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Bentley users are doing extraordinary work improving and sustaining the world’s infrastructure. These projects set benchmarks and showcase the imagination and technical mastery of the organizations that created them. Read and discover how these Bentley users accomplished success with some of the most innovative projects in the world.
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HDR Engineering: Hoover Dam Bypass. Bentley Case Study
Led by HDR Engineering, the Hoover Support Team applied MicroStation and GEOPAK Civil Engineering Suite software to complete the design of this 3.5 mile bypass and 1,900-foot bridge
The Hoover Dam Bypass helps ensure personal safety, smooth-flowing commerce and homeland security for one of the nation’s national treasures. Led by HDR Engineering, the
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2007 BE Award Finalist: RITES Ltd
Design of New Jubilee Bridge
Originally constructed in 1887, the Jubilee Bridge provides an important railway link across the river Hooghly. Although it is still operational, the bridge has severe
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2007 BE Award Winner: Arup
Marina Bayfront Pedestrian Bridge
The Marina Bayfront Pedestrian Bridge in Singapore is the first of its type in the world. At 280 meters long, the bridge features a unique double-helix
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2007 BE Award Finalist: USACE Savannah Georgia
USACE Savannah Center of Standardization
The Centers of Standardization is an initiative to consolidate the responsibilities of programming, planning, design and design review, and contracting of specific facility types used
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2007 BE Award Finalist: Arup
The Elements-Livingston
The Elements is a £90 million extension to the Almondvale Shopping Center in Livingston, Scotland, consisting of six new buildings linked by a high-quality mall
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2007 BE Award Finalist: Dewberry
United States Courthouse
Dewberry teamed with Koetter/Kim & Associates Inc. to plan and design a new $87 million federal courthouse for the General Services Administration in Rockford, Illinois.
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2007 BE Award Finalist: USACE Fort Worth
USACE Fort Worth District Basic Combat Trainee Barracks BIM
The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is standardizing the design of its military facilities and has designated eight district offices as Centers of
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2007 BE Award Finalist: Norconsult AS
Sauda Hydro Power Project
The Sauda Hydro Power Project is the largest hydro power project currently under construction in Norway. Reconstruction and enlargement of the existing power plant will
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2007 BE Award Finalist: CAD-Phil
3D Building Warehouse with HVAC, Electrical and Piping for Pharmeutical Company
CAD-Phil completed a storage and warehouse site in Belgium for a well-known pharmaceutical company. Requiring high-level security and good manufacturing procedures, these projects are quality-controlled
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2007 BE Award Finalist: PLH Arkitekter AS
New Media Center for the Aller Corporation
The new building being designed for Aller, one of Denmark's largest media companies, is situated on the Copenhagen harbor. It is comprised of 18,000 square
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2007 BE Award Winner: Fortis Bank
Kanselarij Cluster Restructuring Project
The Kanselarij Cluster Restructuring Project includes nearly 800,000 square feet of renovation, rebuilding, and refurbishment on King Street in Brussels’ Royal Quarter. Many of the
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2007 BE Award Winner: M/E Engineering
BioMedical Engineering and Optics Laboratory Building
The Biomedical Engineering and Optics building at the University of Rochester is a 95,000 square-foot teaching/research facility. The five-story structure includes laboratories, offices, and lecture
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2007 BE Award Winner: Halff Associates, Inc.
Special Award Winner for a Well-Trained Organization
Halff Associates is a multidiscipline, full-service organization that had doubled in size the past five years. It needed to quickly train new hires while keeping
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Prescription for Faster Design
MicroStation V8 and Bentley Architecture help SWECO FFNS and AstraZeneca take Nexium IV to market
Time was a critical factor in developing a design plan for a new manufacturing facility to produce AstraZeneca's promising new stomach ulcer medication Nexium IV,
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In a Tight Spot
Building Information Modeling Optimizes Building Services in Tight Spaces
FaberMaunsell put Bentley's Information Modeling (BIM) solution of architectural design applications to the test when it performed 3D prototyping on building services for its 30
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2005 BE Award Winner: Sheppard Robson
BIM for Architecture, Private Building - Ford Centre of Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence
The new Ford Centre of Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence (CEME) building is located at the Heart of the Thames Gateway, the largest area of growth
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A New Look for Russia's Hospitals
3D modeling helps NBBJ create patient-focused medical center
Like hospitals the world over, Russian health care facilities often have an institutional look that can intimidate people – heightening a patient’s anxiety, and perhaps
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Creating a "Water Cube"
Arup wins gold in Olympic swimming center design
Securing the design contract for the National Swimming Centre for the Beijing 2008 Olympics was a task worthy of gold medal distinction. But with the
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The Great Glasshouse
Wales Great Glasshouse reinvents the greenhouse for the 21st Century
The Great Glasshouse in the National Botanic Garden of Wales, now in full operation, reinvents the glasshouse for the 21st century.The design and engineering is
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2007 BE Award Winner: WSP Group plc
Manchester Hilton
The Manchester Hilton is currently the tallest post-tension concrete residential building in the United Kingdom. It is a 49-story structure with 279 rooms for the
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2007 BE Award Winner: LJB Inc
Wells Fargo Home Mortgage
The challenge of this project was to create a sophisticated Class A office space to consolidate the operations of Wells Fargo Home Mortgage in Frederick,
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Monsanto
3D modeling improves teamwork in demanding powerhouse renovation
When a Midwestern college took a look at its need for a system of four new boilers in a 100-year-old facility, it was more than
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Poland's Province Integrated Information System (DSIP)
Polish regional authority (DSIP) integrates spatial information for efficiency
Lower Silesia, one of 16 administrative units in Poland, is the seat of local government for the region, performing both legislative and information management functions for
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Danish Road Directorate: Land Acquisition GIS
LARGIS, built on MicroStation GeoGraphics, helps the Danish Road Directorate better understand the impact of specific routes when a new road is planned
When a new road is planned, the route may take it through property not owned by the government. The Danish Road Directorate’s GIS team in
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Bentley Solutions: The Corporate Standard at Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council
Bentley’s products—from creation tools to back office data management, integration to publishing solutions— aid the Borough in meeting its e-Government strategy of an integrated property data model
Having grown from three MicroStation licenses purchased in 1993, Bentley technology is now the Council’s corporate standard. MicroStation, MicroStation GeoGraphics, and Bentley GeoOutlook are being
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Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council: Waste Landfill Monitoring System
The new system can use aerial photographs as backdrop maps, and borehole details and reports are automatically generated from the database
Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council (OMBC) is the lead authority for the development of recycling, waste disposal and landfill sites in the Greater Manchester area. This
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2005 BE Award Winner: The City of Calgary
Better Base Maps Facilitate Citywide Data Sharing
Better base mapping management is helping the City of Calgary, Canada share data citywide. Workflow efficiencies have resulted from improvements in data entry, data accuracy, and data
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City of Helsinki converts to 3D mapping
City of Helsinki converts to 3D mapping
The City of Helsinki, Finland, is currently involved in a conversion and upgrade project to supplement its digital 2D basemaps with a new, accurate 3D
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AEC and GIS Interoperability in Practice
The City of Gentofte implements an interoperable solution comprised of Bentley's engineering applications and ESRI's planning and analysis applications
The City of Gentofte is the seventh largest municipality in Denmark, one of the 18 municipalities in Copenhagen. The municipality is responsible for public schools, child
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Geospatial Technology Helps Borough Assess its Past
Geospatial technology helps borough assess its past to determine its future
During the Industrial Revolution, Oldham, located in northwest England, was the center for a thriving cotton industry. This brought with it prosperity, but also left
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Toronto's future as a mapping leader becomes reality
Rebuilt 3D topographic map base saves city $7 million to date, supports city services, provides data to outside users
When the present-day City of Toronto was consolidated from seven municipalities in 1998, a number of challenges were created, most notably rebuilding the topographic map base,
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3D Landslide GIS Protects Citizens and the Environment
The system lets engineers better manage, evaluate, and present to clients and the public projects designed to prevent landslides
In the field of mountain hazard prevention, one cannot overstate the role of geographic information systems (GIS). These systems have been used to present information
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2007 BE Award Finalist: City of Alpena
GIS at Every Desktop Realized Through MLS
The engineering department of Alpena, Michigan, had a staff of five who designed with MicroStation and another 73 staff and two subcontractors who needed access
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Dutch Ministry
The goal of Dutch Ministry of Finance’s project was to create an integrated GIS-SAP solution that would provide administrative and geospatial data in one user
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2007 BE Award Finalist: ADAC eV
TourSet Production
With nearly 16 million members, Munich, Germany-based ADAC e.V. is Europe’s largest automobile club. The club produces a comprehensive travel guide called the ADAC TourSet
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Blom_Aerofilms
MicroStation at the Heart of LiDAR Surveying Solutions
Blom Aerofilms is the United Kingdom's leading provider of aerial photography and digital map solutions for civil engineering design, environmental assessment and land information management.
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2007 BE Award Finalist: Mairie de Paris
Standardized Urban Road Design Application for City of Paris
While upgrading to MicroStation V8, the design department for urban roads in the city of Paris—which includes 75 designers distributed over 10 sites—decided to make
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2007 BE Award Winner: AAMHATCH
True Orthophotography and 3D Model of the City of Melbourne
To support planning for the 2006 Commonwealth Games, AAMHatch created a true orthophoto, which provides a perfect plan view, where everything is straight up and down,
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Gemeente Amsterdam, Dienst Ruimtelijke Ordening - IJburg
2007 BE Award Winner: Gemeente Amsterdam, Dienst Ruimtelijke Ordening – IJburg
The Amsterdam IJburg Project is an integrated sustainable urban development project that will provide housing, work, community, and leisure facilities on recently reclaimed land. It
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2007 BE Award Finalist: Suzhou Unimap Software Co
Construction of China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Parks Fundamental Geographical Information System
Suzhou Industrial Park is a major joint venture project between China and Singapore. Located in east of Suzhou and encompassing 288 square kilometers, Suzhou Unimap
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Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport Flies High
I.A. Naman + Associates, Inc. used AutoPLANT to design the entire project, including documenting the building, structural beam members, and existing utilities
Located on more than 10,000 acres, George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) in Houston, Texas, is Houston's largest airport, the fourth largest multi-airport system in the United
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Space Management at Frankfurt Airport
Fraport’s goals for its computer-aided facility management system (CAFM) were to provide a tool for space administration and ease the management of all associated documents.
The Fraport AG real estate portfolio contains 35,000 rental units in 350 buildings. Fraport’s goals for its computer-aided facility management system (CAFM) were to provide
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DFW Expansion Gets Off the Ground
Airport’s biggest-ever project links firms around the globe
The world’s third-busiest airport needed to grow fast. But the massive expansion plan for Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) got off to a slow start. Consultants
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AEM Torino Plugs into a Geospatial Environment
Italian multi-utility AEM Torino creates a central database that houses its CRM, SAP, and GPS data using Bentley’s MicroStation, MicroStation GeoGraphics, Bentley Descartes, Bentley Publisher and Bentley Connector for MySAP.com
One of Italy’s largest multi-utilities is one of the first in the world to implement an integrated, seamless geospatial database to manage its CRM, SAP,
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Monsanto
3D modeling improves teamwork in demanding powerhouse renovation
When a Midwestern college took a look at its need for a system of four new boilers in a 100-year-old facility, it was more than
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Tapping New Resources
Offshore oil engineers use Bentley solutions to collaborate from offices on two continents
Just 42 miles off Scotland's Atlantic coast, the rich Clair oil field seemed tantalizing but out of reach since its discovery in 1977. The reservoir's
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Tapping the Power of 3D Design
INVAP assembles 12-form team to design and build nuclear reactor for research
In the foothills of the Andes lies the city of Bariloche, Argentina. A renowned tourist resort, Bariloche is also home to one of the world’s
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Cultivating Project Information
Collaboration is in full bloom at Burns & Roe with ProjectWise
Most growth in e-business isn’t in the retail, e-commerce sector.... No, most of the business being conducted over the Web is proprietary, often taking place
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Elisa Networks: Central Office Premises and Rack Management System
The document and premises management system handles information about 310 central offices and 9,500 racks
Elisa Networks’ business and asset information systems, such as the customer, agreement and equipment space databases had no interfaces between them, making space management difficult.
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Guadalupe Valley Telecommunications Cooperative
Guadalupe Valley Telecommunications Cooperative takes advantage of Bentley communication solutions to streamline engineering processes
Guadalupe Valley Telecommunications Cooperative (GVTC) provides telephone, broadband, security, and cable television to more than 41,000 customers located in 11 counties throughout south central Texas.
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VW Netwerk Bouw: CORBULO Project
The seamless support of the total engineering process generates a high level of efficiency and increased quality of VW Netwerk Bouw as a service provider
VW Netwerk Bouw is a service provider for companies with fixed fiber networks. The company needed to provide the engineers with an integrated solution to
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2005 BE Award Winner: KeySpan
Communications - Fiber Network
When KeySpan broadened the scope of its fiber network through the creation of its unregulated subsidiary, KeySpan Communications, it was apparent that existing network files
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hellas_online
Attica Telecom is a go-ahead Greek telecommunications service provider founded by a group of large Greek construction companies in 2001. In April 2007, Attica Telecom
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Nacap_Telecom
Nacap Telecom, a Dutch company specializing in the rollout of broadband services, designed and installed a broadband network in the zuid-Limburg region of the Netherlands in about a
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COWI
COWI A/S uses Bentley communication solutions to design, document, and implement an FTTP network for Viborg, Denmark
Energi Viborg, the primary utility company in the county of Viborg, Denmark, planned to expand their public service offerings by adding a fiber-based broadband network
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2007 BE Award Winner: Nacap Telecom BV
Fiber Optics Zuid-Limburg—Isilinx
This project includes a large area in the most southern part of the Netherlands called Zuid-Limburg. The backbone main fiber-optic ring connects the largest cities
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AEM Torino Plugs into a Geospatial Environment
Italian multi-utility AEM Torino creates a central database that houses its CRM, SAP, and GPS data using Bentley’s MicroStation, MicroStation GeoGraphics, Bentley Descartes, Bentley Publisher and Bentley Connector for MySAP.com
One of Italy’s largest multi-utilities is one of the first in the world to implement an integrated, seamless geospatial database to manage its CRM, SAP,
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SME: Electric Utility Network Operation and Maintenance System
SME's turnkey network information system -- based on Bentley's solutions for creating, managing, and publishing engineering content -- allowed the utility to reduce its workforce by seven percent
As part of the Czech Republic’s application to enter the European Union, the utility market is being privatized and deregulated. In order to be competitive,
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Powering Australia's Growth
A managed environment built on Bentley solutions gives an energy company fast, wide access to vital data
ENERGEX, a leading Australian energy company, has upgraded its existing drafting and document management system to an integrated engineering design and content management system.
ENERGEX’s Transmission
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Total
Total E&P Nederland B.V. gains faster access to geologic data, improving oil exploration and production decisions
When geoscientists need to make a decision, time is often at a premium. An oil company may be facing a tight deadlineon a competitive bid
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Baltimore Gas and Electric Case Study
Baltimore Gas & Electric Company (BGE) invested $37 million and five years in developing an enterprise-class geospatial data repository and associated applications. The system supports
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2007 BE Award Finalist: swb Netze GmbH and Co KG
sisNET and Digital Works with MicroStation Descartes in ProjectWise
The public utility company of Bremen, Germany, supplies electricity, water, gas, and district heating to more than 540,000 customers. In the 1990s, swb had incomplete
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IRIDE Energia
Bentley Geospatial Server Enables Cutting Edge Multi-Utility GIS for IRIDE Energia
IRIDE Energia, part of the IRIDE Group, is one of the main Italian multi-utilities comprising companies that manage water, electricity, public lighting, gas and district
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2007 BE Award Finalist: DaimlerChrysler AG
Digital Factory – Integration of Process Data
At DaimlerChrysler’s German digital factory—the generic term for its integrated network of digital models and methods —two different systems were being used for factory planning
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2007 BE Award Finalist: General Motors and Ghafari Associates
3D Enabled Design/Construction for the General Motors Toledo Transmission Plant Expansion
General Motors is expanding its Toledo, Ohio, transmission plant to produce a new Hydra-Matic 6L80 six-speed, rear-wheel-drive automatic transmission for full-size SUVs and trucks. The
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AMEC Reduces Design Time: AMEC: Bentley Case Studies
Design time reduced 25 percent in polymer plant expansion with Bentley AutoPLANT
Faced with expanding the processing capacity of an existing polymer processing plant, the international engineering and services company AMEC sought a 3D plant modeling application
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Sweet Rewards
3D modeling enables speedy design and installation of chocolate tempering unit
By modeling a chocolate tempering unit in 3D with Bentley AutoPLANT, Egemin Automation reduced piping design time by 60 percent and ensured a clash-free installation
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3D Modeling Helps Ionics Stay Above Water
Ionics designs desalination plants more quickly and with greater accuracy—slashing design time by two-thirds—using Bentley® AutoPLANT
Ionics, Incorporated, is a global separations technology company specializing in membranes used for purification, concentration, treatment and analysis of water, including wastewater and ultrapure water.
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The Cold, Hard Truth
SALOF Refrigeration lowers costs and strengthens job bids with Bentley AutoPLANT software
For more than two decades, New Braunfels, Texas-based SALOF Refrigeration has been meeting the needs of its global customer base by delivering the most innovative
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Monsanto
3D modeling improves teamwork in demanding powerhouse renovation
When a Midwestern college took a look at its need for a system of four new boilers in a 100-year-old facility, it was more than
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2007 BE Award Finalist: CH2M Hill
HOLCIM Cement Plant
One of the world’s largest cement plants is being designed by CH2M HILL. The plant is situated on 3,900 acres along the Mississippi River in
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2007 BE Award Finalist: BASF Antwerpen NV
Integrated Piping Engineering Tools in a Multi-Project Engineering Environment at BASF Antwerp
BASF Antwerp is the second largest BASF site, with 53 chemical units and a total of 3,600 employees. BASF requested that Bentley automate and speed
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Unilever Cleans Up
Unilever cleans up the management of drawings across an engineering enterprise
It was the fall of 1996, 15 years after Lever converted from manual drafting to computer-aided design technology. By this time, the organization had produced
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2005 BE Award Winner: PROjEN. Bentley Case Study
3D helps pharmaceutical company with critical equipment replacement
Projen’s GlaxoSmithKline condenser project involved the replacement of forty 12-year-old glass condensers tightly housed in nine chemistry pilot plant (CPP) modules at the R&D center
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2005 BE Award Winner: HJ Banks & Company Ltd
Planned Development - Shotton Surface Mining Project
The Lady of the Lake A different slant will be given to ’Nature Walks’ following the completion of the Shotton surface mining project
A surface mining
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2007 BE Award Finalist: CH2M Hill
HOLCIM Cement Plant
One of the world’s largest cement plants is being designed by CH2M HILL. The plant is situated on 3,900 acres along the Mississippi River in
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2007 BE Award Finalist: Hatch Associates Pty Ltd
HATCH workSMART Data-Centric Environment
Proven on projects across Australia, South Africa, Chile, and Canada, the Hatch WorkSMART Data-Centric Environment has become a corporate standard for data-centric project execution. It
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A Forward-looking Philosophy
VECO Alberta Ltd.’s use of PlantSpace on Shell’s proposed Athabasca Oil Sands Project is resulting in a much more efficient design and engineering cycle
VECO, in a collaborative effort involving several other engineering firms, is working on the Athabasca Oil Sands Project, led by Shell Canada Limited. VECO is
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Knowing the Drill
Kvaerner wins major contract on the strength of its IT/IS strategy for engineering, based on PlantSpace and MicroStation
Osberg is likely the most profitable oil and gas field in the world. The Osberg A and B plaforms were originally installed as oil-producing platforms,
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2007 BE Award Winner: Bechtel
Jamnagar Export Refinery Project
Bechtel is collaborating on the Jamnagar Export Refinery Project (JERP) in India, which has a plot plan bigger than that of London and a target
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Total
Total E&P Nederland B.V. gains faster access to geologic data, improving oil exploration and production decisions
When geoscientists need to make a decision, time is often at a premium. An oil company may be facing a tight deadlineon a competitive bid
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The Cold, Hard Truth
SALOF Refrigeration lowers costs and strengthens job bids with Bentley AutoPLANT software
For more than two decades, New Braunfels, Texas-based SALOF Refrigeration has been meeting the needs of its global customer base by delivering the most innovative
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2007 BE Award Winner: VECO Alaska
Conoco Phillips Drill Site Technologies
The VECO Alaska design team simultaneously engineered drill sites CD3 and CD4 for Conoco Phillips Alaska Inc. Tasked with reusing project data to generate several
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2007 BE Award Finalist: Aker Kværner
Integrating ProjectWise in Engineering Data Workflow
At Aker Kvaerner, the engineering environment in maintenance, modification, and operations traditionally used separate systems to handle the many different types of project data. At
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Monsanto
3D modeling improves teamwork in demanding powerhouse renovation
When a Midwestern college took a look at its need for a system of four new boilers in a 100-year-old facility, it was more than
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Tapping New Resources
Offshore oil engineers use Bentley solutions to collaborate from offices on two continents
Just 42 miles off Scotland's Atlantic coast, the rich Clair oil field seemed tantalizing but out of reach since its discovery in 1977. The reservoir's
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Foster Wheeler Energy
Providing global data access with ProjectWise
Foster Wheeler Energy, a division of one of the world’s largest engineering and construction firms, implemented ProjectWise to create a project intranet for streamlined, dynamic
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2005 BE Award Winner: InterGen
Fast, broad-based access to plant data saves millions by reducing downtime
Outages are costly to a company such as Massachusetts-based InterGen, which operates power generation facilities on four continents. When a plant goes down, the company
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The Cold, Hard Truth
SALOF Refrigeration lowers costs and strengthens job bids with Bentley AutoPLANT software
For more than two decades, New Braunfels, Texas-based SALOF Refrigeration has been meeting the needs of its global customer base by delivering the most innovative
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RITES Rail User Story
Against the Odds: 3D Visualization Helps Forge a Railway Through the Remote Hills of the Himalayas
The new Kashmir Railway will add an additional 290 kilometers to the largest rail network in Asia, which already measures more than 64,000 route kilometers
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Banverket's Track Record
A managed environment built on Bentley technology helps Sweden's rail agency move fast and cut costs
To help maintain and upgrade more than 14,000 kilometres of track, Swedish rail authority Banverket applied Bentley solutions to build a managed environment for engineering
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High Speed Rail Cuts Travel Time in Half
MicroStation helps integrate design data from 15 disciplines
The Channel Tunnel Rail Link will connect London with the Channel Tunnel, speeding passengers from London to Paris in just more than two hours –
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2007 BE Award Finalist: Movares Nederland BV
Introduction of a Data Management System
With 1,200 employees, Movares is the market leader in railway engineering in the Netherlands. At one point, 350 signaling engineers, 200 construction engineers, and 650
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Urban Ecology
Scandiaconsult plans a new transportation system for Stockholm, helping the city reclaim a healthy environment from an inner-city industrial wasteland.
Bentley products are enabling the design of transportation infrastructure within an ambitious new urban redevelopment project in Stockholm, Sweden, where the focus is on the
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Mott MacDonald - East London Line Project
2007 BE Award Winner: Mott MacDonald Ltd – East London Line Project
This project will connect Highbury and Islington Station on the North London Line with a connection into the Network Rail infrastructure in South London. The
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North Carolina DOT: Interstate 26
Using MicroStation and GEOPAK, NCDOT was able to address unique construction and environmental challenges while creating a cost-effective design
It has been called one of the last great earthmoving projects in the United States—I-26 through North Carolina’s Appalachian Mountains. North Carolina Department of Transportation
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Kentucky Transportation Cabinet: I264 at Westport Road
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet central office design team applied their experience with InRoads and MicroStation to the content management capabilities of Bentley ProjectWise for change control of all project files and better project communication
When the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet inherited this interchange and expansion project, it was three years behind schedule, surrounded by rapid suburban growth and documented by
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2007 BE Award Winner: HNTB
TrueViz OnTarget
Developed in partnership with the Range and Training Land Program of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, TrueViz OnTarget maximized the efficiency of planning and designing
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2007 BE Award Winner: The Banks Group
Centralized Data Storage Using StartPoint and Riverbed WAN Optimization
The Banks Group needed real-time access to design and office documents at many locations. In the past this was achieved using remote copy procedures or
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Pave and Prosper
Halcrow uses Bentley MXURBAN to speed and optimize reconstruction design
A two-person team at Halcrow’s Gloucester office handled the design for a £250,000 upgrade to less than one kilometer of the A419/A417 route linking Cricklade
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Roadwork in Progress
A managed environment for engineering data helps accelerate Kentucky highway projects
Highway planner Tom Clouse has no doubt: "This project just wouldn't have gotten done" without the power of a managed environment for engineering data, built
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Water Works
2002 sees the opening of the historic Rochdale Canal
The Rochdale Canal was constructed between 1794 and 1804 in order to carry heavy cargo 55 kilometres from Sowerby Bridge to Manchester. In its heyday,
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A New Corner of Copenhagen
RAMBØLL uses a managed environment built on Bentley solutions to help lay the groundwork for a 30-year growth plan
Looking south of the centuries-old center of Copenhagen, city planners envisioned a modern section of town built from the ground up: more than 765 acres
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2007 BE Award Finalist: SWECO
Norra Länken
Norra Länken is a three-kilometer, four-lane highway tunnel in northern Stockholm, Sweden. It is the next link in the circular highway system already underway around
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2005 BE Award Winner: CH2M Hill
New Technology Adoption - Marquette Interchange Design Automation
The Marquette Interchange is an $800 million freeway interchange reconstruction project currently underway in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. More than 50 bridge structures in the project include
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Ruling the Road
Engineers at MWH speed up urban renewal road productivity with MXURBAN
Engineers in a New Zealand office of MWH reaped large productivity returns when they began using Bentley MXURBAN for urban renewal road projects. MWH, which
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2007 BE Award Winner: Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick (India) Pvt Ltd
Feasibility and Detailed Project Report for 4/6 Laning of Hyderabad-Vijayawada and Vijayawada-Machlipatnam
The project involved a section of NH-9, which is part of India’s National Highways Development Project’s North–South–East–West Corridor. It encompassed two stretches of road (km160/000
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Beyond Design
Earth Tech uses technology to enhance communication on IH-35
Growth in population and commerce has tested the capacity of many major thoroughfares in Texas, and Interstate Highway 35 (IH-35) through Austin is no exception.
Earth
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Making the Road Safe for Travelers
Bentley products help create barriers against lethal rockfalls
Scenic, winding Chapman’s Peak Drive was a popular route for South African tourists and commuters – until boulders began dropping from the mountainsides above.Wildfires stripped
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Circles and Strings
Bentley MX helps rescue the ruins of Stonehenge
The ancient monument of Stonehenge is one of the world’s most important archaeological areas. A management plan has been developed to safeguard this World Heritage Site
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Keeping Venice Afloat
To help keep Venice afloat and restore the fragile ecosystem of the surrounding Venice Lagoon, CREA is using complex mathematical models that work within MicroStation
Venice is in danger of slowly disappearing under the waves of the lagoon upon which it was built twelve hundred years ago. Complex mathematical models
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Copper Coast Water Supply System upgrade capitalizes on WaterGEMS
Water distribution modeling software provides South Australian Water Corporation with efficiency and time savings for model building, design and analysis
The Copper Coast water supply system serves a permanent population of approximately 10,000 people in three townships; Kadina, Moonta and Wallaroo on the Yorke Peninsula
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Linking City of Bethlehem's SCADA System to WaterCAD
The Engineers at the City of Bethlehem Public Works Department use SCADA data to provide for better operator training, real-time system control, energy cost reductions, emergency response planning, and forensic analyses
Water Distribution Modeling and SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) technology has evolved immensely in recent decades. A few years ago, integrating SCADA with a
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3D Model of Wastewater System Reduces Design Time
Process Plus reduces errors and field rework using AutoPLANT Explorer/ID on a $6.5 million wastewater treatment facility
Before the advent of 3D software, errors found in drawings would delay construction time by requiring rework in the field.With today’s technology, the digital models
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Tracy Wastewater Treatment Plant
The Tracy Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP)
The Tracy Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) Phase 1B expansion project involved a complex engineering design to upgrade and expand existing facilities constructed in the 1950s.
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2007 BE Award Finalist: Federal Aviation Administration
Nation-wide FAA Standard Engineering Drawing Management System with ProjectWise
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) needed to deploy a single, enterprise drawing management system that could roll forward years of legacy data and mitigate the
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2007 BE Award Winner: ISKI Genel Mudurlugu
Infrastructure Integration of Mega City—Istanbul
In water and sewerage system management, most activity is related to geographical references. The ISKABIS project’s goal was to provide an effective means for users
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3D Modeling Helps Ionics Stay Above Water
Ionics designs desalination plants more quickly and with greater accuracy—slashing design time by two-thirds—using Bentley® AutoPLANT
Ionics, Incorporated, is a global separations technology company specializing in membranes used for purification, concentration, treatment and analysis of water, including wastewater and ultrapure water.
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USFilter Electrocatalytic Products
USFilter Electrocatalytic Products (USFEP)
USFilter Electrocatalytic Products (USFEP), a group within USFilter, recently made the decision to integrate Bentley MicroStation and plant design solutions to improve quality, meet schedules,
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2007 BE Award Finalist: Camp Dresser and McKee
St. Augustine LPRO Water Treatment Plant
The increasing maintenance of an aging lime-softening water treatment plant represented a financial and reliability risk for the City of St. Augustine, Florida. Consequently, the
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Atkins Water - Bolton Wastewater Treatment Works
2007 BE Award Winner: Atkins Water – Bolton Wastewater Treatment Works
The Bolton Wastewater Treatment Works project is a $78.5 million improvement scheme that includes significant refurbishment works on the existing plant. Construction work consists of
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