The Bentley Structural Passport
Who needs a Structural Passport?
Medium and larger organizations deal with multiple projects, often in parallel. The development tools used vary depending on each specific project need. To cope, firms buy individual software licenses on an ad hoc basis.
That kind of licensing is both inefficient and expensive.
Bentley solves the problem with a new, flexible licensing system
You may qualify for the Structural Passport, if you:
- Have 10 or more structural engineers in your organization
- Are involved with multiple projects (plant, building, civil)
- Work with multiple materials (steel, timber, concrete)
- Need flexibility to design multiple structural types (including
frames, slabs, shear walls)
- Require analysis using a variety of algorithms (FEM, linear/non-linear)
The Structural Passport provides eleven interchangeable software products:
Why clients move to a Structural Passport
- Greater flexibility to meet the fluctuation of your workload
- An equivalent portfolio of software purchased under the traditional licensing system would cost more than four times as much (and annual support is more cost effective)
- A diverse portfolio of software that allows for tighter and complete integration of structural model
Who uses the Structural Passport:
Ewing Cole
McNamara Salvia
Thornton Tomasetti
The Harman Group
Ysrael A. Seinuk
Weidlinger
Severud Associates
Donnell, DuQuesne & Albaisa, P.A.
Morris & Ritchie Associates, Inc.
ADTEK
GC Wallace
Lochsa Engineering
John A. Martin & Associates – Vegas
John A. Martin & Associates – L.A.
Monroe & Newell
Englekirk Partners
Reaveley Engineers + Associates
Dunn Associates
Coffman Engineers
Thorson Baker & Associates
Virgilio & Associates
Wilcox Associates
Graef, Anhalt, Schloemer & Associates, Inc.
BKBM Engineers
Walter P. Moore
HDR Engineering
Carter & Burgess
Testimonial from a current Structural Passport user:
"In the past managing licenses for all the different design programs we owned from Ram International and STAAD (now Bentley) was a daily ordeal. Back then engineers were always waiting for licenses to be freed to be able to get access to a specific program and be able to do their work (impeding work flow).
We were able to combine all the licenses we owned into a nice package of structural passport licenses and now the management of who accesses what program is no longer necessary since we never run out of licenses. It is really nice that when a computer uses a passport license, the user will be able to execute any number of Bentley programs without tying up additional licenses."
Gustavo Amaris, I.T. Manager
Severud Associates