ability to clearly and compellingly communicate complex design and construction ideas within reach of virtually any AEC professional. This update builds upon these strengths with even greater performance and productivity enhancements so design teams can get visualizations done faster, and more projects can benefit from Hollywood-caliber visualizations.”

About Bentley LumenRT
Bentley LumenRT is for any infrastructure professional needing to visualize enlivened designs within a realistic environment in order to more quickly and clearly communicate winning design ideas to project stakeholders. With Bentley LumenRT you no longer have to be a computer-graphics expert in order to integrate lifelike digital nature into your simulated infrastructure designs, and create high-impact visuals for stakeholders. This revolutionary real-time visualization medium is easy for any professional in the AECO industry to use and powerful enough to produce stunningly beautiful and easily understandable visualizations nearly instantly.

About the CONNECT Edition
Introduced in 2015, and with general access to Bentley’s full portfolio of applications becoming available in 2016 and 2017, the CONNECT Edition represents Bentley’s next generation of infrastructure engineering software. CONNECT Edition provides a comprehensive modeling environment, a connected data environment, and a connected performance environment, leveraging the accessibility and computing power of the Microsoft Azure cloud, and supporting a hybrid environment that includes on-premise servers, desktop applications, and mobile apps. The CONNECT Edition extends the reach of information mobility for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Learn more at: CONNECT Edition.

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City of Helsinki Advances 3D City Initiative with Bentley’s Reality Modeling

The City of Helsinki is mid-way through an initiative to capture the city and create a new 3D city model that is scheduled to be completed in 2017. Helsinki has a long tradition of 3D city modeling, dating back to the 1980s. Helsinki wanted to update its current 3D city model with new, innovative applications that could provide entire city modeling capabilities in order to improve its internal services, promote smart city development, and share data through an open format for citizens and other agencies. Helsinki also wanted to create a pilot portfolio to showcase the power of reality modeling in coordination with local universities to generate interest in academic organizations.

This EUR 1 million project used Bentley applications to encourage commercial research and development and public engagement. For example, the city used Bentley Map to create accurate base maps and geo-coordinate utility networks. It also used Pointools to pre-process laser scanning data, Bentley Descartes to integrate oblique, raster files, and orthophotographic images into its infrastructure workflows, and Bentley Navigator for clash detection and design reviews. Reality modeling applications the city used included ContextCapture for the entire city mesh model and Bentley LumenRT to enliven designs. Lastly, the city used ProjectWise for collaboration and managing all the data that would be uploaded to a Web portal for distribution and general access.

The unique nature of this project ensured Helsinki would share data internally and externally. External agencies requesting the 3D city model included 3D Plus and 3D GPC – a flagship, low-carbon program that looks at the benefits of 3D modeling as opposed to other methods. Helsinki is also sharing this data with the Technical University of Munich as part of its Solar Energy Potential program.

By utilizing Bentley’s reality modeling applications, the City of Helsinki has opened up its data to a host of internal and external stakeholders. This has ensured Helsinki is at the forefront of smart city initiatives, including collaboration with the Open Geospatial Consortium on smart-city programs across Europe.  

Jarmo Suomisto, architect, project manager, Helsinki 3D+, said, “The advanced capabilities inherent in Bentley applications facilitated our ability to promote smart city development and improve our internal services. Using this technology allowed us to create innovative city models and make well-grounded decisions.”

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Black & Veatch Transforms Project Delivery for the Energy Industry

In a multi-year plan jointly developed with Bentley, Black & Veatch’s Power and Oil and Gas businesses migrated from an in-house, proprietary plant design system to Bentley technology and transformed the company’s processes for engineering, procurement, and construction of power generation and oil and gas projects. Black & Veatch evaluated and modified current processes and procedures across all engineering disciplines and deliverables, trained professionals, and delivered the new methodology on a global scale across 10 design centers and 11 support offices in North America and Asia.

One early project success that resulted from this initiative was the Sewaren 7 power plant, now under construction in Woodbridge, New Jersey. The plant will provide 540 megawatts of power to the U.S. states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland using a high-efficiency, H-class combustion turbine. Black & Veatch is designing and constructing this USD 600 million power plant for the Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG).

According to Shawn Foster, Black & Veatch commercial technology operations manager, Black & Veatch is using Bentley Navigator for cross-discipline reviews and interference management. The project team is also using AECOsim Building Designer and OpenPlant Modeler to exchange analysis data with various analysis tools including AutoPIPE. 2D data centric applications, such as OpenPlant P&ID and Bentley Instrumentation & Wiring, are being used for system design, intelligent reporting, and equipment design. This improvement allowed project professionals to access accurate, up-to-date information without the need to continuously check with other disciplines for information or to reenter information already entered in another application. It also enabled the team to create multi-discipline 3D review models for the client and collaborate around design alternatives.

Black & Veatch uses ProjectWise as the single source of truth across all projects, connecting all participants to U.S.-based or Asia-based data sources, which are established based on business lines. For the Sewaren 7 project, a single project master model (PMM) and multiple commodity master models (CMM) were created. Sharing the PMM and CMMs among disciplines allowed designers to resolve clashes collaboratively with all portions of the model. Black & Veatch also used i-models as the currency for interdisciplinary sharing and communication. Storing the i-models in ProjectWise ensured that project team members always had access to the most accurate data wherever they were in the world.

ProjectWise SDK was also used to create a hybrid environment with key internally developed databases and to share accurate equipment design information in real time among disciplines.

The Black & Veatch Power Oil & Gas businesses are now standardized on Bentley technology as its default suite of applications. The organization can more readily flow data among project phases, from estimating and conceptual design through detailed design and to construction and handover. Using Bentley’s design and collaboration technology, lean processes, and a connected data environment supports Black & Veatch’s continuous improvement efforts to eliminate waste and improve efficiency in project execution globally across all projects.

David Curry, engineering manager, Sewaren 7 Project, Black & Veatch, said, “The use of Bentley design applications on the Sewaren 7 project has allowed Black & Veatch additional opportunities to collaborate with our client during the design process to evaluate design alternatives through the use of 3D model reviews, fly through video and renderings of the project master models.”

Foster added, “Bentley’s solutions provide Black & Veatch’s Power and Oil and Gas businesses with the means to work and collaborate with clients on any size project across the globe. Any project, anywhere, any time.”

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WaterGEMS, WaterCAD, and HAMMER Advance Modeling and Reporting Processes for Water Utilities

Bentley Systems announces the availability of the CONNECT Editions of WaterGEMS, WaterCAD, and HAMMER, applications used for the analysis and design of water networks. These new releases streamline specific modeling tasks and make users more productive so they can focus more on the engineering decision-making process.

Key new capabilities allow users to: 

• Create and manage customized reports that automatically combine graphs, data tables, color-coded and annotated plan views, and more into a single report;
• Access tools quickly through a modernized ribbon-based user interface with built-in search to find commands more easily;
• Create AVI movies of model animations to share with others;
• Integrate with AssetWise Operational Analytics, Bentley’s tool for real-time predictive and operational analytics, for decision support;
• Run historical simulations using actual operation of pump and valve controls based on SCADA system records;
• Model turbines for energy and revenue generation;
• Include service laterals in hydraulic analysis, facilitating automatic customer load assignment.

From water loss investigations to fire protection studies, from understanding and preventing transient issues to ensuring water quality, and from energy management to emergency response, WaterGEMS, WaterCAD, and HAMMER cover every aspect of water infrastructure management.

Gregg Herrin, P.E., director of product management, Bentley Systems, said, “The CONNECT Edition releases of WaterGEMS, WaterCAD, and HAMMER continue to empower water system planners, designers, and managers with fit-for-purpose analytical and asset-performance modeling tools. With this release, the ability to automatically generate reports that combine maps, graphs, tables, and more makes it much faster for a water professional to synthetize modeling results and present them clearly to all project stakeholders. Combined with extended modeling capabilities, utilities can more easily understand their system behavior and make better-informed decisions, while reducing project time and costs.”

About WaterGEMS and WaterCAD
Engineers at utilities, municipalities, and civil engineering firms use WaterGEMS and WaterCAD for the analysis and design of water distribution systems, from automated fire flow, water quality, criticality and flushing studies to energy cost analysis, pipe renewal optimization, and genetic algorithm optimization modules for automating pipe design, calibration, water loss detection, and pump scheduling. WaterCAD is a subset of WaterGEMS.

About HAMMER
HAMMER helps engineers determine appropriate surge control strategies and reduce transients. It uses the Method of Characteristics, the benchmark standard for hydraulic transient analyses. Engineers can run both transient and steady-state (for initial condition calculation) analyses in HAMMER, and choose to use it as a stand-alone product or use it along with WaterCAD or WaterGEMS.

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Accelerate Construction Progress and Validate System Readiness with ConstructSim Systems Completions

Construction and commissioning teams can now control project transparency and team collaboration to advance their systems completions and commissioning processes with Bentley’s ConstructSim Systems Completions. The application automates the inspections process to accelerate systems progress and validate system readiness for efficient project closeout and turnover. Web-based and mobile access enables organizations to eliminate manual data collection with automated check sheets and easily monitor, control, and automate testing and inspection workflows for real-time project status and reporting.

ConstructSim Systems Completions is now available in Early Access.

Key capabilities include:

• Streamlined and tracked commissioning progress. Users can save significant time by creating, managing, editing, and distributing system check sheets, punch list items, test packages and system certificates with the most up-to-date project information, vendor data, construction mechanical completion status, and commissioning progress.

• Managed and assigned commissioning activities in the field. Users can manage, assign, and track mechanical completion, pre-commissioning, and commissioning check sheets with digital smart forms removing manual efforts to get accurate information to and from the field.

• Mechanical completion review and commissioning status reports and dashboards. Users can monitor key performance indicators through graphical project dashboards on a project, system, sub-system, or tag level, as well as generate informative reports to plan early system walkdowns and determine where to relocate resources for early completion.  

Adam Klatzkin, senior director, software development, construction, Bentley Systems, said, “Aligning construction and commissioning teams for system-driven turnover not only improves productivity but informs stakeholders with accurate project status to predict system handover down to the task level. Until now, systems completions and commissioning processes were a painstakingly, manual process. We believe this automation will change how the industry delivers projects.”

ConstructSim Systems Completions enables users to maintain a systematic completion process from construction completion, pre-commissioning, commissioning, start-up, performance testing, through to stable operations. The alignment of construction and commissioning for system-driven turnover delivers more efficient projects and safer operations.

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  Image 1 Caption: Useful home screen navigates users through workflow-driven completions process. Image Attribution: Image courtesy of Bentley Systems                                        

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  Image 2 Caption: Project dashboards increase transparency with KPIs on project, systems, and tags. Image Attribution: Image courtesy of Bentley Systems

Guangzhou Metro Design Establishes BIM Processes on New Lines First Subway Loop

Guangzhou Metro Design & Research Institute prepared the plans for the two-story underground ChishaJiao Station and connecting subway. When completed, this CNY 774 million project will link the ChishaJiao and Shiliugang Stations via 1.5 kilometers of track. The design team’s goal was to create 3D models and 2D drawings for each project asset using a BIM process. Guangzhou Metro Design and Research Institute prepared plans for ChishaJiao Station and its connecting subway, creating 3D models and 2D drawings directly from them for each project asset using BIM processes. Upon completion, the new line and station will include transfer platforms to radiating networks providing convenient connections for the increasing number of residents in the Zhuhai District of Guangdong.

As well as being the first station on Guangzhou Metro Line 11, ChishaJiao Station is also the first in the region to be designed using Bentley applications. Guangzhou Metro Design and Research Institute selected Bentley in order to support its BIM objectives on the project, which included improving design quality, deliverables, and efficiency in the face of an extremely short project schedule and one-year preliminary design phase. To achieve this goal, they configured a standardized workspace, established a coding system for each individual asset component, and configured ProjectWise to follow a common workflow for the metro design industry in China.

Other Bentley applications, including AECOsim Building Designer and ProStructures, helped the team successfully create 3D models of ChishaJiao Station and the proposed track interval. The results from each of the disciplines were published as i-models and combined in a unified model. Using 3D models facilitated completion of the project, saving 600 resource days of design modifications, 90 days of proofreading and reviewing workloads, and CNY 1.6 million in project costs in the process. Guangzhou Metro Design and Research Institute is planning to replicate and improve upon results while working on similar subway stations and sections in the future. According to the Institute, the BIM advancements deployed will have wide-reaching benefits for the industry at large, and that the project will be an important design reference in years to come.

Wang Jian, director of structure, Guangzhou Metro Design and Research Institute, said,
“Three-dimensional collaborative design using Bentley software has helped Guangzhou Metro Design and Research Institute improve design efficiency and quality.”

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AECOM Designs the New Dholera Sustainable Smart City in India Using BIM Processes

The government of India is developing the Dholera Special Investment Region (DSIR) as part of Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor. This initiative is being undertaken to create a major greenfield industrial hub in the Gujarat region. The total area is 920-square-kilometers and will be developed over a period of 30 years. The government selected AECOM as the program manager responsible for implementing the entire trunk infrastructure including roads, rail, drainage, water supply, water treatment, sewerage, power and energy, gas and all communication lines using Bentley applications.

The government’s vision of the project is to create a strong economic base with a globally competitive environment and state-of-the-art infrastructure that will kick-start local commerce, enhance foreign investments, and create an area for sustainable future development. Project goals for the Dholera SIR aim to double the employment potential, triple industrial output, and quadruple exports from the region in the next five years, while meeting project deadlines and staying within budget.

For this USD 641 million project, AECOM has utilized multiple Bentley applications as it progresses through the planning, design, and construction phases. AECOM deployed ProjectWise as the connected data environment to manage the engineering design data for all project participants. ProjectWise ensures their information is accessible and, through defined workflows and rules, managed through the various phases to enable AECOM to meet project deadlines. ProjectWise acts as the hub for multi-discipline design deliverables, while adhering to the appropriate standards and regulations.

The use of Bentley applications will enable Dholera to meet green development standards, such as the LEED gold trademark of excellence. Using 3D digital engineering models to ensure maximum value across the lifecycle of the project is at the forefront of AECOM’s long-term vision. For example, Navigator helps the project team detect and resolve clashes and creates mobility in the workforce. Bentley Map ensures the accuracy of geospatial information prevalent in their engineering workflows, and the Bentley’s Haestad applications delivered hydraulic modeling for the distribution network. AECOM used OpenRoads for designing and managing road infrastructure, ensuring that roads, cycle paths and multi-purpose corridors were proposed efficiently.

As the project continues to expand and deliver against its milestones, Bentley continues to be a proud partner of AECOM and the program team.

Jagdish Salgaonkar, SVP major programs, Dholera, said, “Dholera Industrial City is not a project. It is nation building, and a prime example of a smart and sustainable city.”

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GHD’s Proactive Construction Management Delivers Successful Closure of Hazardous Toxic Dump

GHD has successfully managed a challenging public safety infrastructure project for the Government of Guam—The Ordot Dump Closure. Originally built in the 1940s by the United States Military, the 50-acre dump introduced toxic leachate into the Lonfit River, which feeds into Guam’s Pago Bay. The site was also the source of significant air pollution from methane gas emissions. To close the Ordot Dump, GHD managed the construction of a network of environmental safeguards including a complete cover system, a leachate collection system, a gas flare, sewer system improvements, emergency backup generators, security fencing, and roadway improvements.

For this USD 42 million project, GHD leveraged ProjectWise EADOC, Bentley’s cloud-based construction management software to coordinate the entire project team and stakeholders—including the owner located 10 time zones away, on the other side of the International Dateline. ProjectWise EADOC enabled the team to manage, mine, and utilize an enormous amount of project data including onsite weather station logs, site video monitor imagery consisting of thousands of images a day, aerial drone photography, and CM/CQA and contractor daily reports.

The Ordot Dump project was located in remote harsh tropical environment, and the contractor filed multiple claims due to bad weather totaling 202 days. GHD evaluated the claims fairly based on the meticulous and extraordinary records that were developed, managed, and archived in ProjectWise EADOC. By leveraging this project data, GHD negotiated a time extension of 107 work days, to which the owner and contractor agreed.

GHD used ProjectWise EADOC to efficiently manage the project’s 262 submittals, 76 RFIs, 36 design clarification memos, 163 documents related to the design clarifications, 711 contractor daily production reports, 553 daily construction quality control reports, and 32 correction required notices. ProjectWise EADOC’s document module managed all project drawings, specifications, construction photographs, archaeological, environmental, and UXO (unexploded ordinance) monitoring reports. GHD estimates that ProjectWise EADOC saved its submittal and RFI manager approximately 400 resource hours, and significantly increased efficiency for the entire project team.

Paul Baron, P.E., principal/pacific business group manager, GHD, Inc., said, “EADOC provided us a broad, collaborative solution for a complex project with multiple stakeholders spread across 10 time zones, and has won us over as our go-to construct management tool.”

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Engineering and Construction Firms “Going Digital” to Improve Project Delivery with ProjectWise CONNECT Edition

For architecture, engineering, and construction firms active in project delivery, as well as for owner-operators, it is increasingly important to digitally share engineering models, project information, and deliverables with the entire supply chain throughout design, construction, and completions. Firms that are going digital are significantly reducing project delivery time and are gaining better insight into project performance, ensuring collaboration among project participants, streamlining design processes, and improving data quality and governance.

ProjectWise CONNECT Edition provides a connected data environment, and enables firms going digital with managed access to project information and essential project services including deliverables management, issues resolution, BIM review, and field data management.

Mike Schellhase, senior director, software development, Bentley Systems, said, “Our users are going digital. They want to share project information with secure information mobility to connect their supply chain and give project stakeholders insight into project performance. Using our digital project delivery capabilities, our users are developing repeatable best practices, improving quality deliverables and winning more work.”

Firms active in project delivery are benefitting from ProjectWise’s digital project services through:

• Virtualizing talent through global worksharing
  Leveraging the best skillsets of in-house resources regardless of location and open access to new sources of talent from Value Engineering Centers leads to more cost-effective and better performing project execution models.

• Connected supply chain for automated deliverable management
  Users can now manage and lower the risks involved with schedule, contractual, and legal compliance with automated review workflows. Moreover, ProjectWise’s digital project services helps users ensure their transmittal information is accurate and speeds submittals and RFIs by identifying and resolving issues quickly and ensuring quality of project deliverables.

• Connected field data management for closed-loop workflows
  Field data management cloud services enable users to accelerate field collaboration with access to multiple project repositories and comprehensive document control. Users can now configure forms and report templates to ensure all tests and inspections are performed to standards and ensure consistency, speed, and coordination across all field activities such as QA/QC, daily reports, and inspections using mobile and other devices.

• Analytic driven project insights
  Deliverables-based KPIs and the ability to aggregate analytics across enterprise data sources, including cost, schedule, and document controls, allow users to make strategic decisions based on project history and trends across a project, a program, or the enterprise.

ProjectWise collaboration services for digital project delivery uniquely support digital workflows that span design to construction through completions. Providing a connected data environment as a single source of information enables organizations to securely aggregate, manage, and share digital project data.

What ProjectWise CONNECT Edition Users Are Saying About Going Digital
Dillon Consulting Limited implemented ProjectWise to enable worksharing among multiple offices and to exchange contractual deliverables with the extended supply chain. Dave Widdifield, system administrator, Dillon Consulting Limited, said, “With an expectation of several thousand transmittals, ProjectWise Deliverables Management eliminated a manual process and streamlines contract management with our supply chain.”

Brent Mauti, global director, design technology, IBI Group, said, “Bentley empowered IBI Group to devise a true hybrid LAN-Cloud project collaboration solution, where we have already saved USD 30,000 in hardware, alone. Additionally, this connected environment provided us with increased productivity without having to manually conduct file transfers across offices, netting 400 hours saved!”

Rob Braun, director, Automation Systems Integration, CH2M, said, “The simplicity and ease of use of ProjectWise digital project services, such as Project Performance Dashboards, helps us monitor status of project documentation and deliverables resulting in a streamlined delivery process and improved satisfaction of our customers.”

About ProjectWise
ProjectWise is a project collaboration and content management platform that helps organizations avoid risk and stay competitive by enabling going-digital strategies for project delivery. It provides comprehensive worksharing and content management required to increase transparency throughout the project lifecycle. With ProjectWise, organizations of all sizes have the ability to integrate data, people, and process to ensure successful project delivery. Deployed in 101 countries, ProjectWise is the system of choice for 25 of the ENR Top 25 Design Firms, 44 of the ENR Top 50 Design Firms, 81 of the ENR Top 100 Design Firms, 29 of the ENR Top 50 Design-Build Firms, 249 of the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners, and the majority of U.S. state departments of transportation.

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OpenPlant Streamlines Project Delivery by Enabling Plant, Building, and Structural Designers to Coordinate Work More Effectively

Bentley Systems announces new innovations for OpenPlant that enhance coordination across plant, building, and structural design disciplines. Engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractors and owner-operators around the world are embracing multi-discipline 3D plant design to deliver projects faster and to enable lifecycle information mobility.

OpenPlant now enables plant, building, and structural designers to reduce errors and save time through enhanced integration with ProStructures and AECOsim Building Designer. Structural components such as beams and columns can now be integrated into the 3D piping model, including their material makeup, to create a more detailed plant design. Users also have the ability to exchange steel and concrete objects between OpenPlant Modeler and ProStructures, as well as with other structural applications, with new support for Bentley’s Integrated Structural Modeling (ISM) technology.

OpenPlant Modeler gives designers the ability to quickly create common grid line definitions that are available for distribution across plant, building, and structural applications, eliminating rework. Grid lines defined in OpenPlant Modeler are available for sharing with OpenPlant Isometrics Manager to support the fast and accurate generation of isometric deliverables.

Key new capabilities include:

• Improved drawing layout with better dimensioning and label positioning;
• Automatic splitting of isometrics into multiple sheets based on different criteria;
• Support for custom components created in OpenPlant Modeler.

Greg Short, principal process engineer at Tetra Tech, said, “Using OpenPlant Isometrics Manager to auto generate the piping isometrics reduced the time it would have taken to move labels around to make the isometric clearer to read. Tetra Tech reduced its isometric generation time from three hours to one hour per isometric. With over 1,500 isometrics, this saved the client USD 250,000.”

Visvaldas Šavelskis, vice-president, energy division of SWECO Lietuva, said, “Bentley’s plant design products and integrated workflow allow us to stay at the edge of the competition, meeting the challenging schedules, while fitting within the budget.”

Santanu Das, senior vice president, design modeling, Bentley Systems, said, “Effective multi-discipline plant design coordination has never been so important with so many projects employing globally distributed teams. We are pleased that OpenPlant users around the world are addressing this need while driving down costs and increasing accuracy on their projects. OpenPlant’s ability to quickly and easily integrate building and structural design into a single plant model for the entire project advances collaboration to enable faster project delivery.”

About OpenPlant
OpenPlant provides advancements for multi-discipline engineering of plants. It is widely adopted by leading plant EPCs and owner-operators as a practical and 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.

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