Bentley Systems Announces Bentley Infrastructure Cloud, Powered by iTwin

At the 2022 Year in Infrastructure Conference, Bentley Systems, Incorporated announced Bentley Infrastructure Cloud, its combination of enterprise systems that span the end-to-end lifecycle and value chain of the world’s infrastructure. Powered by the iTwin Platform and Bentley’s infrastructure schemas and thus seamlessly integrating with Bentley’s engineering applications, Bentley Infrastructure ...

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China’s First Cross-Sea High-Speed Railway to Operate in 2023

China's first cross-sea high-speed railway passed static acceptance testing on Friday and is expected to be officially launched this year.  This railway, which connects Fuzhou and Zhangzhou in East China's Fujian Province, is 277km long with an operating speed of 350km/hr and eight stations.  The railway is a major high-speed project in the southeast coastal area and part of China's "Eight V...

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Thailand Invests US$9 Billion to Build 3-Airport High-Speed Rail Link

The Don Mueang–Suvarnabhumi–U-Tapao high-speed railway, officially known as the High-Speed Rail Linking Three Airports Project, is in progress and expected to be completed by 2029, government deputy spokesperson Tipanan Sirichana said on Sunday 29 January.  Gen Prayut, as chair of the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) Committee, had expedited the construction of the project to ensure a modern, co...

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Thailand to Begin Construction of $9bn Aviation City in 2023

Thailand will begin construction on the US$8.82 billion U-Tapao aviation city early this year, a government spokesperson said on Friday 27 January.  Deputy government spokesperson Tipanan Sirichana said that the project covers an area of 6,500 rai (1,040 hectares) in the eastern seaboard province’s Ban Chang district and requires an investment of THB290 billion in the form of a public-private p...

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Chinese display maker BOE to invest US$400m to build two factories in Vietnam

Chinese display maker BOE Technology Group Co Ltd, a supplier of both Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, plans to invest up to US$400 million to build two factories in Vietnam. According to Reuters, BOE is in talks to rent dozens of hectares of land in north Vietnam to add to its relatively small plant in the south that supplies mostly television screens to South Korea's Samsung and LG E...

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Laos Launches 500kV Transmission Line with Plan to Connect with Cambodia

Yunnan Energy Investment (HK) Co Ltd has launched a 500kV transmission line in the southern Lao province of Champasak and connected to a substation in Khong district on the Laos-Cambodian border, according to Laos' Vientiane Time on 5 January.  Mr Chanthaboun Soukaloun, Managing Director of Electricite du Laos (EDL), said the 500-kilovolt transmission line and substation project was the first o...

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Infrastructure Projects in Southeast Asia Named as Finalists in Bentley Systems’ 2022 Going Digital Awards in Infrastructure

Winners to Be Selected and Announced on Nov. 15 as Part of Bentley’s Year in Infrastructure and Going Digital Awards Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the infrastructure engineering software company, has announced several projects from Southeast Asia, India, and Japan as finalists in Bentley’s 2022 Going Digital Awards in Infrastructure. The annual awards program honours the extraordinary work of ...

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Industry partners use ORNL software to trim carbon footprint of buildings

Two years after the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory provided a model of nearly every building in America, commercial partners are using the tool for tasks ranging from designing energy-efficient buildings and cities to linking energy efficiency to real estate value and risk. International companies like Google and SmithGroup are sharing the benefits by making the resultin...

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Going Digital, for Infrastructure Resilience!

The opportunity now is to institutionalize going digital not only within our organizations but also towards “future-proofing” our world’s assets with respect to economic and environmental dependencies. As we look forward at the outset of 2022, having endured an unanticipated and unexpectedly protracted global pandemic, we should prioritize making the most of what we’ve learned in response to vuln...

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Singapore Launching First Taxi Drone Service in Early 2024

Singapore will use a modern and innovative way of transporting tourists to get new experiences and excitement with a 12-kilometre air drone that can fly up to two passengers. According to The Straits Time published on 12 July. This type of taxi drone was developed by the German company Volocopter and is expected to go public in Singapore in early or mid-2024. This taxi drone will initially b...

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