Bentley Building Electrical Systems enables consulting engineers, contractors, owners, and facility managers to meet the rapidly escalating demands of electrical installations for commercial, institutional, and industrial facilities, including design and engineering, documentation, and management of electrical power, lighting, fire detection, communications, security, and other building subsystems.
Key design and document production features include:
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Automated symbol placement
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Circuiting and labeling
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Raceway design
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Cable/circuit routing and management
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Automated generation of riser diagrams, and drawing legends
Powerful reporting capabilities include schedules, bills of materials, quantity take-offs, and cost estimation.
Design analysis is easy using bi-directional interfaces to a variety of industry standard power engineering and lighting design and analysis programs.
Based on MicroStation and supporting 2D and 3D workflows, “stepwise refinement” of the design process, and BIM methodology, Bentley Building Electrical Systems provides users with a flexible and extensible solution for building electrical systems design and documentation.
Completing Bentley's mechanical/electrical/piping (M/E/P) solution, Bentley Building Electrical Systems complements Bentley Architecture, Bentley Structural, and Bentley Building Mechanical Systems to provide a comprehensive BIM solution for the building industry.
About BIM
BIM provides business-critical benefits over traditional computer-aided drafting (CAD), eliminates waste, significantly reduces errors and omissions, provides greater predictability of costs and performance, allows exploration of more design options, and ultimately results in better buildings.
Bentley Building Electrical Systems was specifically developed to support workgroups and distributed teams in a managed environment allowing engineers, architects, and contractors to build as one.