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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.

Bridges

HDR Engineering: Hoover Dam Bypass
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 >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

Sutong Bridge, the world’s longest cable-stayed bridge
Structural Analysis of the Sutong Bridge
It’s not your average bridge. Sutong Bridge in China’s Jiangsu Province can claim the world’s longest cable-stayed span – 1,088 meters – and the longest >> más
Buildings

2007 BE Award Finalist: Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade and Douglas
CADD Asset Management via a Centralized Enterprise
The goal of this project was to implement a centralized CADD asset management program using Bentley’s Enterprise License Subscription (ELS) and a training subscription as key tools. >> más

2007 BE Award Finalist: Gresham Smith and Partners
ProjectWise Enterprise Implementation
Meeting the needs of its clients often requires Gresham Smith & Partners (GS&P) personnel from several locations to work on the same projects. This brought >> más

2007 BE Award Finalist-Well Trained Org: Wood Group Engineering Ltd
Wood Group Engineering (North Sea) Limited
Wood Group is a market leader in the provision of selected engineering design, production support, and industrial gas turbine services to customers in the oil >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

2007 BE Award Finalist: KNA Consulting Engineers
Murrieta Mesa High School
Murrieta Mesa High School, a $120 million high-school project located on a 62-acre site in Murrieta, California, will have a capacity of approximately 2,300 students. >> más

2007 BE Award Finalist: Het Muziektheater
Tannhäuser Opera
Het Muziektheater in Amsterdam, which is also the site of De Nederlandse Opera and Het Nationale Ballet, brings in guest performers from around the world. >> más

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. >> más

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 >> más

2007 BE Award Finalist: NBBJ and Korda Nemeth
Glickman Tower
The Glickman Tower is a 325,000 square-foot outpatient building on the main campus of the Cleveland Clinic near downtown Cleveland, Ohio. The project consists of >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

2007 BE Award Finalist: HKR Architects
Fore Street
The Moorgate Telephone Exchange building on Fore Street in London occupies about 115,000 square feet of space on two basement and ground levels and five >> más

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 >> más

Review and Study of the Opera Theater Interior and New Works, Sydney Opera House

A partnership of Utzon Architects and Johnson Pilton Walker along with consulting engineers Arup worked closely on the review and study of the Sydney Opera House’s >> más

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 >> más

BE Award Winner: The Standard Bank of South Africa
Central Premises Information Repository
Standard Bank Group is one of the big four banks in South Africa, operating in 18 African countries and 21 countries outside of Africa. It >> más

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 >> más

2007 BE Award Winner: VECO Alaska - Bentley Enterprise Implementation and Management
Bentley Enterprise Implementation and Management
VECO was challenged to provide a globally distributed environment for engineering and project-based initiatives, which resulted in the development of a new platform to execute >> más

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 >> más

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, >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

2007 BE Award Winner: Rogers Stirk Harbour & Parners
The Leadenhall Building
The Leadenhall Building is a 48-story tower opposite Lloyd’s of London that rises 224.5 meters (802 feet) tall; its slender form creating its own distinctive >> más

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 >> más

2007 BE Award Winner: Dvorak architekti s.r.o.
Vrnata House
The Vrnata House in Prague, a simple single-story structure with walls in brick and a steel-based roof structure, is located on the outskirts of the >> más

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, >> más

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 >> más
Cadastre and Land Development

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 >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

Honduras Land Information System Uses Bentley Technology to Integrate Land Ownership Data
Honduras Land Information System uses Bentley technology to integrate land ownership data
The Honduras Land Administration Project (PATH), which is financed by the World Bank, has an important goal for the people of this region - the >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

Spatially enabled managed environment gives Honduras reliable property data
Spatially enabled managed environment gives Honduras reliable property data
The Land Administration Project of Honduras (PATH) developed an integrated and decentralized land administration system (SURE) to provide users in the project area with timely >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

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, >> más

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 >> más

Gdansk municipal GIS remains flexible for urban planning
Gdansk municipal GIS remains flexible for urban planning
One of the many challenges the city of Gdansk, Poland, faced in the late 1980’s was development of its infrastructure. In 1999, in response to >> más

2007 BE Award Finalist: LA County Dept Public Works
Los Angeles River Master Plan Digital Mapping
In 1999, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works created a new planning tool. The map was compiled in a digital environment from aerial >> más

2007 BE Award Finalist: US Army Corps of Engineers
Montgomery Lock and Dam Lift Gate
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Montgomery Dam Lift Gate in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is the second busiest inland port in the nation. The gates were >> más

Detailed 3D city models provide new perspectives on urban development
Realistic visualizations allow better decisions, public input
Detailed 3D city models are one of the mapping products that have seen wide-spread use in recent years. Such models are used for urban planning, >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

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, >> más

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 >> más

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. >> más

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 >> más

The City of Eindhoven: Implementing E-Government in the Netherlands
E-government Internet Aids in Supporting Information and Operation Products for the Citizens
The city of Eindhoven, population 200,000, is the fifth largest city in Holland. It is a thriving metropolis with a unique combination of high-tech companies >> más

2005 BE Award Nominee: Moscow Cadastre Speeds Urban Revitalization
Moscow improves city planning decisions through a shareable cadastre
The city of Moscow has faced the challenge of directing and encouraging urban growth and promoting increases in social and political services to the city’s >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

Petrobrás SA - SGO Project-- Petrobrás Sussea Assets Tracking
2007 BE Awards Winner: Petrobrás SA – SGO Project - Petrobrás Sussea Assets Tracking
SGO (Obstacles Management System) is a $20 million project in Brazil dedicated to the systematic mapping of surface and deep-sea obstacles. Before SGO was created, >> más

Fort Carson Uses MicroStation and InRoads for Base Expansion
Fort Carson Uses MicroStation and InRoads for Base Expansion
The Omaha District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is providing master planning for a $370 million Brigade Combat Team-Heavy (BCT-H) complex at >> más
Campuses

2007 BE Award Finalist: LT Ramboll Consulting Engineers
New Bangalore International Airport
Bangalore International Airport is the first greenfield airport developed in India. The project, which was conceived by the government of India in response to growing >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

2007 BE Award Winner: Sandia National Laboratories
Power Through Integration
Sandia National Laboratories, a subsidiary of Lockheed-Martin Corporation, is contracted by the Department of Energy to operate and maintain Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

Wink Incorporated Turns to Bentley AutoPLANT to Design World's Largest District Heating and Cooling System
Bentley AutoPLANT proved to be the most precise, reliable and cost-effective design tool on a fixed bid, 32,000-ton cooling plant project for the New Orleans Medical Complex that left no margin for error.
Wink, Incorporated was hired to provide overall project design and coordination for the construction of a 32,000-ton cooling plant – with thermal energy storage – >> más

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 >> más

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, >> más

Greater Toronto Airport Boosts Engineering Productivity with Bentley GIS and Oracle Spatial
Greater Toronto Airport Authority Maximizes Engineering Productivity with Bentley GIS and Oracle Spatial
Toronto’s Pearson International Airport is Canada’s busiest airport, handling 29.9 million passengers in 2005. Established in 1939, Pearson Airport currently handles more than 1,200 arrivals >> más

Sandia Used ProjectWise for Complex Infrastucture Documentation Management
ProjectWise Used Organization-wide to Manage Complex Infrastucture Documentation
Sandia National Laboratories employs nine to 12 architectural/engineering firms to develop design changes on a project basis. It maintains close to 400,000 facilities record documents. >> más

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 >> más
Civil

2007 BE Award Finalist-Well Trained Org: US Army Corps of Engineers
Montgomery Lock and Dam Lift Gate
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Montgomery Dam Lift Gate in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is the second busiest inland port in the nation. The gates were >> más

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 >> más

HDR Engineering: Hoover Dam Bypass
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 >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

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, >> más

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 >> más

2007 BE Award Finalist: Technip Germany GmbH
Oil Field Development
This oil field development project in the Middle East covers 20 infield flowlines for oil production water supply and water reinjection with a total length >> más

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 >> más

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 – >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

2007 BE Award Finalist: LT Ramboll Consulting Engineers
New Bangalore International Airport
Bangalore International Airport is the first greenfield airport developed in India. The project, which was conceived by the government of India in response to growing >> más

2007 BE Award Winner: Vela VKE Consulting Engineers
Zimbali Civil Infrastructure
Zimbali Coastal Resort will be a 700-hectare expansion of the existing coastal forest estate north of Durban, South Africa. Nestled in three and a half >> más

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 >> más

2007 BE Award Finalist: Graphic Engineering Solutions and Services
DWAF ORWRDP: De Hoop Dam Visualization
Graphic Engineering Solutions & Services was appointed by the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry of South Africa to visualize the proposed De Hoop Dam >> más

2007 BE Award Finalist: India International Infrastructure
Planning, Design and Construction of Peripheral Ring Road for Bangalore City
The $185 million Peripheral Ring Road project encompasses the southern part of Bangalore City, India, connecting seven major radial roads consisting of three national highways, >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

2007 BE Award Finalist: DHV Polska Sp zoo
Southern Bypass
The goal of this project was to prepare a feasibility study, building and final design of one of the most important roads into the suburbs >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

2007 BE Award Finalist: LA County Dept Public Works
Los Angeles River Master Plan Digital Mapping
In 1999, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works created a new planning tool. The map was compiled in a digital environment from aerial >> más

Safe Passage Through Treacherous Terrain: Highway 1A India
Safe Passage Through Treacherous Terrain
In northern India, National Highway 1A winds 98 kilometers from Banihal to Srinagar, and includes a treacherous 38-kilometer section that snakes through the Pir Panajal >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

Sutong Bridge, the world’s longest cable-stayed bridge
Structural Analysis of the Sutong Bridge
It’s not your average bridge. Sutong Bridge in China’s Jiangsu Province can claim the world’s longest cable-stayed span – 1,088 meters – and the longest >> más
Communications

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. >> más

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. >> más

Blue Ridge Communications uses advanced network modeling and design
Blue Ridge Communications uses advanced network modeling and design to better serve its customers
After evaluating potential solutions, Blue Ridge opted to implement Bentley’s communications software. These products include Bentley Fiber, Bentley Coax, and Bentley Inside Plant. According to >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

2007 BE Award Finalist: Precision Valley Communication Corp
Metrocast Upgrade
This project for Precision Valley Communications was to upgrade Metrocast of Connecticut’s existing 550 megahertz plant to 1 gigahertz for half of the towns and >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

2007 BE Award Finalist: Sierre Energie SA
Vario Fibre Optique Network
Sierre-Energie owns and manages a hybrid fiber coaxial network in the region of Sierre, Switzerland. The only way for Sierre-Energie to position itself for the >> más

Bentley User Story: MonCre Telephone Cooperative Geospatial case study

Although MonCre is a small organization, it is under pressure to change. Change is being driven by the need to introduce new services and to >> más
Electric and Gas

Wink Incorporated Turns to Bentley AutoPLANT to Design World's Largest District Heating and Cooling System
Bentley AutoPLANT proved to be the most precise, reliable and cost-effective design tool on a fixed bid, 32,000-ton cooling plant project for the New Orleans Medical Complex that left no margin for error.
Wink, Incorporated was hired to provide overall project design and coordination for the construction of a 32,000-ton cooling plant – with thermal energy storage – >> más

2007 BE Award Winner: North China Power Engineering (Beijing)
Building Up NCPE Content Management Platform With ProjectWise as the Core
North China Power Engineering (NCPE) needed a well-managed design, information exchange, and publication process that would be traceable and satisfy quality-control requirements. In addition, the >> más
Electric and Gas Utilities

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, >> más

AEM Cremona: enterprise-wide information sharing with a geospatial managed environment
AEM Cremona optimizes enterprise-wide information sharing via geospatial managed environment
The Azienda Energetica Municipale (AEM) Cremona utility company is owned by the municipality of Cremona, Italy—a pleasant city in the north of Italy, ninety kilometers >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

2007 BE Award Winner: North China Power Engineering (Beijing)
Building Up NCPE Content Management Platform With ProjectWise as the Core
North China Power Engineering (NCPE) needed a well-managed design, information exchange, and publication process that would be traceable and satisfy quality-control requirements. In addition, the >> más

Wink Incorporated Turns to Bentley AutoPLANT to Design World's Largest District Heating and Cooling System
Bentley AutoPLANT proved to be the most precise, reliable and cost-effective design tool on a fixed bid, 32,000-ton cooling plant project for the New Orleans Medical Complex that left no margin for error.
Wink, Incorporated was hired to provide overall project design and coordination for the construction of a 32,000-ton cooling plant – with thermal energy storage – >> más

Petrobras S.A. Uses Bentley Solutions to Map Undersea Obstacles
Petrobas S.A. Uses Bentley Solutions to Map Undersea Obstacles
First developed in 1996 for the Campos Basin, Petrobras S.A.'s $20 million Sistema de Gerenciamento de Obstáculos (SGO) Obstacles Management System has been systematically mapping surface and >> más

2007 BE Award Winner: Baltimore Gas and Electric
The BGE Bentley Project
The total cost of the the Baltimore Gas & Electric (BGE) project was $37 million and consisted of the conversion of over 9,500 gas maps, >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

2007 BE Award Finalist: EYH Nigde Nevsehir DogalGaz Dagitum
ENERGAZ Infrastructure Information System
The Energaz ERP project is based on full integration between the GIS and MIS for natural gas distribution services. Applications are developed using the Microsoft.Net >> más

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 >> más

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, >> más
Factories

2007 BE Award Finalist: Ghafari Associates and General Motors
Managing Complexity: Faciliating 3D Enabled Delivery on a Series of Automotive Projects
GHAFARI Associates served as the architect/engineer and 3D integrator on a series of six design/build projects for General Motors where 3D-enabled delivery and BIM were >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

AF designs one of Sweden’s largest industrial investments using Bentley AutoPLANT
With little time and even less manpower, AF designs one of Sweden’s largest industrial investments using Bentley AutoPLANT
AF, a leading Swedish consulting engineering firm, recently designed a $230 million coating line for Modo Paper AB, meeting a tight schedule with only seven >> más

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 >> más

2005 BE Award Winner: General Motors/Ghafari Associates, LLC
BIM for Multiple Disciplines - Delta Township Assembly Complex
Building information modeling (BIM) saves construction costs for General Motors auto plants  Integrating structural data with master model saves time, improves accuracy Traditionally, the full >> más

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 >> más

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. >> más

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 >> más

USFilter Electrocatalytic Products: Bentley Case Study
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, >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

Cultivating Project Information: Burns & Roe: Bentley Case Studies
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 >> más

The Tessenderlo Group: BE Award Winner User Story
Centralizing the Enterprise
Since 1988, Tessenderlo Group has been working with CAD systems. It started with the Calma system. Since there was no local support for this product, >> más

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 >> más
Geo

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 >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

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, >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

Honduras Land Information System Uses Bentley Technology to Integrate Land Ownership Data
Honduras Land Information System uses Bentley technology to integrate land ownership data
The Honduras Land Administration Project (PATH), which is financed by the World Bank, has an important goal for the people of this region - the >> más

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. >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

Spatially enabled managed environment gives Honduras reliable property data
Spatially enabled managed environment gives Honduras reliable property data
The Land Administration Project of Honduras (PATH) developed an integrated and decentralized land administration system (SURE) to provide users in the project area with timely >> más

Skeletonization of water distribution model allows Toronto to save more than one million dollars
Skeletonization of water distribution model allows the city to comply with two different departments' model requirements for major cost savings  
The City of Toronto operates and maintains an extensive water network that includes more than 3,500 miles of water mains, over 65,000 water valves, almost >> más

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 >> más

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 >> más

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. >> más

Hydraulic and water quality modeling helps Black & Veatch
Hydraulic and water quality modeling helps Black & Veatch boost client productivity
In March 2003, Black & Veatch started a project to streamline the hydraulic and water quality modeling processes for one of the largest wholesale water >> más

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, >> más

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 >> más

City of Tulsa: Engineering Atlas Project
The City of Tulsa deploys Oracle Spatial and MicroStation GeoGraphics, opening up mapping data so it can be accessed from any department that uses OpenGIS-enabled applications
The City of Tulsa is a forward-looking municipality with a strong track record in public works. However, city engineers spent too much time searching for >> más

Blue Ridge Communications uses advanced network modeling and design
Blue Ridge Communications uses advanced network modeling and design to better serve its customers
After evaluating potential solutions, Blue Ridge opted to implement Bentley’s communications software. These products include Bentley Fiber, Bentley Coax, and Bentley Inside Plant. According to >> más

Water distribution model of Chatham-Kent gives autonomony to engineering
Water distribution model of Chatham-Kent gives autonomy to its engineering department
The Municipality of Chatham-Kent has a population of 110,000 and is located in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Chatham-Kent occupies a geographic area of approximately 2,500 square >> más

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 >> más

Maroochy Water Services improves efficiency with MicroStation
Maroochy