Bentley Partners with Japan’s EARTHBRAIN to Advance Smart Construction

The world’s leading infrastructure engineering software company Bentley Systems has formed a partnership with Japan’s EARTHBRAIN—creator of Smart Construction—to push digital construction to another level. This collaboration builds on the existing partnership established in 2019 between Komatsu and Cesium, the 3D geospatial visualization leader acquired by Bentley in 2024. Through the new pa...

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Bentley Systems Launches ‘iTwin Engage,’ Making Infrastructure Plans Immersive and Accessible

Bentley Systems has unveiled a new product that blends iTwin, Cesium, Unreal Engine, and open standards, allowing teams and communities to step inside projects before they are built. This new product was announced during the Year in Infrastructure and Going Digital Awards (YII) conference in Amsterdam on October 15. By using iTwin Engage, projects like bridges, tunnels, and power plants ...

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Exploring Dutch water infrastructure masterpiece through Cesium 3D geospatial technology

The Netherlands is famous for its extremely low altitude, with a significant portion of the country lying below sea level. This paradox of living below water is only possible due to one of the world's most extensive and sophisticated water management infrastructures. Approximately one-third of the Netherlands is below sea level, and about two-thirds of the country is vulnerable to flooding from...

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Beyond the Textbook: 3D Tech Turns History into a Livable, Explorable World

A revolution in historical preservation is unfolding at the University of Tokyo, where Professor Hidenori Watanabe is using advanced 3D geospatial technology to transform history from a static textbook narrative into a live, explorable world. For two decades, Prof. Watanave has been creating interactive, map-based archives that allow users to virtually step into pivotal historical moments, incl...

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Bentley Systems Awards $1 Million to 3D Tech Startups for Infrastructure Innovation

Bentley Systems has announced the recipients of its 2025 iTwin Activate accelerator program, awarding a total of up to $1 million to four early-stage startups that are leveraging 3D technology to revolutionize infrastructure design and maintenance. Each of the four selected companies will receive up to $250,000 in funding, as well as extensive technical and market support from Bentley product l...

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Bentley Connects iTwin and Cesium, Unlocking New Possibilities

Bentley Systems recently made new resources available to help developers integrate its iTwin program with Cesium, a well-known 3D geospatial visualization technology. This new combination of digital twins for infrastructure and large-scale geospatial applications follows Bentley's acquisition of Cesium in September 2024. According to Bentley, the iTwin Platform provides a programming interfa...

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Impact Report 2024: How Bentley Systems Is Helping Make the World and Our Infrastructure More Sustainable and Resilient

Kathleen Moore Not too long ago, students at an elementary school in eastern Pakistan’s Pakpattan district faced a daunting problem: Their source of drinking water was a drum filled by a contaminated tap. Bentley Systems, the global infrastructure software company, offered a solution. Through its STEM Grant program, which funds education projects selected by staff, Bentley helped the school ...

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Star Engineers The World’s Most Complex Machine, ITER’s Fusion Reactor, is Pushing 4D Visualization to the Next Level

By Sean O'Neill Clarity is invaluable for a project as staggeringly complex as the international fusion experiment. The project, also known as the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), is being built in France and is one of the most ambitious scientific collaborations in history—in the same league as the and the International Space Station. Dubbed the “reverse Tower of Ba...

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Bentley Systems: Open Data Ecosystems to Advance Infrastructure Engineering

At its Year in Infrastructure conference, Bentley highlights the value of open data ecosystems to improve infrastructure resilience and sustainability VANCOUVER (Bentley Systems’ Year in Infrastructure 2024) — Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure engineering software company, unveiled its vision for open data ecosystems to advance infrastructure engineering at its ann...

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Get Real: Powerful 3D Software Brings The Future of Infrastructure to Life in Just a Few Clicks

 By Sean O'Neill Greg Demchak stood before an enormous LED screen in a dark hotel conference room. With a game controller and a keyboard, he moved his audience through a digital model of Barcelona. The glowing screen showed a bird’s-eye view of the Spanish city’s famed “manzanas,” the octagonal block of buildings designed by the visionary 19th century urban planner Ildefons Cerda. Demchak zoom...

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