Kathleen Moore

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Bentley’s Impact Report 2025 details our commitment to helping engineers build better, more resilient infrastructure – and doing so while upholding our own commitment to sustainability and ethical practices.
Key Takeaways
  • AI helps Saudi warehouse cut carbon 70%, saving $2 million.
  • Bentley embeds AI across its core engineering tools.
  • 93% of top engineering firms rely on Bentley.

A project from geothermal company Fervo Energy shows how AI data centers can tap geothermal energy to power their operations and lower their carbon footprint. “This really is the frontier of a whole new wave of potential renewable energy technology that could transform the power system, both within the U.S. and in other places around the world,” said Graham Grant, CEO of Seequent, the Bentley subsurface company. Fervo Energy’s  geothermal project won a Going Digital Award at the 2025 Year in Infrastructure conference.

“In 2025, we have seen infrastructure organizations move beyond investing in AI for their business functions and begin exploring its potential for their core engineering work,” Bentley CEO Nicholas Cumins said in a message introducing the report. “They recognize, as we do, that AI can be a force multiplier for every infrastructure professional.”

Cumins called AI a “step-change” in productivity that will help close the gap between demand for better infrastructure and the engineering capacity to deliver it. He also addressed sustainability questions about AI’s rapid adoption. Acknowledging the paradox that AI data centers strain infrastructure, Cumins stressed the mandate to apply AI to optimize the very systems it relies on, turning the challenge into the solution.

That’s why Bentley has embedded AI capabilities into its core Open Applications—automating time-consuming tasks like the generation of 2D drawings from 3D models—and made it easier for infrastructure organizations to use AI to tap into valuable data from past projects and managed in Bentley Infrastructure Cloud

In their message accompanying the report, Angela Curry, Bentley’s chief compliance officer, and Chris Bradshaw, chief sustainability and education officer, hailed how Bentley colleagues have learned “how to incorporate AI into their daily work while advancing these capabilities for our users.”

The report lists multiple examples of Bentley’s commitment to trustworthy AI.

  • In 2026, Bentley launched a co-innovation initiative for users to shape the development of trustworthy AI for infrastructure.
  • Bentley’s Data Agreement Registry protects intellectual property and gives users full control over their data, including if and how it’s used for AI training.
  • Bentley’s AI Community of Practice, a place to experiment with and debate the best AI tools, grew to over 700 members.
  • In 2025, Bentley launched the AI in Infrastructure report, which polled leading infrastructure professionals across the globe on their firms’ readiness for AI.
  • Bentley’s annual puzzle-solving OCTO Coding Challenge in 2025 explored how AI can change the way participants think about coding.

Beyond the impact of Bentley’s technology and governance, the report also details the company’s commitment to its operational footprint, its people, and its communities—from achieving carbon neutrality to fostering a highly recommended workplace and empowering the next generation of engineers.

Bentley, The Numbers:

  • $1.5 billion in annual revenue
  • 5,800 colleagues in 45 countries
  • 93% of top engineering firms use Bentley
  • 700 colleagues in AI CoP members
  • $7 million donated to community outreach + education
  • 11% more pledged through Bentley’s STEM grants in 2025

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