Overview

On the second day of Be Inspired, attendees will have the opportunity to participate in a series of interactive roundtable discussions about key business and IT issues for the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure assets.

These intimate discussion groups will include leaders from design and engineering firms and owner-operators, as well as Bentley’s senior management and subject matter experts, with the goal of fostering an in-depth understanding of relevant issues facing the infrastructure professions and of strategies for employing IT to create new value and new business opportunities.

Topics

ProjectWise for Project Team Collaboration
Commissioning and Handover
New Dimension in Mine Planning
Leveraging SCADA and Asset Information to Support Operations in Water Utilities
Optimizing Building Designs to Meet the Owner’s Performance Objectives
Integrated Information Management and Configuration Control for Rail Projects
Information Management for Operations
3D Models for Intelligent Cities
Engineering Intelligent Infrastructure for Smarter Grids
Integrated Projects for Transportation

Descriptions

Wednesday, October 20, 2:45 - 6:00 p.m.

2:45 - 4:15 p.m. ProjectWise for Project Team Collaboration
Bentley Sponsor: Harry Vitelli, VP MicroStation and ProjectWise Collaboration Products
Bentley Host: Buddy Cleveland, SVP of Platform Technology & Applied Research

This session is intended to launch a ProjectWise Project Review advisory group. Be Inspired attendees who have a particular interest in project review technologies and would like to participate in an advisory team are encouraged to attend this session. The ProjectWise product team will present and gather feedback about Bentley’s current and future product development plans, which include ProjectWise, i-models, Navigator, and ProjectWise Dynamic Plot.

Topics to be discussed and demonstrated:

• Redline Process Management: Implementing a common, multidiscipline redlining process incorporating paper, PDF and intelligent models.
• Clash Detection to Clash Resolution: Migrating from clash detection to clash resolution; resolving clashes in a multi-discipline model analysis workflow.
• Internet Technologies: Leveraging web portals for web-based model review; enabling distributed teams to collaborate in the design review process.
• Untethered Mobile Applications: Taking advantage of new devices, such as digital pens, new form factors for mobile computing, and new user interface paradigms to enable mobile users to effectively interact with rich and complex technical information.
• Project Analytics: Deriving and reporting key project performance indicators from multidiscipline, multi-media design content.

2:45 - 4:15 p.m. Commissioning and Handover
Bentley Sponsor: John Sanins, Solution Executive
Host: Jim Porter, the former Head of Engineering for Dupont and globally recognized leader in construction and operations safety

This roundtable will discuss best practices during engineering, commissioning and handover to design and deliver safer plant, while meeting project deadlines and capital cost constraints. Focused on decision makers in both EPCs and owners, critical requirements will be explored, including current workflows and supporting software tools to provide focus and priorities to Bentley development in this area.

2:45 - 4:15 p.m. New Dimension in Mine Planning
Bentley Sponsor: Pieter Neethling, Solution Executive
Host: Alex Bals, Vice President for Business Planning and Mineral Resource Management at AngloGold Ashanti Continental Africa and past President of the Institute of Mine Surveyors of South Africa Co-Host: Dr. Ing. Erik Ludvigsen, Department of Geology and Bergteknikk, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

This roundtable will discuss the request from leading Owners for Bentley to develop a Mine Planning solution. To date, significant investments have been made by owner and service providers who already use Bentley technology to design, build, and operate mine infrastructure.

2:45 - 4:15 p.m. Leveraging SCADA and Asset Information to Support Operations in Water Utilities
Bentley Sponsor: Jack Cook, Solution Executive
Host: Kevin Woodward, Monitoring Control Automation Manager, Water Asset Management, United Utilities, UK

Given the water and wastewater industry’s substantial investment in creating and maintaining geospatial network information and analysis models, utilities are seeking to extend the value and usefulness of these data and tools beyond planning and design. Roundtable participants will explore current trends and technology developments toward integrating GIS-based network modeling into the operations lifecycle. Anticipated topics for development and discussion include:

1. Integrating with real-time systems – explore how to access the automated meter infrastructure comprising supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system, automated meter reading (AMR), and acoustical monitoring systems.
2. Modeling and the control room – discuss the role that Bentley’s solution can play in operational decision support emphasizing technical opportunities and organizational impediments.
3. Considering asset condition and status – examine issues and approaches that link enterprise asset management with simulation-based operational decision while accommodating planned and unplanned maintenance activities.
4. Keeping information in synch – discuss business processes, technologies, and issues around maintaining consistency between the asset registry and the living models that support operational decision support.

The goal of this roundtable is to examine these aspects together as cooperative stakeholders. In addition to identifying ways to leverage existing capabilities of the water and wastewater solution, this roundtable is expected to surface gaps, opportunities, and issues that will influence and transform Bentley’s water and wastewater solution development roadmap.

2:45 - 4:15 p.m. Optimizing Building Designs to Meet the Owner’s Performance Objectives
Bentley Sponsor: Andy Smith, Solution Executive
Host: Norbert Young, FAIA, former President of McGraw-Hill Construction

This roundtable welcomes participation from architects, engineers, designers, technologists, and practicing professionals interested in “performative” or “evidence-based” design – and the ways that new technologies and methodologies of practice can help teams achieve buildings that exceed the owner’s operational performance objectives. The building performance to be optimized may be in terms of energy efficiency, space utilization, structural capacity or configuration, material usage, acoustics, sight-lines, constructability, space utilization, and other characteristics. The ultimate objective is in optimizing for the business metrics of the building’s owner.

The convergence of new simulation, analysis and parametric capabilities available today offers designers the ability to dramatically evaluate solution spaces, and explore many more design iterations. This exploration, coupled with programmatic optimization algorithms spanning multiple disciplines is fundamentally changing the practice of designing and delivering buildings.

2:45 - 4:15 p.m. Integrated Information Management and Configuration Control for Rail Projects
Bentley Sponsor: Ted Stephens, Solution Executive
Co-Host: Ross Dentten, Configuration Manager, Crossrail

The integration of design models and data is well established for rail projects using Bentley’s Rail and Transit Solution. The next challenge we have to address is how to integrate the design data with all other project processes, workflows, requirements, specifications, programmes, document control, cost estimating, etc. Recent work with the Crossrail project in London, where eB has been deployed to manage the critical relationships between all of these disparate types of information, is already starting to deliver excellent results. The purpose of this roundtable is to share this information with participants, to take feedback regarding additional requirements and to refine the vision for managing and controlling critical information for rail projects.

4:15 - 4:30 p.m. Break

4:30 - 6:00 p.m. Information Management for Operations
Bentley Sponsor: Mark Biagi, Solution Executive
Host: Tom Fiske, ARC Advisory Group

This roundtable, which will involve nuclear owners and oil and gas owners, will explore the best practice in deploying asset lifecycle information management (ALIM) systems across projects and into operations and the value that these systems deliver to operations and maintenance.

4:30 - 6:00 p.m. 3D Models for Intelligent Cities
Bentley Sponsor: Ton De Vries, Solution Executive
Host: Pat McCrory, seven-time Mayor City of Charlotte, NC, USA
Co-Host: Sisi Zlatanova, Associate Professor at the GIS Technology section, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

This Government roundtable will focus on strategies to create, maintain, and use intelligent 3D city models to increase the efficiency of managing local government infrastructure. Projects in a city deal with existing above-ground buildings and structures, underground utilities, and transportation as well as the citizens and businesses that rely on this infrastructure. Intelligent 3D models help the planning, engineering, construction, and operation of infrastructure, and they help balance new initiatives and maintenance projects with the ongoing use of a city’s infrastructure.

The roundtable will address topics such as:

• How to create an intelligent model based on existing data
• How to keep the model up to date given all the changes that occur on a daily basis
• How 3D city projects fit into GIS and engineering workflows
• How to leverage 3D models in areas such as (infrastructure) planning, urban planning, engineering, and emergency response
• What makes a 3D city model an asset for my city and for the city’s managers

4:30 - 6:00 p.m. Engineering Intelligent Infrastructure for Smarter Grids
Bentley Sponsor: Cyndi Smith, Solution Executive
Co-Host: Bruce Boyd, Director, Precision Contracting Services
Co-Host: Michael A. Marullo, Editor-in-Chief, Electric Energy T&D Magazine

Smart Grid initiatives have a significant impact on utility and communications infrastructure and its owners and operators. A smarter grid requires smarter infrastructure models. The goal of this round-table is to examine the requirements and approaches to building and maintaining smarter utilities and communications infrastructure models, such as intelligent substation models, and their use and benefits throughout the network lifecycle. Cooperative stakeholders will discuss their experience and requirements across their respective infrastructure disciplines and geographies. Participants will learn from industry peers, and provide strategic direction to Bentley.

4:30 - 6:00 p.m. Integrated Projects for Transportation
Bentley Sponsor: Tom Clemons, Solution Executive
Host: Nigel Hailey, Arup, Global Highways Business Leader

It is all about Integrated Projects and on-time, on-budget delivery! But does one size fit all? BIM might be great for architects and building contractors, but does it scale up to transportation projects? Civil/transportation needs are specific to our industry. And, the civil paradigm is shifting from just creating construction deliverables to Information Modeling and ultimately asset renewal. This roundtable will delve into the specific needs for civil and transportation information management and discuss goals for civil information modeling and management in support of Integrated Projects.

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