Digital Twin
Infrastructure Is About People, Not Concrete: How Leaders Are Rethinking What We Build, Where We Build, and How We Pay For it
By Tomas Kellner Nothing is certain except death and taxes, the cliché goes. But even taxes come with surprises—like the cost of crumbling infrastructure. “When we fail to invest in infrastructure, that’s a hidden tax we pay today,” said Tom Smith, executive director of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). “Instead of paying a real tax that would produce something, we’re paying in...
Read MoreProtecting The Big Easy: This Year’s Mardi Gras Showed Again How Infrastructure And Digital Twins Can Help Keep New Orleans Safe and Dry
By Tomas Kellner New Orleans is home to awe-inspiring music, food and street parties. But let’s not forget equally awe-inspiring infrastructure, which keeps the Big Easy dry. That was evident in early March when New Orleans entered “Deep Gras,” the boisterous coda to months of revelry culminating in Fat Tuesday, the end of the Mardi Gras season. Sitting on land near and below sea level and surr...
Read MoreEverton Kicks Off New Era at High-Tech Waterfront Stadium
By Jay Moye On Saturday, Everton FC played Manchester United for a final time at Goodison Park—the historic Liverpool stadium where the Premier League rivals first squared off in 1892. One of the world’s oldest and most storied football clubs is now preparing to move into its new “jaw-dropping” home on Bramley-Moore Dock. The move is already underway. On Feb. 17, the first of three test ...
Read MoreStar 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...
Read MoreHow Bentley Infrastructure Software Helped Transform The Port of Melbourne in Australia
Repurposed from The B1M by Kathleen Moore Melbourne is Australia’s largest container port – and it’s about to get a whole lot busier. The port handles more than one-third of the shipping containers coming in and out of Australia: Over 3.2 million of them, and that figure is expected to double by 2050. There’s just one problem: How to manage that growth without adding to road congestion a...
Read MoreGoing Digital: US Army Corps of Engineers Turns $500k into $500m Data Asset
By Paul Colbert Dataforensics unlocked incredible value for the US Army Corps of Engineers by moving subsurface data to the cloud, saving years in migration time and 62,700 work hours along the way. For decades, the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has been gathering subsurface data essential to its operations – literally millions of linear feet of it, for thousands of projects, including ...
Read MoreA Bridge To The Future: How Digital Twins Helped Kentucky Recover From Catastrophic Floods
Tomas Kellner In July 2022, Ben Shinabery watched the news with growing unease as a deluge of rain—up to 16 inches in some areas—drenched eastern Kentucky and unleashed catastrophic flooding. Swollen creeks and rivers surged through narrow Appalachian valleys, sweeping away homes, ripping out roads, and knocking down bridges. But as the death toll mounted, eventually reaching over 40 liv...
Read MoreQ&A: Driving Innovation for Integrating AI and Sustainability in Transportation Solutions for a Greener Future
In the last decade, there has been a significant focus on digital technology and artificial intelligence worldwide. Bentley Systems, a leading company in infrastructure engineering software, recently held the 2024 Year in Infrastructure and Going Digital Awards in Vancouver, Canada. This event brought together prominent industry leaders and users from around the globe to discuss advancements in th...
Read MoreCOP29 Dispatch: How Digital Twins Can Fortify Infrastructure Against Fierce Storms
By Chris Noon The United Nations calls climate change primarily a water crisis, bringing too much or too little water to the wrong places at the wrong time. Spain’s Valencia province is the latest example. Weeks after deadly flooding swept away bridges and buildings, tens of thousands of volunteers are still digging out their towns and shoveling tons of brown sludge from their streets. This ...
Read MoreBentley 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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