Year in Infrastructure 2018 Marks Another Milestone for Bentley With Numbers of New Products Introduced

The Year In Infrastructure conference, a global gathering of leading executives focused on best practices and technologies for going digital successfully ended with an exciting announcement of new innovative products being available.

Organised by Bentley Systems, a world leading infrastructure software development company, the conference which serves as a leading forum for addressing the current priorities and opportunities that impact the infrastructure industry brought together many industries thought leaders, as well as press media from across the globe.

Held at the Hilton London Metropole Hotel in London, UK from October 15-18, the event was attended by 136 press media networks from 25 countries worldwide as well as participants from Cambodia. Important activities during the three-day conference included presentations from industry leaders, engagement in forums and discussions, and learning about technologies and best practices that will shape the future of infrastructure delivery and operations.

On 15 October, a series of new products were introduced to kick off the Year In Infrastructure 2018 conference. Announced by CEO Greg Bentley, a Digital Twins called iTwinTMService, digital twin cloud services for infrastructure projects (project digital twins) and assets (performance digital twins), is now a forthcoming availability.

“iTwinTM Service can be transparently provisioned with Bentley’s Connected Data Environment (CDE) for ProjectWise and AssetWise users,” he said while adding that it can generate the higher quality of data that helps in making more informed decisions.
“Digital twins lead to better quality data and in turn better management and maintenance of assets. We need to go beyond BIM in construction,” he added.

Meanwhile, EVP/CTO Keith Bentley from Bentley Systems has introduced a product called iModel.js library, an open-source initiative to improve the accessibility, for both visualization and analytical visibility, of infrastructure digital twins.

“We firmly believe that iModel.js and of course the foundation upon which it is built, is the most open, productive, intuitive, and powerful development environment for capital projects and infrastructure assets, ever. We’re excited to work with user organisations, strategic partners and third-party developers to build an open ecosystem around iModels to tap the vast potential of infrastructure digital twins. With iModel.js, the well-refined techniques of mainstream cloud and web development can leverage the physical and virtual reality in digital twins with near-zero impedance. By open-sourcing the libraries we use to create our iTwinTM cloud services, we expect to foster a substantial and vibrant ecosystem of innovation.” he said.

Introduced by CPO Bhupinder Singh from Bentley Systems, the new open application advance comprehensive modeling environment for multidiscipline collaboration such as OpenSite designer, OpenBuildings designer, OpenBridge designer, and OpenFlows FLOOD further extend Bentley’s design engineering and analysis portfolio. He added during the introduction that, “Open has three meanings. First, it signifies open to multiple disciplines. Second, it means open to analysis and simulation. Using different applications, two different disciplines, for example, a geotechnical engineer and a structural engineer, can iterate on the same dataset in our comprehensive modeling environment, providing a ‘digital feedback loop’ and enhancing their collaboration across BIM workflows. And third, because MicroStation technology underpins Open applications, users can produce multidiscipline deliverables and accomplish multidiscipline clash resolution from any Open application. Bentley’s comprehensive modeling environment is ‘Open’ for collaborative digital workflow.”

Presented by Tom Dengenis, Senior Director of Project Delivery, SYNCHRO Digital Constructioneering Platform for Bentley Systems (former CEO of Synchro Software) has introduced the Synchro Software to Extend Digital Workflows for Infrastructure Project Delivery Through 4D Construction Modeling. With SYNCHRO’s digital workflows, constructors don’t need to recreate 3D construction models from scratch, which would have orphaned the BIM models created during design. ProjectWise, with Teams and Flow, will automate digital workflows for construction planning to leverage the BIM intelligence. This immersive environment for visibility into the path and sequence of construction completes the reach for project delivery. Microsoft and Bentley are working together on further HoloLens applications for ProjectWise and SYNCHRO to be introduced later in the year. He explained and compared the construction schedules, that started at the same time in 2007, where the 72-storey Shard 72 was completed while the 60-storey 22 Bishopsgate had abandoned the project with only 7 stories of concrete core completed.

On the other hand, Levente Nagy, Senior Lead for Microsoft 365, gave notes in the press release on the general availability of integration between ProjectWise 365 Services and Microsoft 365. The collaboration capabilities of Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Flow, alongside analytics from Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Power BI, can now be applied to mainstream automated digital workflows within ProjectWise. The integration will enable collaborative digital workflows that transcend system boundaries throughout infrastructure capital project delivery, ensuring standards and best practices are propagated across projects, and increasing repeatability, scalability, quality, and predictability—in effect, industrializing project delivery, so that project teams can widely replicate their best projects’ successes.

 

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